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Glacier walk and kayaking The "must do" activity for me was a visit to a glacier. You could do that independently with the right gear (and preferably in a good group) but there are dozens of commercial visits available. I found and booked mine through an aggregator Guide to Iceland which...

...and how to sometimes not care about what others get in life.

Qantas moving to a subscription model. Suits those who sign up and forget /don't care to cancel. A nice earner for QF without providing much extra at all. I wonder how much would a typical QC visit cost the company? I.e. how many visits are needed in a month until QF exhausts the $99 income...

Cue in the "How I monetized my status..." TikToks...

One option for printing in Germany are pharmacies. E.g. in Munich, I printed mine in DM (Drogerie Markt, there are several near the main station). It took a while to figure it out and I needed advise but eventually I was able to upload the PDF from my phone to their "kiosk" and send to the...

You could go to a nearby convenience store / kiosk to get a 1€ water bottle and break the larger note(s) into smaller that way.

WATERFALLS? WHERE??? The land of ice and fire has an abundance of water sources to feed waterfalls. Australia may have a countless number of beaches. Similarly, Iceland must have a countless number of waterfalls. We stopped by three big ones but saw numerous other ones, in the same go. At...

That is very much right. Let's frame this the other way around: doing Iceland as a low cost / budget trip will require plenty of creativity. Besides, the hit to your wallet is temporary only because you'll be there for a short time only, anyway (1-3 weeks might be quite typical). Back at home...

Why would you? It's doable on a short and mid-haul but good luck doing that on SIN-LHR or JFK-AKL. It'd mess up your body pretty nicely and take time to recover from. Besides, there are much nicer ways to fly, such as sleeping (or movies, audiobooks, anything). Personally, I prefer spending the...

WELCOME TO ICELAND! Too long has passed since the previous entry but I want to continue to the end. Jet lag over, bugs cleared off the system, and a new job started, I should have more time & energy for this again. When starting, I thought I'd post as we go but travel took over. That was a good...

Selling SC to retain your current status would make sense but with limits. It could be e.g. max 25% of the renewal levels, i.e. an SG could buy max 150, WP max 300 SC, etc. If the price was comparable to a decent status run ($5/SC?) then it'd create an option to flying if you are a little short...

And the same goes the other way around, as well: even in countries which seemingly limit the "foreign" ownership to 33% or whatever it is, the "local" companies may equally be owned by structures which are practically owned by overseas interests and profits eventually flow out of the country...

Where you travel to / from Austria, definitely aim at the ÖBB trains, the Austrian national railways. You may have much better reliability in terms of the rolling stock & staff. Of course, while travelling on the German side of the border, they depend on the local track network but at least the...

Happens often to me, too, sometimes even on a short hop. I manage often to slow it down by sleeping / pretending to sleep, i.e. forcing the body to rest. But as soon as I open my eyes, the gates open again. Must be annoying to the seat neighbours.

Would (or should) the priority be coded in the barcode and the belt system manage that automatically both at the departure and destination points? I.e. load the priority bags as a group at a time / in a location in the hold that allows early unloading & delivery? The business rule is simple...

Hah, it seems we were near-row-neighbours. Another transferree to a row of 4 here... :cool: I was thinking of the same question. However, QF2 and QF292 seemed to be full already several days earlier so perhaps this is their "2.5th" run to provide some surplus capacity on a busy day. Add...

From Y flex -> J (with PE/gate ticked on) as a WP. 27/6 QF2 LHR-SIN: PE granted at T-22. The flight was completely full. 28/6 QF84 SIN-SYD: rejected at T-9. J was full and Y at about 50-60% load.

That's what I counted on and and why I initially raised it already at the check-in. The airline would be best placed to assess the risk based on the circumstances, the load, etc, and I had prepared for a rejection. In fact, I expected to be delayed by at least a day but went in with the hopes...

I'm sorry you had to sit tight and just endure the trip without an escape! A full flight is a pain in this sense, there's no way to arrange the seats to give any separation for the ill one from other pax. All we can do is try to keep ourselves in shape and protections in the bag (mask, hand...

At the same time, QF has brought back amenity kit items in Y. FA's were touring the cabin (on SIN-SYD) with a tray of eyemasks, toothbrushes, etc. Small steps, VH, small steps...