• Having used Southend a couple of times - once driving another time by train - unless you live in Essex or East London, it really isn't viable. From where I am in South London, it's only for plane geek flights on obscure airlines :)  Even getting to / from Luton or Stansted can cost as much a...

  • Back in the early 90's, I was classified as a "Commercially Important Passenger" as I processed the Qantas bill for one of their larger business customers. It was hilarious being upgraded to Domestic first when the partners were only upgraded to business.Been a while since I was WP, but woul...

  • To be fair, a euro-business class seat can be as little as £20 more expensive than economy when you want to check luggage in.It's quite easy to get better value by having a few drams on the flights from London to Greece or Spain.

  • One trick used by Wizz is to send you a £5 food and drink voucher as soon as they know they will subject to the delay compensation. If you use the voucher, then you no longer qualify for a payout. 

  • Living in South London, I'll still be utilising the Piccadilly Line to get to Heathrow. I did use the Elizabeth Line once when it opened, but unfortunately the time saving of about 5 mins doesn't justify the (SYD equivalent) airport surcharge.If your travel is to Central London or Canary Wharf, t...

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  • Bring back the Bundaberg ginger beer!

    May 12, 2021, 07:37 PM

    Despite Bundy GB being available in a number of supermarkets in the UK, the first sip of one on a QF flight out of LHR gave me the feeling of being on my way home.Plus one for getting it back onto flights.

  • With the recent increase of Qatar's stake in IAG (parent company of BA), there had been speculation in the UK that BA will run codeshares with Qatar for Australian flights. BA ticket holders would fly in their metal to Doha, and then QR operating the Doha - SYD / MEL / PER / BNE / CBR sectors.Ob...

  • Access to QF LHR Lounge T3

    Apr 15, 2019, 07:45 PM

    Heathrow will bend over backwards to keep you in the airport. You should be OK to use Heathrow connections to change terminals airside, and the connections staff should be able to organise your luggage transfer.https://www.heathrow.com/flight-connections/personal-connection-planner/FI450/QF002/22...

  • Flew QF 10 last week. J class was full on LHR/PER and about 50% PER/MEL. Booked a J seat as a one way ticket a few days out and got a good price (well relative to QF pricing), so presume there were plenty of seats available and the remaining ones filled with points upgrades.I would guess that you...

  • I hold dual Aus / UK passports, and am required to use my Aus passport in and out of Aus, and my UK one on entering the UK. As mentioned by another responder, the UK doesn't have a formal immigration exit.So, when I check in from London, I only need to show my Aus passport, but when checking in f...

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