Virgin challenges Qantas on US route
Oct 11, 2006, 7:21 am
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Originally Posted by Traveloguy
I think you need to read up on Australian corporate history! Considering your Australian I am quite surprised you did not know.
Oct 11, 2006, 7:36 am
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Things I never thought I woudl see on the QF board... Maybe some people could peruse this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Oct 11, 2006, 9:13 am
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Originally Posted by simong
Things I never thought I woudl see on the QF board... Maybe some people could peruse this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Oct 11, 2006, 3:09 pm
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When I was a tike
When I was a youngling one thing everyone knew about Qantas was that you received an orange juice before departure and also a "promotional" size vegemite sample. We also got sprayed coming in from Hawaii but that is another thing....
Oct 11, 2006, 7:04 pm
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Originally Posted by Blackcloud
When I was a youngling one thing everyone knew about Qantas was that you received an orange juice before departure and also a "promotional" size vegemite sample. We also got sprayed coming in from Hawaii but that is another thing....
Oct 11, 2006, 11:36 pm
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Originally Posted by bensyd
What happened to the spray? You use to get it on every inbound flight didn't you? I remember my dad told me when I was younger that it was so that we didn't smell bad when we landed. I actually believed that for longer than I probably should have
Oct 12, 2006, 1:36 am
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Originally Posted by NM
According to Australian Quarantine laws, the airline have a choice of treating their international aircraft with a persistent insecticide on a regular basis or spraying the cabin on every flight. Qantas chooses to use the persistent treatment during regular maintenance cycles. Other airlines still spray, especially if they don't know exactly which aircraft will be operating a particular route as its cheaper than treating their entire fleet of potential aircraft with the persistent insecticide.
Oct 12, 2006, 2:18 am
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Originally Posted by simong
Things I never thought I woudl see on the QF board... Maybe some people could peruse this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Oct 12, 2006, 4:40 am
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Originally Posted by millionmiler
Sarcasm has its place, but some posters over use it and others use is as an excuse to belittle others.
Oct 12, 2006, 12:46 pm
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Originally Posted by AN_Boy
I didn;t realise they could do the permanent treatment.... an excellent idea and beats those nasty sprays ^
The permanent treatment leaves insecticide on every surface and in every porous material on the aircraft. It's a bit like a fumigation. It's much more difficult, apparently, to work out what your exposure is to the chemicals used to do this, how much you pick up and how much you retain over time if you fly frequently.
And therefore nobody knows whether it's safer or more dangerous for the pax to be on an aircraft with the permanent treatment. But for an airline like QF, whose aircraft return to Oz all the time, it makes practical sense.
Oct 13, 2006, 12:32 am
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Originally Posted by sxc
CX must spray all their aircraft, or at least the long haul airbuses, as they never have the handheld spray.
Oct 13, 2006, 1:54 am
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Originally Posted by bensyd
Although flying into CMB CX do spray their aircraft. I guess they must use a different spray to the one for Oz. That was a 777 as well maybe they only spray the planes they know will be flying to Oz
CX also spray the cabin gling into KUL.
Oct 13, 2006, 1:56 am
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Originally Posted by simong
I wouldn't advise you to spend any time in Australia, NZ or the UK if you have an issue with this type of humour (or lack of understanding of it).
