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Introducing the Travel Pointers Podcast!

Hosted by travel experts including Matt Graham and Chris Chamberlin, Travel Pointers podcast is Australia's brand new podcast for frequent flyers.

5 Aug 2024 Travel Pointers Podcast
Rex Boeing 737 and a NJE Embraer E190 at Adelaide Airport

Opinion: Why Rex’s 737 Experiment Failed

Rex could not fill enough seats, at the right prices, to make its Boeing 737 capital city flights profitable. We examine why the jet experiment ended with Rex in voluntary administration.

1 Aug 2024 Rex & Regional Airlines
Virgin Australia is re-accommodating Rex customers at no charge

Virgin Australia Honours Rex 737 Bookings

Rex passengers holding tickets for cancelled Boeing 737 flights can contact Virgin Australia for rebooking onto a Virgin flight at no cost.

31 Jul 2024 Rex & Regional Airlines
MIAT Boeing 767-300 Economy Class

MIAT Mongolian Airlines 767 Economy Class Review

MIAT Mongolian Airlines has ambitions to fly to Sydney and join the Oneworld alliance, but what's the airline like? To find out, we flew from Ulaanbaatar to Seoul on their Boeing 767.

30 Jul 2024 Flight Reviews
ScootPlus seat in its fully reclined position

ScootPlus Review: Seoul-Singapore on a Boeing 787

ScootPlus, the premium cabin on low-cost carrier Scoot, is not Business Class - nor does it pretend to be, and it's priced accordingly. As we discovered flying ScootPlus from Seoul to Singapore, it's still a comfortable way to fly.

26 Jul 2024 Flight Reviews
Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka at the announcement of Virgin Cairns-Tokyo flights.

Virgin Australia Gives Up Cairns-Tokyo

Virgin Australia will stop flying from Cairns to Tokyo in February 2025. We examine why Virgin couldn't make flights to Japan work.

22 Jul 2024 Virgin Australia