Royal Brunei Airlines have just announced the ability to bid to upgrade up to Business class. The airline uses ‘Plusgrade’ which is used by more than 30 airlines, Qantas, Virgin Australia, Air New Zealand, Cathay Pacific and Etihad are just some of the airlines to use the system. Royal Brunei only operates to 1 Australian city […]
Virgin Australia and Air Canada has today announced plans to begin codeshare services from early 2017. The partnership means guests will be able to arrive into the USA or Australia and connect onto an Air Canada or Virgin Australia flight seamlessly. Per Virgin Australia, “We are enhancing our services from Australia to Los Angeles by offering […]
Virgin Australia has very recently ended their partnership with hotel booking website ”Agoda”. The airline has instead switched to their own booking service ”Virgin Holidays”. Here is the link to the booking website. When booking through Virgin Holidays you’ll get the same benefits as you would previously when booking through Agoda. Here are the benefits: Search for hotels […]
Emirates have begun the festive season adding Christmas inspired menu’s onboard and in the lounges. This is the first time the carrier has done something like this. Per Emirates, These Christmas meals are available for customers traveling from Dubai to Australia, Europe, the United States or the United Kingdom and will be served throughout December. […]
Thai Airways planned to launch A350 services to Melbourne from the 16th of September but they got delayed to October, then November and it goes on. Well, now there is some glimmer of hope as their A350 is showing up in bookings onwards from the 26th of March 2017. Thai has been using a mixture of […]
Last week I wrote about Qatar launching Canberra services which was a move a lot of people didn’t expect but could potentially be quite valuable for the airline. After the announcement many asked if their big competitors Etihad and Emirates would start Canberra services and they said No. Per the Canberra Times, “Emirates continues to explore new […]
Alaska Milage plan recently had some changes to their program like the ability to now book Japan Airlines awards, but they also added the ability to fly Emirates through to the USA, this was previously not allowed, and flights had to be Ex Asia. Here’s an example flying Sydney – Dubai – Los Angeles The […]
Hong Kong-based Airline Cathay Pacific has today announced that they will be flying their new state of the art A350-900 aircraft to Brisbane from March 2017. This will be the airline’s second Australian destination which will see the new aircraft after Melbourne. The aircraft will be operating the CX156/157 service which is currently operated by […]
Yesterday Vietnam Airlines upgraded their Sydney and Melbourne flights from 777-200ER’s, and A330’s to 787 aircraft. The change is a welcome upgrade for travelers as their 787’s feature a better business class cabin than the aircraft previously operating the route and strangely their A350’s which is very weird. Vietnam’s 787 seats 274 and is divided […]
Qatar Airways have just announced that the airline will be launching services to Canberra in 2017. This is the 5th Australian route the airline will operate. Qatar already services Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide. The airline is performing quite well on all routes especially on the Sydney flight which got upgraded to their flagship A380 […]
Now, you may or may not know I’m only 16 and rarely talk about Alcohol on this blog, and this will be one of the few times I do talk about it before I turn 18 😉 Tonight I was looking at the menu for an upcoming Emirates first class flight, and I came across something […]
Cathay Pacific has today soft-opened their much anticipated London Heathrow lounge in T3. The lounge will officially open on December 7th to eligible customers. The lounge has been completely upgraded and is now 1200 square meters in size. The lounge features separate areas for business and first class passengers. Per Cathay Pacific, “At Cathay Pacific, we […]