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The United spouse membership would include you, your spouse and 1 guest each. So two adults, two children if you like. If you had a mean lounge dragon, ;) they might say no if you had extra children, (more than 2) but generally they turn a blind eye for families.

Remember that UA and VA will then be in direct competition if VA takes SYD flights. And one could presume (and hope) that the Business Class on VA will be typically Virgin and quite "upper class". This won't bode well for the current UA product. And then the'res the domestic services in NZ...

Congratulations to Evan on 1,000 posts Evan, thanks for all your contributions to AFF and sticking with AFF even after leaving the country! :D Congrats on the milestone! Cheers, littl_flier

Thanks for the trip report Evan. Enjoy the sleep! ;) :p

Simongr, I take it you avoided the UK? Also, if you have two stopovers in London on a DONE4, do you pay the APD twice?

A quick way to check is to see whether there are two lines of 44 characters at the bottom of the photo page. If so, then it's a machine readable passport. If not, maybe call Passports Australia (131232) to check. Could help forking out a couple of hundred dollars....

Ooh, congratulations Tooner! I was wondering if he had arrived yet. So now lots of sleepless nights for the next few months and plenty of time to post of AFF between nappies. :mrgreen: Congrats again and I hope your wife is doing well too! ;)

Hi Ex, I'm definitely a Visa Waiver program guy. I was under the impression that you had to travel to the US consulate in SYD to get USA visa's which would significantly add to the cost. (but I may be confused with working visas) A new passport would be cheaper in this circumstance, particularly...

Thanks Mal. :D But it was much more fun back in the days when someone would post a link days before the newsletter came out and AFFers would get gift tickets by being the first in. I just don't seem creative enough to win on words. :rolleyes: :o

Wow JohnK, I didn't quite expect a LCC dash back to Oz. ;) What's wrong with going for a BKK-SYD via MEL in JQ whY class. Sure, it's no points but would be a less painful and you get the FLounge in BKK and QP in MEL. Nine hours is quite short when you've souped up with free scotch from the...

Cheers guys, it's CX830 late August which is showing as a 346 so hopefull I'll get to see the Polar Bears basking in the sun over the North Pole. ;) :D I believe CX were actually running daily with the 773's on both direct NYC flights for a while (guaranteed new config) but it's back to a...

dajop, is was a one way. Those Canadian Airport improvement fees (about $33 USD from memory) makes things YUL-JFK quite expensive. It seems to be $39.43CAD for that sector. Is $2.50 the standard cost for USA departing sectors? (ie. Febs' SFO-HNL flight)

Hey leny. These aren't actually single seats but rather where the aircraft tapers at the end. It would be physically impossible to seat 4 accross because the aircraft becomes narrower towards the back. ie. 2-3-2 It's just the way the airline map is showing them because the aisle seat will be G...

IME, (about 3 months ago and 30 minutes ago) the points are deducted immediately from the FF account but the taxes may take forever to be charged. I had this problems where the points were deducted but the taxes weren't charged for about six months...

Ok, I've just booked a QFF Award ticket from JFK-YUL and the taxes were a whopping $2.50USD. :p I was just wondering, has anyone else noticed taxes so low/been able to take advantage of them? It'll cost QF more in Amex fees than the taxes alone. :D Interestingly, taxes on the AA website on...

Hi pblackm. Welcome to AFF! A DONE4 is a business class around the world airfare. L- Econ D- Bus A- First ONE- Oneworld Explorer 3/4/5- Number of continents used in the fare.

Thanks Evan and QF009. It'll be the A340-600 HKG-JFK (a very long day flight) ;) which has the Old New Business Class. :p I was really looking forward to the new product but like QF009 mentioned, you can't see out the window and it can be a bit claustrophobic. Maybe forward facing is better for...

I hope we see more flights on the Uluru routes as well. QF have a complete monopoly but tourists seem more than happy to pay the fares. I think a LCC could pick up the backpacker niche. Maybe SYD-AYQ-CNS-OOL. As for International, I would love some LCC BNE-ZQN flights in Winter for ski...

QF009, great start to to TR. Enjoy the trip! :D And thanks for the report on the new CX J. It looks like I'll miss the new product this year and end up with the old, but maybe that's not such a bad thing from what you say?

IMO, NZ also have better food in Economy and a better AVOD system that works most of the time. ;) (unfortunately only available on the MEL-AKL sector on certain flights, AKL-HNL will be main screen entertainment) A great selection of Kiwi wines in Economy too, and I found it more free flowing...