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Fly Korean Air to Seoul with Emirates Skywards Miles

If you’d like to fly to South Korea, which recently reopened to overseas tourists, Korean Air offers direct flights from Sydney to Seoul (Incheon) four times per week. This Airbus A330-300 service will increase to daily from 31 October 2022. Korean Air is part of the SkyTeam alliance, but award seats on the airline are … Continued

14 Jun 2022 Emirates Points Inspiration

Qantas Overcharging for Alaska Airlines Rewards

As Alaska Airlines is a Qantas partner airline and a member of the Oneworld alliance, its flights are available to book using Qantas Frequent Flyer points. But when redeeming Qantas points for seats in Alaska Airlines’ premium cabin, Qantas Frequent Flyer members are being routinely overcharged. Instead of paying “Business Class” prices, Qantas Frequent Flyer … Continued

12 Jun 2022 Qantas

Podcast #86: Cheap Round-the-World Fares in 2022

If you’re planning a trip overseas and want to visit multiple continents in the same trip, it could be worth booking a round-the-world ticket. Not only does this give you pretty good flexibility, but it can even be cheaper than just booking a point-to-point Qantas flight from Australia to Europe or the Americas. For example, … Continued

11 Jun 2022 AFF on Air Podcast

Cheap Round-the-World Fares in 2022 – AIR086

  If you’ve been looking at international airfares recently, you’ve probably noticed that they’re getting quite expensive at the moment. But if you’re planning to visit multiple countries or continents on the same trip, there are some great value round-the-world airfares offered by specific airlines. These not only offer great flexibility, but are often also … Continued

11 Jun 2022 AFF on Air (blubrry)

Air New Zealand May Not Return to Norfolk Island

Air New Zealand may not resume serving the routes from Brisbane and Sydney to Norfolk Island, despite the Australian government initially granting Air New Zealand the contract to service these routes until August 2023. Air New Zealand had been the sole operator on the Brisbane-Norfolk Island and Sydney-Norfolk Island routes from 2018 until 2021. Both … Continued

10 Jun 2022 Air New Zealand

Comair (Kulula & British Airways in South Africa) in Liquidation

Comair, a private South African airline which operated flights under the British Airways and Kulula brands, has gone into liquidation. All flights have been cancelled and the airline, which was a Qantas Frequent Flyer partner, will sadly now cease to exist. It marks the end of an airline which had been around since 1946. How … Continued

10 Jun 2022 British Airways

Virgin Australia’s Flights to Bali Selling Fast

Virgin Australia will next week resume flying from Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne to Bali. It will be the first time Virgin has flown to Indonesia since March 2020, but the airline is coming back strong with many flights already sold out weeks in advance! From 15 June 2022, Virgin Australia will resume daily Sydney-Denpasar (Bali) … Continued

9 Jun 2022 Virgin Australia

Qantas Flexible Classic Rewards Extended to September 2022

Qantas Frequent Flyer has extended its offer of fee-free changes and cancellations on Classic Flight Reward bookings for at least another three months. Previously only applicable to bookings made with Qantas points until 30 June 2022, Qantas’ Flexible Classic Rewards policy now applies to domestic and international bookings made up to 30 September 2022. When … Continued

9 Jun 2022 Coronavirus and Travel

United Airlines Will Fly to Brisbane

United Airlines will fly from Brisbane to San Francisco from October, becoming the first airline to add new service between Australia and the United States since the pandemic. From 28 October 2022, United will fly three times per week between Brisbane and San Francisco using Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. This is the schedule: Tickets are already … Continued

8 Jun 2022 United Airlines

Major Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer Award Devaluation (2022)

Singapore Airlines’ KrisFlyer loyalty program will increase the cost of award flights and upgrades across the board from next month. In further bad news, KrisFlyer has also announced a devaluation of its stopover benefit on award bookings. It’s the third significant devaluation to the KrisFlyer program in five years, following previous increases to award pricing … Continued

8 Jun 2022 Singapore Airlines

Qantas Opens New Call Centre in Manila

EXCLUSIVE | Most Qantas customers who’ve tried to contact the airline’s call centre in recent months will be aware that it has major problems. Apart from the long wait times often running into hours, nearly everyone who doesn’t have Qantas Platinum or Platinum one status is having their calls redirected to one of Qantas’ outsourced … Continued

6 Jun 2022 Qantas

Rex Filling Business Class with Free Upgrades

Rex may not yet have a frequent flyer program or competitive airport lounges, but its airfares on capital city routes are affordable and its on-board service is pretty good. Plus, on domestic flights operated by Boeing 737s, many Rex passengers have been lucky enough to get randomly upgraded for free to Business Class! Since Rex … Continued

6 Jun 2022 Rex & Regional Airlines