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Review: Qantas Sydney-Auckland-New York QF3 business class
Jun 15, 2023, 03:33 PMI noticed yesterday that QF151 (MEL-AKL) departed an hour and 45 minutes late, and landed in Auckland about 20 minutes before the scheduled departure of QF3. QF3 pushed back on time, so obviously no time to be able to make the connection. I would have thought that QF3 would have waited. Qan...
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23-hour marathon: Qantas restarts New York flights
Jun 14, 2023, 03:14 PMI have been following QF3 and QF151 (MEL-AKL) today on Flightradar24. I noticed QF151 departure was delayed aprox 1 hour and 45 min, and touched down in AKL about 20 minutes before QF3 pushed back. My educated guess is that any passenger on QF151 connecting onto QF3 would not have had time to do ...
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What was your best upgrade?
Jan 05, 2022, 04:33 PMBack in the late ‘90s i flew from Melbourne to Christchurch (Qantas) in economy (B767) and got a hire car for the drive to Queenstown. I had a lovely 3 day stay in Queenstown. After the 6 hour drive back to Christchurch airport the check in agent greeted me with the news that i had been upg...
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10 best business class flights from Sydney to Seattle [2019]
Oct 05, 2019, 09:57 AMLast year i flew QF/AS SYD to SEA via SFO. From memory, it was about 2.5 hours between scheduled arrival and scheduled departure in SFO, the QF flight from SYD arrived about 20 minutes early, and they had started boarding the AS flight to SEA about 10 min prior to my arrival at the gate so i wal...
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How important is priority boarding on domestic, international flights?
Jun 28, 2019, 09:34 AMIf i’m in economy, then I am with Brandon. Get on, avoid the queue in the aerobridge, get my carry on in the overhead bin, and wait for everybody else. This applies to both domestic and international.For business class, depends upon aircraft type. For B737, as above. For larger aircraft, e...
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Overbooked Qantas flight
Aug 06, 2023, 02:08 PMThanks to all for the comments. Just to provide an update to my experience, I got talking to the lady working the entrance to the Qantas Club at Hobart Airport on Friday just gone (4 Aug 23). I shared my experience as outlined above as I felt the need to tell an actual employee of the airline rat...
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Fifth Freedom Rights Query
Jul 28, 2023, 02:11 PMThailand is another example. And so is Hong Kong (I think Australia negotiated fifth freedom with Hong Kong prior to Hong Kong becoming part of China, I'm only going by memory so I may be wrong).Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Thai Airways, Cathay Pacific all wanted multiple frequencies into multip...
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Overbooked Qantas flight
Jul 18, 2023, 04:55 PMI was booked on QF1553 today (18 Jul 23, 3.05pm departure) Mel to Hba in Economy. I received a text message from Qantas early yesterday morning saying that the flight had been overbooked, and it contained a link so that I could change my flight if I chose to do so. I chose not to. I can only ass...
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Haneda, Tokyo - Qantas early arrival
Apr 22, 2023, 01:56 PMOr the 4 x weekly QF79 MEL-HND that also arrives at 8pm.
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