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Qantas begins trials of Australia’s digital incoming passenger card
Oct 23, 2024, 04:02 PMAs per Boeing-Tragic. What could possibly go wrong? We refuse to carry a mobile phone!
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Dubai Airport to go passport-free with AI, biometrics
Oct 23, 2024, 03:41 PMI’ll believe that when I see it. All current systems require removal of glasses/spectacles, but many of us require permanent wearing of same to read everything.I have had frequent issues of refused clearance until passed by a person / control officer. Not to mention state spons...
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New EU rules clamp down on hand luggage
Aug 27, 2024, 11:47 AMJust before Covid stopped international travel in its tracks, we flew SYD-LHR-MUC and then by train to Austria, all without a stamp in our passports. After a few days in the mountains we travelled by train through Slovenia to Zagreb in Croatia. Approaching Zagreb we were asked (dema...
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Compensation for delayed, cancelled Qantas flights from London
Jul 10, 2024, 10:13 AMA few years ago (before Brexit so EU261 applied), we were delayed leaving Nice for LHR on a BA flight by baggage handling problems, not BA fault at all. We just missed our QF flight to DXB so had to stay overnight in a nearby hotel. We were travelling on a OneWorld RTW ticket.Next m...
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Airlines push back against Australian passengers’ rights bill
Jul 05, 2024, 04:56 PMAs soon as the ‘polies’ and senior public service nabobs start thinking about passengers’ rights (probably in the Chairman’s Lounge), the airlines start squealing about how the sky will fall in, the chooks will stop laying and the cows will stop giving milk.Bring on the da...
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