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Singapore Airlines switches Cairns to an Airbus A350
Apr 10, 2024, 11:36 AMJust happened to be speaking to a customer of mine who is a local and frequent contractor at Cairns Airport. He mentioned in passing that he has recently installed some technical equipment in “the Singapore Airlines lounge”. I’d rate this as a 95%+ indication that SQ are in...
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Singapore Airlines switches Cairns to an Airbus A350
Mar 28, 2024, 02:13 PMNoticed this a week ago and used it to snag 4x J award seats home from Singapore in peak of January 2025 holiday period. Overnight in Cairns and leisurely domestic back to Brisbane the following day. With a 5yo and 2 yo, way better than a direct Y flight.
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Review: when Qantas first class is the best business class
Mar 06, 2024, 12:15 AMI used this to sit in an F seat on a J ticket on this route years ago - around 2016. When I asked if we could make the bed to sleep, the flight attendant pulled a patronising face and told me that since it's a business class service, there's no F bedding. No J bedding either! Si...
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Should you apply for the new Star Alliance credit card?
Nov 09, 2022, 10:35 AMThe monthly sweep of points to a single airline makes this unattractive to me. If you can't accumulate points and then send them to your airline of choice when the time is right, this is poor value in my opinion. I can have higher rates of earn and transfer to SQ with other cards with...
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Virgin reopens Velocity points redemption on partner airlines
Jan 11, 2022, 03:38 PMAny updates to this? Keen on SQ redemption in Dec22. VA call centre didn't know anything.
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Pilot Incapacitation
Dec 22, 2023, 11:28 AMI am very sympathetic to people that refused vaccination, but not sure what your point is. Are you suggesting that the vaccinated are at higher risk of sudden incapacitation? Or that the unvaccinated are?I’ve read pretty widely about both COVID and the vaccinations and am familiar on some l...
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VA call centre: Up to snuff?
Nov 10, 2023, 11:31 AMI’ve been platinum for about 5 years now and have noticed the same thing. A lot more passing around from one person to another too, even for fairly straightforward matters. Pretty sure that even if you have keyed your Velocity number and PIN, the first person you speak to isn’t from ...
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Parking Sydney Domestic - What's the go?
Sep 18, 2023, 07:41 PMSort of thing you expect when someone has a very comfortable and entrenched monopoly. No incentive to invest, let infrastructure degrade. An indifference to the customer experience. This goes so far at Sydney Airport it often feels like an outright hostility to passengers, as anyone who’s t...
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Adelaide to Melbourne Qatar Flight
May 09, 2023, 08:43 AMOriginally Posted by apacau What I don’t understand is the long layover in MEL - around 3.5 hrs. Why couldn’t the flight just depart Adelaide a couple of hours later? Because that would mean a longer stop in ADL for those traveling DOH-MEL, which would be the vast majority of people ...
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Platinum business upgrade
May 05, 2023, 09:43 AMI have been told by multiple call centre operators that this is accurate - platinum complimentary upgrades come out of standard award inventory