How the mighty has fallen! Instead of the mostly unloved A380 becoming the flag carrier after the loss of the 747s, it's the Boeing 787. This is a pale reflection of the great and much loved Queen of the Skies, the Boeing 747. Economy comes at a cost of dignity.Leave the seats, etc to use some of...

$1,850 for 4 year Qantas Club membership. I paid that amount in 1995 for life time membership and across the last 26 years have received my money's worth, although the days of the uncrowded quiet lounges are over. Today the club membership continues, but I believe platinum membership takes preced...

Looking at the pictures of "business" class food, great shots. I'll have the snack box, please, but you can make a smoked salmon sandwich to go in it. Mushy avocado and feta cheese. Pumpkin salad. Bleagh! Each to his/her own, but I'll pass every time. I'll be happy with the little packet of bikki...

What's all the fuss about food on a one and a half hour flight? I take a train from Brisbane to Nambour. It takes about that amount of time (on the proviso Queensland rail doesn't  muck up timetables and trains waiting on a siding for another to pass, as most of the distance is single line. ...

Not quite back to the future, but all I can think of is Compass, Mark I and Mark II. They tried to challenge Ansett and Qantas (or was it still Australian Airlines?) in the 1990s but came a cropper. Too many good businesses try to expand into the realm of their firmly fixed competitors, and throu...