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Old Jun 12, 2012, 5:08 am
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Originally Posted by Platinum A332
Interestingly, no press release from Qantas, but I digress.

http://www.oneworld.com/news-informa...objectID=29625

Some interesting fifth freedom routes available, such as BKK-PEK/PVG/CAN/HKG, so could have some benefits for QFF in the region. UL did fly to SYD and MEL at one stage.

As an aside, does anyone know what the UL schedules were for SYD and MEL?
Those 5th freedom flights are excellent! They mostly leave BKK at reasonable times (except for the flight to PVG which is at 7am or something). I have flown both to CAN and HKG with them (in biz) and they were excellent - tasty food, comfortable seats and fantastic service!

Lounge facilities at HKG are miserable (the CAAC lounge) but in BKK they use the Air France Le Salon (actually pretty miserable as well, but it's very quiet). Guess that will change now with Oneworld though.

The best part are the fares! Very cheap (few hundred dollars one way in biz).
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