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Trip Report: 767th Flight

According to my Flightmemory, flight number 767th of my life has ticked over.  My 767th was with Qantas on a “Red Eye” Boeing 767 from Perth to Melbourne. At one point I thought it was going to be Air New Zealand but life is unpredictable isnt it? I acknowledge it has become an obsession of mine to match the Boeing type to the number of flights I have done! So far, managed it with flights 737, 747 and 757. (How I know how many flights I have flown is described in my blog here). After this fight,  I have now been…

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Virgin Australia Velocity Changes Analysed

Love the updated Velocity Rewards Frequent Flyer Program unveiled Thursday by Virgin Australia. Already Qantas has responded with media advertisements promising exciting changes to their program. The competition in Australia is starting a new round. I am currently a Gold flyer with Qantas and Virgin so my focus is on the Gold benefits. At the end of this post, I will paste a table comparing the two programs. Please let me know what I leave out. The eight immediate features I like about Velocity Rewards: seemingly generous access to award seats Subject to space availability, Velocity Platinum and Gold members are welcome…

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10 000 plus

Over 10 000 people have now viewed this blog! Thanks everyone.  The Top Ten Visited posts are: Three Airlines-one plane- comparing the A380    Sep 30, 2010, 7 comments My fave plane compared across 3 airlines! First Korean Air A380 peeks out in Toulouse  Feb 5, 2011- seems there are a lot of A380 geeks Virgin across the Pacific Mar 3, 2011 1 comment – My First V Australia flight from Aust to USA $198 to Europe or $981.80 to Europe Feb 11, 2011 I hate “dishonesty” in ticket pricing The Five Peeve Taxi Journey Sept 11, 2010 Taxis…

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The Slide of Qantas vs The Rise of Virgin

News comes that Singapore Airlines and Virgin Australia will code share on each other services and passengers will enjoy reciprocal FF arrangements and lounge access. Virgin Australia also have a relationship with Delta (Skyteam) and Malaysia (about to join One World). Is this a step toward Virgin Australia becoming a Star Alliance partner in Australia? We continue to move back to the days when we had two full service airlines Qantas and Ansett in the One World and Star Alliance networks. I blogged about this in May. The impressive changes at Virgin Australia (albeit not yet…

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I did it! My 747th flight- in a 747!

Leaving SYD airspace The flaps on the mighty beast were fully extended. Moving onto the runway, the familiar roar of the four 747 General Electric engines came to life. Rolling down the runway, we accelerated slowly, leisurely using a huge amount of runway, before climbing smoothly and steadily out of Melbourne (Tullamarine) Airport. The climb was gentle and we turned almost casually over the farmlands north of the airport before executing a neat turn to head toward Sydney, the Australian coastline, the Pacific Ocean and Los angeles International airport (LAX) I say “familiar” because this was my 93rd take…

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Dear Nut – Please Go away

I sent this through to Qantas this week. (OK I know I am geek but let me geeky about something) Dear QantasThis is a very, very unusual request.I am a Qantas Platinum customer (QF 1657665). I am also a plane geek.This week I flew my 737th flight in my life. I flew my 737th flight on a Boeing 737. (see my blog post about it: http://mjtravlife.blogspot.com/2011/05/737-737-flight-report.html). The flight was in the USA with Southwest airlines.My flight memory where I record all my fights is here: http://my.flightmemory.com/mjc3000 Now to my request:I am booked to fly MEL-AKL-WLG-AKL-LAX in…

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Qantas Hola Dallas, adios SFO

Qantas has announced they will now fly direct to Dallas Fort Worth from Sydney from May, 2011 using a Boeing 747-400ER. It is intended when Qantas finally get their 787s, they will be used on this route. At 13 879 km (8,624 miles), this will be  the third-longest route in the world! The flights would take about 17 hours. There are three huge pluses about this: We can avoid LAX (my most hated airport) to get to the middle of the USA. DFW is a much more user friendly airport and is well connected to the rest…

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When Enhancements alienate a customer

I have flown Qantas a lot. A real lot. Up to now I have been on Qantas 356, 745 miles 574,125 kilometres 14.33 times around the world for 32.2 days inside their planes! Their reward to me has been to name me a Platinum Frequent Flier – Thank you Qantas. Recently Qantas sent me an email which said: We’ve made a variety of changes in the last few years to give you a broader, more rewarding program. The coming months will see further changes, including enhancements for most frequent fliers…You’ll find highlights …. Now to me, an…

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