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    Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

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    Oxymorons of Australian travel....

    Rhetoric. a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
    1. Virginblue Service
    2. Qantas ontime departure
    3. Airline food
    4. Nice airports
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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    Some of these are a bit of a stretch on the strict form of an oxymoron...
    1. Free baggage allowance
    2. Airline security
    3. Light refreshment
    4. Low-fat meal
    5. Final call (now that's a complex one!)
    6. (more common, bit less "oxymoronic") First and Final Call
    7. Sterile Area
    8. Electronic Ticketing
    9. Priority Baggage
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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    This one is for JohnK.

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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    Quote Originally Posted by v8Statesman View Post
    This one is for JohnK.

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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    Quote Originally Posted by v8Statesman View Post
    This one is for JohnK.

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    LOL That's gold.
    More appropriately...

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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    Hmm, been thinking about how to make the most of AAdvantage membership in Australia, and this came to mind:

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    Re: Oxymorons of travel in Australia...

    What about:

    Premium Economy
    Seamless Transfer

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    Quote Originally Posted by dajop View Post
    What about:

    Premium Economy
    I was gonna put this one down. Isn't it funny that "Premium Economy" is what regular economy used to be. I guess that they didn't want to end up with "Economy" and "Discount Economy".

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