Another data point here. Not sure whether it's cathartic or makes it even more depressing. I can sum up my experience pretty briefly: I availed myself of Qantas' status match programme last year with enthusiasm, as I'd relocated back from Singapore a few years ago and being tied to Star Alliance ...

Understandable when half of the potential market for the flights remains indefinitely locked out of Oz with no actual plan in sight. Pity.

Friendly reminder: many of us aren't "visitors." I'm on a skilled migrant visa. Many like me have lived in Australia and called it home for years and spent the last two years (especially here in Melbourne) living through lockdowns, restrictions and all the rest, paying tax and contributing to the...

They'll need to be a citizen or PR in the first place, and then presumably need a place to stay, and of course thus far there is zero clarity around that whatsoever. Similarly, a Brit living in Australia for years but on a long-term "temporary" visa won't be allowed to go to the UK and come back ...

VA is not the same inflight experience as Qantas, but it's the flexibility and ease of making changes that matters most to me right now, and despite being someone who actively wants to fly Qantas and is willing to pay for it, Qantas' "Fly Flexible" policy is anything but and simply not compe...