Hi Chris, thanks this is a very timely article. I have just posted about this issue over in the community forum. Qantas cancelled my flight a few weeks ago for departure on 21 April. I have requested a refund but Qantas is trying to charge people requesting the refund a cancellation fee which wou...

Good point, would be interesting to see the poll broken down between transit and stopover. For me, I prefer Hong Kong for BOTH transit and stopover, but like yourself others may not mind one of the ME airport cities if it is just a transit stop.

As a oneworld flyer, Hong Kong is my preferred city for a stop over or transit, with the option to go QF to HKG and then CX/AY to Europe, or CX all the way (with multiple departure times). I tried the QF-EK partnership to Europe last year, but was thoroughly disappointed by the Dubai/Emirates pa...

This is great news, making transfering to a domestic JAL flight so much easier! Earlier this year getting to Sapporo involved flying to NRT and then enduring a long bus ride in traffic for the domestic flight. We almost missed out connections on both the outbound and return legs.

"TAM will join the Oneworld airline alliance next week". As a QFF I used to enjoy reading about new oneworld airlines, as they expanded the Qantas network, and allowed me to attain/maintain status more easily.  Now as a QFF with the "enhancement" and "simplifications" annouced yesterday th...