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    Not good enough

    Apologies for being a pedant and taking this slightly OT. The chance of more than one person on a plane sharing the same birthday - whatever day that happened to be - is not the same as more than one person sharing a birthday on the specific day of the flight. 23 people are all that is needed...
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    My MEL-PER flight keeps getting downgraded from a A330 to a B737

    That sounds extremely frustrating Daver - given your cabin was downgraded did you bother chasing up for some points back through EY?
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    My MEL-PER flight keeps getting downgraded from a A330 to a B737

    First off - let me preface by saying that I'm fully aware that VA can change aircraft type at any time. For my significant milestone birthday this year, I'm flying with my wife and 2.5yo from MEL-PER, flying out on Dec 13th. A large part of the reason of choosing PER was the chance to...
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    SYD - TSV - CNS Circa 1985

    Many thanks Kelvedon, I would have thought Ansett as a semi-educated guess so good to have a data point!
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    SYD - TSV - CNS Circa 1985

    Mods - please feel free to move or remove if not appropriate. I was looking to fill out my flight history as best I could and now I'm deep-diving into flights I don't know exact dates for, mostly those when I was much, much younger. I remember my first trip consisted of flying from SYD to CNS...
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    Pickpockets in Barcelona

    Travelling in Europe, particularly the tourist cities of Italy, I've found the most obvious place where pickpockets were targeting us were at train stations while buying tickets from a machine, obviously laden with luggage. After the first instance of finding it odd that less-than-reputable...
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    Booking Aer Lingus using QF points?

    Unfortunately I was an EXTREMELY disappointed poor sap who previously used QF points to book so called business on EI, from LGW to DUB (thread here Booking Aer Lingus "Business" Class using QF points). As we needed to travel in a window of a few hours on December 23, using my rarely-used QFF...
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    Travelled PER-BNE with a child

    Just to add a data point on this (or 14 as it turns out). We've had 7 return trips MEL-MCY with our now 2+ year old child, spread out pretty evenly from when he was 4 months old. We fly exclusively with VA. Up until he turned 2 we flew J as he sat on one of our laps, and on our most recent...
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    New Velocity website error

    I haven't been able to find a working mileage calculator either (there is a link on this page Earn Tables but it just re-directs back as well). Also it appears they've severely cut the points earn on international short haul!
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    Govt cracks down on airport TRS rebates for Aust travellers

    I've always found TRS to be a strange beast. Once when leaving either SYD or MEL (can't remember) I claimed for reimbursement and the extremely rude Customs official bluntly told me that the scheme was (or should be) for tourists only and asked along the lines of "so do you still want to make a...
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    Shop to Fly Faster - Transfer Flybuys to Velocity

    Just adding a datapoint. We previously used to receive the 10-week promotion coupon book I would say every cycle, but prior to the VFF partnership didn't really use any of the coupons at all. Since we received the last coupon book and post Flybuys-VFF partnership we utilised the the offers...
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    Hanoi, Hua Hin, Bangkok and some SQ Suites

    I had the misfortune of staying at the Amari Watergate on a work trip about 10 years ago. Similar issue with the beds - except mine was 2 single beds pushed together (with a king sheet covering them both so I couldn't push them apart if I wanted to). Also the sheets had what looked like...
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    Buying prepaid SIM cards in Hawaii

    +1 for this - this is what we did a couple of years ago also at the Ala Moana store. Only concern was the internet speed on the phone was slow (I think the signal showed as "H" instead of 3G/4G) - best to get one of the staff members there to check your phone's internet settings if it appears...
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    New Velocity Cards

    Interesting change - I'm SG and need a new card as we came out of Parental Leave Pause early Dec (so card expiry was a few days ago). With no immediate travel on the radar I may hold off requesting a new card until it is known if/when the new design will be rolled out to SG
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    Best way to get to the USA in Business Class

    Depending on any number of preferences, not that least where you want to enter the US and whether you wanted to pay outright, you can fly with HA's lie-flat business bed from SYD-HNL-JFK-HNL-SYD with stopovers for $AU5,500 (the HNL-JFK sectors convert to the new lie-flat beds mid-Feb). Not to...
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