With the CX A350, you can actually use your mobile phone by roaming on to their mobile phone service in the plane. Calls, messages, data are all billed by your carrier.

Air India's Dreamliner service direct to India from Melbourne is excellent. Huge flat beds, excellent food, and i think the Dreamliner does leave you pretty refreshed.

Guess what I received yesterday in the mail... an Avianca Diamond card and 2 baggage tags!

I received my status match to Diamond yesterday, from my Virgin Platinum. Woohoo.

I foresee a legion of regular air travellers with chronic neck problems... ergonomically speaking, it's bad for your neck and eyes to have to constantly look down towards the iPad to watch content. I speak from experience having watched content on my tablet on long-haul international flights. Af...