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    Interview with Stephanie Tully, Head of Airline Loyalty at Qantas-Platinum One

    Re: AuBT Interview: Qantas Platinum One There is one very major airport that has a Oneworld arrivals lounge, LHR T3. However, a platinum card will NOT get you access to have a quick shower and shave after a long haul overnight flight. I travel this route regularly, but generally in premium...
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    Qf31 a380 lightning strike

    Declared serviceable. Now set for departure at 3am, so a 3 hour delay.
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    Qf31 a380 lightning strike

    Sitting in Singapore lounge waiting for qf31 to continue to London. Was hit by lightning as we flew through a storm leaving Sydney. Noticed engineers on a cherry picker inspecting top of fuselage and tail. The announcement also mentioned an engine malfunction and engineers are running...
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    Depressurisation event at MEL today?

    The cabin was remarkably quiet. I was in 6c with a spare seat in b. So i was focussed on a suduko when the masks dropped. I was surprised but not alarmed as the plane was in control, no lurching or rolling. Realised it was a controlled descent. The loop message made it clear it was an...
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    Depressurisation event at MEL today?

    I was on this flight. Doubling up a status credit run with a few melba meetings! Thanks for the detailed explanation above. This is consistent with how the captain described the event. Approaching cruising altitude the primary unit failed, so they dropped down a little. Then the...
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    Depressurisation event at MEL today?

    "exciting" status credit run Had an exciting status credit run today... Needed 15 lousy SCs to regain Plat+partner gold by end Jan with next bus trip not scheduled to Feb. Took qf670 ADL-MEL. Which had both primary and secondary air conditioners fail causing rapid drop in pressure, out came...
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    Lufthansa

    I need to go to Europe in their summer and my wife and I have gotten used to Business class and are both resisting going back to coach. I have the Qantas FF points and was fairly flexible around dates but could find an award seat. So I looked at paying and was stunned with the Qantas price -...
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    Isolating earphones

    I have a pair of Etytomic ER6i . They are fabulous, albeit a little expensive and few distributors. An advantage is they they operate without power (ie they block sound without generating a reverse sound wave) . So some posts talked about removing the battery powered cancelling phones on...
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    Online Checkin Not Working

    I have 2 flights tomorrow ADL-BNE QF660 at 0615 and then BNE-PER QF767 at 19:50 so long day is coming up and tried to check-in for both flights this evening - as they were both within 24 hours and second flight would not appear, so am potentially disadvanted in allocation ! JB
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    QF / JQ codeshare

    Noticed on a couple of occassions recently that several Qantas flights have been run as codeshare with Jetstar. Had to look twice, because while this might be a form of economic efficiency - it certainly seems to contradict the market and process differentiation both companies claimed they...
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    Looks like the June newsletter has been prepared...

    managed today to nab 2 sets of tickets for - Adelaide (my wife / friend on her qff#) - Perth (myself and daughter on my qff#) not bad considering I live in brisbane !! John :p
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    Tel Aviv experiences

    Hi all, flying for the first time into Tel Aviv (via LX254 from Zurich) in a few days. Anyone have experiences / tips for Immigration & Customs? Any additional complications as it is a Saturday? JB
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