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It's really well known in Europe as a bank scam too. In almost all places I've been recently I've noticed the staff automatically selecting EUR on their POS terminal when setting up the payment, without asking.

I've had British & European friends visit Australia who all said the interrogation and searches they received entering Australia was far worse than any questions they got at the US border. Though turns out they were referring to our very thorough customs checks, not the passports/immigration part.

My recent upgrades to Club Europe have still received the SCs as expected. It's the main reason I take the upgrade offers so I hope it isn't being wound back!

A UK police certificate costs £65 (or $134 AUD) for a 20 day turnaround, or £115 ($237) for a 2 day processing time. UK global entry is £42 ($86 AUD) for a UK background check plus $120 USD for a US Customs check.

Yeah BA is known for routinely denying valid EU 261 claims and making people take them to court arbitration. They'll often pay up before the court date, usually at the last minute when they realise the customer isn't giving up, but they know most people won't bother to take it that far. Anyway...

The most amusing thing for me is that they were happy to post the Platinum luggage tag to me in London, as part of my requalification, but they wouldn’t put a physical membership card in the box. Those are only for members who live in Australia or NZ.

I like the timing on the CDG-PER as it allows for a 6pm arrival into the east coast, whereas the LHR-PER timing gets you to the east coast after 10pm, or QF2 to SIN brings you into a 6am arrival. I usually go EK or QR for their better timing (to me) but would actually consider LON-CDG-PER-MEL if...

A friend took this flight recently in economy, I told them they were crazy - 17 hours on the 787 in economy!? After they landed they told me it was the best long-haul flight they ever took - so empty that most people got a row to themselves. Though apparently an announcement was made several...

This has just happened to me, I can see the flight I tried to book under "My Trips" if I click the shopping cart icon, but when I click the "Book Now" button it then gets an error saying there's no availability and tells me to search again. This doesn't remove it from the cart however and I can...

I've just gone through making a Classic Rewards redemption on KLM, AMS to LCY in April. Went through Express Checkout to the payment page when it suddenly fails with "Sorry, an error seems to have occurred, and this page cannot be displayed (15079, 421)" Now when I go back to search for the...

I’m not trying to hoard them, I just never found availability and on the rare occasions I found something it didn’t seem good value with all the carrier charges on top. Will be even less value now though!

Has this been the same for most people or are some taking much longer? I flew a DSC booking last week and still haven’t had the DSC post - the standard SC for the flight posted within 24 hours (they were already there the first time I opened the app again the day after the flight). Maybe...

This is ironically part of the reason I didn’t ditch QF for BA as my FFP when I moved to the UK. My annual trip back to Australia gets me my 4 sectors, the rest of my SC earn is mostly BA as I’m now based in London not far from LHR. I had been regretting not changing over to BA during covid...

Tomorrow's QF1 out of Sydney has already been marked with a 3 hour delay, almost 24 hours out from scheduled departure.

They've changed the wording on that screen now. Instead of "Choose your preferred membership card" the heading now says "Your digital membership card"

I had this flying Emirates DXB-MEL last year, I'd forgotten this little quirk of flights to Australia with the extra secondary security search to confiscate liquid at boarding. Luckily Emirates had a new bottle waiting for me at my seat.

I may have to do that, or collect from family when I am back in Melbourne for Christmas. Ironically the physical card is most useful to have when overseas, travelling with partner airlines in countries where they do not seem to recognise digital cards or question if they are trustworthy or...

What's the point of this... Qantas asks me to choose something where there is actually no choice.

Just checking, would a ticket originating outside Australia (ie LHR-MEL-LHR) booked with an overseas Travel Agent still be eligible? I don't see it in the T&Cs to say bookings need to originate from Australia (but I think I recall this being a condition of previous offers). And if the booking...

Interested to hear if anyone has made use of Jetstar's new free Same Day Change in the Flex Bundle to move to a different flight on the SYD/MEL route. They say subject to availability, but do not mention if it just needs a seat to be available, or if it needs to be a seat at the same price point...