• “ Qantas maintains its own ‘drive up and drop off’ valet parking at T3”HmmFrom Qantas webpage:Qantas Valet at Sydney Airport operates under the management of Sydney Airport Corporation Limited (SACL).  Might be Qantas skin and can earn QF pts but really the servi...

  • “Smoother”? I doubt so.Definitely not faster at the security line with newer body scanners (stand with the jazz hand, not the walk through) so we end up with the cabin bags are piling waiting for the pax to get thru the body scanners each taking at least 10-15 sec to be processed, and...

  • Wish VA spend more afford on developing pax loyalties in their core business ie domestic travel. Didn’t manage to take advantage of the domestic promo status credits bonus earlier this year due to fairly short lead time. Reluctant to book new flights with QF after their status pro...

  • If you ever have to deplane from the back (esp for QF flights) the extraordinary time for pax in front of you to do the simplest thing of getting their cabin bags and go, can take 15-20 mins or even more, and if you are travelling light and not picking up checked in luggage at the carousel, it&rs...

  • Agreed. It remains to see if content writers will ask the difficult (for the person making the announcement) but obvious questions on the day and risk future invites to corporate events by potentially becoming persona no grata. Let’s see how long this post will stay on this article.

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  • American Airlines Credit

    Mar 24, 2024, 06:37 PM

    Stupid question I am asking but is the credit due to a fight cancellation?I am under the impression that the ACCC expect a refund option to be available if cancelled flights booked on Australian platform. That how they managed to force QF to reverse their COVID flight credit for cancelled flights...

  • Thanks for flagging it. I agree the interesting take partly with allegedly inside information of how the news was broken to her. “ She did not see it coming at all, and nor did those around her.”Based on The Australian article's reason behind her departure, it would mean the IPO may not be the op...

  • Originally Posted by djtech If you are really interested, I suggest you read the AFR op-ed on her departure. Good tip. Didn't realise they wrote the article on the day. Thanks

  • So JH has finally announced her departure, which has always been anticipated by some as a matter of (recent) time.Now that she has got VA in its first year of profit in a decade, with plenty of connection with hotel chain and other airlines, the airline looks good on the books for the eventual sa...

  • Aircraft Code for 737 Max 8/9 etc

    Feb 03, 2024, 12:15 PM

    Originally Posted by quantumreality As far as I know, I noticed that some airlines, simply market 737 Max 8 as 737-800 means that when it is shown that 737-800 is being used for the flight being purchased, one never knows whether you will be flying the old 737-800 or the Max version.(CORRECTION:...

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