Posts Tagged ‘ Qantas ’

Call us what you want but most of us want to be treated like ladies and gentleman rather than cash cows!

Given that the announcement is less than 24 hours old, people should be wary about booking just yet.

The suggestion by Qantas boss, Alan Joyce, that only those vaccinated will be able to fly on his airline touched a nerve with other airlines. Desperate to find any way to get us to get on planes again, there was criticism of this idea by people such as Michael O’Leary from Ryanair who wanted testing – like IATA and the WTTC – as the way forward. Now the Qantas suggestion has received backing from two of the best-known and innovative airline bosses. Both Tony Fernandes
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The more that are vaccinated the more countries are likely to open their borders to those vaccinated and the more quickly tourism and travel can return.

The industry seems to have decided that discounting will secure bookings. They are just hoping they don’t have to give refunds when the time comes!

IATA and governments should get down to implementing the Qantas plan because only then can a travel regime return

The Australian tourism minister yesterday said that the Australian border might stay closed until next year for short term visitors.

Airlines seem to been on the same wavelength about how to get us to fly again. Deep-cleaning and deeply-discounted fares

How useful was the flight for us passengers to know whether we would sign up for flights of that length of time?

My objections to the Qantas plan is that I don’t think the results they gain will be necessarily indicative of how passengers will react.

Given that the airline industry records that anything under fifteen minutes is considered to be on time, some twenty-four of the fifty-one airlines would have been considered on time, all the time!

The kindness of the Jamaica Inn in Cornwall, uninformative tourism debates in parliament, exercise bikes on planes and the loss of thousands of lilos capture some of Adrian’s attention this week.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot and what’s not in the travel world, right now

As the first direct flight between the UK and Australia sets off tomorrow and New York City and Honduras announce record visitor numbers, Adrian reminds readers that the shooting in southern France must not deter tourists going there.

Monday January 15th is a red-letter day for international travellers and it is now just one week away.

Airline passengers will be happy to know that 2017 was the safest year ever in aviation history.

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now

Has Brexit been over- estimated by the travel industry? Adrian hardly mentions the subject concentrating on the Qantas competition to Sydney, The World Eskimo Olympic Games and National Tom Sawyer Day

Just About Travel tells you what’s hot in the travel world right now



AirlineRatings.com – the world’s only safety and product rating website – has announced its top twenty safest airlines and top ten safest low cost airlines for 2016 from the 407 airlines it monitors.

CD-Traveller has the low-down on what’s hot in the travel world, right now

UPDATE: 5 Nov. Qantas is now offering free tickets to anywhere in Australia to those who were caught up in the shut-down. If you were involved and haven’t been contacted by the airline, do so yourself. Passengers entitled are those with bookings between October 29-31st.
It’s been a week from hell for Qantas.

UPDATE: 30 Oct. Qantas has been ordered to re-start flights asap. At the same time, both the company and the unions have been ordered to neogtiate or face binding arbitration.

There are things that instinctively do not go together; chocolate and tinned peas, Eskimos and air conditioning and politicians and good government. Another is airline food and gourmets yet that may have happened at Qantas. They’ve started an online food and wine club for their frequent flyers.

For the last week or so a volcano has been erupting in Chile. The ash cloud has risen high in the sky – now about 50,000 feet high – and is now swirling and travelling on the winds. Yet again, volcanic ash is disrupting flights.

I think I know how Oprah Winfrey got so rich. It’s because she doesn’t have to pay for things. As her show nears the end of its 76 year continuous run or however long it’s been, some of the last remaining programmes are going to be filmed in Australia. Why Australia you might ask. Because it looks as though Tourism Australia will be picking up a large part of the bill. As are Qantas, the airline that calls itself the spirit of Australia, who are flying 300 people from the audience at which she announced the freebie and 150 staff to Australia. They will all enjoy an 8 day, all-expenses trip in December.

We are used to the no frills airlines charges us for just about anything that they can come up with but up until now we haven’t faced fees from UK traditional airlines.

Now BA has joined the club.