Ditto for the Mel-Per leg. Always good service and comfort, and they never bumped their aircraft down to a 737 after I made the booking for an A330 flight, which happened to me twice on QF.

While it is very nice to read that EK are extending their COVID cover in this way, what they really need to do is massively extend the expiry date of the Skywards miles owned by their customers. Back in May they 'generously' extended the expiry date of all miles to December this year, but with mo...

Yes Selwyn, but the earn/redeem rates are rubbish. It's not for no reason that Air Dollars is consistently rated the crappiest FF program in the world....and I'm an ex-kiwi so I'd support it if it was any good.

I never fly twin engined aircraft over long expanses of water, if at all possible. I like the extra "insurance".

Yes, but it's the French officials you get to first who cause most of the bottleneck there before you get through to the British ones. If we're now going to get the same access as Euro/UK travellers we can just slide off to the left and avoid those guys completely.

Highly unlikely in the forseeable future. Europe doesn't care about what fruit, vegetables, meat and nuts that passengers bring in, or whether or not you have some small to moderate criminal conviction, while the Australian authorities are obsessed with all those things and more.

Hallelujah - what a relief it will be to breeze through those ridiculous queues at Gare Nord in Paris to get on Eurostar. The immigration staff there give US Immigration a run for their money in the non-friendly stakes

No Jasepalm - that flight number is EK 412/413, but given the light loads on that flight at times, it'll probably be the next to go. I'm told that flight has quite a big freight component out of CHC sending delicious fresh chilled Kiwi food to the Middle East, so maybe that's enough to keep it vi...

Miloh - was just thinking the same thing. Citi have devalued that card so much over the years that this has pushed me over the edge and I'll now be moving on to another rewards program. EK was once brilliant, but when you add this travesty to their horrendous extra charges on award flights it's j...

Miloh - was just thinking the same thing. Citi have devalued that card so much over the years that this has pushed me over the edge and I'll now be moving on to another rewards program. EK was once brilliant, but when you add this travesty to their horrendous extra charges on award flights it's j...

I'm sure you'll be fine. It would be amazingly petty of them to try and stop it, and the car's driver isn't actually employed by EK, so he probably coudn't care less. In the past when my wife and I have travelled on the same flight on separate bookings, we've only booked one car and travelled in ...

1) It's the old configuration at the moment I believe2) You've got to take the 777 from MEL-SIN but some itineraries let you then take an A380 onwards to DXB if you're happy to wait a few hours.This seems to be the format for the forseeable future, but EK do change things around every couple of y...

Flew this identical route last year Chris, but headed straight on to Melbourne that evening. Had originally planned to do the direct DXB-MEL leg but couldn't get a points upgrade on that flight, so went with this one instead. From checking out EF, it seems that it's often very feasible to do a po...

Sutty...two of the three daily Melbourne flights will be A380s (the direct late evening one, and the one that goes via Singapore) while the other direct flight in the early evening will be on the 777.

It's the old standard from 10-15 years ago aceboy. These particular models just haven't been fitted out with the new configuration yet