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I guess the stop in GUM would also allow them to announce that they are restoring flights to the US, and flying to a UA hub!

Another data point - I reached Silver on 28/3 - no bag tags or welcome pack to date (other than the "Welcome to Silver membership" email). I have since reached Gold last week, but not sure if they will send me a welcome pack.

VA978 BNE-SYD 1805 departure - the two options were the Spanish chicken or the Korean vegetarian fried rice. I had the chicken and my wife had the fried rice - both were reasonable.

Hotel: Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific When: May Status: Platinum Elite Rate: Breakfast and Parking Booked: King Bed with balcony (standard) Received: King Bed Ocean View with balcony Status recognition: Recognised as platinum at checkin, provided with a complimentary bottle of sparkling water...

Maybe they got someone from Vodafone on their team. They announced wifi calling for prepaid would be available "in the near future" in December 2017... and finally got around to doing it in December 2021.

Silver lining - an opportunity to earn some points on the cost of the damage? :)

Perhaps it's a freudian slip - I guess even the call centre staff acknowledge that they have been in crisis since March 2019, a year before the pandemic hit.

We had a similar issue pre-COVID - the VA call centre helped us book the flights.

I had thought about posting this a while ago, but had written off the taxes/points off in my mind a while back - posting now that the situation has *finally* been resolved with the help of another AFFer (not sure if they want to be identified!). I had originally booked a return flight to...

I flew out of SYD T2 on Friday 25/3 and while the queue wasn't quite this bad, it was close! 1. The escalator from the arrivals level up to departures wasn't working. So each of the lifts had massive queues to get up. I ended up walking out of the terminal across the road to the car park and...

Flew VA J between BNE-SYD with SWMBO a couple of times this year, and would echo most of the comments above: - Very good service on the ground and in the air - Only thing is VA doesn't offer any opportunity to note special dietary requirements/allergies, so there was one flight where none of the...

That's a shame re the increase. I guess they might be staggering sending the emails out to people.

Wait.. where did you see that YP is increasing rates? I haven't received any notice of that 😲

I'm planning to travel interstate (to NSW) for the first time in a long while. Just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for domestic travel insurance that would cover the costs of additional accommodation due to the need to isolate based on the local rules (e.g. if we test positive)? EDIT...

Merry Christmas @jakeseven7 ! Had this post watched as requested… Looks like this prediction was well off the mark, and it looks like they're in fact tightening borders for the holiday period.

Looks like pay.com.au now do BPay. They've also introduced another feature (sometime between early October and mid November) where the transaction on my CC statement now shows up as the actual recipient rather than pay.com.au, which is rather handy. It does still show up with pay.com.au's suburb...

Ah good point - I was talking about points. However, checking the online membership card, it says “valid until 31/3/22 inclusive”. Perhaps due to status being provided through my Amex plat charge?

Interesting.. I recall the Pullman and Mercure sharing some facilities (the gym and/or pool maybe?). If it's only the Mercure that's going IHG, I wonder how that is going to work.

Mine was due to expire in Feb 2022, but I just stayed a night and now it says Oct 2022. Wonder if that will get extended to Dec 2022 at some point?

I wouldn't say "lying", maybe just over-optimistic (as usual). I also wouldn't put too much heed to consistency of her messaging either: - 24 June "we are at this stage comfortable with the settings that are in place". 25 June - lockdown lite Mk I - "We will not provide a list of essential...