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Thanks SYD. This is reassuring!

I’ve given up on CMT and deleted it. I am off on a OWA (+extras) next week. I’ve loaded my flights into TripCase and will see what happens. TripCase has always been good at alerting me to VA delays and disruptions. Not sure if it works as well outside of the Sabre ecosystem…

I encountered this exact scenario recently. Wanted to look into EK F flights in or out of STN for the "Gamechanger" 777 product on that route. STN isn't recognised by the QF booking engine and I value my sanity too highly to call and subsequently be fobbed off/lied to/hung up on. Then just...

Nothing is showing as bookable on those dates, so must be some sort of charter. Though I would have thought charters would have a four digit flight number. I wonder if they'll be lumped with the A380 in the old config. (Assuming this is indeed operated by an A380)

Ugh "Tag's" (sic) 😡 as per the pic, not your post SJF211!!

Tremendous trip report. Thank you Skyring for bringing us, so evocatively, on the journey with you.

I’m flying QF1 in F in a couple of weeks! Fingers crossed for properly chilled champagne!!

Do the new kiosks in Darwin actually have a check in function or have they rolled out the same ones as SYD and MEL where their sole purpose is to print bag tags? No kiosk check in at those airports and just one or two understaffed counters in the corner for international connecting check in...

Nice review. Thanks, Matt. I've done JQ "Business" a few times to SE Asia and find it comfortable enough for the day flight up but not so great on the overnight leg back to the East Coast. I agree that the soft product is pretty solid. The food is probably QF J standard and possibly even...

I also got row 13 for free on VA on a recent MEL-OOL flight when OLCI opened at 48 hours. I wasn’t sure if this is an unpublished SG benefit or just a free for all on full flights at check in if those seats haven’t got paying pax in them.

Not really a newbie question, but probably not worth a whole new thread. Does anyone know if the call centre can book classic rewards on EK to/from London Stansted? STN isn’t an option for online bookings on the QF site which shows only LHR, LGW and LCY. STN reliably gets the new EK F product...

…with ten year old vintage WP coasters still attached to their bags. Lol. We’ve all see them. Re-living the glory days.

An interesting observation in SYD this evening: carry ons were being weighed at the entrance to the security queues - both general and priority. I saw a couple of WPs sent scurrying to check in over weight wheelie cabin bags. This is a very good sign and very sensible to catch people land side...

Which will only make the carry on issue worse than it currently is. All the bad press of lost and delayed bags post Covid seems to have encouraged even more kitchen sinks than there used to be.

Couldn’t agree more. I’d add one more, utilising tracking tech, to encourage checking bags: A genuine SLA from the airline that priority bags will be on the belt within 15 minutes of parking at the gate and all bags by 20 minutes. If they fail to deliver there’s a token but decent amount of ff...

I might be an outlier here, but I think boarding by zone is a solution in search of an actual operational problem. I guess QF is sick of complaints from Golds and above that our egos don't feel sufficiently stroked when Bob and Barb Bronze back in row 28 step aboard before we do. It rarely...

There are comments online suggesting CMT is presenting some spurious data. But I’d still be routinely checking your flight details on QR and QF sites routinely just in case.

I’ve had BA flights that take 2-3 months to ticket. That was definitely nail-biting. I called a few times but always got fobbed off by offshore agents saying they’ve done something and it’s in the queue, give it another 24-48 hours. They hit their KPI for “tap on keyboard, get punter off the...

Definitely a poor experience but also a useful data point - that even when classic rewards can be changed online (lots simply can’t), that ticketing delays are still common, flights will still drop off on the likes of MH and only WPs have any hope of a straightforward resolution on the phone. I...

CMT is still sending flight change alerts for my cancelled account which I find somewhat interesting… I wonder if they will listen to feedback and fix the app or whether it’s gone for good