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    Qantas Platinum One experiences?

    From the fine print: * The number of flights taken and distances travelled are based on flights on Qantas and our partner airlines from 5 October 2011 to 5 October 2021 where your Qantas Frequent Flyer membership number was quoted in the booking. Correct as at 5 October 2021.
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    Where is this photo taken? (Anyone can post a photo)

    Gdansk and Lech Walesa.
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    What will it cost to fly when the borders open again (domestic or international)

    ANA currently have a promotion offering 30% off SYD-Japan fares from Dec1 to Aug 31 2022. So from around $3100 SYD-HND in J. Unfortunately though it's restricted to designated email recipients, but perhaps encouraging nonetheless.
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    Bankwest Qantas Transaction account [being withdrawn in 2025]

    FWIW I've just now received an email notification of the change.
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    You know you are a former frequent flyer when...

    Your passport is now used only as a makeshift hygrometer: 25% RH 50% RH 75% RH
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    That's the easy part. The real problem will be coming up with ever more hyperbolic descriptors.
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    You know you are a former frequent flyer when...

    When you notice that your leather carry-on bag is covered in green mould.
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    You know you are a former frequent flyer when...

    You don't bother renewing your EF subscription. Daily visits to FT and AusBT are now, perhaps, monthly. (AFF has, so far, been spared this ignominy). Sunday nights and Monday mornings are no longer filled with a sense of dread.
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    Super Moon Flight

    Hopefully the FAs won't insist on dimming the windows immediately after take-off.
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    $987,999,999 for extra leg room

    Not quite $1B, but I posted this screenshot a while ago. (No editing involved).
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    Bumped from Row 4 at the gate

    Perhaps Boeing could come up with some sort of automated flight control system for the 737 which could make adjustments for imbalanced loads?
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/health/how-queensland-healths-superspreader-house-party-stuffup-happened/news-story/14b24c0f91a62ee53b27d9995ad62767 News.com.au understands the mix-up occurred after Queensland Health officials went to visit the man at his home on Saturday morning to...
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    Cuomo is known to have broken quarantine, along with his family, on at least one occasion.
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    Predictions of when international flights may resume/bans lifted

    We had a taste of that in Feb last year on Koh Samet which, normally, would have been teeming with tour groups at that time.
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    Re type 1 error:
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    Australian Reports of the Virus Spread

    Downgraded to "really really fast".
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    Ethiopian 737 Max 8 crash and Fallout

    A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max. The aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to...
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