QF domestic newspapers "enhanced"

[JessicaTam]

I have been on four QF flights this week and I noticed there were no newspapers handed out. I asked a staff member and it is a six week trial.

That is, for the next six weeks you have to get a paper from the lounge (or from the gate if it is before 10am). So if you are heading straight to the gate when you get to the airport - tough luck.:evil:

This is taking enhancements to a new level.:shock:


The staff member did say QF were interested in feedback...

 

[moa999]

Is this in J onboard???

 

[jdp]

I noticed the other day in the Adelaide lounge they had removed the "Please leave reading materials in lounge" or "Please return reading materials" or whatever the sign said.

I thought the morning paper was part of the ad campaign they ran a few years ago?

 

[markis10]

Have they removed the papers from the gate??

 

[JessicaTam]

Is this in J onboard???

Yes

Have they removed the papers from the gate??

The papers are only at the gate until 10am

There was a large stack at the exit of the MEL J lounge with a staff member in attendance. I now know the relevance of the repeated announcements in the lounge advising complimentary papers were available.

 

[moa999]

I noticed the other day in the Adelaide lounge they had removed the "Please leave reading materials in lounge" or "Please return reading materials" or whatever the sign said.
I thought the morning paper was part of the ad campaign they ran a few years ago?

Well I guess that is beneficial to Y travellers.
They never have the AFR onboard either.

 

[Brisbane Flyer]

Its a natural progression towards digital reading...why print so many papers when people are consuming content via devices...If I was a QF shareholder, I'd prefer that my investment understands changes in content consumption...newspapers are a dying a slow death.

 

[madrooster]

This trial started 1st May alongside the "enhancement" in 737 crew numbers on non breakfast/dinner services.

 

[cove]

If you are not careful we will get you 2 copies ot "The West" when you are heading back out of Perth.

 

[JessicaTam]

If you are not careful we will get you 2 copies ot "The West" when you are heading back out of Perth.

Got to be better than the Adelaide 'tiser.

 

[samh004]

I've noticed the stack of papers at the exit to the J lounge in BNE, wondered why they were there as it cluttered an otherwise open entry way.

That said, having been in J/Y on May 1st, papers were handed out in J, but not Y. My other flights since then have been QFLink. I usually do the paper thing in the lounge anyway.

 

[RickyT84]

The papers are only at the gate until 10am

I was at SYD earlier this afternoon (around 2pm) and it appears that most gates still have newspapers (granted it is only The Weekend Australian). I am surprised they haven't run out by then.

 

[kw1]

I noticed the other day in the Adelaide lounge they had removed the "Please leave reading materials in lounge" or "Please return reading materials" or whatever the sign said.

I thought the morning paper was part of the ad campaign they ran a few years ago?

Sunday night there was nothing decent in the ADL lounge to read anyway.

 

[Sprucegoose]

Sunday night there was nothing decent in the ADL lounge to read anyway.

Slurp Coopers!!

 

[medhead]

Got to be better than the Adelaide 'tiser.

You mean the bum wipe.

 

[Pollywaffle]

Its a natural progression towards digital reading...why print so many papers when people are consuming content via devices...If I was a QF shareholder, I'd prefer that my investment understands changes in content consumption...newspapers are a dying a slow death.

All good in theory until you get hounded to turn off all devices. For this reason I always take paper-based reading material on board.

 

[Warks]

I notice the Teles go first in Syd then SMHs and usually there's a stack of Australians left there until it's the only one left. Since SMH went tabloid... sorry 'compact' I would think it would be more popular than the Tele (or equal).

 

[pauly7]

Its a natural progression towards digital reading...why print so many papers when people are consuming content via devices...If I was a QF shareholder, I'd prefer that my investment understands changes in content consumption...newspapers are a dying a slow death.

Agreed.

Couldn't care less about newspapers or lack thereof. Save a few trees.

 

[flyingfan]

Agreed.

Couldn't care less about newspapers or lack thereof. Save a few trees.

I pretty much concur. After some time in the lounge I've usually read all the news I want to on the computers or my iThing.

After finishing a BNE/TSV/DRW JASA run I was offered a newspaper on only one or two of those flights and it would have been the early flights. Leaving the BNE J lounge yesterday I was offered a newspaper. At the gate, the newspaper stands were set up in front of the scanners almost so that you had to walk around them to get past.

 

[Happy Trails]

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