This has been a great 'perk' for business class passengers, sometimes when I am flying outside of 'main meal' serving hours I will select a few things from the economy retail menu. I just hope that VA hasn't found passengers abusing this. I can understand the financial reasons behind it, Virgin n...

Now that Air Canada is flying Melbourne-Vancouver this is actually my preferred way to Seattle, I don't mind a little bit of back-tracking and I'd rather transit at Vancouver than LAX any day.

For economy I'll definitely get in the priority line so I can 'claim' my overhead bin space, get settled, and then pop in my noise-cancelling headphones and just look out the window (I'm a window seat guy) and zone out with music for the next 10-15 minutes.In business class it depends on the loun...

Bob, I came here to make the same comment. People need to think of this from the perspective of a business.Qantas decided to keep QFF even though it reported a $2.8 billion loss in 2014 but that was mostly a paper loss based on write-down of the international fleet plus a big one-off hit for redu...

Maybe the downvoting is more a reaction to the way some people are just so negative about anything and will use any article to whinge about Qantas and QF first class. I certainly get sick of the endless knocking. My 2c on this is that Qantas first class isn't in the same league as most others suc...