Well as someone who has managed to fill frequent traveller passports in under 4 years in the past, this will hit home. I may not travel quite as much as I did in the past, but I would still run through a standard passport in only 5-6 years. Disappointing, and I really don't see what their justifi...

Qantas continues to cut routes and they replace them with Jetstar flights (if they're even replaced at all). No thanks.

Yep. Already gone to Emirates and Cathay. No QF flight numbers at all anymore. Emirates for all my Europe and Africa travel, Cathay to get to Asia and North America. Everywhere else is a crapshoot, as it always has been. I do so little domestic travel that now I just go with whoever's got the bes...

I would be more impressed by this news if Vodafone hadn't recently decided to review the countries in which data access was possible and remove quite a number from the list (see here) - ones I regularly have to work in. Thankfully my current contract with them runs out in a few weeks, and I won't...