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    eSims, what is your experience.

    I purchased a new Pixel 7 prior to Christmas 2022 and replaced my conventional Sim by just downloading from the Amaysim website using their App. I then removed the Physical Sim and replaced it with my Thai Sim, that I use in Asia. Also replaced my Wife's Sim when she purchased a new pixel a...
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    I have to agree about the AIS Thai sim card, I have one and top it up every couple of months using my Qantas money card. OK I lose 50Cents on the exchange rate but it gives me a contactable number as soon as the plane lands
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    Article: Why International Flights Are So Expensive Right Now

    I know the feeling, I was looking at buying return MEL-BKK for Christmas, but $1600-$2100 for seats is ridiculous, so I have gotten MEL-KUL and will catch a slow train to BKK and see if prices come down in Jan before we return, At least we get a 45 day entry so I may not even have to get a Visa...
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    AirAsia launches flights to Bangkok from Sydney & Melbourne

    Hopefully, although they are a budget airline they will allocate enough "extra leg room seats" to fit any Aussie over 6 feet tall or 5ft 9 if the person in front reclines their seat while you have your tray down.
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    New TRS rules? Goods no longer included in cap?

    Possibly I will sell the duty free to a fellow traveller, who happens to be on the same return flight prior to arrival, but it will be interesting to see the cost of enforcing this, against the GST lost. In my last 6 overseas trips I have yet to see a baggage checker from customs except for the...
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    Digital Passenger Declaration to Replace Incoming Passenger Card

    I wouldn't be surprised if, when you purchased your duty-free it was flagged against your arrival details, although its hardly worth it nowadays as Dan is almost cheaper
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    Qantas Call Centre Long Wait Times

    Like others, between me and several friends, we wasted 46hrs trying to get through to the call centre. I booked a points plus on one world via my QFF login. it was BKK HKG MEL. one of the legs BKK-HKG was canceled. Not that I was advised, I had to find out when I tried to allocate my seats...
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    Thailand and Malaysia via Singapore

    I am about to leave Bkk and return via HKG-MEL with Cathay using QFF points and $255.00. If you enter directly into Bkk you also have to factor in at least one night in an approved hotel awaiting your PCR test results. We are paying 2000Bht for our pre-departure test and that's the cheapest I...
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    Award booking cancelled by CX

    I have spent 45mins 3times on Skype trying to ring the contact center, currently been on the phone for 20mins 9pm Bkk time 1am Syd time. Still on hold. Bloody hopeless
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    Award booking cancelled by CX

    I have a similar problem, I booked a points plus via Qantas. Bkk-Hkg_Mel using Emirates and CX, and the money has come off my credit card but the booking has disappeared. I have tried ringing QF but their Bkk office is closed and I have been disconnected twice now after waiting 20mins on Skype...
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    What's the best unexpected gift you have received while travelling?

    Mine is 55 years old but I still remember it. A mate and I were hitchhiking around New Zealand and were down on the South Island. We had been to see some feature and had returned to this quiet road and were waiting for a hitch back to the main road, It was about 4 pm. A car going the opposite...
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    Staff Travel? Pros, Cons, Experiences?

    Ditto with a niece who has been at qf for 30+ Years she seems to know everyone, she never asks but is always given J where available
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    What is it with people/ PAX and lounge food

    It's the age of entitlement, they paid a membership so they can take what they like. The only good thing to come out of it is they will get hardening of the arteries or ptomaine poisoning from eating the leftovers. The same people walk around supermarket filling up on free samples
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    QF Unable to check in online

    Can she manage her booking and pick her seat that way
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    Advice please - Etihad refusing compensation for involuntary downgrade

    I wish you luck, at least you got a reply. I lost luggage coming back from Dublin, and although I reported it lodged a claim and had several phone calls with their so called "customer Service" I got nowhere. After 11 months I have given up
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