Exceptional food, a private seat and a complimentary massage tick all the boxes but make sure you can find award availability and book the right aircraft. A good use of KrisFlyer, United or Avianca miles. READ ON →

A very comfortable bed, attentive service and great award availability, let down by some minor frustrations, gives this flight a solid four-star review. This is a great use of SPG Starpoints. READ ON →

Qantas ageing Boeing 747 fleet sport a refurbished Business Class cabin, but is still behind their competitors for comfort and space. I had the chance to check it out with my family on their newest route, Sydney to San Francisco. READ ON →

I was booked in Business Class for my return from Hong Kong to Sydney, but decided that given the old 747's that used to ply this route only offered the angled-flat Skybed Mk 1 seat, that I'd spend 25,000 points on an upgrade to First which at... READ ON →

I’ve flown Qantas QF127 to Hong Kong for work several times over the last couple of years, but travelling with my other half, new baby and 3-year-old was quite a different experience - I was still working on the flight, but in a completely... READ ON →

Returning from Hong Kong recently, my travel was booked into Business Class but I was travelling on one of the once or twice weekly services operated by an old configuration 747 rather than an A380. Qantas have slowly upgraded the majority (if READ ON →

Although it's mostly what you'd presume from this site, I'm not completely obsessed with points and travel. One of my other 'things' is motorsport and a general interest in cars, and I promised myself that this year I'd try and get to the... READ ON →

My flight up to Hong Kong was on QF127, the daytime departure from Sydney at 11.50am. Although Qantas have recently started flying the A380 on this route, 3 days out of 7 are still operated by a 747 which was the case for this journey. As this READ ON →

Research & Booking Getting back over to Asia and onto Australia from Europe was only possible in Business on points by departing from Frankfurt on QF6. QF5 (to Frankfurt) and QF6 (from Frankfurt) is Qantas' last non-London European... READ ON →