@gippsflyer.  You and I have had very different experiences.  I have never experienced a glitch on any other airline.  Yet on Qantas it has happened often enought and for long enough (8 years) to be called a regular event. When I announce we are flying QANTAS in my house, my son in...

Long term fliers with QF know that the entertainment system has never reliably worked Back in 2007 (when I used to write) I wrote for the next two years about regular crashes and failures in the QANTAS VOD and entertainment system.  Slow forward 8 years, and in 4 of the last 6 flights I or ...

I agree completely.  The Singapore to Sydney leg is just over 6 hours. You want to get as much sleep time as possible.  In a non-flip (read regularly) lie flat seat, you can be in "bed" mode before you even hit 30,000 ft and asleep moments into the flight.  With a flip bed you have...

I have taken the wife and two under 12 into the Sydney First lounge when flying economy so should be ok

bravo David. Great tip.  One of the best (if not the best) business traveller insider tip ever.