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    Travelling in Shanghai

    Hi FF Wannabe I made a number of trips to Shanghai over the last couple of years and enjoyed every one (although this was all business travel with no kids or wife in tow). I always flew Syd - HK - Shanghai (Pudong) using Qantas to HK and then Dragon Air (great airline - even had an aussie...
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    Suggestions for Syd - Bangalore

    Sure thing BlacKnox. Although it looks like I'm limited to one hotel by my employer - Itc Hotel Windsor Sheraton & Towers 25 WINDSOR SQ. GOLF COURSE RD. OPPOSITE BANGALORE GOLF COURSE, BANGALORE 560052 And the corporate rate I'm supposed to get is USD187. I'm supposed to be there sometime...
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    Buying USD

    I've been using my ATM card for the last few years.. I stopped getting t/chq's. Too much hassle.. I've always had the note from the ATM saying there is a commission charge before the transaction is processed so I know what it is.. The exchange rate I got seemed quite good.. Even with this...
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    Suggestions for Syd - Bangalore

    Thanks to all :D .. Looks like I will try the QF/Jet Airways flights. Although it may depend on my return date as QF does not fly every day :( .
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    Suggestions for Syd - Bangalore

    Hi I'll be travelling to Bangalore next year. Any suggestions for routing with the most QFF points and SC's. It will be in J class. I checked Qantas and they fly to Mumbai where I have to pick up an Indian Airlines domestic flight. I was hoping to get to Bangalore on an international flight...
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    Early SG or WP re-assessment...QF's at it again

    D00t I've been comped to WP the last 2 years (now until Aug 2006). Last year I ended the year on 1090 SC and the year before I think around 1000. But the years prior to this I had 1700 and 1900 SC's..
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    What's your job???

    Computer mainframe (and you all thought they were dead or replaced by PC's!) software support and anything else to do with my product specialty such as teaching, installation, pre-sales and onsite services.. I don't get much travel out of support apart from perhaps a trip to the US once a year...
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    Qantas's 85th BDay Competition

    I agree too. It's a bit like only putting in a half hearted effort or coming up with a great idea and then cutting corners to save a few dollars. I think this is probably what disappoints me most about Qantas.. Such great potential as yet unrealised because of penny pinching. Whenever...
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    A380 visit down under - timeframe?

    I saw it land in Sydney yesterday.. got some great video along with another hundred or so people on the mounds of dirt next to the runway (behind the barrier fence unfortunately).. There was a bus next to the runway with quite a few people in fluoro jackets stadning outside watching it land...
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    SMH gets suck into QF service levels (yay!)

    I've seen that special meal stuandmel. Only problem is it's only served in first/business. :( :( If Qantas is not prepared to provide special meals 100% of the time, then don't offer them! Especially with a proviso of 'Meals are on a request basis only and cannot be guaranteed'.. I get...
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    Minimum Connecting time

    Back in the days of Ansett, I had booked an award flight on Qantas Syd-Bne and then was connecting to an AN award flight to Bundaburg. The Qantas flight had mechanical problems and was delayed by 1.5 hours. Qantas were talking to all their passengers that had connections on Qantas flights but...
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    Kids on board!!!!

    stueandmel, From my experience the best bet is to checkin as early as possible. I'm not sure whether there is any priority order for getting the seats. We did a number of trips with our daughter from when she was about 5 weeks, (Syd - Mel) and also to the UK when she was 2.5 months old (plus a...
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    Getting a Free Trip to Alaska with One Trip to the U.S.

    Lindsay, I hope you do come back... What would we do without all that great information you provide on this forum. :D As a private pilot I receive reports on all accidents with Australian registered aircraft and also tend to follow up the big overseas ones as well. In most of these cases...
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    How many SCs do you get in a year?

    I joined QFF in about 1993 and up until 2000 was doing about 400 per year. In 2000 and early 2001 I did 3 J class trips to the NY. Since then I have travelled international J class every few months mainly to China. I achieved WP in 2002 with about 1900 SC. The following year was about 1500 and...
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    Do you talk to people on planes?

    My take exactly NM. I'm happy to say hi and have a brief conversation and even an extended one if interesting. But at some stage I like to just settle in and have a quiet flight. So on with the headset. On one flight Home from New York I happened to be sitting next to the CFO of my employer...
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