Hey Qantas, why is it that ....?

[JessicaTam]

I thought I was the only one getting the QP to print them out for me

Also yes, CBR certainly gave out the cardboard, and I see to remember that MEL did as well.

The MEL J lounge now prints them for me without being asked.

 

[hotanddusty]

Let me assure you that Red Roo is never bored!

I can personally assure you that all customer issues are important to Qantas, and feedback is never taken for granted. We appreciate that aspects of our products and services may be a matter of preference, and in some cases based on extensive personal travel experiences and ongoing passion and enthusiasm for our brand.

Our Customer Experience teams across the network will be particularly interested in this thread. While I may not have an answer to all your questions, I'll do my best to raise them with the right people and get back to you where possible.

Like the time I reported being violently ill after eating fish on the Singapore flight and got the phone call from a Qantas person telling me it could not have happened on their flight and more or less told me I was wrong!! but I was the one having to empty my lunch all over the airports garden just outside the arrivals. SO I’m wrong? Ask the friendly Qantas lady! Lesson learnt, don’t eat fish if it is cold and let your lunch go on the plane, preferable up front somewhere. While I am on the gripes! What has Qantas done to the Hong Kong run? is it not good enough to take us up there? so we are forced to fly Cathay ( but then I haven’t had a bad meal with them) and if Qantas starts flying the route again it will be the budget air Jet Star (that can never run on time) what is wrong with Qantas now days? Don’t they care for the lonely traveler having to spend a good deal of their life sitting in their seats. Let’s hope there are improvements on the horizon.

 

[mannej]

Food poisoning isn't pleasant, but without testing it is very hard to pinpoint the exact cause (been there done that myself. What I thought was the cause wasn't).
As there is a varied incubation period, no company will admit to liability unless you have the proof as to what caused the issues.
Been there myself with a high up Hilton with the exact same response, so I know the feeling. Others on here have reported the same type of response.

As for JQ flying the PER - HKG route, I don't think so. An A320 won't make the distance. The constant schedule times and the horrid times were perhaps the reason as to why the flights were never commercially "successful"

 

[Mattg]

I thought I was the only one getting the QP to print them out for me

Also yes, CBR certainly gave out the cardboard, and I see to remember that MEL did as well.

So it is possible..

Qantas, please bring back the cardboard BPs from the kiosks!!!

 

[Mal]

The new all beaut FF cash cards have 'expires' rather than 'valid end' like the old cards...

 

[ozbeachbabe]

So it is possible..

Qantas, please bring back the cardboard BPs from the kiosks!!!

It may have been the original self service kiosks that issued csrdboard boarding passes not the Next Gen kiosks.

When BNE got the Next Gen kiosks the old ones went north to CNS.

I don't ever recall getting cardboard from a kiosk myself.

 

[Mal]

It may have been the original self service kiosks that issued csrdboard boarding passes not the Next Gen kiosks.

When BNE got the Next Gen kiosks the old ones went north to CNS.

I don't ever recall getting cardboard from a kiosk myself.

I recall cardboard at BNE. And yes it was the Gen 1 machines. Thermal is cheaper, less prone to errors, less hassle and more receipts can be loaded in one machine. Somehow I doubt things will be reverted back.

 

[medhead]

Why, in the current Europe early bird sale, is F to DXB $13400 return and F to London return is $12300?

 

[marki]

Yeah I noticed that too !!

 

[Mr_Orange]

Why, in the current Europe early bird sale, is F to DXB $13400 return and F to London return is $12300?

Because it is a Europe sale, not a Middle East sale???

 

[EmilyHoward]

Because it is a Europe sale, not a Middle East sale???

Medhead .... I'm very tempted to "Duuuuh Medhead"..... but I won't as I'm a lady!

EH

 

[medhead]

Because it is a Europe sale, not a Middle East sale???

It's actually listed as a Middle East earlybird, rather than Europe earlybird.

 

[Mr_Orange]

It's actually listed as a Middle East earlybird, rather than Europe earlybird.

Your question stands then!

 

[medhead]

Medhead .... I'm very tempted to "Duuuuh Medhead"..... but I won't as I'm a lady!

EH

Not to mention there are multiple earlybird sales.

Interesting that the Nairobi fare in the northern Africa earlybird sale is $10900. Presumably that involves flying via DXB as well.

 

[medhead]

Your question stands then!

Good thing you made me pay attention to the detail.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

ok.... I'll say the most obvious answer. there is only one airline flying non stop to Dubai but there are dozens flying to every where else?

 

[Anna]

Why, in the current Europe early bird sale, is F to DXB $13400 return and F to London return is $12300?

I asked a similar question in another thread about a similar disparity in fares ex ADL. A kind person gave the answer that it is because there is little (or none, ex ADL) competition on the direct route to DXB, but plenty of competition on the 1-stop route to LHR.

To my mind that helps rule out DXB as a holiday destination for me, as it's a destination with fares made deliberately more expensive because there is only EK and QF that fly direct there ex Aust.

 

[medhead]

I asked a similar question in another thread about a similar disparity in fares ex ADL. A kind person gave the answer that it is because there is little (or none, ex ADL) competition on the direct route to DXB, but plenty of competition on the 1-stop route to LHR.

To my mind that helps rule out DXB as a holiday destination for me, as it's a destination with fares made deliberately more expensive because there is only EK and QF that fly direct there ex Aust.

Or book the F fare to Nairobi, pop in a stopover in DXB and then fly the long way home. Shouldn't be too hard in F/J

Edit: for example.
10 March 2014 QF1, QF8719 arriving 14:55
19 March QF8720 departing 16:40, QF2

Use the unlimited stopovers to move QF8719 to 19 March.

 

[marki]

........that QF don't fly direct from YMML or YSSY to EGLL direct nonstop in 20.5hrs or use 777 - 8 series aircraft

 

[Must...Fly!]

Why, in the current Europe early bird sale, is F to DXB $13400 return and F to London return is $12300?

This relates to the number of seats permitted between UAE and AU as destinations, which is far less than the number of seats permitted between AU and GB. Supply and demand, basically.