Qatar Airways have announced that it will begin flying to Sydney from March 1st 2016. The daily flight is to be operated with a Boeng 777-300ER aircraft, which featured 42 business class seats, whcih can operate as full lay flat beds. The announcement to fly to Sydney, comes after a recent government announcement that increased the number of flights that could operate between Australia and Qatar. The schedule for the daily flight sees flight QR908 departing Doha at 8:10pm, with an arrival into the Sydney at 6:05 pm the next day. The aircraft will turnaround to head back to Doha,…
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OneWorld member, Cathay Pacific has announced wide ranging changes to its Marco Polo Club frequent flyer scheme. The changes affect a number of areas of the program and are set to take effect from April 15, 2016. Cathay Pacific has a slightly unusual structure in its Frequent flyer programs. Frequent Flyer programs, generally, consist of two parts, the rewards part and the recogintion part. Cathay Pacific splits these into two separate programs: Marco Polo Club, which is about elite status and recognition Asia Miles, which is the points program The important thing from the point of view of the changes…
If you’re a regular visitor to SIngapore, and travel on an Australian Passport, then you may be eligible to use the automated immigration clearance system on arrival into Singapore. According to a statement issued by the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the new system will come into effect from October 1, 2015 To be eligible, you will need to be an Australian passport holders aged 6 and above, and have visited Singapore at least three times in the past 12 months. In addition, you must have no adverse record in the Republic of Singapore to be able to sign up…
AccorHotels and Qantas Frequent Flyer have announced that they has made a major improvement in their long-standing partnership. While members of the Qantas program have long been able to convert points to Qantas Frequent Flyer, there have been some limitations in the process. Firstly, it could only be done manually, and required a minimum of 4,000 Le Club AccorHotels Points. In addition, it was not possible to set up an Auto-Tranfer process, as could be done with many other programs. The improvements announced today cover both of these areas. In addition, Qantas is offering an introductory bonus for points transferred…
Qantas is continuing its rollout of seasonal services over summer, with the announcement that it will be operating such a service to Bali over the summer months. The new Boeing 737 service will operate between Sydney and Denpasar four times a week from 4 December 2015 to 29 January 2016. In all a tital of 33 return trips will be made. The service is said to be in resposne to demand to Bali, and will supplement the 787 services to Bali operated by Low Cost offshoot Jetstar. Qantas will be utilising the narrow body Boeing 737 aircraft to operate the service.…
[Update] Qantas has announced that the seasonal service between Sydney and Vancouver will again be operating during winter 2016. The seasonal service will operate on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays over the period from 30 June to 13 August 2016. Again, the service is to be operated by Boeing 747 aircraft. [Previous](3 Feb, 2015) Qantas has announced that it will implement an extended seasonal service for flights between Sydney and Vancouver. This extension follows a successful trial of seasonal flights during December-January. The airline’s extended seasonal schedule will see Qantas operate 33 return services between Sydney and Vancouver: 13 return services in June/July,…
Qantas has announced that it will be adding more services between Hobart and the east coast cities of Melbourne and Sydney next year. The new filgts are scheduled to benefit business business travellers and customers connecting to Qantas international routes. The new flights will kick in from 8 March 2016 and will be operated by QantasLink Boeing 717 aircraft. The totl number of services between Hobart to Syndey and Melbourne will increase to a total of 46 per week – an increase of 11 flights over the 35 services that are currently running. The new services will operate using 2…
Qantas has annound a range of changes to the fees that it charges for advance seat selection on its international services.The changes, to come into effect on 23 September, affect the economy fares that will require a fee to be paid, and also the level of fee that will be levied. This will remove the fee charged for seat selection for the majority of economy fares on international services. Affected Fares From 23 September 2015, Qantas will be removing the $25 charge for Seat Selection for International Economy Saver and Flex fares. The result of this change, is that a…
The Commonwealth Bank has become the latest financial institution to clamp down of the earning of frequent flyer points when using your credit card to pay the Australian Taxation Office (ATO),. The lastest round affects CBA’s line of personal credit cards, which include the standard, Gold, Platinum and Diamond Awards cards. As from November 2, 2015 these cards will earn zero points on payments made to the ATO. The changes, announced last week, have been applied to the Terms and Conditions of the Award program, to spell out that the earnings will be zero, regardless of whether you use the…
Jetstar and Melbourne Airport have advised that from November 10, 2015, Jetstar will be moving its domestic operations to Melbourne Terminal 4. At present, Jetstar largely operates out of Terminal 1, which it shares with big brother Qantas. Note that this change only affects domestic operations. All international flights, and any domestic segment of an international flight, will continue to operated from Terminal 2. These flights can be identified through their flight number, and are the flights numbered from JQ1 through to JQ241 At the time of writing, the specific international flights that will not be moving are JQ15 Melbourne-Cairns,…