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Not quite the right order. Qantas didn't fly to Dubai. Qantas and Emirates entered into a joint venture. Qantas started flying to Dubai. As time went on Qantas went "hell no, the sandpit's not working for us, let's stop going via Dubai and reroute via PER and SIN instead." But also...

From SE Asia/India/NE Asia, I noticed a few cancellations: NH 214 HND-CDG, AI143 & UK 21 (both DEL-CDG), and a few replaced by alternative flights or timings: SQ 332 SIN-CDG (replaced by a one off flight ~12 hrs earlier), MU569 PVG-CDG, 5 hrs earlier,OZ ICN-CDG replaced by flight ~4hrs...

Ombudsman. Airline Consumer Advocate. Same same but different.

A bit difficult as an airplane itself is a bit like a hotel chain, with different cabins appealing to different market segments. So with Singapore Airlines vs Marriott, F could be the Ritz Carlton, J the JW Marriott, PE Aloft, Y :Courtyard, But I’ll have a go at the US carriers though...

Since the end of that thing that paused travels a few years ago, I've done 5 trips from SIN-Europe (2 in Y, 3 in J), and not slept a wink on any of them. But they did all leave Singapore between 11am and 2pm, so basically were day flights all the way, thus didn't really matter to me, and I...

Their monopoly though is purely on the non-stop services. There are of course plenty of one-stop options for travel between Australia and Shanghai.

Well timed service might be a lot better for Europe connections than SQ (i.e. connecting to QF1/2, and the QF codes on KL, AY & AF).? Low yields and aircraft utilisation probably continue to be problematic though. On the utilisation side, IIRC immediately prior to the deal the ADL-SIN...

🤣 🤣 🤣 TBH, would work better from MEL or BNE, but could be problematic for SYD due to curfew, meaning rather early arrival in SIN, especially during DST (4-4:30am arrival during winter, but 3-3:30am during summer).

Doomed for Bonza. Probably worked well for the crooks behind the Bonzi scheme.

Umm, whilst I totally with everything else you and cwd have written, slight error here. At MEL, you clear security before clearing immigration. So if domestic security requirements were aligned with international requirements, it should not be too difficult to construct a walkway into the...

Oh, I don't think that's the problem, it's the residency status that's the problem. But I have my foreign address logged with them (they actually entered it for me), am flagged as a non-resident for tax purposes and have been trading with them for 15 years with that status! Anyway I think nab...

Being kicked out the apartment we have been renting in Singapore for 15 years, so moving a building across in the same complex, I could write an essay about #WCMO about the process and dealing with real estate agents and psycho landlords but I won't. In fact all if it's elevated in the realm...

Yes slower and more sustainable growth, perhaps with an aircraft size better suited to the target markets too.

Need to dig up the “storm in a teacup” meme again!

If you restrict it to just train access to airports, there’s quite a few as well that are not genuinely underground, many are “at grade” or elevated. Ones that come to mind include HKG, LGW, LCY, SFO, JFK/EWR although they’re not really airport rail as such), PHL, BNE, OSL, YVR?, PVG, PEK, DXB...

Putting above ground probably takes away valuable space that could be used for car parks, hotels or other revenue generating activities. If it's underground, you can still have all of that profit generating activity above it. :p

Not a good sleeper on planes. Temperature - as in too hot, and noise seem to be the biggest problems (and not talking about random noise like galley, screaming kids or the toilet, just the background engine noise, even with earplugs). Actively avoid overnight flights if I can. Although for...

Overnight room service - maybe a loss leader. Regular meal times - almost certainly not if they already have in-house restaurant. Usually a similar menu to (or same menu as) restaurant/cafe, often with higher prices than dine in + a tray charge.

Most unlikely? No. Instead impossible. From this thread, tickets started selling on 27 Jan 2023. The whole thing collapsed in a heap on 30 April. That's only 459 days.

Probably not as much as the language barrier trying to order room service at a hotel down the road in Glasgow....