Does anyone (?@Aceman) know if Qantas still flies the MEL-PER leg of QF9 departing from the international terminal? I can only see MEL-LHR with the MEL-PER leg on normal domestic flights. Suboptimal for the first flight of such a long trip to be on a 737.
They scrapped that last July. Needed the 787’s on other routes.
There are several A330’s doing the MEL-PER legs daily that all connect up with QF9 and whilst their product is good and almost the same as the 787 they do depart from domestic so no First lounge access in MEL.
If you want the 787 straight through to Europe you have to do SYD to London, Rome or Paris via Perth
Do Qantas ever offer cash upgrades on flights?
Be curious to know if I can go up a class with a bid close to fly day or is it pretty much shut up shop unless your a frequent flyer? International long haul.
(And if it’s worth it)
I’d imagine Qantas to have pretty intense data science on profiling you as a high value future customer.(which I would not be) knowing their past CEO.
Thanks. I thought so
Yet again QF does the dirty on all other cities except Snydey.
Yes they do - you can bid any amount of cash + points for the upgrade. But you are not likely to be successful if bidding against higher status PAX. Mrs AT is Platinum One in her own right but did not get an upgrade when she made a bid like this.
To be fair on this one the data didn’t really stack up for QF. They weren’t getting the passenger numbers going all the way through to LHR so aircraft was better utilised elsewhere. I’m hearing the at least one the Sydney tags is going soon too. The data overwhelming shows that pax prefer to go via Singapore than Perth to London
Yeah, the Perth airport and QC is pretty poor. But that QF9 MEL-PER was great as a domestic replacement
Almost zero chance of paid upgrades these days in long haul. Far too many status pax. P1’s can put special requests in outside of normal parameters and often have moderate success being approved. QF will take the seat from normal inventory and allocate it. I used to do it a fair bit but I’ve long since lost all QF status and hardly fly international with them anymore
Which was a big issue for QF as it’s only meant to be a tag flights but instead people worked out it was a loophole to getting First class lounge access, better meals etc and too many were booking just the MEL-PER leg
Stunning, just stunning
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Went to a travel expo yesterday and ended up booking a 10 day Alaskan cruise on the Queen Elizabeth at the end of our Caribbean trip. Hit work up for an extra 2 weeks leave which was approved immediately. Trip is now just shy of 8 weeks. A week in the ME on the way over, a few days visiting rellies in the UK, 3 weeks in the Caribbean to attend 2 test matches plus sightseeing and then a couple of week in the US pre cruise and a week after the cruise. Scored business award flights on United from San Francisco for the trip home
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booked for our October adventures! Denmark Sweden Norway Scotland (with a detour to England to visit a Blitzer!) and Iceland
and back to NZ for a quick trip next week, catching up with a Blitzer there too!
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Forgot to upload my pics from the Canada trip in July/August last year.
Here’s photos of my 4 day trip on The Canadian. Was meant to be 5 days, but due to the wildfires in Jasper, the train began in Edmonton instead of Vancouver.
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