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A few years ago a flight I was booked on from BNE-AKL was cancelled as the plane went tech. Qantas put me up in a hotel (I wasn't living in Brisbane at the time). They put on buses to the hotel. Curiously we were also given taxi vouchers for the trip there and back as well. The hotel restaurant...

It seems to vary quite a lot. I have had free upgrades when I checked in online 24 hours before the flight. I have had them at the check in desk. I have been paged at the lounge and at the gate desk. Finally I have been beeped at the gate. For the one that happened 24 hours before check in...

There is a Qantas check in lounge type thing for business class and status passengers. It is a room to the left of the standard Qantas check in counters. They also have the next gen pole things that you can check in at if you have an Australia or NZ passport, handy if you are travelling with no...

Yes. Provided the lounge is open at the time you will be there. The Qantas lounge is only open from 2:30pm onwards. If you are on an evening flight you are in luck. Otherwise no lounge access.

I would put the odds of a free upgrade at about 1%. Of course there will be some people who will do much better than than and some will do worse. The thing is if someone is lucky enough to get a free upgrade they tell everyone about it. However you rarely hear from the the rest of the people on...

From what I understand it has been like that for quite a while. Jetstar have a webpage with the interlining they support Flight Connections | Jetstar at least from my memory that page has been up for at least a couple of years. It is mainly domestic flights they don't do interlining for...

Qantas has a web page that does cover lounge access Qantas | Lounge Eligibility and Access Standard OW rules apply for the MH lounge. If you are flying on a OW operated and marketed flight as a OW Sapphire (which QFF Gold is) you'll get access to the to the MH Golden Lounge of course provided...

If they don't give you a pass at check in you can also get a pass for the MIASCOR lounge by going to the Qantas lounge and asking to have shower. The QF lounge doesn't have showers so they will give you a pass to the MIASCOR lounge to go have one there.

So it is, my mistake. Still must be one of the shortest 777 flights in the world. Another short flight is on MH Kota Kinabalu to Labuan which would be 70 miles and for discount economy earning rate would get 17 QFF.

Bahrain to Doha on BA would be about the same. It is about 70 miles point to point. The QFF points earn in discount economy class is 17 and 10 SCs. I can't think of anything shorter than that.

For QFF gold and platinum flying on an QF yes they get access to the EK. Of course it depends on the lounge being open at the time. Passengers flying on QF don't get access to the EK lounge by class of travel unless they are on a QF codeshare on EK. Also Qantas club members don't get access to...

The deposit is going up to $10 for adult cards on the 6th of May. So if you wanted to do so you could still use the rort next week. The deposit is being kept at $5 for concession cards so even after that you could still use it. As others have indicated there is a free shuttle bus from airport...

Re: Worst public toilet you've used? Five years ago went to a public toilet in Berlin someone had painted pentagrams, swastikas and other symbols on the walls in what looks like blood and faeces. There are some nutters about. I once went to a public toilet in rural China, it was a shed with a...

I have got a Synology DS212j and I have very happy with it. At the time I bought it I just read all the reviews and it seemed to be the best fit for my needs. It is a basic two drive unit, just sits in the corner and does its job. You have to buy the drives separately. They do have a cheaper one...

Sorry my mistake I under the impression that the flight was finally cancelled at about 9pm a good hour and a half after those flights scheduled to arrive.

They wouldn't have a lot of staff on duty at that time of night as only a few international 737s land at that time. Might be a bit of a queue.

From reports the plane was a 737-800 registered as PK-LKS and was delivered 2 months. It flew for a month under Malindo Air before being returned to its parent Lion air. A domestic flight from Bandung to DPS.

I always had Cocos Island as a place I would like to visit. Strange to think there is a part of Australia that is closer to Bangkok than it is to Canberra. From what I recall the flight from Perth goes via Christmas island. It is in a turbo prop to hence no business class. When you look at the...

Digging through Tiger's conditions of carriage they do cover it. Which links to Denied Boarding Policy Not exactly the greatest policy. But by the sounds of it they didn't even follow their policy.

You pay $10 but $5 is deposit and $5 is balance on the card. As long as your balance is positive you can still use the card. So the trick is you use just under $5 first, then you go to airport. So provided you can use the initial $5 balance wisely then you will be about $10 (or more) ahead...