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Qantas clamps down on lounge pass selling & sharing
Mar 21, 2026, 05:33 PMThis giving of "complementary" passes is rapidly becoming a rort. You see "beggars" posting on fakebook wanting someone to give them a pass or two where the potential giver is in no way, family or friend, connected to the "beggar". Somehow I get these passes through the Point Club. Don't need the...
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Qantas Club lounge membership fees increase
Nov 13, 2025, 04:17 PMI spent the princely sum of $1,800 for life membership in 1996 when I regularly travelled to Sydney. I'd got very cent's worth by the time Qantas started introducing the colours - bronze, silver, etc. Like the writer above I have lifetime gold (but no association with the defunct Ansett). To just...
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Review: Qantas’ non-stop flight to Paris
Jul 17, 2024, 08:34 PMI see a little exaggeration in this review. This may be a new route, but the awful 787 has been flying abroad since 2017. As for "Qantas’s business class menu on flights between Perth and Paris leans into the ‘French classics’, Qantas chef supremo Neil Perry told Executive Tra...
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These luxury sleeper trains bring back the romance of rail travel
Feb 20, 2024, 01:26 PMI just have to smirk when the writer refers to tiny villages on both the Ghan and Indian Pacific routes as "towns", e.g. "Rawlinna – a remote town bordering" a sheep station in South Australia. There is no village, let alone a "town". The closest place on either route that has more than a f...
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What’s it’s like to fly in the Qantas A220
Nov 15, 2023, 10:28 AMThe Boeing 747 and 707 both landed at Longreach, never to leave, (and Longreach wouldn't want them to). Connie came out in containers on the train. She was pretty much a wreck in Manila. (Who remembers Winkie's Fish?) Those who loved Connies rescued her, crated her and sent her to Australia where...
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Welcome to Country?!
Dec 10, 2021, 05:43 PMMrs/Miss/Ms Tully has it all wrong. "... acknowledging the traditional owners of the land" if that is what she originally said. Traditional people in Australia NEVER owned land. All the hundreds of groups/mobs/clans/tribes/etc were CUSTODIANS of land. Saying they "owned" it is a gross insult and ...
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Welcome to Country?!
Nov 09, 2021, 03:30 PMI'll admit to being a bit think, but if you're flying from Melbourne, for example, to Cairns, how many 'countries' do you fly over? Which one(s) will welcome you? Which to acknowledge? I know there are big 'clan'/'tribe'/'skin colour'/etc (whatever the accepted term is) maps displayed in Qantas l...
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Qantas Dreamliner to Perth
Jul 08, 2021, 12:22 PMOriginally Posted by Rod H Has anyone flown the Qantas B787 Dreamliner from Brisbane to Perth on QF941 yet?Would be interesting to know how the service was .Given the varying reports of late maybe someone can update us? I flew A330 (or was it A350) PER-BNE on the night flight. Quite comfortable i...
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Qantas further status extension
Nov 29, 2020, 06:19 PMLosing status credits is a right pain, but with just national travel there's no way to attain and/or retain the upper levels. A trip from the east coast to Perth achieves 30-40+ credit points while that to the US 90-120+ (both depending on the class of travel). I guess I'm just going to lump it a...
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Australians working overseas
Nov 29, 2020, 06:04 PMWhy would I want to travel abroad? Too many countries are hot beds of covid-19. I used travel frequently to the US and UK for business and leisure, now I wouldn't dare. After leaving Australia, how do I get home? How long mandatory quarantine (at least a fortnight)? How much out of my pocket? I'l...
