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Australia’s international travel ban to be lifted in November
Oct 01, 2021, 08:04 PMWill be interesting to hear the state premiers reaction. Until they agree it is just another announcement.
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Last chance: free points, status credits in Qantas Vaccination Rewards
Aug 25, 2021, 09:49 PMApart from ostensibly being a good citizen, is Qantas gathering data in your QFF profile that simplifies requirements for a "vax passport" when flying at some time in the future?
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Cathay Pacific’s Airbus A321neo is finally ready to take wing
Jul 17, 2021, 08:12 PMAs HK inevitably becomes just another city in China, does CP get rights for routes within China? These new jets would be suitable, and I wish them good luck.
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A new generation of music fans is building stereos from scratch
Oct 23, 2020, 09:08 PMWow - reminds me of my uni days in the 70's. One of my lecturers at Monash Elec Eng designed and built an incredible sound system of a valve amplifier that could direct drive (ie no step up transformers to introduce distortion) a pair of also home made electrostatic speakers at +/- 3500 Vo...
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OzJet: Australia's short-lived 'all business class' airline
Oct 10, 2020, 09:39 PMagree nice livery. Having looked at their history before I wondered if they basically used what European Airlines had already painted eg on VH-OZQ (which was G-GPFI) with minimal changes (ie adding chequered flag and "Oz" ) or whether it was the other way round. Not sure ab...
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Qantas A380 refurb schedule
Jun 28, 2019, 09:32 PMI always liked the A380 PE seat, and after reading the reviews of the new PE seat I was dreading it, but having flown twice now MEL-PER-LHR and SFO-MEL I actually found it pretty good. Like economy, unless you know each other very well, the person in the aisle seat needs to vacate to allow the wi...
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Travel suggestions for Helsinki
Aug 19, 2018, 08:57 PMMany good suggestions on what to see and do.I like the Fabian Hotel.
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Qantas complimentary lounge passes go electronic
Jun 27, 2018, 09:35 PMAnother minor warning ... a few months back I used a couple of electronic passes (in Melbourne) by linking to the flight and the lounge guardian angel could see it by scanning the boarding pass. On last trip, in SYD and HKG, they demanded to see the printout of the confirmation email. In SYD t...
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Qantas 787 domestics routes
Jun 27, 2018, 05:32 PMOriginally Posted by Greg84 I thought I saw a 787 flying in Brisbane the past weekend - would've been mid/late morning...not sure if they were flying to somewhere else or if my plane spotting abilities need more work... Did you mean a Qantas 787? Could be another airline, but it looks like all ...
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Purchasing Lounge access at LAX arriving from MEL on Qantas QF93 to Terminal B
Nov 01, 2017, 08:59 PMwas just about to write exactly as nmalon advises. Have done this connection a number of times and it has been pretty tight every time bar once (when pilot became ill and it took time to rustle a replacement).