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Airfares fall as Australian flights return to pre-pandemic capacity
Apr 17, 2024, 11:38 PMI live in Canada so can't speak for fares TO North America, but fares to Australia from Canada (at least in J) on Air Canada have climbed higher than any other worldwide destination they fly to. J is now 35%–40% higher than it was even two years ago; AC seems to put the fare up every few we...
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Qantas launches Classic Plus Flight Rewards; bookings now open
Apr 08, 2024, 10:55 PMAt the end of tody's SMH article about the rewards revamp is the comment " There are 16 million members to keep happy". So Qantas tinkers with award seats but at the same time increases the cost of extra legroom seats and (most infuriating of all) is going to charge for Row 4 within T-80. QF has ...
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Qantas reveals big change in ‘extra legroom seat’ pricing
Apr 05, 2024, 08:45 PMWow. Extra money for Row 4 even after T80 kicks in? Qantas is rushing to become the Ryanair of the southern hemisphere!
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Qantas says it won’t let dogs, cats fly in the cabin
Mar 12, 2024, 02:08 AMRows segregated into smoking and non-smoking was better than nothing, but non-smokers always dreaded the seat-belt sign going off because it was be followed instantly by a wave a smoke, all the way through the cabin. Presumably the same will happen with barking pets, except they won't respect the...
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Qantas says it won’t let dogs, cats fly in the cabin
Mar 10, 2024, 01:38 AMAllowing cats and miniature dogs (because that's the only size that's going to fit under a seat) onboard won't do anything to save a bulldog - it's in the cargo hold or nothing for that size animal.
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Would Qantas devalue its frequent flyer points?
May 23, 2020, 12:24 AMI recently contacted Qantas FF on behalf of a friend who lives in Cyprus, is a Qantas FF member, and is not on the internet (yes, they exist; he's 70). He normally comes to Australia once a year, but with the borders firmly shut it's unlikely he'll be able to come anytime soon (not an Australian)...
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Where did my post go? It glitch or censorship?
Aug 07, 2019, 10:38 PMStill unable to access more than one discussion thread. After the first one loads OK, the message for all subsequent threads is that the thread doesn't exist or has been removed. Not using Explorer, though - using Firefox for Mac. Just tried to post this and got a message "Internal server error"....
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Where did my post go? It glitch or censorship?
Aug 07, 2019, 10:37 PMStill unable to access more than one discussion thread. After the first one loads OK, the message for all subsequent threads is that the thread doesn't exist or has been removed. Not using Explorer, though - using Firefox for Mac.
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Australian passport fees increasing in 2019
Dec 19, 2018, 07:28 PMOriginally Posted by Ourmanin Originally Posted by nanohits Originally Posted by townaz One thing to keep in mind our passport is valid for 10 years. A lot of other countries only issue passports for 5 years. A lot of developed countries like US etc are all 10 years. As is the UK. And as a sli...
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Changing passports in the middle of a trip
Aug 15, 2018, 10:33 PMOriginally Posted by Ross I have three passports Aus/UK/Can and do this all the time, enter exit on passport of country - never had a problem. Last edited by Ross at Aug 14, 2018, 08.34 PM.I have Aus/Germany/Can, resident in Can, and have no trouble traveling to Europe. However, a few years ag...