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    Grammar Discussions

    Technically you'd be right, but the two other pedants in the household also thought it was confusing at a fast read. The copy-writer could easily have rearranged the word sequence to be unambiguous, and we thought that was amusing. The induction cooker is another item in this week's cattledog...
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    Grammar Discussions

    Coming up this Saturday at ALDI: Very tricky to interpret at speed. Am I about to buy a container last used to hold pet food? made from actual recycled pet food? made from recycled plastic? or, maybe even: that has been converted from a disused cat into a dog? Yipes. I think I'll buy...
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    Grammar Discussions

    From Virgin's web portal: Sure!! Let's change it to "Currently, you have no upcoming flights". Is there a button that says "You've got mail"?
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    Cathay "World of Winners" promo - discounted tickets to Hong Kong

    I tried leading up to, and then precisely 1200 (a few times, but it was still not open), and for a minute following, when it seemed to be still not open. Then I was distracted. At 1202 I successfully got a place in the queue: number 44523. Waited and watched until my turn came up at 1442...
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    Qantas New Partner - BP

    I've had the "almost use points" experience a few times. After seeing Matt's post in today's AFF Gazette, I downloaded the app to turn off redemption. I had a user/password, so I expected spin up to be quick. No such luck. I'm not the app design expert, but BPme seems to be slow and clunky...
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    Article: What I Value Most About Qantas Platinum Status

    I rather appreciate the CSM greeting, but I'm OK when it doesn't happen. I know the flight attendants have the list, and I'm happy to smile sweetly to see what happens. When the attendant asks if there's anything they can do, my first request (if I'm sitting in Y) is for a J blanket. Not...
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    Article: What I Value Most About Qantas Platinum Status

    Doing SYD-KUL with QF to SIN then JQ to KUL. JQ still leaves from T1 at SIN at the moment (according to the apps), so SIN First Lounge usable on the way over. But on the return there's no lounge at all in the very ordinary and somewhat dank KUL T2. I see more MH in my future... possibly the...
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    Article: What I Value Most About Qantas Platinum Status

    I got really lucky: after convincing SWMBO to let me spend household money on Emirates J to Ireland in 2019, I crossed the line into LTG and WP in one trip. Then COVID and no international travel. But... that unexpectedly turned into holding WP for 4.5 years. Mrs TheMaiz has seen that I...
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    Is anyone else locked out of their account? Now working for me.

    Hey @fieval, welcome and thanks for replying to the thread. It triggered me to go back and check, and I am now logged in on the laptop, the phone and the pad. Conclusion: this is a complete stuff-up in QF IT, and it affects different people at different times. I was out for 12 hours...
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    Is anyone else locked out of their account? Now working for me.

    Mrs TheMaiz and I are both locked out of all QF online contact. On app or browser on phone (Android), app or browser on pad (Apple), app on two different Windoze machines: can’t log on. The pad was logged on when I checked in a flight last night, and then logged off and I can’t get it to...
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    How to contact Qantas international lost property in SYD?

    That's a really sensible suggestion that should have been blindingly obvious to me in the past week. Thanks - I'll do just that. I'm at SYD Domestic on Tuesday and international in two weeks, so I'll walk the floor in both locations before heading to the lounge to drown myself in scotch...
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    How to contact Qantas international lost property in SYD?

    So I'm an idiot. I left my headset case in the seat pocket on a WLG/SYD flight, and only realised two hours later when I got home. I found the Qantas process to be utterly opaque, and I'm wondering if anyone here can help or suggest technique to retrieve the item. The real issue here is...
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    Lost all my Hyatt points!

    Has anyone had experience or luck at getting Hyatt points restored? While booking an overnight at the newish Melbourne Hyatt Essendon Fields (great experience, BTW) I discovered that all my Hyatt points had vanished, including 70k "lifetime" points. (That's annoying... whose life? As far as I...
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    Article: How to Improve Airport Security Queues

    I can't see how the new scanners are any different to the old process in that regard. It's still hard to know why a bag has been bounced. The key difference is that now they will have to take EVERYTHING out of a bag where, with the older system, regulars would have disassembled a bag and...
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    Article: How to Improve Airport Security Queues

    Four weeks ago, a few days before the potential school holidays impact was being blasted on radio and TV, I was retained to do the voice-over for a video that now plays on big screens at Sydney Terminal 3 security checkin (and it might be running at Terminal 2, but I haven't been over there)...
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