I put in a rant early on about how bad in practise was the Qantas card, others have followed up with points that I missed, particularly the excellent Velocity feature of an automatic email with the balance every time it is used. Well, guess what, unbelievably, it just gets worse. Some new points...

I have been told by technical peope witihn the industry that the issue is not so much the interference from one iPhone at 30,000 feet as the interference from several dozen iPhones at 30 feet when passengers all have a sudden and simultaneous compulsion to pull their phones out to tell the rellie...

Leaving international issues to one side, using the Qantas card domestically is simply a pain in the neck. Every BPay loading requires a new payee, because the biller number and refence changes every time. This also means, using CBA, a new SMS message and number. Getting into the website to ini...