Happy Anniversary Qantas! One year since "that' grounding!

[BensAdventures]

An article I was reading online sent me straight back to 2011. My boss was about to board a flight to LAS the following morning when news broke about the grounding. I spent the next 24 hours working with our agent trying to find a solution. Rather than MEL-LAX-LAS (with no more than 2 hours between flights), he ended up flying MEL-HBA-SYD-SFO (8 hour layover)-LAS Jetstar, Virgin & UA. He wasn't pleased. I'm sure he vowed never to fly QF international again....

Jump ahead to September and we boarded a QF5 headed for Frankfurt. He's back with QF for a US trip in Jan too...

Interesting despite all the vitriol around this forum and many others, I'd be presuming many have jumped back on QF flights despite stating they'd never return. The lure of the status levels, lounges and in some circumstances better schedules.

Anyone stood by their convictions? Anyone prepared to admit they trying to leave, but got dragged back?

 

[TonyHancock]

I was angry enough to switch my domestic travel to DJ and apart from international connections have kept it there and even done a couple of long Haul international J's with EY. Dropping QF completely would have been a case of cutting my nose off to spite my face.

DJ/EY gets about a fifth of my travel and I find DJ domestic better than QF domestic.

 

[nlagalle]

An article I was reading online sent me straight back to 2011. My boss was about to board a flight to LAS the following morning when news broke about the grounding. I spent the next 24 hours working with our agent trying to find a solution. Rather than MEL-LAX-LAS (with no more than 2 hours between flights), he ended up flying MEL-HBA-SYD-SFO (8 hour layover)-LAS Jetstar, Virgin & UA. He wasn't pleased. I'm sure he vowed never to fly QF international again....

Jump ahead to September and we boarded a QF5 headed for Frankfurt. He's back with QF for a US trip in Jan too...

Interesting despite all the vitriol around this forum and many others, I'd be presuming many have jumped back on QF flights despite stating they'd never return. The lure of the status levels, lounges and in some circumstances better schedules.

Anyone stood by their convictions? Anyone prepared to admit they trying to leave, but got dragged back?

I was in London about to head home that night when the news broke. I managed to snag a seat on SQ and got home around the same time as i would have on QF10.

as someone who supported the action (i'd had worse disruptions from the phantom strikes) I'm still flying about 90% on QF and 10% on DJ domestically.

 

[yohy?!]

first ever loss since privatization, continuing industrial relations problems, shrinking market share in both int and dom, cancelled aircraft orders, competitors increasing capacity dumping into AU, handing over non-syd/mel pax to EK etc etc etc

yeah it's going peachy by the looks of things

 

[SteveJohnson]

"Grounded: one year on, are you back on board with Qantas?"

Qantas chief executive cited a truly amazing statistic last week: nearly half of the people questioned in a survey wanted to fly Qantas on their next overseas trip... Are you one of those who has stuck with Qantas since the grounding of a year ago? Have you noticed the change in the Qantas service culture in the past year? At the airport and in the air, who do you rate the best airline of the past year domestically and internationally?

Qantas grounding | One year on | Airline improvements | Back on board?

 

[cove]

Re: "Grounded: one year on, are you back on board with Qantas?"

The staff at Qantas is really trying and I like it.

 

[nlagalle]

The staff at Qantas is really trying and I like it.

Agreed.. Certainly better than 15 months ago..

 

[smit0847]

Re: "Grounded: one year on, are you back on board with Qantas?"

There's a big difference between 'wanting' to fly with them and actually flying with them.

I'd like to fly F....

 

[NM]

Re: "Grounded: one year on, are you back on board with Qantas?"

[Mod Hat]
Please note that I have merged two threads on the same topic into this single thread and moved to the appropriate Qantas sub-forum where the initial disruptions were discussed.
[/Mod Hat]