Recent content by econgdon

I always use points to travel J with Virgin as it is supposed to allow any change at the last moment, this is handy when going away for weekends. However the last during the last two trips the Virgin website has been down and so I could not check availability. Thank god I had made the booking as...

Trouble is a lot of merchants do not accept Amex and if you are making a purchase of say $50,000 it is not worthwhile putting cash in your Amex. About the only one is Tax payments where the input is an allowable deduction and the charge is not excessive, and then it is marginal. I think it is 3...

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I have purposely travelled on the A380 Economy 3 times and paid for exit row once. I must say the 380 is so quiet and comfy that even with the extra time taken ( and I believe that Qantas have slowed down the other aircraft so as not to compete), the journey has been very bearable. The last time...

I think the main problem you have to worry about is that the whole thing is in the southern hemisphere, where it is all so slow. I recently travelled to Istanbul and changed airlines with only 45 minutes connection to Kiev Ukraine, without too much fuss. Actually I checked in online for the Kiev...

I use my NAB platinum Amex wherever I can then NAB plat Visa if Amex is not accepted. The AMex comes free with the visa. the annual limit is greater than my citibank platinum Visa which is 1 4 1 but I think 140,000 limit direct to Qantas , but here is a quirk, you can then change your...

Two friends recently wanted to go to Hobart for the Autralia day weekend and booked Tiger. The departure flight sat on teh tarmac for 40 minutes because a staff member was late. During that time the other staff just joked around and made themselves meals. On return the night flight was an hour...

i booked a flight with to London with Qantas ( through call centre not online) and used amex and wasnt charged anything extra. I actually asked if I would be and was told no.

there are many ff's and obviously some give more business than others, hence there needs to be some sort of duferention more than just the 3 cards, but I feel it would be nice that if you are going on a trip and suddenly a friend, or parner wants to come, that if you are a ff with say more than...

Re: Qantas Club: 770AUD for what reason in domestic market? I travel frequently within Australia. Its business and quick and I have no time to waste away in lounges. If I am travelling with staff that's different, BUT they couldn't get access to a lounge anyway. Internationally its different...

It isn't worth having a citibank card anymore, the fees negate the miserly small amount of points you can earn in a year, which transfer at smaller and smaller values. They lowered the cashback refund by 25% without notification. I found that the value of my considerable balance suddenly...

Actually I do find the Virgin Blue site extremely user unfriendly. For example to log in as a Velocity member takes ages to find the tab. The whole site is cluttered with other advertising. I suspect on purpose to keep people looking, much like things are moved around in supermarkets. The site...

On Thursday 13th Nov I was on QF129 which was returned to Sydney with mal functioning weather radar. After many hours we finally got another flight to Shanghai arriving at 3am or so. On returning to Australia, I found an express post bag which had been posted by Qantas PR dept on the Friday 14th...

"What were you wearing??" You may have pretty well hit it, I was wearing all leather, even trousers, as we are in the leather business and secondly I find that it takes minimum upkeep when traveling. It was taylor made fashionable stuff, not your motorcycle or fetish stuff, but that may be it...

the drives were encrypted and were Apple, so I think would have been hard to crack if at all possible, anyway the passwords were given, they actually missed some ipods so if we really had some files they were slack. Our local pharmac_ assistant ( in her 70's) told us that she went to Israel to...