You love noise and pollution?
iâm under one of the flight paths into BNE - i wouldnât say i love it, but i do like to check flightradar24 when something flys over to see where it has been. they donât bother me now though
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So if you donât wear a mask on a domestic flight do they call the AFP? Or donât crews give a shit anymore.
Just an update on this. Still tried to call them as soon as the phone line opened and out came the: âWeâre currently experiencing very high demandsâ again. Like I literally called at 8am on the dot and was still disconnected 
Iâm tempted to go to the passport office and just say my passport is ready according to a ânotificationâ and who knows they might just have my passport ready even though they didnât give two hoots about contacting me. But at the same time I donât want to get into trouble for anything in case they think Iâm trying to âevadeâ the system to check on my passport.
Iâd be keen to hear some perspectives to this as I feel like this is such a joke and I almost feel tempted to take matters into my own hands for their incompetence.
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Yeah I used to live under the Heathrow flight path and loved it. I had the flight path on one side and the overground on the other. You somehow get used to the sounds. Personally, I hate Australia has such stupid curfews.
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As Iâm in Morningside I live under the flight path for BNE airport too.
I also use the Flight Radar app to see what type of aircraft,where itâs going to/arriving from
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In Sydney for a couple of days, went for a walk around the Harbour this morning, it was wonderful to see these back again, but I wouldnât be game to go on one for a little while at least.
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Honestly surprised that Cathay has survived that ridiculous rule without going broke or getting acquired by the CN 3. HKs time as aviation hub is likely almost over at this point.
Canât imagine this is the end of the travel bans just yet though, most airlines going through HKG seem to have aligned schedules to not return to any substantial capacity until March/April.
Hong Kong imposed the travel ban basically to comply with the national governmentâs âdynamic zero COVIDâ approach, even though cases went up again in the past month after dropping slowly in April and May.
Since the start of this year, there has been fierce debate on whether HK should reopen its border to mainland China first, or to overseas travellers first.
I am quite lost looking at those routes Bonza is looking to service. This isnât the USA which has population areas all over like Adelaide sized cities.
I have just read that they are only wanting to sell flights via an App? Half those regional towns, population skews older and non tech savvy!
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Thatâs doomed to fail if they ever consider this.
Heading to Port Macquarie tomorrow. Will be spending a week there. Should be good as Iâll be there on my birthday (July 14) instead of at home for a change 
Genuinely shocked theyâve got this far.
I do think theyâll get off the ground, but within 6 months will switch to more traditional routes once a majority of the proposed routes flop / have extremely low load factors.
How long until Bonza goes belly up? I give it 6 months. That is if theyâŚermâŚget off the ground.
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Seems like a weird strategy. Theyâre not touching Sydney which cuts out a potential market.
Iâm all for more competition so Iâm hoping they survive and Qantas doesnât play games to destroy them.
It would be good to have 4 main airlines:
Qantas/Jetstar
Virgin
Rex
bonza.
I like the new Virgin but I do often miss the old Virgin.
The old landscape of Virgin VS Qantas and Tiger VS Jetstar was good IMO.
Virgin, Rex and now Bonza are all going for lowest fares. Bonza seems to be chasing a niche that doesnât exist or could be serviced with smaller aircrafts.
Back when Tiger still existed I found myself preferring them over Jetstar, donât know why.
Supposidly a number of their regional sites are being serviced as âhopsâ between major centres - one example that was given to me was the Melbourne â Sunshine Coast route will stop at regional centres in NSW.