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Phew :) I thoght I was going crazy. I'm just loading winxp for the third time this week to the laptop that got damaged in a fall & thought there was something wrong with my settings. One of the reasons I like this site is I'm still getting used to the acronyms used on these type of sites...

Is everyone travelling? Have we run out of topics? FT seems a better bet these days :?

LW, alas I'm paying the ultimate price for flying *A in March. :( (I have to fly with them if I visit airline clients that are in the *A). After consuming a few relaxants in J (or whatever ANZ calls it), the a/c pulled into AKL but didn't get a gate. When walking down the stairs my left foot...

Icemann, I suggest you have a lurk around the www.Flyertalk.com site where there are constant discussions (only just short of arguments in some cases) about the screening process & the rights or lack thereof for the USA traveller. The case being left unlocked is not one I'm willing to do but...

Ah, the anonymity of "talking" on a discussion site. But we're now seeing a little bit of the personal side of at least two members. At the risk of topic drift don't you ever wonder if someone in the industry may recognize you by your writings now that you've revealed a little about...

Starwood have a similar deal where you pay an annual fee to belong to a program inn addition to the regular loyalty program. However, I prefer the 'free' frequent stayer platinum card & the upgrades that I always get. I have enough points to stay for a week in a 5 star hotel like the Westin...

...and you don't even need headphones with the subtitles. I suppose a movie would be nice on the MEL-BNE type legs. Anything to switch out the mindless boredom of economy flying. :( (which is why i go for the upgrade on these type of flights).

There's been teething (birthing a new system) problems on the A330s. :( Some aircraft are better than others, however I think the screens have got poor viewability from an angle. Where the B744s have TES, the A330s have eTES. eTES supposedly has a greater capacity for content. There is...

oops :oops: I've been reading some of the back & forth on 'thread closing' with much amusement. :)

Gross Excess :P That's me to a tee. However, never again out of BNE International. :(

What better place than here or Flyertalk to check "the facts". 8)

7kg apiece & 2 items max. That's how I read it.

Is it regular maintenance or something. Do they figure the regular crowd are catching up on sleep and there is noone else around :?:

I'm not referring to reservations, only waitlisting. Mind you, I've often seen cases where the a/c is overbooked & I'm fairly sure FF or full paying ticket status makes the difference at departure time.

Nope :) In fact, I'm sitting here with a broken ankle thanking my lucky stars that I requalified for Platinum early in the year (before this happened) & the requal not due until June. The other lovely thing is being a Life Gold Member :D

My experience is that status gets you to the front of the queue. If the queue is made up of Plats then it's 'first in best dressed'. I love it. :D

I use Qantas Business Travel for some years and find that although they've been struggling with a new computer system, they're all over the best routes and with any carrier. Our company had to bow the heads, tug their forelocks & come across at the demise of AN. My part of the company had a...

I don't keep a record like some of the others posting to this site so I don't usually remember the DOM flight upgrades. I only do points upgrades on the shorthaul flights like SYD-MEL/SYD-BNE & if it doesn't work, well it's only an hour or so. MEL-BNE or longer, I always try to get a...

Yes. Had a beautiful trip in FC LAX-MEL last Dec. which cost 4 upgrade points. The best thing QFF ever did was to go away from the paper upgrades (2 per year) to online upgrade points where I've got 20 (and counting), waiting to be used. :D

I tried at 8 PM last night and couldn't even get the site up. :(