Some very interesting information has surfaced today regarding fares on Virgin Australia. The airline is planning to completely overhaul their airfares. Usually you would either just choose a Saver, Flexible or Full fare business ticket but as air travel is getting more and more popular airlines are constantly needing to innovate. When are the fares […]
Virgin Australia has lately been speeding through their 777 cabin reconfiguration’s and have now 4 aircraft finished and flying, pretty impressive speed. The 777’s fly exclusively to LAX until September 1 when Abu Dhabi flights resume. During the reconfiguration Virgin’s new business class and premium economy product were fitted. 1 daily flight is operated from both Brisbane […]
Featured image – (essential travel.co.uk) A very interesting article has arisen on the popular Australian travel forum ‘Australian Frequent Flyer’ talking about Qantas selling whole rows of seats on it’s Dallas flights. The original source of the article can be found here:Enjoy a Whole Row to Yourself on a Qantas Flight. To recap these are […]
Hong Kong has always been a big market for Qantas. They have flights from multiples cities and have usually the routes are very profitable. Hong Kong is a Oneworld hub with 11 member airlines currently flying out of the airport. American Airlines British Airways Cathay Pacific Finnair Japan Airlines Malaysia Airlines Qantas Qatar Royal Jordanian […]
I’ve flown this product now extensively but never reviewed it so I decided I finally would on my flight from Sydney yesterday. The Boeing 737 is the workhorse for Virgin Australia, it covers over 80% of all domestic and short-haul Trans Tasman flights. The airline also has Embraer 190 aircraft which are currently being pulled […]
So yesterday I arrived back from my semi around the world non stop trip. I learnt many things along the way and thought I’d write about what happened while taking this trip. First of all this is the routing: So far I’ve reviewed the Etihad A340 first class and the Cathay Pacific first class flights. The rest should […]
As you can probably tell by now I am heavily obsessed with Etihad Airways. I’ve flown them 6 times in first and business all on their A380 and 787 however I hadn’t flown their older first class product or an A340 before so this was a perfect opportunity. Booking For this flight I used 60,000 AAdvantage […]
For some time now there has been a lot of confusion regarding entry to the Etihad First class lounge as a Velocity Platinum member. Many got in many didn’t but now members can definitely get access. Previously only member’s of the ‘Club’ could enter. I wrote about the problem here: Issue’s Accessing the Etihad First Class […]
Featured Image copyright – (bloga350.blogspot.com) Singapore Airlines have made some schedule changes for flights to Melbourne resulting in swapping the 777 service for the newer A350-900 aircraft for a short while. Information courtesy of Airlineroute: Singapore Airlines in last week’s schedule update has opened reservation for Airbus A350-900XWB aircraft on Singapore – Melbourne route, currently […]
(Photo credit) – Victor Pody I am writing this in the Air New Zealand lounge while waiting for my flight back to Brisbane and thought I might share my interesting flight from Sydney to Auckland this morning. I decided last night that I wanted to go to Auckland, I had absolutely no reason to but decided […]
Yesterday low-cost carrier Jin Air announced services from Seoul to Cairns to start in February 2017. This is the first direct service from Korea into the Cairns region. The airline have a fleet of both 737-800 and 777-200ER aircraft. They will use the 777 variant for these services. Interestingly their 777 fleet have 2 different […]
Early yesterday Virgin Australia announced some interesting and exciting improvements in regards to upgrades especially for platinum members. Platinum members of the airline are given 4 complimentary upgrades every membership year which used to be only for domestic flights, this has now changed and can now be used for short haul international flights. Unfortunately upgrades […]