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Melbourne Airport’s $4.5 billion makeover
Feb 26, 2026, 06:19 PMAn even simpler solution is to just hand it over to the Chinese to build for us. They'll have it done in 12 months. None of this shillyshallying around.
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I was fortunate enough to fly Pan Am a couple of times in the 1970s, but only in economy. But I do remember the pleasant cabin crew and customer service. I still have a PanAm writing compendium, that the crew supplied when I asked for some paper and a pen. It is a blue plastic f...
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Taiwan’s new entry rules for Australian visitors
Sep 29, 2025, 03:37 PMBecause of our innate need to reinvent the wheel. Why buy a proven system when we can spend squillions designing our own, which will take ten times as long, will be error prone, and when implemented won't work. What's not to love about it? It's the Aussie way.
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Pet-friendly flights: Virgin to allow dogs, cats in plane cabins
Jun 25, 2025, 04:55 PMLooks like I will be forced back to Qantas for any interstate travel, unless this misguided policy ensures that only certain flights will be designated and clearly labelled as so-called "pet friendly" so I can avoid booking any of those.I only travel on Virgin because of the EconomyX seats. ...
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Concorde tour: revisiting the glory days of supersonic travel
Jun 06, 2025, 08:45 PMI was fortunate enough to fly once on Concorde from New York to London. My ex-partner and I were booked to fly first class on the morning subsonic flight on this particular day. However, TWA which I seem to recall was in the next terminal, had to cancel their London flight, so BA was ...
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Qantas A380 refurb schedule
Jul 03, 2019, 04:13 PMOriginally Posted by FlyingKangaroo Though a bit dated, the PE seat itself on the current A380 is the best I've experienced comfort wise. Unless I'm in J, I'm in no hurry to see the refurbs on my routes. Have yet to fly the 787 and have avoided thus far given the reviews.It's all relative, and n...
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Qantas A380 refurb schedule
Jun 26, 2019, 04:05 PMAm flying PE MEL-SIN mid October this year. Just keeping my fingers crossed that I don't get the refurbed plane with the new awful PE seats. Thankfully the remainder of my journey to Europe is on Singapore in PE and home on Qatar in Business. Haven't flown on Qantas for donkey's years and not ...
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Pyjamas on SYD-LAX and SYD-SFO United 'Polaris' Business
Oct 19, 2018, 01:50 PMOriginally Posted by BevanMcBevan (Re Qatar), Really. They're that good? Are they doing this ex SYD? Have to agree. I flew Tegel to Doha a few weeks ago, and even though only a five hour flight we got pjamas. Very comfortable. Stupidly, I packed them in my checkin bag in Singapore, forgetting...
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Where are the Virgin Australia award seats to LA?
Aug 17, 2018, 03:28 PMOriginally Posted by reeves35 Originally Posted by willvill I booked PE to LAX next April and there were NO seats taken at all on that flight in Business(Expert Flyer) . Yet after I booked PE and asked to upgrade, the reply was 'allocation exhausted' which I took to mean not released yet, so I ...
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Virgin High Flyer CC - Just what is a Government Transaction?
Aug 30, 2017, 05:19 PMOriginally Posted by brinkers : The problem, as the T&Cs indicate, is that how merchants are classified is set by the merchant or the merchants bank. It does seem strange that Air Asia X would fall under this umbrella, but they were originally government owned (some time ago now) Not ow...
