I wish Qantas could get SYD-MEX going. There is a huge market for people in Australia going to Mexico and Central America who have zero desire to transit through the USA right now.Even if the route didn't operate every day, I imagine it would see decent demand. A problem would be capacity in MEX ...

Maybe I'm a cretin, but I'd probably take Pommery over Bollinger. Then again, I tend to prefer Tattinger over nearly any other Champagne, which probably marks me as something. Just a personal taste preference, I guess!

I'll definitely be using those extra MEL-DFW flights, and will probably venture onto the A380 on SYD-DFW when that comes online. Still wishing we had gotten that BNE-ORD route that was planned before COVID came along.MEX would also be great, considering the increasing travel between Australi...

Hmm... A route with a stop will always require more time on planes than the non-stop alternative.It's possible that there's a greater probability of experiencing a diversion at some point on two 9-hour flights vs. one 16-hour flight.

Lots of tries by different airports and airlines over the years.Search for "Gatwick boarding trial" for last year's efforts with EasyJet. I don't know what happened to that attempt, but the trial used visual prompts on screens in addition to the audio announcements. Seemed like if any attempt was...