For those interested, there's been some stiff opposition to the proposed VA-NZ deal by stakeholders on this side of the ditch. NZ Airports Association, Auckland Airport, Christchurch Airport, and others, are all advocating to NZ's regulator for the proposed deal to be denied. They claim that the de...
Jump to posthttps://www.accc.gov.au/public-registers/authorisations-and-notifications-registers/authorisations-register/virgin-australia-airlines-ptd-ltd-and-ors?fbclid=IwAR2Z_-GMn2w8U4KX9-v4vmgl3kGe_vBKwiB4A5hH7LrEGycA7C3TVxG3Ado_aem_AcUXZf_4vN4oT_eBjPwjhqNbkI8OcUJmqqaxi158DVmi2WUFr1dR_YnkcF--QWpi6m8 VA-NZ par...
Jump to postQantas has just lost the Baggage Handlers unfair dismissal case a third time in the Hight Court. As this was heard by all 7 Justices, there aren't any more avenues for appeal. I still feel this continued court action by Qantas management was a bit reckless as the case had already been awarded again...
Jump to postBut she was put there to dog whistle to other electorates for sure. There's a number of ALP marginals in Western Sydney and rural areas where the same sex marriage vote in 2017 was a majority No. Morrison is prepared to throw the transgender community under the bus to steal votes from Labor in thos...
Jump to postMore incompetence, it's clear we have a child in the lodge. Will he use Jenny to bail him out of this one.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 5a7xp.html
Do tell what were his failure's in the above areas[/quote] Failure to prepare Australia with water bombers despite being warned before black summer, having a Hawaiian holiday and only coming back to Australia when called out by the media for it, only appearing at disaster sites for photo ops, failur...
Jump to postScott Morrison has made much of his personal channel to God, via his very close relationship with the founder of the Hillsong evangelical church Brian Houston. A relationship so close Morrison wanted Houston to be included on his White House invitation to meet the President of The United States of ...
Jump to postInteresting polling released by Roy Morgan yesterday, showing Scott Morrison with the greatest distrust score of currently serving politicians and Penny Wong, followed by Anthony Albanese with the highest trust scores https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/8933-political-trust-distrust-australian-leade...
Jump to postA vote for Labor is a vote for Bill Shorten to become PM (he has always believed this to be his entitlement) within a year or two after his faceless mates spill Albo out. TBH this laughable considering the NSW liberals state and federal liberals have their own preselection issues at the moment. Con...
Jump to postEtihad brings back daily Sydney & Melbourne flights, whilst QR to operate daily flights to Brisbane from 1 March. https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/etihad-brings-back-daily-sydney-melbourne-flights https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/qatar-brisbane-flights Sent from my iPhone using Ta...
Jump to post6x 77W from next year then down to 5 in 2025 then none in 2027 (I’d imagine that this is very flexible and that it should be pretty easy to keep them on if needed). 16x 787 from 2024 (but likely more). Q300 to stay on until at least 2025. Which would make senses, they own 5x of the 77Ws so there ex...
Jump to postThis is what is wrong in politics at the moment: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/bushfire-victim-slams-scott-morrison-for-walking-away-20200103-p53omq.html You get the impression that the PM is there to save face and to try and get some PR opportunities his minders can spin into a positive. Whe...
Jump to postTomorrow is expected to be another bad day in the east of Victoria, with fires now in the Alpine areas. People in those areas have now been told to get out before tomorrow morning. The Navy will also start evacuating people from Mallacoota tomorrow by sea. 4000 people are still stranded there, 1000...
Jump to postLOL, Yeah I knew how they did it in a physical sense more about how the being themselves to do it given the distance. I don't think distance is much an issue as opposed to time. With public transport from Penrith it takes roughly 75 minutes to get to the domestic terminal. There have been significa...
Jump to postNZ6 wrote:I've always wondered how residents in Blacktown, Penrith, Campbeltown etc manage to get to SYD for a business flight.
Not ideal! With my one there seems to apparent reason why they would need to change it! The flight is two months out, the only reason I can see they would have moved me is because they don’t want an cheap transit passenger on an peak hour SYD-BNE flight. AKL-SYD-BNE in Business is $512NZD or SYD-BN...
Jump to postI'm stunned at how quickly and consistently England was able to force turnovers. That was just painful. Extremely painful if you are kiwi but writing was on the wall prior to the start of the tourament in my opinion. I will enjoy heaping crap on my NZ relatives over the coming weeks after this All ...
Jump to postWell Japan sent Scotland home and top their poule. I must admit I was not impressed by Scotland, but what a tremendous result for Japan. South Africa next for them. Great win for Japan. Hopefully SanZar takes another look at the Sunwolves again after Japan's performance so far. https://youtu.be/0IO...
Jump to postUnderstand Italy's chances against NZ were rather thin but it's a shame to not let them take their chances, on top playing NZ in a world cup must be something any rugby player dreams of. Very sad for them. . T I'm sure than if the shoe was on the foot and the All Blacks or any other top tier nation...
Jump to postIf Wales manages to beat Fiji I hope Ben Skeen is on the next plane back to New Zealand. His input in this game and world cup has been absolutely appalling.
Jump to postGreat win by Wales too bad the officiating was absolutely abysmal.
Jump to postzkojq wrote:That ref in the NZL v RSA match was absolutely terrible.
What an absolute mess. Any thoughts on who will or who should lead the country tomorrow? Peter Dutton? Julie Bishop? Scott Morrison? Maybe Tony Abbott?? This is assuming we even get a new Prime Minister tomorrow. Ugh. Sadly Malcolm’s demise was to be expected. This is based on his views on climate ...
Jump to postVA Tasman Changes Brisbane – Auckland eff 28OCT18 Increase from 11 weekly to 14 weekly Brisbane – Wellington eff 28OCT18 Reduce from up to 14 weekly to 9 weekly Melbourne – Auckland eff 28OCT18 Increase from 9 weekly to 14 weekly Melbourne – Christchurch eff 28OCT18 Reduce from 11 to 7 weekly Melbou...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/EK413" class="quote" target="_blank">EK413</a> (<a href="#54" class="quote">Reply 54</a>):<br/><i>"Not everybody is flying to San Francisco," sh...
Jump to postI hate to say it but well played New Zealand <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/aerorobnz" class="quote" target="_blank">aerorobnz</a> (<a href="#52" class="quote">Reply 52</a>):<...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZKOJQ" class="quote" target="_blank">ZKOJQ</a> (<a href="#36" class="quote">Reply 36</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> You've been sucked ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZKSUJ" class="quote" target="_blank">ZKSUJ</a> (<a href="#35" class="quote">Reply 35</a>):<br/><i>They'll beat us in the not too distant future ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/yowza" class="quote" target="_blank">yowza</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i> I'm still gunning for a Springboks revival but ...
Jump to postContinuation of the previous archived thread <i><a href="/aviation-forums/non_aviation/read.main/2647018" target="_blank">The Rugby World Cup Thread</a></i> <font size="1">(by <a href="/profile/yowza" class="quote" target="_blank">yowza</a> Aug 28 2015 in Non Aviation)</font> <a href="http://www.rug...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GrahamHill" class="quote" target="_blank">GrahamHill</a> (<a href="#56" class="quote">Reply 56</a>):<br/><i>Especially because we didn't really ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GrahamHill" class="quote" target="_blank">GrahamHill</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>It's a tough road for my Habs. They'll...
Jump to postQantas will operate a one off direct service from (<acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Australia - New South Wales">SYD</acronym>)-<acronym title="Perth (PER / YPPH), Australia - Western Australia">PER</acronym>-<acronym title="Istanbul - Sabiha Gokcen (SAW ...
Jump to postUA aircraft changes see the 788 coming to <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), Australia - Victoria">MEL</acronym>. <a href="http://airlineroute.net/2014/09/15/ua-mel-nov14/" target="_blank">http://airlineroute.net/2014/09/15/ua-mel-nov14/</a> <acronym title="Thai International (Tha...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/jetfuel" class="quote" target="_blank">jetfuel</a> (<a href="#82" class="quote">Reply 82</a>):<br/><i>Strong demand sees <acronym title="Cathay ...
Jump to postTHAI has updated its Bangkok – Sydney schedule for 2014/15, which sees 3 weekly TG471/472 service operated by Boeing 777-300 (2 Class aircraft), starting 26OCT14, replacing Boeing 747-400 (3 Class aircraft). TG471 BKK0815 – 2135SYD 773 246 TG475 BKK1820 – 0740+1SYD 744 D TG476 SYD1000 – 1525BKK 744 ...
Jump to postNot sure if it has been posted but here are the retimed <acronym title="United Airlines (USA)">UA</acronym> flights commencing at the end of October. San Francisco – Sydney eff 26OCT14 Operational schedule changes from <acronym title="Sydney - Kingsford Smith International (Mascot) (SYD / YSSY), Aus...
Jump to postQuick question. Does anyone know if one is able to accumulate velocity points and status credits on NZ code share flight operated by FJ?
Jump to postToday was the start of UA's 777 service into Sydney.
Ship 2025 operated UA863, departing SFO on Thursday evening and arriving into Sydney this morning
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Justman" class="quote" target="_blank">Justman</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i> I have the pleasure to do a "daytrip" to ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ltbewr" class="quote" target="_blank">ltbewr</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i/></font></td></tr></table> Quite simply, the u...
Jump to postAs result of the impending <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acronym>-QF tie up, <acronym title="Qantas (Australia)">QF</acronym> has changed it baggage policy from the piece concept to the weight concept. In addition both <acronym title="Emirates (United Arab Emirates)">EK</acron...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/chrisrad" class="quote" target="_blank">chrisrad</a> (<a href="#17" class="quote">Reply 17</a>):<br/><i>Somehow I doubt it, considering some air...
Jump to postHi Chrisrad, Another outstanding J class trip report with an interesting group of airlines. Seems this trip was alot more positive compared to your previous one <i><a href="/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/172171" target="_blank">AirAsiaX <acronym title="Melbourne - Tullamarine (MEL / YMML), ...
Jump to postHere are some pictures from work. I apologies for the poor quality K-Set at Lavender Bay <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"/><a href="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d65/MM005_/IMG_0674.jpg" target="_blank"/><a href="http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d65/MM005_/IMG_0674.jpg" target="...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/weebie" class="quote" target="_blank">weebie</a> (<a href="#45" class="quote">Reply 45</a>):<br/><i>Australia will destory New Zealand. New Zeal...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/chrisrad" class="quote" target="_blank">chrisrad</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i>Any fare that had <acronym title="Kuala ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/chrisrad" class="quote" target="_blank">chrisrad</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Oman is trying very hard, and it shows, ev...
Jump to postHi Chris, Another great trip report with an array of airlines flown on this occassion, not the same as per your previous reports. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/chrisrad" clas...
Jump to postHi Chris,
thank you for sharing another one of your photo trip reports. It appears that you were quite disappointed with SQ experience particulalry with the catering, though it would interesting to compare the current MH product against SQ on a similar route.