After we checked out of the lovely Hilton Queenstown, it meant our New Zealand trip nearly at its end. The final segment of the NZ trip was a flight to Christchurch. There weren't a lot of options for this flight that would have had timing work well for our needs. I saw flights both on Air New Zealand and Jetstar (low cost carrier that is a Qantas subsidiary). I was able to book a nonstop flight on Jetstar for under NZ$50 per person including baggage fees. I'm ...
I have never flown SFO-SYD on Qantas before (heck, i've never even been to Australia!), but I sure did enjoy seeing that big red kangaroo tail on my commutes from San Francisco down the peninsula. As of yesterday, QANTAS is all done serving SFO. SFGate reports that QANTAS is moving this plane to serve SYD-DFW, which is a much larger American Airlines (OneWorld partner) hub. With the absence of QANTAS, United is left as the only carrier flying non-stop to Sydney. I doubt this will help everyone's upgrade chances / award availability. If you're desperate to fly Qantas to Australia from San Francisco, you can pop down to LAX and take a ride on their Airbus A380 that leaves from there to Sydney.
Air New Zealand continues to win accolades in the creativity department. The airline that has brought us rugby safety videos, peverted fuzz balls, and offensive billboards, now has a new humorous 737 safety video out starring fitness-guru Richard Simmons.
Check it out:
I like it. It is funny, gets the point across, and as usual, NZ's laid back crews are part of the action.
In this week's flight attendant podcast we are joined by Shawn Kathleen from the Rants of a Sassy Stew blog to discuss the news and her career. We discuss:
Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery as the linked article seems to copy many of our previous topicsVegetarian throws meal at flight attendantJohn Travolta under fire for cheesey safety video Flight attendant group distributing radiation detection devicesFunny pics in and around the ...Qantas flight crew are not happy about a new safety video starring John Travolta that is now featured on most Qantas flights.
[S]taff are up in arms. It's "corny", apparently, and "tacky". Why an American? And, very particularly, why does Travolta refer to them as the team, not the crew? "We feel it's demeaning to be called 'the team'," one said. "It makes us feel ...
Alitalia joined Lufthansa in keeping flights away from Tokyo as nuclear workers in Japan flight a meltdown at reactors damaged by the earthquake and tsunami.
Alitalia will divert its 14 weekly Tokyo trips from Rome and Milan to Osaka. Alitalia’s switch to Osaka was “to guarantee maximum regularity of flights,” Alitalia said today that passengers scheduled to fly to Tokyo will receive as much as 130 euros ($182) in compensation.
Lufthansa said it’s ...
