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  • 1 week ago | smh.com.au | Craig Platt

    By Craig Platt June 18, 2025 — 12.05am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Virgin Australia’s new partner – and part owner – Qatar Airways has been named the world’s best airline for 2025 at the annual World Airline Awards for the second consecutive year. It’s the ninth time the Middle Eastern carrier, which took a 25 per cent stake in Virgin earlier this year, has taken out the award.

  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Craig Platt

    By Craig PlattUpdated June 11, 2025 — 2.58pmfirst published September 12, 2018 — 1.53pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This article is part of Traveller’s Destination Guide to New York.See all stories. New York is the city that never sleeps and getting sleep can also be a challenge for visitors – because there's simply too much to do.

  • 2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Craig Platt

    By Craig Platt June 10, 2025 — 10.04am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Capri by Fraser’s China Square property, a youthful, social offshoot of the Frasers Hospitality serviced apartments brand, arrived on Singapore’s hotel scene in 2019, just in time for COVID. As such, it still feels quite new and particularly so given its location.

  • 1 month ago | smh.com.au | Craig Platt

    , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Route Sydney to Seoul, flight JQ47Frequency Four flights a week (plus three from Brisbane)Aircraft Boeing 787-8 DreamlinerClass Business; seat 3FFlight time 10 hours, 11 minutes. We depart 30 minutes late and arrive 45 minutes behind scheduleI’m connecting from Melbourne, so I have an early morning departure.

  • 2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Craig Platt

    Exponential Interactive, Inc d/b/a VDX.tvCookie duration: 90 (days). Data collected and processed: IP addresses, Device identifiers, Probabilistic identifiers, Browsing and interaction data, Non-precise location data, Users’ profiles, Privacy choicesmoreCookie duration resets each session. View details | Privacy policyConsentCookie duration: 365 (days).

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Craig Platt @CPtraveller
12 Dec 23

Just a note to say that I, like many others it seems, am now posting to Threads instead of here. You’ll find me on the same handle.

Craig Platt
Craig Platt @CPtraveller
19 Oct 23

How is it in this era of AI that we're all so afraid of, the likes of X isn't smart enough to work out that an account posting the same replies over and over again to hundreds of accounts is spam?

Craig Platt
Craig Platt @CPtraveller
18 Oct 23

As I've said many times before, Uber would never have succeeded if the taxi industry was delivering a service people were happy with.

Adam Hills
Adam Hills @adamhillscomedy

Just got refused by two taxi drivers at Sydney airport cos I wanted to go somewhere nearby. First guy even told me to order an Uber. I had to withdraw cash and offer to pay a third guy extra to take me. Is this normal? Or legal?