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Virgin Australia offers free lounge access for over 60s
May 06, 2016, 01:29 PMMy Mum and her Probus Club crew will be thrilled. And the timing is good because I'm doing a duty dinner with them tomorrow evening. I've taken a screenshot of this page and will pass the iPad around over the pickled cucumber and supermarket Brie on crackers and will spread the word. I'm not sur...
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Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER new business class seats
May 03, 2016, 12:39 PMThis does look good, now, if only VA could address their woeful J product on the workhorse of their fleet, the 737s
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Sydney Airport introduces Uber X GoCar ride-sharing pick-up fee
Apr 19, 2016, 01:31 PMMuch as I'm a fan of UberX, congestion on the access roads into and out of SYD make the train a no brainer for me
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Travel hack Virgin Australia business class fares
Apr 15, 2016, 04:14 PMVery interesting article Chris. What's not to love about deeply discounted bizzo fares. But ... VA's 737 J product is rubbish, "junk business class" as somebody on Ausbt rightly called it recently. Is bizzo SYD - MEL on a VA 737 even worth $221 ? The 330's over to Perth are another matte...
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Review: Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles Airport hotel @ LAX
Apr 11, 2016, 04:05 PMPizza AND a chocolate dessert. That's impressive All in the name of research I guess
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From an article "How to Feel Like You're in First Class"
May 14, 2016, 05:03 PMI think you would have to take it to the next level and sleep with the controller to get any results.I think someone should run a quantitative study into this. Maybe Ausbt could sponsor it .....Might be a PhD in it.
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Does anyone know what happened with the maybe DPS-BNE Indonesia Airasia x fli...
Apr 20, 2016, 08:17 PMEven bogans, bless em, need choices
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VA 'The Business' pre take off drinks.
Apr 20, 2016, 02:43 PMLast night on the 330 it was still/sparkling water, juice, or champagne. delly is right, the champagne is pretty ordinary. I actually thought it might have been N.V. Bolly cause it had that slightly chemically cheap Bolly aftertaste. The passion fruit roulade on the other hand, was lick...
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What new routes would you like to see opened, now Singapore airlines are star...
Jan 27, 2016, 05:46 PMI' m a regular traveller into Hobart and am enjoying watching the city enjoy a MONA led upswing. There are good places to stay (Henry Jones) and good places to eat (Templo, Franklin etc). There's MONA and the posh pit out there. What's there's not is an international service.Hobart and Tasmania i...
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Does anyone have fond memories of Airlines no longer flying?
Jan 08, 2016, 04:41 PMWhen I first started flying a lot I flew on AnsettTheir food was probably rubbish but for some reason I remember Ansett catering well. They were pretty generous with their meals I recall.And I miss Golden Wing. They were great lounges. Comfortable. Minties. Nice martinis up in Brisbane Golden Win...