Pretty much every visitor to this website and any other FF forum should know by now that QF is rubbish. You can expect a downmarket product at super-premium prices. No excuses for being surprised when it happens.

Given the timing, the airside transit hotel seems the go. T3 hotel is good.

If you accrue Velocity points, then you will have the option of many airlines out of Australia including SQ. QR has been showing good availability for Velocity members compared to QF members. Also there is United and Etihad.

That "research" was flawed and based on people in California reporting their mask wearing or otherwise, with a tiny sample size and massive confidence interval range. The best study has been the Danish one, which showed no benefit to wearing masks.

Originally Posted by mspcooper I agree, it may be onerous, but the number of people coughing around on my recent JNB flight, i was thanking that everyone was wearing them. Double protection! Have you ever stopped to think why mask-wearers are coughing? Could it be because of the masks capturing...