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This year, Australians will be charged a fee to enter the UK
Jan 12, 2024, 05:10 PMTransit pax also need these. BA hates this but can't do anything about it.
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This year, Australians will be charged a fee to enter the UK
Jan 12, 2024, 05:09 PMETAs are a PITA. From my experience as with the Canadian and Australian ETAs:1. One more thing to tick off before departure. Especially when in a hurry.1a. Hopefully UK system will be near-instant like AU and CA systems. As opposed to, Chilean and Brazilian systems which are punitive1b. Hope they...
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Visiting Qatar Airways’ exclusive Doha Louis Vuitton Lounge
Jun 16, 2023, 08:05 PMI’ve just been to Al Mourjan Garden hoping to have a drink inside the LV lounge. Not eligible - I have a QR F BP to Perth and I am non-Qatar oneworld Sapphire. No help.
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Qantas now offers early check-in at LAX
Mar 16, 2023, 01:38 PMThis has not been resumed yet. Though, should be in within next 12 months.
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Qantas now offers early check-in at LAX
Mar 16, 2023, 01:36 PM"Of course, we’re not suggesting you turn up at LAX at 2.30pm and then spend anywhere from seven to nine hours sitting in the Qantas lounge." <-- why not?
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China Southern to leave SkyTeam in January 2019
Nov 16, 2018, 12:54 AMPerhaps CX can be threatened with expulsion?
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Why isn’t there first class on Cathay Pacific’s Airbus A350-1000?
Jun 21, 2018, 06:59 PMDemand - perhaps they should say Paying Demand
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High-speed rail now rivals air travel on key Asian, European routes
Jan 16, 2018, 08:32 AM1. Many Chinese HSR stations are not near city centre - Guangzhou South or Futian. Nor are Eurostar stations - St Pancras nor Gare du Nord are not city centre. You can say they're like positioning a high speed rail station at Parramatta, rather than Wynyard or CentralC.f. Shinkansen where the Jap...
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High-speed rail now rivals air travel on key Asian, European routes
Jan 13, 2018, 04:28 PMBuilding a high speed rail costs a xxxxload. We've just spent over A$13 billion building our connection to the China HSR system from West Kowloon in Hong Kong.
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Review: Hong Kong Airlines' Airbus A350 business class seat
Oct 22, 2017, 03:51 PMFrom HKG, AU and US. Which is unfortunately relevant for HX (get your bottle from FA)
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When is it acceptable to recline your airplane seat?
Nov 25, 2016, 03:19 PMWhen everyone else does it. My last two trips with flights in the back:NRT-HKG, JL, early evening flight: The passenger in front of me reclined as soon as the seat belt sign came off. To her credit she did return to upright for mealtime, but the recline came back down as soon as her tray was clea...
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Did Oneworld just make your next trip more of a nightmare?
Jun 18, 2016, 04:06 PMInitially I agreed and passed your comment around. But having thought it further I now disagree. We did pay for it - collectively we all paid for it with any oneworld ticket assuming the feature is there. Now it's not - it is more analogous to a oneworld member moving from a previous 20kg check...
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New Apple, Samsung SIM-free phones could transform global roaming
Jul 24, 2015, 01:28 PMSkeptical. If the system acts like roaming the local providers will charge like roaming.
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Naomi Watts recreates iconic British Airways poster
Apr 29, 2015, 08:30 PM"Fly British across the world" - earliest form of JSA? Bit hard to explain to our children given the QF-EK tieup and BA at QF's throat.
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Air China: we
Apr 29, 2015, 08:01 PMI hope QF isn't dumb enough to take up the offer. Or else JQHK's toast and we here in HKG will continue to have to play CX's games.
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