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The customs/immigration queue in Darwin can be very dependent, it can be super quick because there might just be one 737 with 150 pax, or it can be painfully slow, and it seems there's a rule every international flight leaving Darwin must have a school class on it for some reason, which can gum...

Every time I've been in the various domestic business lounges and Qantas Clubs this year, the food options have typically been reduced to one hot meal option, and no to minimal sides or alternatives if you don't want a salad. Aside from Melbourne's laksa bar, I've generally only grabbed a mini...

Not surprising given the turbo-charged airline wide cost cutting and price hiking in the last year. Everything from in-flight meals, reduced meal options in lounges, right down to no paper towels in the lounge bathrooms! The price gouging that was going on last month did it for me. We had a...

In terms of best deal and policy, slightly different but I can recall one specific instance where when booking short notice travel CNB-BNE attempting to squeeze a window in the 2021-era border closure games, where Virgin had only one seat available but was J and considerably cheaper than Qantas...

18" seats are pretty standard on all Airbus products except some (most now?) A380. Back when 9-abreast was the default, 777s were 18" width, 787s (except JAL) and 737s are all 17". I used to do everything in my power to avoid the narrower seats, as that little inch made a huge difference. If...

Haha I was thinking exactly the same thing on Wednesday night, being able to stand up and put feet apart enough to *ahem*. First flew on them last May a week or two after they started (CNB-MEL on the green bird) but didn't notice it for whatever reason. J in the A220s is good, but the main...

They're probably great if you're looking at being a stunt double for Tom Cruise or an oompa-loompa, but my toes often hit the heels of the seat in front if crammed into a regular Y seat, especially on QF 737s with their inhumane 29" seat pitch now. (That's when I can work the angle so my knees...

I'd happily see them confine children under 12 to a small designated Family Area within the lounges.

Megadeth 'high speed dirt' "See the Earth below Soon to make a crater Blue sky, black death I'm off to meet my maker"

Great plan to reduce lounge overcrowding! 😂 The reason I go to the lounge is for quiet and a slight improvement in comfort, the absolute last thing I want is some coughpy cover band. The Sydney domestic Qantas club is barely any different to the main terminal as it is, and the food offerings are...

I've always found Virgin's cabin crew to be actually very good, polite and friendly, not the cattle rustlers Qantas seems to employ. Maybe I've just always been lucky. Though I think the expectation point you make is a good one. I've never really cared about airline food, always expected...

After getting the email confirming my data was in the breach while in the uber to the airport, then having flights delayed nuking a connecting flight and the staff at the counter being needlessly rude with people from the get-go and basically telling perfectly polite people to F-off without the...

Well we've got a RAAFie bragging about signing leave apps here, so I think you might be right! 😂

This is tax-payer money we're taking about here, there shouldn't be "perks", especially in Defence. It shouldn't be wasted unnecessarily on making a bunch of wasters in Russell more comfortable, at the expense of capability.

In some cases certainly, however I know for a fact MANY APS and Defence personnel very deliberately book with Qantas specifically for the status credits. I've even heard of status runs being done to rack up a few extra SC. It is very easy to rort, just look at the flight times and say you need...

Darwin has a kids area with a little play set etc, kind of like what you see at a GP's, but there's no restrictions on where they can go or designated 'quiet areas'.

I'd much prefer a designated 'Family Area' within the lounges for travelers with children under 12 to be confined to. Particularly around busy times like school holidays the business lounges become a creche full of screaming children running around.

They were initially, primarily competing with Impulse-cough-Jetstar on $49 flights BNE-SYD, SYD-MEL etc. Though over the first few years they gradually added features and became more of an 'unbundled' airline, with lounges any pax could access for $25 etc. until eventually they added proper...

National carriers aren't generally viewed poorly because they are national carriers, they are viewed poorly because they generally are poorer airlines. They are typically beholden by legacy organisational cultures, structures and personnel management practises that have evolved, bloated and...

...and even then, I'll believe it if they're still running 12 months after that! We've played this game of knifey-spooney before.