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    Edmund of Australia

    November 10, 2016

    Sharon Petersen’s review of AirAsiaX was outstanding, despite a spelling error or two.

    A surprising number of Australians – although diminishing – are first time flyers or new to low cost carriers so her tips such as ‘carry an empty water bottle thorugh security to avoid paying through the nose on board’, while obvious to those of us fortunate enough to have travelled many times overseas, are handy to new travellers.

    It is a disgrace that some airlines do not provide potable drinking water for free on board. Railways in Australia such as V/Line, NSWTrainLink and QR do on all country trains, many of which are for journeys shorter in duration than any AirAsiaX flight out of Australia.

    I realise that some of the Airline Ratings’ staff are based in Perth but it would be great if in time they could eventually review Philippine Airlines (which now flies from manila to Brisbane via Darwin, Cairns, Melbourne and Sydney as well as Cairns – Auckland) and Cebu Pacific (manila – Sydney). Philippines is one of the fastest growing tourism destinations in southeast Asia and despite being almost totally ignored by group tours has a lot of independent travellers visiting it for the beaches and great typical southeast Asian lifestyle, once one escapes from chaotic larger cities.