It's all very dependent on one's financial position I suppose. For me I'd take the refund and the oceanview room. Balcony's are nice to have but not everything to me.
At least it works well in MEL, they can't refuse you as you're already in the car with bag loaded before they know where you are going (at the uber rank)
Move to Fontaine grand premier at Haneda the night before. Leave your room at 5 or even 5.15am and breeze through with a bit more sleep and no expensive private transfer.
Half the world has controlled hypertension it's absurd that it should not be automatically covered by 1cover. As pointed out most do it automatically from what I've seen.
What is with Qantas award tickets not being ticketed. I have one sitting in a manual queue as well. I rang too late last night and they were unable to speak to the FF team. They said the system believed i did not have the required 8000 points...
Well they do more than double the travel time. Bali to me is barely further than Perth from Melbourne. I do get the attractiveness of long days in J class but my Bali trips are usually short breaks of 5 days and the JQ daytime flights make sense