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Qantas eyes 787 flights for Brisbane-Los Angeles
Jul 17, 2024, 10:42 AMBack in Nov was booked on QF12 which was cancelled and was put on QF16 to Brisbane. Was a comfortable flight and crew on board were very good. Yes the 787 is newer and nicer but the A330 is not bad at all.
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Qantas uncorks Penfolds Grange at its first class lounges
Jan 05, 2024, 11:53 PMHad the 1997 grange on Christmas Day. Exceptional service in the lounge and managed to get my wife booked in for a massage.
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Emirates upgrades A380s with fresh first class, business class
Nov 23, 2023, 02:57 AMWell done EK. Great to see an airline with management that think of the customer and refreshing their offer to ensure customer retention and also gain new ones. Hats off to Sir Tim and his team. I know who I want to fly with.
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What was your best flight and trip of 2022?
Dec 19, 2022, 05:37 PMEmirates business from Sydney to Amman return with the visit to Petra and Wadi Rum features of the trip. EK flights - AM out of Sydney and PM back into Sydney was outstanding. Crew provided great service. Firstclass lounge in Dubai was also a great pit stop.
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Malaysia Airlines is still flying the A380 on 20 minute jaunts
Sep 01, 2022, 03:18 PMThe A380 for Malaysia Airlines has unfortunately been a poor business decision.
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Qantas customer service
Oct 02, 2024, 06:50 PMValid arguments about your friend's experience with Qantas. Recent personal experience with Qantas customer service as recent as 2 weeks ago has been hot and cold and recent experience with AA in the US especially at the airport has been awful and this is being polite. If Qantas service is worse ...
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How do you get a Qantas Upgrade
Sep 30, 2024, 05:47 PMI am platinum and flew QF 1 on Monday last week and got the upgrade from PE to BUS on the SIN-LHR leg. Have requested the upgrade on the QF 2 return but less hopeful. Flew J from SYD-LAX in January and got my upgrade to first. Many years ago managed to get my wife, daughter and myself upgraded t...
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Cathay Rejected Points claims
Oct 25, 2023, 11:59 AMI flew Cathay Pacific to London in July from Sydney. The points and the SCs came in reasonably quickly to my QFF account. The return however did not come in. I lodged the details through the missing points option on the Qantas website and kept checking and was told it was rejected. Out of the blu...
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QF LIFETIME PLAT
Oct 04, 2023, 09:09 PMOriginally Posted by mern2001 Vhojm, I think you confuse reward for incentive. The aim of any status program, irrespective of whether it is annual or lifetime is to encourage travellers to remain loyal to the airline. I suspect that QANTAS could encourage more loyalty if life-time platinum was mo...
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American Express Travel - Why is it so expensive?
Mar 31, 2023, 06:56 AMI had a positive experience with my $450 credit yesterday. I was looking at flight to London on Cathay and across OneWorld carriers and got the same price on Amex as I did on the Cathay Pacific website and was able to use the credit. I have every year used the credit for airfares predominantly a...