Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Photo: Leonardo Alvarado from Pixabay. Like many travellers, I enjoy watching a good movie on a long-haul flight. And one of the things I enjoy doing while watching a film is devouring a bucket of warm, salty, crispy popcorn. For many movie buffs, a trip to the cinema would be incomplete without popcorn and a refreshing drink. But, despite offering in-flight entertainment with often hundreds of movie choices, most airlines simply don’t offer popcorn on board their planes. There’s a good r ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Climb to a higher Qantas status tier with double status credits! After (literally) months of speculation, Qantas has launched a brand new Double Status Credits or Double Points offer today! Qantas Frequent Flyer members can register for their choice of either double status credits (which count towards Qantas Silver, Gold, Platinum and Platinum One qualification) or double Qantas points on the Qantas website. Note that you’ll need to register in advance to take advantage of either offer. Y ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Qantas Boeing 787-9 Business Class cabin. Photo: Qantas. Websites that provide detailed airline seat maps are a useful tool for frequent – or infrequent – flyers. Whether you’ve booked a flight or you’re deciding between airlines, a comparison of seat and cabin features will help you choose the seat that best fits your needs. But only if the airline seat maps are accurate. SeatGuru was once the go-to tool, but is no longer being updated SeatGuru has been the go-to resource for years, with ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Photo: Rachel Claire. Qantas Frequent Flyer will end its partnership with Quandoo, which powers Qantas Restaurants, on 1 April 2023. Currently, you can earn 100 points per diner when reserving a restaurant table through Quandoo or Qantas Restaurants. You can also earn an easy (and free) 900 Qantas points by signing up for a Quandoo account and downloading the Quandoo app. If you haven’t already done so, you can still earn those bonus Qantas points via Quandoo until 31 March 2023! You’ll g ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787. Photo: Adobe Stock. The largest airline in Africa, Ethiopian Airlines has an impressive network of well over 100 international destinations. The Star Alliance member serves them using a modern fleet of Boeing and Airbus aircraft, as well as Dash 8 Q400s used on shorter domestic and regional flights. Ethiopian Airlines’ business model is to connect the world to and from Africa via its hub in Addis Ababa. The airline offers connections from Asia, Europe, the M ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Emirates offers lie-flat beds on some, but not all, of its aircraft. Photo: Emirates. Over the past decade or so, many airlines have gone to great lengths to upgrade their long-haul Business Class products with lie-flat seating. While angle-flat Business Class seating was once common, most long-haul business travellers now expect a lie-flat bed that reclines to a full 180 degrees. Emirates, one of the major Middle Eastern carriers, offers fully lie-flat beds on its Airbus A380s, Boeing 77 ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers A China Airlines Airbus A330 at Sydney Airport. Photo: Matt Graham. Qantas Frequent Flyer members can now redeem their points across the entire China Airlines network, rather than just on flights between Australia and Taipei. This is great news for people wishing to use their Qantas points to travel to northern Asia, Europe or North America. As China Airlines has quite good award availability, it opens up significantly more options at a time when long-haul award availability on Qantas and ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Airport revenue can be categorised by aeronautical and non-aeronautical charges. Photo: Matt Graham. Airports are a vital component of the aviation industry. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to fly and airlines wouldn’t exist. But what is the airport business model? The revenue model for airlines is fairly obvious. They make money by selling tickets, charging for ancillaries like seat selection and baggage, and selling cargo space. Many legacy airlines also make significant profits from ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Photo: Kevin Kandlbinder on Unsplash. Many hotels charge a nominal “early departure fee” to guests who check out before the date they originally booked to leave. This fee is generally similar to the hotel’s nightly room rate, or perhaps a bit less. The early departure fee is intended to protect a hotel’s revenue if someone checks out early. It also makes it possible for the guest to check out mid-stay without having to pay for all of their remaining booked nights. For example, someone mig ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Etihad’s frequent flyer program has overhauled its award charts. Photo: Jeffry Surianto. Etihad’s frequent flyer program has overhauled its award charts. We now know what the new award charts look like, and there’s both good and bad news. While some award flights on partner airlines have increased in cost by as much as 124%, other redemption costs have actually decreased by up to 54%. These changes to Etihad’s award charts were initially foreshadowed last month, but Etihad Guest did not p ..read more