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MARRIOTT: New Adelaide hotel scheduled to open mid 2024
As regular readers will know, I frequent Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, to visit friends and family. Because of that, I try to keep up to date on hotel openings in the city. Over the last few years, IHG has opened an Indigo, a Crown...
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TURKISH AIRLINES: Touches down in Melbourne for first time tonight (Saturday 2 March 2024)
Turkish Airlines light TK168, which departed Istanbul on Friday, is scheduled to land at Tullamarine Airport tonight at 8:40 pm. You can read about the route in more detail in a previous post. This will be the airline’s first flight to Australia. Unfortunately, this will be conducted using a less...
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JETSTAR: New uniforms after 20 years of operation.
Jetstar chose designer Genevieve Smart of Ginger and Smart, to work with its staff on designing the new uniform range. The new clobber will be worn by some 5,000 of the airline’s customer-facing staff in Australia, and offshoots in New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. Expect to see the uniforms from...
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QANTAS: Singapore First Lounge – WOW! First impressions
Returning from my recent trip to Singapore and Malaysia, I had the fantastic pleasure of spending a few hours in the Qantas Singapore First Lounge at Changi Terminal 1. OK, this is only my third Qantas First Lounge, a title reserved for the airline’s top international lounges. (I’m ignoring the...
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Maximising Qantas Double Status Credit deal to my Benefit
Being an Aussie based flyer, almost one-third of my 1585 flights have been with the Australian carrier, Qantas. In addition I have flown every current and past One World carrier! This volume of flights means that I have achieved Qantas Gold for Life status (equivalent to One World Sapphire) in...
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QANTAS: More delays to Project Sunrise non-stop flights to the USA and Europe
This project has been talked about for a very loooong time. Since 2017 at least. Back in 2019, Qantas ran nearly empty flights to New York and London as a proof of concept. They even ran a health and wellness research project linked to the ultra-long-haul flights back in October...
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QANTAS: Changes to frequent flyer scheme from April 2024
Qantas is set to make ‘improvements’ to the frequent flyer scheme. This includes a new ‘flight reward product’ to meet the need for more reward seat availability at popular times of travel. This product will be available to book closer to the departure date. ET is reporting on a briefing...
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QANTAS: International WiFi, App improvements and automatic COVID refunds. About time.
As part of their most recent financial reporting, Qantas has released information about a number of digital improvements. Everything from international WiFi and improvements to its phone app, to automated refunds that patrons can receive without even asking. Well, that’s a turnaround. What happened to the ‘we can’t do that...
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QANTAS: Aircraft update including A220s interiors
Along with the financials, showing a drop in profitability for the half year of 13% from the record post-pandemic profits of last year, Qantas has revealed the interior of its new A220 jets. No real surprises here. New A220 for QantasLink The first two of a total of 29 Airbus...
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QANTAS: The Board – changes at the top – new Chair, John Mullen
Qantas has announced today, that Richard Goyder will be replaced as Board Chair by John Mullen at the October AGM. He is currently the chair of Treasury Wine Estates and Brambles. He has already said he will need to slim down his responsibilities so he can give Qantas appropriate attention....
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QANTAS: Double Status Credits or Points promo 2024 on now! Yippeee!
If I had a dollar for every time someone posted on social media Qantas forums ‘When is the next Qantas double status credits promotion?‘, I would be a very rich man. UPDATE: It’s happening! Qantas announced their Double Status Credits or Double Points promotion today, and you have until a...
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VIRGIN AUSTRALIA: CEO Jayne Hrdlicka to go – IPO further delayed!
After four years at the top Virgin Australia’s chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka is leaving the airline. That almost certainly will delay the companies’ relisting on the Australian Stock Exchange. The company’s release is vague on when she will actually step away from the role, although it does use the word...
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VIRGIN AUSTRALIA: Double points promotion
If you are a regular Virgin Australia customer, here is your opportunity to rack up some significant Velocity loyalty points. The current Velocity Double Points promotion will give you twice as many points for any flights booked until the end of June 2024. The first stop is to visit the...
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TRIP REPORT: Introduction – my trip to Christchurch, New Zealand flying Emirates First Class on an A380
As a travel blogger, I was determined to experience the shower-in-the-sky on Emirates. I had the time and the Qantas points to redeem. I hadn’t been to Christchurch since before the earthquake, so why not? Introduction I booked this trip specifically so I could travel in First Class on the...
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QANTAS: Looks like the Double Status Credits promotion is getting closer
If I had a dollar for every time someone posted on social media Qantas forums ‘When is the next Qantas double status credits promotion?‘, I would be a very rich man. UPDATE: Devotees of gaining Qantas double status credits (DSC) to retain or boost their status will probably be aware...
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QANTAS: A runway, brakes, fire trucks and a cancelled flight
Cancelled flights are like spilt milk – not worth losing sleep over. I can say that now, since my recent experience of a delayed and then cancelled flight. I was trying to head off to Singapore and Malaysia for a couple of weeks., and then brakes and fire trucks. Introduction...