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Having undertaken many trips using Eurail, I have to disagree. At around A$100 per day's travel in first class, you can travel a long way throughout Europe for a lot less than paying for individual fares. You rarely have to book if you travel in non-peak periods, avoiding peak morning and peak...

I've given up chasing status. I have QF lifetime silver, lifetime Cub access and mostly fly J, so what's the point? Most of my FF points now come via the credit cards, so I have accumulated sufficient points for free flights. My flying is all for leisure now so it would cost me a fortune to...

If you fly only occasionally and always in Economy, you're never going to obtain or retain Gold status. So my advice is to forget chasing status and use those cheaper fares. However, joining a FF program and putting all your financial transactions through your linked credit card is a good way to...

I don't "chase" them any more, same with SCs. The points are "free" anyway, mostly from my CC. However, I mostly use them to upgrade PER-SYD or PER-MEL flights from cheap economy to Business - the trick is to only book flights with awards available, then immediately upgrade when the economy...

Well said zoomzoom. I also believe that QF are rapidly falling behind, with vague promises for future improvements while other airlines, particularly the gulf airlines, forge ahead with far better offerings. They actually do something; with QF it's all talk. A recent J trip with Qatar to the UK...

About two years ago, when I retired from full-time work, I started chasing QF SCs and was able to maintain Gold each year. And it WAS expensive to keep doing this. However, I've recently realised that it's a lot more fun and a heck of a lot cheaper flying on different airlines than Qantas. I...