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They look like the hobbit prosthetics from Lord Of The Rings to me!

I obviously don’t know what happened; I thought a flight was cancelled not long before that flight, which had been put on as a special service for a sporting event, for claimed borked-‘plane reasons. And that it was too close to the game for timely alternatives to be offered?

If a ‘plane broke, is it possible/likely that they just couldn’t have replaced it with a working one in time, without canning other people’s flights?

Depends on your meaning with “and not”, is this an exclusive and? Exceeding the randomly-chosen limit is only a problem if it’s done at the wrong time; in fact, driving on the wrong side of the road through a red light is only a problem if done at the wrong time (although it’s somewhat less...

Not recently … but I have recently managed to survive road usage despite the road-safety authorities’ direction of focus away from the problem, too.

Such polarisation has become a real problem. There are some new misinformation laws which’re somewhat … far-reaching. <redacted> They’re probably not that great, in their current form. But due to polarisation, <few are> game to fight them <redacted>

I don't know how much one should read into what the media says, but if the media were to be believed then QF has taken a massive nose-drive in terms of reputation. That's been happening for ... I reckon at least 5 years, and when people casually encounter the same message without really having...

Yeah, lots of much-this ... my experience of air-travel is a lot more limited than most others around here, but the Jetstar flights I've been on have been late more frequently than on-time/early.

Yes, an airline has to be having a sale for this to work ... I flew Cathay in 2012 return to London 'cos they were promoting their newly-revamped Premium product with a sale which made it only about $300 more all-up than Economy. I'm pretty sure that China Airlines sale was about 6 months...

I don’t think you’ll get lounge access without paying. If she’s happy to pay Emirates or Qatar or Etihad or Qantas economy prices, it might be worth keeping an eye out for 2nd-tier carrier premium economy (eg. China Airlines which is actually Taiwanese not CCP-spec, or Vietnamese Airlines)...

Ah, well I think Qatar is in One World, so you may get Qantas points if you buy a Qatar ticket. I don’t know this, but mebbe worth checking? Don’t suppose you have QF status which might get you Qatar lounge access, or Emirates lounge access? [I’ve forgotten what the rules are there]

While I can’t answer the question, shooting one back at you … how many are travelling & what aircraft are involved? For example Qatar has a wee Y section upstairs at the back of their A380, with only 2 seats together against the window - with only 2 travelling, that may be a winner. For...

Because for purely political reasons we're lied-to about anyone expecting a safety increase by installing/activating such devices, whereas they know that by taking focus off the actual causes of road trauma (a combination of drivers not paying attention & the state of the rural roads where the...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-08/nsw-average-speed-cameras-speeding-road-toll/104325224

True, how busy IS the red eye, I guess you know when picking seats … is there a way to predict now? BNE used to use the rear stairs for VA but not QF, 15 years ago; which I found useful ‘cos 2nd-last row seats were easy to obtain as everyone went for as far forward as possible; dunno about now...

I reckon that if you don’t have back or leg pain issues, and you don’t see the value in the exit row &/or extra-room seat, the trade-offs & similarities are such that the choice should prolly be based on timing, price, or the quality of the inflight snacks to purchase. :)

The Airbus Neo series have quieter engines don’t they? I can’t comment at all on JQ’s interior in them; I’m guessing they’re no less squeezy than their older A320’s where the seats felt slightly wider than a VA or QF 737 but your knees were jammed harder into the back of the seat in front? So...

*sniff*-*sniff* Is that the odour of a company failing due to mismanagement & who’ll be shortly getting a Too Big To Fail GM-style bailout from the US government?

I wonder how much people incorrectly blame jet lag for the strong negative effects of sleep deprivation? I mean, I know there are people who at least claim to be able to sleep on a ‘plane … everyone else I observed in the J cabin on our most recent OS trip was doing a pretty good impersonation...

I wonder if you have to believe harder in the melatonin pills than I do, before they work? Like how I suspect too much that the non-drowsy antihistamines are just placebos, so I just keep histamining unless I take a drowsy-making one … Although admittedly only tried the melatonin pill thingy once.