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Rex eyes Sydney-Canberra flights
Mar 02, 2021, 02:22 PMDon't need to go back to the Kendall days... REX flew Sydney to Canberra until late 2004.
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Qantas rescue flights from London, India, South Africa
Oct 16, 2020, 09:47 AM@auskiwiflyer - we don't have all the details, but generally looking at past examples indicates the government underwrites the cost of the flight and has a role in the pricing of the flight. Revenue obtained offsets cost to run flight. If flight runs at loss, the difference is picked up. Whi...
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Qantas rescue flights from London, India, South Africa
Oct 15, 2020, 11:31 PMIm not sure this is correct. I understand the facility is larger than this and given they want to bring 1000 people home through here a month (at least what I've seen), that indicates it will take 500 or so at any one time.
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Qantas rescue flights from London, India, South Africa
Oct 15, 2020, 11:21 PM@Auskiwiflyer - whilst I agree with the premise that the government should do more to get people home, your argument is somewhat misguided.The federal government has set a cap on total capacity into Australia. States have then imposed a cap on how many people they will accept and indeed sometimes...
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Qantas sends Boeing 787s to the desert for storage
Aug 09, 2020, 03:00 AM"but here is the difference between the US aproach and Australia. One is working on how to crank things up despite the issues and the other trying to hide until its all over."And your point is what? Qantas is an Australian airline operating in the market environment provided by government/s. Qant...
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Refund of points used to upgrade with all this travel disruption?
Mar 17, 2020, 09:56 AM16.1.9 Subject to clause 16.1, if the Member cancels a confirmed Classic Upgrade Reward within 24 hours of scheduled departure, or fails to board a flight for which a Classic Upgrade Reward has been confirmed (no-show), the Member will forfeit the Classic Upgrade Reward and any Qantas Points used...
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Has Qantas stopped its call back service?
Mar 10, 2020, 01:55 PMOriginally Posted by Stuart Jackson I think the call centre is just over loaded with calls atm. I spent around 5 hrs on Saturday rescheduling some rtw itineraries and wasn't offered a call back but in the current environment I suspect I wasn't the only one rescheduling. I had a long wait weeks ag...
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Qantas Club access with AA Flight Number in Sydney
Mar 10, 2020, 01:50 PMYou will not as far as I know. If you had an admirals club membership, you would.If you're experience is different, I'd love to know.
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Qantas wouldn't give me a free upgrade
Mar 05, 2020, 01:52 AMOriginally Posted by QF_ALT Wonderful thank you from QF today on the return hop across the ditch. 2 spare seats in PE so a polite request was made to see what the chances were. Platinum every year since inception and the predictable response. Certainly sir $450.00Why can't QF get it into its orga...
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Qantas wouldn't give me a free upgrade
Mar 05, 2020, 01:49 AMOriginally Posted by CBRQF Yes.....that comment was never going to go down well on here... Nor should it really.I love to be critical when the airlines don't live up to their promises, but this is a little ridiculous.