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Yes, that exactly is my point. I think they didn't like customers like me who spent far more money flying internationally with their partners. I guess if you want to fly a lot overseas, Qantas is going to be the better program. It's ironic, because it's an exact 180 to how the situation was...

A company of the size of Qantas would have far far more IT systems than just "salesforce", I can guarantee you that.

You should declare personal bankruptcy and see how challenging it is just to get a basic credit card 🤣 Before you say it's different for companies, yeh it's worse, the basic business model for VA is not much different to before, but it's arguably a smaller company now. The fact that they've...

Is it a disaster? Maybe they want a smaller pool of top-tier FFers who are contributing more to the company. They don't have the capacity (in terms of flights and lounges) for a FF program as big as Qantas, so it makes sense that they would want to downsize and focus on their top earners. What...

Starlink is much better for planes than the legacy providers other airlines use (and I imagine also more expensive to contract). Every time I've used the internet on QR starlink it's been great, works even from when the plane is on the ground unlike others, and it's very fast and stable, can't...

Given their financial track record? It hasn't worked for them in the past, no reason to think it will magically start working now.

I think VA will have trouble getting much debt from the markets. It'll make a big difference in 10 years time, for the same reason it would with any other airline.

I took VA2 the other week back to Sydney from Europe, pretty decent, just like a Qatar flight, the load was around 50-60% but definitely some people had a row to themselves and made good use out of it! Just depends on how lucky you got. Business seemed pretty full though, I was hoping for a free...

I think VA needs a lot of capital investment to take on what Qantas will be in 10 years time when they finally have some new planes. Surprising that they are not raising any capital, I just don't see a good long-term picture here. They will have some portion of the high-profit domestic market...

Thank God, I guess Vanessa saw the writing on the wall and wanted to get in touch with the times.

It's getting worse and worse, even when I got into it around 2019 or something, CCs were undergoing massive reduction in points earned for spending, so it's always getting worse. Ultimately, the frequent flyer programmes of airlines are the biggest profit centres, so it's up to them to figure...

It's quite fun and a bit of a novel experience, so I highly recommend it. However I think Uber is actually cheaper as they are trying to undercut waymo (who are still losing money and aren't able to achieve profitability). For sure these cars are insanely safe and drive very defensively, which...

There's not really enough competition to drop prices. I was on some United flights SYD - SFO for work trip, quite a few empty seats, but tickets were far from cheap. I see airlines downgrading to dreamliners or even a330s if they have any on US routes.

At last, people will finally realise that T1 Is less crowded and any establishment will have better food than the Qantas J lounge. Hot take but that lounge is so bad it really didn't add any value, people just went there simply "just because" they could. Sure you might have to pay $30 for a...

Serbia is hands down the second best country I've visited in Europe (after Spain). The best coffee, amazing amount of craft beer breweries, more meat than one can handle (no pun intended), but also plenty of nature in the countryside. Belgrade is also much safer and cleaner than any city in...

Damn

I think everyone knows PE is the biggest profit generator... because it's horrendous value for money. Just the inverse, is all.

I added it on mine, but it's limited to $25 per card. I initially thought they meant per single bill at a restaurant, but no - the entire promotion is just a $25 discount, wow big whoop - not worth all the fuss, basically just a minor discount on one or two dinners given the price of things...

After ww2 (nevermind how hard it was before), it took 6 stops and a crew ratio of 1:3 to make this route. Every time they reduced the number of stops, you could have said the very same thing, and yet somehow they made it work. I suppose the argument is, much the same, they can make it work now...

Due to the tariff wars, Chinese carriers aren't accepting any Boeing planes at the moment. Riyadh Air, who does need a lot of planes is offering to scoop them up. Definitely an advantageous opportunity for them due to the current state of affairs...