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I haven't got my points yet but I didn't sign up on the first day of the offer, so will give it another day or so before I follow up.

I thought Bonvoy membership was calendar year based and your status is maintained for the year in which it is earned and an additional 14 months after that year (therefore ending at the end of February). For example, I maintained my platinum status in 2021, so it will expire at the end of...

@Cruiser Elite any report from your GC visit? We're heading up for the Cup long weekend so interested if you have any feedback from your visit.

We're commencing 2023 in the US - San Antonio before heading to Utah and Colorado for some skiing. We'll end 2023 someone in Europe - exact itinerary still to be determined but plan on attending the Christmas markets in Vienna, also going to London and Iceland looking for the Northern Lights...

Interesting, I think my flight was probably the same, just a year or so later.

First flight was in 1977 or 1978. No memory of it as I was 3 at the time. We were flying from Melbourne to London via India First real memory of a flight was flying to Germany with Lufthansa in 1989 back when smoking was still allowed on planes. Pretty yuck travelling in a lot of smoke!

I am fairly particular in what I eat so I generally don't eat much in the lounge unless I know the food service is going to be worse. I even brought my own snacks on my AKL status credit run, just in case!

They're supposed to formally announce it later this week. So fingers crossed!

They are removing the mask mandate in Germany too apparently (according to One Mile at a time).

It's being reported that the mask mandate on domestic flights is being removed as of September 9. I assume this will also impact the Australian inbound international flights too.

Haven't tried Hurricane's Grill & Bar but went to Brazilian Flame Bar and grill end of 2020. We thought it was okay, nothing special. Have been back to the Gold Coast 3 more times since then and never gone back to Brazilian Flame Bar and Grill.

We're flying to the US over Christmas so very pleased the masking rules are being removed. Now if only the AU domestic requirements could be removed also....

Another thumbs up for jimmy's taxi service. Used them again twice yesterday and they have beautifully clean nice cars, communicative and easy to deal with. I used them before the pandemic so good to see business is on the up for them again.

QF146 return flight AKL-SYD. Only two mains offered (apparently this is standard from AKL). A butter chicken and rice or braised beef blade with mash and veg. Plus a little fig and ginger pudding cupcake with caramel on top. Don't forget the Lindt ball! The beef was nice.

QF143 SYD-AKL. Lunch offering on this service with a chicken and quinoa salad, beef in black bean sauce with Asian greens and jasmine rice or a sauteed pork medallion. I went with the pork medallion which was quite tender. Also served a raspberry ganache cake (?) and obligatory lindt chocolate...

QF402 MEL-SYD 6am flight. The offering was this pumpkin omelette or a granola. The omelette was served on a base of cubed potatoes with some minuscule pieces of mushroom and bacon mixed in. There was a passionfruit yoghurt and rhubarb muffin. Luckily the pumpkin was easy to pick out.

What time was this in AKL when the transit was closed - overnight or during the day?

I think the animals are pretty clever too - that wolverine!

Not just a German thing - plenty of Aussies do it here unfortunately!

Planning on binge watching the latest season of Alone once the final episode is released in a few weeks.