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apacau

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  • Plaza Premium to open domestic Flight Club lounge in Australia

    Nov 21, 2024, 03:17 PM

    Is this actually a lounge? The images tend to suggest it is just another airport F&B outlet that anyone can walk up to and order something to eat and drink - I would be keen to understand how it works.Also with QF and VA having their own well-established lounge offerings for regular flyers (i...

  • Qantas’ newest jet spreads its wings to Singapore

    Nov 05, 2024, 10:18 AM

    And the current Darwin-Dili route (Alliance E190s in QFLink livery)

  • Turkish Airlines begins Melbourne-Istanbul flights

    Nov 29, 2023, 08:52 PM

    Based on latest Turkish Airlines schedule updates on the IST-SIN route for 2024, I think we can work out part of their new Australian schedule.They have just published a 3x weekly additional A350 service with a suspiciously long layover in Singapore - enough time to get to somewhere in Australia ...

  • American Express to charge for Centurion Lounge guests

    Jan 13, 2023, 02:49 PM

    I know some airlines are trialing "convenience shop" style offerings (in addition to their traditional lounge) where pax with lounge access can stop by and grab a complimentary takeaway coffee and/or snack. To me, that sounds like a smart, lower cost (ie: not space hungry) way to accommodate some...

  • Virgin Australia launches Cairns–Tokyo flights

    Dec 14, 2022, 08:41 AM

    Let’s be honest - this is all about re-growing inbound Japanese tourism to FNQ, far less about outbound Australian travel. I think this will do well, especially given the NH partnership and it will give VA some valuable groups revenue onwards from Cairns. It will be interesting to see wheth...

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  • Is Classic Rewards over?

    Oct 04, 2024, 03:19 PM

    I'm currently in the process of (attempting to) book J class redemption seats to Europe for Sep next year for the family of 3. Waiting patiently for the day seats are released.I have enough VA points for one way and enough QF points for the way back.In short, no problem at all finding 3x J class ...

  • Keeping child's QF points from expiring (under 5k points)

    Dec 21, 2023, 11:08 AM

    QF have updated to allow transfers as low as 1500 points - issue solved. Thanks for everyone's feedback.And, yes, to the "haters" out there, whilst it's very few points, they are still points that have been earned and are worth protecting. No different to saving your first few dollars as a child...

  • Keeping child's QF points from expiring (under 5k points)

    Dec 13, 2023, 03:13 PM

    My daughter's 2000-odd QF points are due to expire 31 December and there's no obvious way for her (or me) to use them or earn more in that timeframe to prevent expiry. Family transfers requires a min 5000 points.There was an article recently around QF easing up on these rules recognising these ch...

  • Adelaide to Melbourne Qatar Flight

    May 08, 2023, 03:37 PM

    What I don’t understand is the long layover in MEL - around 3.5 hrs. Why couldn’t the flight just depart Adelaide a couple of hours later?

  • Virgin Australia WiFi relaunch

    Feb 16, 2023, 12:10 PM

    I think it's now working on quite a few aircraft. My last 3 flights with VA all had working wifi (including to/from PER which was a bonus), which was great as a Platinum to get for free. I didn't try streaming video, but found it worked fine for general browsing, email etc.

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