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I think that just means QF is willing to sleep with whoever’s most appropriate, Oneworld or not. QF doesn’t need to leave Oneworld and go to Skyteam because it’s got close relationship with a Skyteam carriers targeting specific markets. Revenue sharing JV/strategic alliance is where the real...

It’s a 3rd party lounge so don’t get your hopes high. Unless you’re at the first class lounge in SIN I’d say SQ SilverKris and KF Gold lounges good but not “classy”.

If QR(or anyone) being a cornerstone investor that’ll take big stake then yes. I could be wrong but it’s harder to take on a significant stake after a company goes public.

I largely agree that there’s only really room for 1 long haul international airline based in Australia flying far and wide with a premium product - that place has been taken by QF and will remain QF. But I think there’s still a business case for the No.2 carrier to have a small fleet of smaller...

I’m not sure though. There may be a mental effect seeing a smaller plane but in economy is there really much difference in terms of comfort? In the US flights between the coasts and to Hawaii are 6+ hours, and narrow bodies are the norm, seems fine to me. The VA 737 seats (old and new) are...

What do they do in Melbourne Florida? I used to think it’s to install Internet and WiFi entertainment but I’ve recently flown with 8IF and neither of those were available.

EK and EY. EY is usually willing to offer the biggest discount going to EU for smaller spend target. EK of course is one of the strongest in this market, but of course usually the priciest but offer the most flights/destinations.

I disagree. SQ is not struggling to compete for traffic in the AUS-EU market. In fact it’s a very strong competitor in this market and is able to command a significant premium. It doesn’t need to buy VA to funnel traffic onto its own metal. For the high yielding corporate accounts most...

And apparently if you travel in Singapore airlines business class you’d still use the KrisFlyer Gold lounge.

I’ve flown plenty of NH flights operated by Air Japan over the years on both their 737 and 763 - if you didn’t look at the ticket you wouldn’t be able to tell it’s Air Japan. Everything from branding to service just says ANA. Wasn’t a problem until NH relaunched the Air Japan brand as a LCC...

Seems unlikely. This application wasn’t publicized on mainstream media and hardly known outside of the aviation community. The answer was given in Jan, perhaps VA took a look at it and decided they wanted to interpret the agreement’s language in a different way that would permit their proposed...

There must be many hours of meeting between the legal teams of IASC/VA/the Department and research on their own with one party trying to convince the other. VA was also likely offered the chance to amend its application to operate from an international terminal but decided against it.

Ah so you took the bait. The agent that initially took my call tried to palm me off by saying “it’s 45 business day” and I was having none of that. I insisted it says 45 days so it’s not business days and asked for an escalation and a case be opened to investigate the posting of points. The call...

The family isn't interested if its PE. They think on a day-time flight for 8 hours just preload the iPad with plenty of entertainment Scoot is not terrible.

I finally managed to get to the right person last week on Monday who knows what he's doing and got this sorted. It seems like the provisioning team actually just put me into the regular plan instead of the velocity offer, despite multiple agent i talked to earlier insisted I was on the Velocity...

what are the chances of me finding 4x J availability to SIN in mid Jan with SQ? The alternative is to fly Scoot in Y 🫠

That’s why being part of an JV or go to a slot restricted market are the safest bet, or you need to have very very deep pockets to survive a capacity war against the incumbent in an open skies market - VA1 thought it’s previous owner HNA were that deep pocket it needed but that turns out HNA...

Keep in mind though QR owns part of IAG which owns BA/IB. I don’t see BA getting too cozy with QF anytime soon just because of Oneworld. Oneworld didn’t stop QF from ditching QR and teaming up with EK so why would the reverse be true now? Not true anymore. In 2023 the JV was revised to include...

I can see a strategy of up to 5 small long ranger wide body (787-9 probably is the ideal choice) working. Flying AUS-DOH-LHR in the QR/BA/IB/VA EJB and then AUS-HND. You can do those 2 routes daily still have a spare that flies SYD-PER once a day maybe. The strategy probably won’t work if it’s...

I’m not trying to say the current system is good or your point is invalid, but that’s just simply not true for the context (VA refund policy) here. As people have mentioned VA does calculate the refund based on the lowest Choice (not flex) fare on the day of the ticket purchase. I’d argue...