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I am supremely confident that I am most definitely not part of the market demographic which Bonza is targetting. I won't even set foot on a Deathstar aircraft so no fare would be low enough to tempt me onto a B737-MAX. No matter how true blue the moniker. Although I note their good fortune in...

I will never fly to North America which might improve my chances. Qantas isn't planning to buy any at this stage. I'm not flying Virgin until they return to wide bodied aircraft anyway. My favourite destinations are in Europe and Airbus (obviously) dominates there. Airbus also seems to dominate...

I think I've been on everything I want to fly on except Concorde and the A310. Been on the B707 and 727. Several B737 variants and a few B747 variants. An Icelandair 757 (ugh) and many QF 767s. Numerous 777s & 787s. A couple of B717s and the similar F100s. A318s, A319s, A320s and A321s...

Four flights. Thursday 19/01/2023 QF 770 PER-MEL & QF1559 MEL-HBA Sunday 22/01/2023 QF 0996 HBA-SYD & QF655 SYD-PER Same menu all flights. Mains were: (1) A veal pasta dish variously described as ravioli or tortellini, with a mushroom sauce. (2) Barramundi (I stopped listening, I don't eat...

A combination. Frequent work travel allowed me to gain Platinum with both Qantas and Virgin. Then I worked to keep it with personal travel. Including some amazing status runs PER-DPS in J on VA, then with nested trips DPS-KUL-HKT return and HKT-KUL-HKG return nested within that to take advantage...

The delay in ticketing is indeed awful. The other awful thing about the Qantas ticketing system is the double payment aspect. Qantas place a block on your credit card when you make the booking. Then when they ticket, rather than convert that block into a charge, they put a completely new charge...

What about the elephant in the room? No one has even mentioned the aircraft in the respective fleets. As a Perth based frequent flyer, Virgin lost me when they relinquished their wide-bodied aircraft. The Virgin business product - "The Business" - on their A330s was superior to the Qantas...

I'm flying PER-DOH-MPX so there is no F fare on sale. I read that the ability to pay for access to Al Safwa depend on your fare bucket. If I click on the "buy lounge access" link in "manage your booking" I just get sent to the link for buying airport VIP escorting services, which is the last...

Never get the Paris metro then!

No they don't. All rubbish is taken away from aircraft in the same bags. They don't sort anything.

Thanks your reference to "QR OWE" confused me. I now assume you have your OWE status because you are QR platinum, which matches my understanding of the access criteria. It is disappointing that QR don't allow other OWE ticketed in J to use the F lounge. Any other OWE flying economy can access a...

Curious about this as I will be flying PER-DOH-CDG in J soon. I thought only a ticketed F PAX (and maybe a QR Platinum PAX ticketed in J) could access the Al Safwa F lounge in DOH. Would like to know for sure as I would obviously love to access the F lounge, but nothing spoils a flight more than...

Does anyone have any recent information? I can't find any official confirmation of this anywhere.

The other half of this issue - can WPs still get extra reward seats released (if I class seats available)? Anyone had recent success?

Thanks I suspected as much but the booking system was playing with me and allowing me to select mixed fare types - and then deselecting them later in the booking process. Happily now I cleared a "OneWorld Only" filter I hadn't noticed was checked in Google Flights, I found some cheap business...

This may be a dumb question but recently the booking system has been giving me inconsistent results so I am looking for a definitive answer. I'm trying to use points on a trip to Europe for my son and I in J. There are no award seats available but I have found some seats in I class which, as a...

I walked into the QF HKG lounge ONCE. I walked out again within a minute after the barkeep tried to convince me the Australian sparkling wine was better than champagne. Straight back to the CX The Wing F Lounge, with it's dedicated champagne bar and cabana bath suites. Wondering why I had ever...

I read somewhere - maybe pointshack (?) - that the criteria is either a QF cancellation OR a flexi fare. Don't have first hand evidence that this is actually the case as QF cancelled my flight and put me on a later one, so it was technically a flight cancellation even though the practical impact...

If they fly with a OneWorld airline they will earn status credits as well. Some of the business sale fares on Finnair or Iberia can be a very cheap way to earn QF SCs. Especially as many flights are routed via their respective hubs (HEL & MAD) so you get two flights and effectively double the...

They can earn points on any OneWorld carrier. So in Europe that means British Airways, Finnair or Iberia. They could also book hotels through Qantas to earn points (often quite a lot of points - more than by flying). If they were really desperate they could use points to buy something from the...