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Emirates upgrades A380s with fresh first class, business class
Nov 23, 2023, 02:57 AMWell done EK. Great to see an airline with management that think of the customer and refreshing their offer to ensure customer retention and also gain new ones. Hats off to Sir Tim and his team. I know who I want to fly with.
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What was your best flight and trip of 2022?
Dec 19, 2022, 05:37 PMEmirates business from Sydney to Amman return with the visit to Petra and Wadi Rum features of the trip. EK flights - AM out of Sydney and PM back into Sydney was outstanding. Crew provided great service. Firstclass lounge in Dubai was also a great pit stop.
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Malaysia Airlines is still flying the A380 on 20 minute jaunts
Sep 01, 2022, 03:18 PMThe A380 for Malaysia Airlines has unfortunately been a poor business decision.
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Virgin Australia 2.0 to cut fleet, routes and jobs, but lounges stay
Aug 05, 2020, 12:35 PMJob losses were inevitable but going forward this has got to be the most positive commentary in building a sustainable long term business which if successful will grow and need more people. Hope the plan works.
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Final call: Qantas farewells the iconic Boeing 747 jumbo jet
Jul 22, 2020, 07:30 PMFlight was captained by Sharelle Quinn their first ever female captain and fitting that she has been flying the queen of the skies for 36 years and was in command on the last flight. Another amazing aspect to this.
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Cathay Rejected Points claims
Oct 25, 2023, 11:59 AMI flew Cathay Pacific to London in July from Sydney. The points and the SCs came in reasonably quickly to my QFF account. The return however did not come in. I lodged the details through the missing points option on the Qantas website and kept checking and was told it was rejected. Out of the blu...
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QF LIFETIME PLAT
Oct 04, 2023, 09:09 PMOriginally Posted by mern2001 Vhojm, I think you confuse reward for incentive. The aim of any status program, irrespective of whether it is annual or lifetime is to encourage travellers to remain loyal to the airline. I suspect that QANTAS could encourage more loyalty if life-time platinum was mo...
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American Express Travel - Why is it so expensive?
Mar 31, 2023, 06:56 AMI had a positive experience with my $450 credit yesterday. I was looking at flight to London on Cathay and across OneWorld carriers and got the same price on Amex as I did on the Cathay Pacific website and was able to use the credit. I have every year used the credit for airfares predominantly a...
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QANTAS Apology points
Sep 12, 2022, 06:08 AMI am platinum and no points received yet. I know 2 people who are P1 and haven't got any points yet either.
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Reflections on a previous life
Aug 30, 2020, 09:31 PMOriginally Posted by LawrenceD No doubt many readers will be lamenting our travelling lives pre March. For myself that’s when company travel ceased. Frantic cancellations for holidays overseas all now successfully refunded for another day. It’s now been close on 5 months since last fl...