Excellent review Brandon. Comprehensive and fair. Qantas needs to address the inconsistency issues and invest in making its first class product unique and exceptional. We don't all fly in first but it sets the standard for the rest of the airline and signifies whether management is serious abou...

Air NZ have flown this route to London for decades. I remember landing in Gatwick in the 80s not Heathrow. Must be a big shock to the airline's employees and Kiwis more generally. London has always had a strong pull for the young on both sides of the ditch. Bit of a shame they couldn't have con...

Would JFK be beyond the reach of the 787 from Brisbane? If not, then I'd rather do transfer at Brisbane than LAX and have all the domestic traffic funnelled through Queensland. I'm guessing though the logistics don't work and QF will wait for the Sunrise project to deliver an aircraft that can.

Qantas has a point if PER insists on all international flights departing from the other side of the airport. Co-locating the domestic and international flights is the whole point of making PER a hub for European flights. Otherwise you just have another SYD on your hands. Until a new domestic term...

This should win awards. A diamond in the middle of the JFK dross.