If I may be allowed to reply...I am eligible for QF staff tkts...(I never use them)...after the 2011 'shutdown' ... well...it simply defies belief it was not pre-determined, and the man referred to here as 'Little Napoleon' has turned me off my home Country Airline for good...
In any case...I refuse to fly with the likes of Malindo Air, Lion Air, Air Asia Indonesia, Air France, or QANTAS....there is a similar thread running through all those operators...not you 'Sky Gods' mind...heaven forbid....just that without looking too hard, there are many better ways to fly not using QF....that is just a fact...and I refuse to go through he UAE....I am allowed to make decisions based on my principles...and my $ goes ways the likes of 'Little Napoleon' would not understand...