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    On board recognition - who gets any?

    Any possibility that people with relatively-difficult-to-pronounce surnames get fewer welcomes? Maybe they feel it's more polite to not try unless they're 100% sure of the pronunciation. And from my experience I'd say there was a period of a few months last year where personalised welcomes...
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    Chip in Velocity Card

    Annoyingly it interferes with the Go Card readers in Brisbane. No longer can I tap my wallet, alas.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Heh so they fixed the mixed-status-handling code but broke seat selection more generally. One step forward many steps back...
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Maybe we've fallen through the cracks while they're patching something (ever the optimist). I'm not too fussed, I expect to use mobile check-in to move forward later anyway.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Just made a booking for gold+red, was able to select from the gold allocation, but after payment "Seat selection cannot be confirmed for some/all guests. Seats will be assigned upon check in." Haven't seen that one before. Seats listed as N/A. Hmm.
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    The unfriendly skies: Chinese pax outrageous behaviour

    I've seen feverish grabbing of mini wine bottles from the cart on a QF flight, squirreled away along their row and put into bags. The flight attendants were bemused by the eagerness.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Very interesting, for tonight's flight, OLCI still showed nothing forward of row 7. But mobile check-in showed several seats available in rows 4-6! So at the moment it looks like golds should use their mobile if they want a wider range of seats without having to ask at the airport.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Mine didn't improve at T-24, so maybe the front 24 seats really were all full at T-48, or choosing at time of booking limits your later choices, or the increased availability mentioned above is only for bookings made more recently than mine.
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    Status Credit Statement and review

    For me, it's the "Show detail" link at the top right of the "Upgrade to Platinum" box. Sadly I don't know what it looks like for platinums ;)
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    Seat selection in new system?

    And yet for a flight this Saturday OLCI won't give me (gold) further forward than row 7. Interesting contrast with swanning_it's and tickthelist's posts above - maybe difference is I chose seats when I booked a few weeks ago? Will try again at T-24.
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    Passbook and Virgin Australia

    I've had multiple dockets at SYD. Last time I was at a new SYD gate my phone was sufficient for boarding - maybe the new gates don't have docket printers?
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Excellent news!
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    Passbook and Virgin Australia

    Maybe just 61 rather than +61? They might have set up the form to only accept numerals. Last time I used mobile check-in it certainly accepted 04xx_xx_XX and I don't recall a spot for country code.
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    Passbook and Virgin Australia

    Usually I get given a receipt that prints quickly, only once received a normal boarding pass at the gate. Maybe it differs from airport to airport. Re: legal requirement, one time, at the new gates in SYD, I was told that I didn't need any piece of paper and could show my phone when boarding. On...
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    Slow (/Non)Posting of VA Points / SC's since the SABRE switchover

    Hm had one post with SCs but no points. Was a fly-ahead, wonder if that confused the system when working out how much I paid.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    As another data point, I asked at the lounge (~20 min before boarding) whether there were any seats further forward for the two of us and was told 'no nothing together'. Seemed fair enough, but at the gate a family was reissued boarding passes and ended up in rows 5 and 6 on the left hand side...
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Haha, indeed it couldn't find my booking from my Velocity number.
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    Seat selection in new system?

    Yeah seems really shabby. Low-res bitmap PDF!? Makes no sense. Also why doesn't the flight reminder email have a direct link to OLCI? The link supposedly goes to the OLCI tab on on the front page, but even then in my browser it remained on the default tab. Is it even possible to go from a...
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    Golds make your voices heard regarding the new seating choice arrangements!

    I'm not sure what was unclear about your experiences being less representative of the frequent flyer population than those of all members of this forum taken collectively (of which you are a subset). This is trivially true, and does not discount your experiences. If AFF's membership is a...
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    Golds make your voices heard regarding the new seating choice arrangements!

    I meant across a population, not within an individual. Several of us have suggested more broadly palatable alternatives. I still maintain that the changes as they currently stand are overkill; I hope they will consider revising them. I suspect we'll have to disagree on this.
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