Australia Archives - BoardingArea https://boardingarea.com/region/australia/ Required Reading for Frequent Flyers. Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:47:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://boardingarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/boardingarea-150x150.png Australia Archives - BoardingArea https://boardingarea.com/region/australia/ 32 32 54447924 LATAM: 50 injured when flight ‘drops’ between Sydney and Auckland https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=latam-50-injured-when-flight-drops-between-sydney-and-auckland Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:34:43 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=99735 The pilot of a LATAM flight between Sydney and Auckland told passengers that the plane “dropped out of the sky”. About two hours into the flight, all the cockpit gauges went blank. Fifty unsecured passengers and crew collided with the ceiling, damaging panels. Others dropped heavily, sustaining many minor injuries. What happened LATAM Flight LA800 […]

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]]> 99735 LOUNGE REVIEW: Revisiting the Sydney Qantas First Lounge https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=lounge-review-revisiting-the-sydney-qantas-first-lounge Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:52:37 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=99133 The focus of this trip report will be my stay at The George and the return flight in First Class on the Emirates A380 from Christchurch, New Zealand. But I thought it would be worthwhile recounting some of the experience with Qantas of getting to New Zealand. Introduction My flight over to Christchurch was with […]

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]]> 99133 FIJI AIRWAYS: to become a full member of OneWorld https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=fiji-airways-to-become-a-full-member-of-oneworld Thu, 07 Mar 2024 20:58:11 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=99126 If you have never travelled on Fiji Airways, you should. That Pacific Islander hospitality is hard to beat. In 2018, Fiji Airways was the first and only OneWorld Connect partner. The concept didn’t really seem to catch on. Now, thanks to ET, we know that OneWorld will effectively abandon the concept with the announcement that […]

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]]> 99126 VIRGIN AUSTRALIA: Starts airline pet sky wars https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=virgin-australia-starts-airline-pet-sky-wars Wed, 06 Mar 2024 19:31:36 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=98903 Oh dear, it looks like Virgin Australi has started the small-animals-in-cabins pet wars for Australian Airlines by announcing that it intends to be the first airline to offer pets onboard transport. I think today must be a slow news day, or Virgin Australia wants to capitalise on the current bad publicity for Qantas over the […]

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]]> 98903 QANTAS: More short-haul international flights for Brisbane https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=qantas-more-short-haul-international-flights-for-brisbane Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:54:13 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=98693 Brisbane will now host direct flights with Qantas on short-haul internationl flights to the capital of New Zealand, Wellington, and to Apia, the capital of pacific independent state, Samoa. Flights will commence late in October this year, operating larger aircraft more frequently to these destinations. Wellington, New Zealand The Wellington/Brisbane route launched late in 2023, […]

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]]> 98693 MARRIOTT: New Adelaide hotel scheduled to open mid 2024 https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=marriott-new-adelaide-hotel-scheduled-to-open-mid-2024 Sun, 03 Mar 2024 15:33:00 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=98292 As regular readers will know, I frequent Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South Australia, to visit friends and family. Because of that, I try to keep up to date on hotel openings in the city. Over the last few years, IHG has opened an Indigo, a Crown Plaza and a Holiday Inn […]

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]]> 98292 TURKISH AIRLINES: Touches down in Melbourne for first time tonight (Saturday 2 March 2024) https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=turkish-airlines-touches-down-in-melbourne-for-first-time-tonight-saturday-2-march-2024 Fri, 01 Mar 2024 23:28:59 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=98072 Turkish Airlines light TK168, which departed Istanbul on Friday, is scheduled to land at Tullamarine Airport tonight at 8:40 pm. You can read about the route in more detail in a previous post. This will be the airline’s first flight to Australia. Unfortunately, this will be conducted using a less than contemporary, noisy, Boeing 777 […]

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]]> 98072 JETSTAR: New uniforms after 20 years of operation. https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=jetstar-new-uniforms-after-20-years-of-operation Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:39:58 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=97850 Jetstar chose designer Genevieve Smart of Ginger and Smart, to work with its staff on designing the new uniform range. The new clobber will be worn by some 5,000 of the airline’s customer-facing staff in Australia, and offshoots in New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. Expect to see the uniforms from later in 2024. The designs […]

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]]> 97850 QANTAS: Singapore First Lounge – WOW! First impressions https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=qantas-singapore-first-lounge-wow-first-impressions Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:48:11 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=97438 Returning from my recent trip to Singapore and Malaysia, I had the fantastic pleasure of spending a few hours in the Qantas Singapore First Lounge at Changi Terminal 1. OK, this is only my third Qantas First Lounge, a title reserved for the airline’s top international lounges. (I’m ignoring the Auckland First Lounge for these […]

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]]> 97438 Maximising Qantas Double Status Credit deal to my Benefit https://boardingarea.com/?blog-post=maximising-qantas-double-status-credit-deal-to-my-benefit Mon, 26 Feb 2024 02:04:36 +0000 https://boardingarea.com/?post_type=blog-post&p=97033 Being an Aussie based flyer, almost one-third of my 1585 flights have been with the Australian carrier, Qantas. In addition I have flown every current and past One World carrier! This volume of flights means that I have achieved Qantas Gold for Life status (equivalent to One World Sapphire) in the Qantas Frequent Flyer program. I have also been Qantas Platinum (One World Emerald) for nine of the last ten years (I slipped one year). This status earns me a level of One World Priority benefits, which includes priority check-in, airport lounge access, priority boarding,…

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