All very nice about PY, and long overdue, except that unless TG swap airplanes again, it won’t be  of any use between AU & BKK, since SYD lost its 77W service last year, replaced by the A350. Ditto for MEL.  But for onward travel to FRA, LHR, NRT and a few other places, wonder...

Plus, if you’re lucky, you might get a sandwich that isn’t semi-frozen, and doesn’t cost you extra on top of the fare. 

Simple. People (like “moi”, padding out status requalification mileage (for those FF schemes that are still purely class/mileage-based, like SQ). Cheaper than having to do a mileage run, if you’re very close to getting over the line. 

“Can’t be that hard to get right?”  This is Australia, so yes it can be that hard. We can’t do infrastructure or any other projects, any more. Not since the original Snowy scheme in the 1950s-60s. Witness: the dog’s breakfast that is the Rozelle Interchange; tra...

How’s about Accenture or whoever gets the job this time, spend $195M ($125M + $75M, by the look of it…) of their OWN money, developing this, to the full implementation stage - not just a trial, due the vast difference in volume.  If it actually works, the govt pays them. If not,...