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Qantas’ newest jet moves onto Sydney-Tasmania flights
Sep 04, 2024, 01:05 PMI disagree. Seatback IFE harks from a time before personal tablets/phones. There's no need for it now, and its absence saves weight. What's needed is an adjustable seatback holder for personal devices.
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Air New Zealand brings back Wamos Air on Auckland-Perth
Dec 13, 2023, 04:04 PMIt's a bit rich that PE will be "reaccommodated" into Y, even with a fare adjustment. Some people don't want Y, which is how come they book PE. Money back if requested is the only fair process. Not a credit, money back.
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Four of the world’s best daytime scenic luxury train trips
Nov 06, 2023, 10:22 AMA word of advice about the TranzAlpine train. There is no prior seat selection, even in the higher grade Scenic Plus class (which by no means is anything like First on say the Glacier Express). Allocation is on the day. Some seats are airline style pairing, others are four at a table. The latter ...
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What makes a great hotel room for business travellers?
Nov 02, 2023, 09:40 AMAgree with PCHammond, comfortable bed. That includes pillows. Not foam slabs like bricks. Not cheap feathers that rustle in your ear all night. OK, first world issues but that's the quality we should expect in a good business hotel.
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What makes a great hotel room for business travellers?
Nov 02, 2023, 09:35 AMThe caveat about Chromecast etc is of course the wi-fi. No-one wants constant buffering interrupting their entetainment but that will always happen on poor hotel wi-fi. Another reason to pick a hotel with decent data speed. Even then, don't expect HD to work without issues, set for SD viewing.
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Cabin Video Surveillance
Oct 23, 2024, 09:45 AMDoes anyone know, do Australian carriers (QF, VA, JQ in particular) routinely do video surveillance in the passenger cabin? I'm interested because I've seen a report that CX is using video to prevent theft from overhead lockers and "suspicious behaviour", using an AI algorithm.
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Strange Math
Oct 14, 2024, 11:03 AMOriginally Posted by Serg Originally Posted by F8.1 Originally Posted by Serg Dummy quote MEL-LAX-MEL by NZ give about $9700 for return trip in J. At the same time AKL-LAX-AKL put you back for 6.5k And if you flight in J MEL-AKL-MEL it would be around 1.5k 6500+1500=8000. So where other $1700 spe...
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Strange Math
Oct 12, 2024, 02:24 PMOriginally Posted by vhojm The amount of nonsense questions in these forums is starting to get out of hand. Nobody is forcing you to read them.
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Qantas customer service
Oct 02, 2024, 08:06 AMIf QF customer service is worse than AA then the bottom of the barrel has been reached by our "national carrier".
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Classic Plus Rewards are a useless con
Jun 28, 2024, 09:56 AMOriginally Posted by sunnybrae I fear that the erroneous thinking of Joyce is now so deeply ingrained in Qantas that it can never be corrected. What erroneous thinking am I referring to? This - 'Screw the workers AND paying customers, and just concentrate on maximizing corporate shareholders' pro...