What happened last week?
Quite a lot: for a start LATAM has announced it is leaving the Oneworld alliance, and Delta Airlines is taking a 20% stake in them - so who knows what will happen with the Qantas/LATAM alliance.
Qantas is behaving like a bully towards Virgin regarding landing slots in Tokyo and Virgin has increase carrier imposed charges on flight redemptions.
To top it all off, the first of Qantas's refurbished A380's arrived in Sydney
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Scrapping in the playground Australia’s two international airlines have been battling to gain two landing slots at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. These slots are not easy to come by. Qantas has been man-spreading itself over the two slots, while, Virgin, has politely asked if it could have one, please? ACCC Well because they couldn’t play […]
OK – the bean counters are in control, the customer loyalty people must have no spine and left the building. If there is one thing that will piss off frequent flyers, its big cash fees added to the number of points required to redeem a flight award. From 8 January 2020, the Velocity Frequent Flyer […]
Bad news about American Airlines one day with their divorce from LATAM, and good news the next day for Qantas Frequent Flyers travelling on American Airlines (and for American Airlines AAdvantage members). Executive Traveller (formerly Australian Business Traveller) is reporting that from 1st October 2019, Qantas FF’s travelling between Australia and the USA will be […]
The first (VH-OQK) of the planned 12 refurbished A380’s re-entered service yesterday, and arrives in Sydney on Wednesday with new seating in an expanded Business and Premium Economy cabins, a redesigned lounge area on the upper deck, and with a minor update to the First and Economy seats. The remaining 11 aircraft are scheduled to […]
Well, this will shake up a few things! North American Delta Airlines is taking a 20 per cent stake in South American airline LATAM. No biggie of itself, except, this also means the end of the alliance between American Airlines and LATAM and will see LATAM withdraw from the Oneworld alliance which also has Australian […]
