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I really don't see the problem here. I depart Melbourne a lot and if all goes well you can depart the gate and be in the air within 5 mins. But I've also regularly had it where long taxi or holding has meant it is 30 mins or more before we've even got airborne. Now - in your long haul where a...

Thanks - I've got plenty of points so can book CX first but was going to do online to avoid extra call centre fees.

Can I ask a possibly stupid question as I haven't done this before. I am booked on BA31 LHR-HKG this coming week in J as an award and have just noticed there is now stacks of availability on CX. If I cancel the BA booking and rebook on CX am I right in saying the original points will be...

Latest rumour I've heard is that the 380 will be pulled from DFW once the 744 goes and be replaced with dreamliners. This frees up the 380 to go onto the JBurg route for which they still need a 4 holer. 787 also better suited to the DFW length.

Well I'm sitting on Wifi aboard the first leg to Brisbane and pleased to report the system worked as it should. The DOM check in agent asked where I was going and when I said "initially Brisbane and Hong Kong but then onto London and Frankfurt" and she immediately said that she wouldn't be able...

This is all very interesting. It certainly seems from the link that they should do it. A few points on the booking that might make things better/worse: - I am in paid QF J - I am WP BUT - I am going MEL-BNE-HKG (for bonus DSC's!) so will be checking in at MEL Domestic. That may make things...

Oh this is very helpful! I didn't know that. Only problem is if I arrive on time i'll be about 6 hours before the onward journey in which case I probably won't be able to check in either. Oh well! Thanks very much.

Morning folks - can anyone advise some contemporary examples of how strictly the interlining rules are being followed? On Tuesday I go QF AUS-HKG connecting to a reward seat separate PNR on BA to London that evening. Have around 5 hours on the ground so should be fine to collect bags and...

One for JB carrying on from the Go India discussion above... Over the years on this thread you've commented many times that some of the major carriers that are generally well regarded by the public are actually problematic operations. Your employment status obviously prevented you from coming...

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JB a huge congratulations on the career and your contributions here. I am another in the club of sad group members whose 380 flights never coincided with you at the helm. Photography, caravans and cars and a spot of going bush are obviously on the other horizon. Any other hobbies for retirement?

Thanks very much, everyone!

Newly minted VA plat (via status match) here and have been doing a few bookings with VA to try things out. I deliberately recently booked MEL-CBR-OOL and return as it was no more expensive than direct and I figured I could sample the CBR VA lounge and earn a couple of extra sectors and SCs for...

Their biggest problem is that there isn't a single product on the market that can replace the SAABs like for like. The 30-40 seater prop appears to be dead. Unfortunately for Rex, going into that next size bracket means trying to fill all those additional seats and in many ports would mean very...

Works out about $4.80. Not superb but very reasonable for a trip I needed anyway. o

Should I be worried? I just made a booking around 11pm AEDT and it still hasn't ticketed. The conditions say for bookings made before 11:59pm. It's showing in my future bookings list but my understanding was it's not officially ticketed until the email is received. If it doesn't come in before...

JB - I've seen you say here a few times and also read from other former pilots that the 767 is a handful and a 'challenging' aircraft to fly well. Would you say these challenges made it inherently any more dangerous in the sense that it was easier to stuff something up that could become an incident?

It amazes me how large their crew size really is and how segmented they can be. I had a guy up to HKG the other day who was a 34 year veteran of Qantas. I asked where his favourite destinations were and they were all in Asia. I asked about the more distant parts of the network and if he liked...

I concur completely with the feedback here. BUT, just to play devils advocate for a second, all those people saying they’ll take their business elsewhere are going to go where exactly? Air NZ already use this sort of a model and to an extent so do Virgin.

Apropos of nothing.... I had a 34 year veteran of Qantas on QF127 the other day who was utterly superb in the J cabin so age is certainly not the only factor. Apropos of even less.... A QF employed friend showed me an internal facebook site post the other day boasting that the cabin crew of...