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Ugh, overnight on a 737 with no flat bed in J.

Argh how frustrating when airlines don't care to read the rules - we are ineligible for ESTAs due to travel to Iran and I have previously looked into the Guam requirements too; I recall an ESTA wasn't mandatory for Aus passports but they used wording on the official govt site like "ESTA is...

Working in a hospital in south London in 2006 the local area had issues with gang violence. On Halloween there was an incident involving an Uzi at a nearby nightclub in Camberwell. The guys who got shot up and survived (I think one died) were held under police guard at the hospital and there...

A VA flight attendant told me last week she'd heard a rumour they were going to use 787s but she didn't really know anything. She was excited though and said she missed working the LAX runs.

Haha I declared dairy but also had some bottles of baby formula. The cheese and crackers are sealed from Australia though, but perhaps would still be a problem knowing how over zealous some of those officers can be. I am still mad they took my bulls scrotum mate cup from me at OOL 13 years ago -...

1/12/22 VA118 ZQN - BNE 1655 3/12/22 VA379 BNE - TSV 1750 Both flights had the same menu; a choice of mustard chicken with mash and beans or a vege gnocchi. I had the chicken both times and it was quite tasty, wife had the gnocchi and said it was good but she switched to the chicken on the...

Bought a one way J fare ZQN - BNE - TSV for NZD780 in July for early December. Had to brute force the search by mucking with the URL for it to go through without error as wanted a two night stopover in BNE and the multi-trip search was broken. For comparison, this current sale is about NZD1080...

It would be great if VA returned to AKL - RAR, would be a nice alternative to LCCs NZ and JQ. Although the old timing of the return leg was a bit dire. We have an NZ A320 NOU - AKL coming up in a few weeks, booked via Air Calin as their code share ticket stock was a fair bit cheaper, but not...

Will likely drop to silver too. Also a bit nonplussed that in NQ there are no VA lounges now that CNS and MKY are closed. TSV lounge never built. That said I do prefer their BNE lounge over the QF Pub, they definitely have a superior beer selection 😁

Not as crazy as some on here but once did TSV - BNE - MEL - PEK - ICN - ALA - ASB.

Yes that is a huge PITA. I had to go through the visa interview process after a trip to Iran. Living in NQ our nearest US Consulate is quite far away in Sydney. Took a few hours of shuffling and waiting for a simple 30 second interview, basically they asked "Why did you go to Iran?" We replied...

Do similar controls apply on some domestic itineraries too? I recall a while back, 2018 I think, I booked an award ASP - BNE - TSV but our friends in Brisbane could not book the ASP - BNE as a stand alone award. Both online and call centre said no availability but seats magically appeared if...

Ooh Tahiti - French Guiana would be an interesting route I'd be up for. I did do AKL-PPT-IPC-SCL a while back and that was a great experience. IPC - SCL also avoided the Chilean reciprocity tax being a domestic flight and it wasn't collected at IPC :cool:

True, I remember being excited when I found a sale price in 2009 for ~$1400 on QF (but booked via LAN). I think the price was typically >$2k back then. For some reason I recall the QF service in Y was outstanding, possibly because we were served steak. Also direct to EZE and not SCL. Good times!

Reminds me of the old QFlink flights from CTL to BNE via RMA. Charleville didn't have security screening so pax were screened in Roma after already flying the first leg. Security theatre at it's finest.

Applied at the post office on the 17/6 for a kid's passport, received text yesterday to say it was in the mail. So it took just over 7 weeks' processing time.

I agree, will only buy if I can immediately use them. Pre-covid I used them for a few different trips on CA J, OZ J and TG F. The CA J flights were a real PITA when BNE - PEK was cancelled a few months out and neither CA or LM would help re-ticket. CA put their own pax on a QF flight to MEL but...

Thanks - I have booked a one way in J ZQN-BNE-TSV in early December. I wanted a stopover in BNE and for some reason the garbage VA website didn't seem to bring up Queenstown as a valid option in the multicity search page. However subbing SYD for ZQN in the search and then altering the URL on...

Would it be risky to book flights to ZQN when VA return to NZ in early November? I see reasonably priced J, but I'd hate for this restart to be pushed back and get stuffed around with cancelling and re-booking etc. Do AFF punters think this is a safe bet or would hold off until VA fully...

Spot on JohnK, I am also not a fan of booking 12 months out. Given the current call centre shambles I just can't be stuffed risking booking partner awards if they may not be ticketed in time or incur changes/cancellations needing further call centre fun times. Too stressful and a big timewaster...