Low Fare Airline Tickets

Qantas non-stop daily flights between Sydney and Shanghai. The new Shanghai flight utilise a two clas seating configuration A330-200 aircraft arriving at Pudong International Airport with a flight time from Sydney of 10hrs 10minutes.

China Sydney-Shanghai services increased to

QF 130 Flight Information Route: From (PVG) Shanghai, CN to (SYD) Sydney, NSW, australia
flying time: 10h 55m

Flight Number Departure Arrival
Shanghai/Sydney QF130 1950 0805+1

Sydney/Shanghai QF129 1005 1835

Qantas airways offer 10 return services a week to China - five between Sydney and Shanghai, our two new Melbourne-Shanghai services, and three between Sydney and Beijing - in addition to offering two codeshare services with China Eastern Airlines.

30 J class Skybed Seats
Skybed features unique cocoon style design for the ultimate in privacy, a built-in back massager and extensive range of seat adjustments. it offers outstanding comfort for working, dining, sleeping or enjoying the in flight entertainment
Personal Video Screen with: 18 video channels (including Chinese subtitles) and 16 audio channels
In seat PC power

267 Y class Slimline Seat
In Seat Video Screens with: 18 video channels (including Chinese subtitles) and 16 audio channels

inflight Meal Service
Business Class
Sydney to Shanghai

Will feature Chinese style choices such as Chinese Style Satay Beef Fillet with Fragrant Rice and Bok Choy
Express Lunch option will be available

Refreshment on Demand
Available throughout the flight

Economy Class
Sydney to Shanghai

Will feature options such as Chicken in Hoisin Sauce with steamed Fragrant Rice or Braised Beef with Tomato and Caper Sauce and Creamy Polenta

Light Dinner
Will feature options such as Stir Fried Egg Noodles and Vegetables, or Pan Fried Salmon with Honey Glaze and Potato Mash

ffpupgrade: Qantas nonstop flights Sydney to Shanghai

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I know I can get some magazine subscriptions, but I’m not interested in any of their options. I have abotu 9,000 miles I need to use. I won’t use them before they expire. Does AA offer anything where you can buy merchandise with those miles? any other options I have rather than just magazines? Thanks!

Can I buy merchandise with my American Airline miles?

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A movement to re-regulate the airline industry is slowly gaining momentum in Washington. a few days ago, my colleague Charlie Leocha send me an audio transcript of an interview with Rep. James Oberstar, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, in which he raised the subject.

Now, my readers are sounding off about the idea. Readers like Marilyn Wright, a former travel agent who worked before, during and after the airlines were deregulated in 1978.

“Allow me one quick ‘I told you so’,” she says.

Not only did the traveler get pretty much (and more) what they paid for in airline travel, many small areas had airline service, because Uncle Sam said so!

Now, of course, there are fewer airlines and fewer cities in the US being served by them, if you want to call what they do service.

Sometimes, government regulation is the best way.

Do you like your phone “service”? Is that cheaper or better? not cheaper, for sure. Just because you can do more stuff with your phone and have more companies to choose from doesn’t mean it’s better or cheaper to talk on.

I, personally, am so very glad that I took every opportunity to travel the world when I was a travel agent.

Now? not happening. Absolutely not worth the hassle or the money. if I can’t get there by car, I’m not going!

Interesting thoughts.

I also remember air travel before 1978, and I think it was better. I shake my head whenever I see airline apologists — particularly the ones who are old enough to know better — say “before” was worse. they must not have flown very much.

Oberstar’s reasons for re-regulation have less to do with the quality of air travel and more to do with competition. In the interview, he notes that he and other members of Congress who supported the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 didn’t think they were voting for less competition.

His comments came in the context of the latest mega-merger, that of United Airlines and Continental Airlines. As far as I can tell, the congressional hearings on the matter failed to reveal a single benefit of the merger to consumers. Oberstar says there’s Republican support for the idea of re-regulation and added that ideally, he’d also like to “unwind” the merger between Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines, too.

Now that would be something.

(Photo: Tom Purves/Flickr Creative Commons)

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