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I'm happy to concede that despite my scepticism when group boarding was first floated here, that it generally seems to have been implemented fairly well for domestic flights, albeit with room for improvement at some gates where monitors, signage or PA announcements are hard to observe. However...

Either a lot of WY award inventory has been snapped up in the past week, or the QF website is struggling a bit. I've been keen to go to Oman for ages and spotted heaps of availability ex MNL next April (where I already had some flights ex SYD bookended with view to buying a cheap cash fare to...

Final update on my VA replacement flight post-REX grounding. Not only did VA put me on a flight at the same time as the original, in J as per original booking, I also just saw that 55 SCs landed in my Velocity account and roughly 4000 miles. I wasn't expecting that!

I just got an emailed e-ticket from VA with my replacement REX flight. Exact same time and date as the REX original and business class was honoured too. Thanks VA! It took them longer than the stated 72 hours to turn around the web form request, but travel is still a week away and just SYD-MEL...

I submitted the re-accommodation form to VA this morning for a cancelled ZL SYD-MEL J flight in a couple of weeks. We'll see what comes of it. I picked VA instead of QF's lifeline because Virgin's T&Cs specifically mentioned attempting to accommodate J pax in J and they offered a simple online...

I'm likely to have a fairly sizeable ATO bill this year, so it would be a good chance to earn a QFF or Velocity signup bonus in a single transaction ... if there were any cards that still allow it. I have looked at the usual suspects that I could churn but all seem to exclude Government-related...

MEL-SYD Friday evening. Departure delayed about 45 minutes. I diligently went to the gate when the app flashed up with “boarding” and joined the other gate lice while pilots were delayed coming from another flight. (Aside, I feel like I see more of this kind of crew-schedule related delay on VA...

The same order-taking sequence happened to me last month. Similarly I was in row 1 on an J fare and the only assigned J seat at about T-12 hours. Ideally Rex CMs should have on their manifest who the actual paid J pax are. They will soon also need to deal with the “complication” of status soon...

How many Qantas staff does it take to change a ... enforce priority boarding? I'll try to keep an open mind, but as a SG, I suspect that if I leave the lounge when the first boarding call is made, with this new system when I reach the gate I will encounter two lanes of confused people in groups...

I'm a Q Tag fan and they have never failed me yet - apart from occasional temperamental behaviour from bag drop carousels, usually if there were old international barcode stubs still stuck to my bag. It will be a shame to see them phased out and a shame not to be able to sail straight up to...

You've really got to wonder how much revenue they really think charging for row 4 will earn them vs lost goodwill and people deciding to try the competition instead, and realising that the gap in product these days between QF and VA is much narrower than it used to be. And that sure as hell...

The screenshot above is from 24 March 2025. And yes the braintrust is right. Upon closer inspection that SYD-DXB is in F. QF seem to have done away with the exclamation mark on the search results for mixed class bookings and have now just hidden the detail below when proceeding with a...

I'm not sure if this is something longstanding I've just never known, whether it's something recent that I missed the memo on or if the QF website is being it's usual buggy self. I was looking (in vain) for classic rewards on SYD-JNB any time early next year in J or F. Unsurprisingly nothing...

EK often release award seats to QFF in J and F in the 2-3 days prior to travel. But that is probably too much of a gamble if you actually have to be somewhere by a certain time. EK carrier charges these days are also very steep.

ZL413 MEL-ADL 8:55am departure. The day before the flight, EF was showing me in 1A as the only pax in J and all business class fare buckets as availability of 7. Morning of departure the cabin was full apart from 1D. Y looked about 80% full. My first time in the Rex lounge in the bowels of T4...

After trying unsuccessfully to use the compflight.virginaustralia.com website intermittently over the past few weeks, I finally got it to work tonight to book a simple MEL-SYD-MEL weekend trip at the end of June. Previously the site was crashing just trying to look up origin and destination...

I'm still waiting. Though I'm not sure how mine will appear seeing as I had family pooling switched on during the promotion to tip +1 back over to SG and then switched pooling off a couple of weeks ago in the hope of those bonus SCs landing in my account. Will need to check +1's activity...

Great TR. Thanks for taking us on the journey. I used to ski at Rusutsu in the mid-late 90s and loved it. Glad to see that the kitsch trappings of the hotel are all still in place! Though a bit sad to hear that it's getting "discovered" and therefore busier. My other go to place in that era...

I'm actually now second guessing myself whether it was free or still green with a $ sign at OLCI. I was still half asleep when I checked in. I'm flying again next weekend. No doubt others will chime in with data points.

I had my first flight this morning since the changes. SYD-MEL. I got 5F at T-80. 4 D,E,F were selectable for a charge. A-C were occupied plus a shadow according to EF. I was 1 minute late for OLCI at T-24 and 4F was taken. 4D and E were available to select for free. I prefer window seats and 5E...