Recent content by gaz1

Hi, I am trying to book 2 x Business class OW Award trips for late this year. I am getting very frustrated trying to find sectors with availability & would appreciate any tips, etc (especially for best websites to use for searching) The Qantas site is terrible, very slow & often only shows...

Hi, I have a award trip to coughet with a transit in Singapore. I would like to change this to Bangkok (with a transit in Singapore) but there are no more award seats on the Australia-Singapore sector. Is it feasible (or risky!) to ask them to keep the first sector & change the Singapore-coughet...

Hi, My upcoming Virgin Domestic Economy flight booking offers a choice to upgrademe for points (matching the standard upgrade award table) & another option to make a bid in cash for an upgrade. I presume the points upgrade would only happen if they release a business class award seat (currently...

Hi, We are travelling on Singapore Airlines MLE-SIN-PER in a couple of months & chose the flight due to the really good transit connection in Singapore (about 2 hours). They have now cancelled the SIN-PER flight so we are now arriving around 8pm one day & not leaving until around 9am the...

Does anyone know if Singapore Airlines requires medical certificates, etc for past Covid infections? (in particular if you are happen to get it overseas whilst on holidays)? (I couldn't find this info in my search so apologies if this has already been asked)

Not sure if this has been discussed, but does anyone have an idea of the time frame they have to increase the award availability? I guess this will only be for Qantas operated flights (not Qatar or Emirates, for example). Currently availability out of Perth to Europe in J or F is virtually...

I'm amazed at the short sightedness when an airline has something unique that gives them a point of difference axing this. If they were really suffering the costs of providing the service they could add a very small amount onto the ticket (or fees & charges for award tickets) & people wouldn't...

I wonder if the substantial difference in taxes & charges between Emirates Economy & Business Award bookings on the Qantas website will decrease from 1st March? I always assumed that one of the reasons for the additional taxes for Business & First was due to CD.

Can I ask how can you confirm they've done this? Has anyone asked if you can get the Qantas Black card instead (with the same no fee conditions)? Seems a lot better than the rewards program with 1:1 earn. Gary.

Can I ask how you would check that your status is extended to March 2021? When I log in to the Hilton website it only seems to mention the current year (as I recall). If you cancel the card is there any way they could reverse the extended status? Thanks, Gary.

I'm guessing they would be unlikely to reverse the change this close to the change-over date now as it would cause more of a backlash from the people that converted their points unnecessarily. The negative feedback has been going on for a while & I'm sure they would have reacted quicker if they...

VA is 95,500 each way (so 191,000 return), still less than SQ of course but VA have an additional surcharge of $230 each way from 1st Jan. Not sure how the total fees & taxes compares. One of the problems comparing points & fees between airlines is that for some routes one will be cheaper & for...

I'm extremely annoyed they are applying this change retrospectively (last time they kept old points seperate so you could transfer at the old rate). This certainly devalues the whole Altitude program to a point there are many better options. Up until they announced the change from 1:1.35 to...

Two more points: 1) I wonder if they will do the change retropectively? When they changed the earning rate some time back all points earned before the change date could still be transferred at the old rate (in fact my statement still has a section "reserved points 9/3/04" when the conversion...

This sounds feasible - does anyone know if this will work? I can't see anything in the terms & conditions or on the auto redemption webpage. Perhaps this is because the manual & auto rate is the same at the moment & once there is such a big difference they will impose rules on how often to can...