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apacau

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  • Turkish Airlines begins Melbourne-Istanbul flights

    Nov 29, 2023, 08:52 PM

    Based on latest Turkish Airlines schedule updates on the IST-SIN route for 2024, I think we can work out part of their new Australian schedule.They have just published a 3x weekly additional A350 service with a suspiciously long layover in Singapore - enough time to get to somewhere in Australia ...

  • American Express to charge for Centurion Lounge guests

    Jan 13, 2023, 02:49 PM

    I know some airlines are trialing "convenience shop" style offerings (in addition to their traditional lounge) where pax with lounge access can stop by and grab a complimentary takeaway coffee and/or snack. To me, that sounds like a smart, lower cost (ie: not space hungry) way to accommodate some...

  • Virgin Australia launches Cairns–Tokyo flights

    Dec 14, 2022, 08:41 AM

    Let’s be honest - this is all about re-growing inbound Japanese tourism to FNQ, far less about outbound Australian travel. I think this will do well, especially given the NH partnership and it will give VA some valuable groups revenue onwards from Cairns. It will be interesting to see wheth...

  • Qatar Airways pushes back new Canberra flights

    Sep 29, 2022, 03:47 PM

    I believe the CBR tag was required to meet overall capacity restrictions into the major airports (ie by flying to CBR they could increase frequencies). Does this mean the Australian Government have relaxed these restrictions/increased QR’s allowed capacity? 

  • Will Virgin Australia launch its long-promised flights to Tokyo?

    Sep 27, 2022, 07:52 PM

    CNS-HND is most likely feasible with 737MAX8, if they wanted to keep the slots until such time as they have a widebody available. 

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  • Keeping child's QF points from expiring (under 5k points)

    Dec 21, 2023, 11:08 AM

    QF have updated to allow transfers as low as 1500 points - issue solved. Thanks for everyone's feedback.And, yes, to the "haters" out there, whilst it's very few points, they are still points that have been earned and are worth protecting. No different to saving your first few dollars as a child...

  • Keeping child's QF points from expiring (under 5k points)

    Dec 13, 2023, 03:13 PM

    My daughter's 2000-odd QF points are due to expire 31 December and there's no obvious way for her (or me) to use them or earn more in that timeframe to prevent expiry. Family transfers requires a min 5000 points.There was an article recently around QF easing up on these rules recognising these ch...

  • Adelaide to Melbourne Qatar Flight

    May 08, 2023, 03:37 PM

    What I don’t understand is the long layover in MEL - around 3.5 hrs. Why couldn’t the flight just depart Adelaide a couple of hours later?

  • Virgin Australia WiFi relaunch

    Feb 16, 2023, 12:10 PM

    I think it's now working on quite a few aircraft. My last 3 flights with VA all had working wifi (including to/from PER which was a bonus), which was great as a Platinum to get for free. I didn't try streaming video, but found it worked fine for general browsing, email etc.

  • Missing space and lower case in spelling of name - different in passport

    Jul 03, 2019, 03:50 PM

    I'm in a similar boat with a hyphen in my surname. Many booking sites won't accept anything other than letter so my surname is either spelt with a space between both parts or put together as one long word.It's caused a couple of headaches in the past in terms of getting FF membership details atta...

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