• For flyers in the know, sure it's not appealing - but it's not a huge aircraft to fill and to capture a market they just need make price attractive. Which they are - in Jul/ Aug QF Sydney to Tokyo direct in Business comes in at $10k return. VA $3.5k return similar to JQ price via Gold Coast. Othe...

  • Considering business class direct return fares are around $8k to $10k return from Sydney/Melbourne I'd say people wanting a bit extra comfort will pay for the Virgin business seat and stop over for the $2k return current price tag 

  • Flew them in 'Business' once...won't waste my money on them again even if it was slightly more then economy.Would prefer Garuda to come back but that ain't happening. Always a market for pax who'd pay little extra for premium airline over Air Asia and Jetstar (yes even to Bali!) Can anyone shed l...

  • Flew Qatar into Perth just yesterday on the 777, every seat full with last few unsold filled by staff. I posted in community thread a week ago under QF - all flights I was seeing including SQ, EK and QF to PER are 90-100% full some even weeks in advance. Aside from tourism rebound Perth also has ...

  • How are all these destinations being mentioned going to be served with 12 A350s? Majority would not be daily which is an inconvenience to have to suit Qantas schedule then your own. So far I've heard both Mel/Syd to JFK and LHR ontop of the PER 787 flight being replaced by A35p. - that would be 1...

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  • Anyone Got a reward seat recently

    Feb 17, 2024, 08:32 AM

    I've booked my flights as J reward seats on LATAM to and from Australia, and Malaysia to KL in less then <1mth from departure since December. Same story when booking QR last year over Christmas and Emirates in September where availability opens up ~2wks to 1mth before departure.

  • VA call centre: Up to snuff?

    Nov 30, 2023, 09:47 PM

    It's the same with QF although i think it's an India call centre at times? Multiple calls recently to get service fees refunded when forced to call up because online classic reward booking not doable from departing port. Minor issues turned into a headache, repeatedly told will be actioned withi...

  • Pretty sure it's dependant on the country origin of departure. Australia gets slogged. I too flew F in EK on a 5th freedom flight return and total charges were $70Aud. If I leave Perth in EK in F one way it's like $1500.

  • Premium cabins are full - on Qantas a lot of spare seats within 24-48hrs go to those with commercial upgrade requests. With Economy cabins I suppose a lot of people are tightening belt and burning through cash more for life necessities over luxuries.

  • Anyone have a clue?

    Jun 19, 2023, 08:57 AM

    Emirates fees ain't that expensive with Air Canada Aeroplan.

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