Tips, Tricks, and Travel with Lucky

Gah, can’t believe I missed that fare!

For those of you that haven’t seen it, there was a “special” fare (some might call it a mistake) last night on Qantas for US to Australia flights for about $550 each way in first class. The key was to book them as American Airlines codeshare flights. I’m guessing this was meant to be a [...]

Posted on January 7th, 2010 by lucky
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See the first sun rise of 2010…. on an A380 no less!

Qantas has long done “tour” flights to Antarctica from Australia, whereby they basically fly there, circle around for a few hours, and fly back, totaling around 12 hours. Well, this year it’s going to be a bit more special. Qantas will be operating this flight with an Airbus 380, and the flight will be over [...]

Posted on September 13th, 2009 by lucky
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The Qantas A380 — now on sale

I got an email from Qantas last night which is pretty exciting:
The new Qantas A380 is now on sale with the first passenger flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles taking off on 20 October 2008.
The Qantas A380 is on sale for selected flights from Sydney and Melbourne to Los Angeles for travel from late October [...]

Posted on June 16th, 2008 by lucky
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A case of “what were they thinking?”

My friend Zach sent me a link to some pictures of the A380 interior that Qantas chose. Now I’m anything but an expert on fashion/what colors match, but that interior makes even me cringe. First looks fine (although nothing spectacular), but what’s up with the business and coach interior? Heck, I can kind of live with business, [...]

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by lucky
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