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How to speed up your Australian passport renewal

Jun 09, 2022, 08:04 PM

While there’s plenty of negative stories in the media at the moment we applied for a new child passport 4 weeks ago at our local PO and had it arrive in the mail this morning which was a lot quicker than we’d expected
Qantas to restart Sydney-London, Sydney-LA flights on November 14

Oct 02, 2021, 09:10 AM

Pre flight PCR tests are problematic as we start to open up post vaccination. Surely the expectation is that we are more likely to catch COVID - with hopefully less effect. The risk of catching COVID while in the UK for example will be reasonably high - at least a few people per flight affected. ...
International travel ban: Australia's borders closed until 2021?

Jun 18, 2020, 01:14 PM

and with a higher reproductive rate also spreads through the community much more rapidly than the flu
Emirates, Etihad boost flights to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth

Jun 05, 2020, 03:59 PM

Emirates are flying those routes anyway, just not picking up passengers. I often see emirates flight departing Brisbane early mornings, presumably freight only.
Private investors circle Virgin Australia for take-over

Apr 17, 2020, 04:27 PM

If my super fund thinks Virgin looks like a good investment right now I'm switching funds...

Business class to London: Etihad or Singapore Airlines?

Nov 01, 2018, 11:26 PM

Both are excellent in J, both hard and soft product. I concur with others, if you are VA platinum go EY to try the lounge, if you want to break up with a transit then it’s Singapore.But why pick one? Fly out in one and back in the other and have a taste of both!
Virgin Partners dropping like flies

Oct 03, 2018, 08:02 PM

Agreed on family pooling. The additional credits a family trip or two can bring mean gold and platinum are easy to achieve. I'm platinum VA and I think it would be a serious struggle to reach gold QFF. This is the main reason I stay, but also the partnership with SQ is really important, as is the...
SQ...nice planes shame about the new business class seats

Sep 19, 2018, 05:25 PM

I've flown SIN-CPT-SIN-BNE in the A350 and spent close to 30 hours in that seat. I don't understand the complaints. I'm 180 centimetres. Seat was super comfortable, I slept well, screen and IFE are great. Flying again at the end of the year in a mix of 777 and a350 and really looking forward to i...
Delivery flight of Singapore Airlines' first Boeing 787-10, March 26-28

Feb 23, 2018, 01:40 PM

When ABT are invited, is the entire journey covered by SQ - so they transport you on the outbound too? And do they accommodate you up the front for that journey as well if so?
Taking advantage of very good USD/AUD rate

Feb 01, 2018, 03:23 PM

Citibank online banking lets you flag your travel plans now, so no need to call and will prevent transactions being blocked