Adampies I had the same explanation: "Health & Safety issues" when I was surprised by the low weight allowed in economy carryons.. We had to take heavy items from my wife carry on and put them in a coat pocket so all was OK. I could not help annoying the agent by pointing out that in busine...

Typical pseudo-security nonsense like the no liquids rubbish.  Marvelous for business travelers who only carry hand bags...now they have to carry a suitcase for their lap top to rattle around in....madness 

The Qantas Cash Card is a Joke - Last year in Australia I cosidered activating this card but at that time was told they fixed the pin and it was not changeable . As this was daft - you write down the pin as it is not one you easily remember and the security is zero.  They have now altered th...

The round the world ticketsof the various alliances have become very bad value dropping from 29 sectors (when they started) to a measly 15 or 16.  It seems now that checking bags through when connecting on different airlines is now the only reason to use them.  The three main alliances ...

Did silk air have traffic rights between cairns & darwin - if so that would be useful and are all triangle routes being discontinued?