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[sic] Is there no definition of 'significant' with which to work?

Are you saying you have? It is basically impossible to get more than you are entitled to.

re: Avianca "Lifemiles" - Questions and Discussion Completely fine. Things can however get a little troublesome if you later have to cancel. But nothing that cannot be resolved with a phone call or two.

re: Avianca "Lifemiles" - Questions and Discussion I have already flown a redemption flight like this with no problems. So I think if you 'keep it local' you will be fine. CBR was not removed, it was never added in the first place, which is perhaps more a problem at the LifeMiles end. The...

re: Avianca "Lifemiles" - Questions and Discussion Just please bear in mind that there are risks to doing this. One of our Tokyo group had her LifeMiles account suspended due to 'abnormalities' (with the notification coming in a mail that started with 'It is a pleasure to greet you' and ended...

It is people with attitudes like that who are precisely why some people crave seclusion.

Logistics: I picked up a SIM card and a "T-Money" card for use on the subway (and also in taxis) at a convenience store in Incheon Airport. For getting around town, I used taxis to get between hotels with luggage, and took the subway to each restaurant and back. I didn't do any...

If you haven't been to Den and Narisawa, they would be my first two suggestions. A seat at the counter is definitely the best for Den. Unfortunately the timing sounds bad for Den, though: http://www.jimbochoden.com/english/ "we will be closed from the 27th November to the early December" The...

Restaurants: (1) Soigné (2) Jungsik (3) Mingles (4) La Yeon (5) Ryunique I selected these restaurants primarily based on recommendations from friends and colleagues. I also eat a lot of quite standard/traditional Korean in Tokyo, so there is a bias towards more creative or innovative places...

Hotels: For my overnight stopover in Sydney I went with the Stamford Plaza using the free night for my Platinum Reserve. Two nights at the Grand Intercontinental Seoul Parnas using a BOGO certificate. A few nights at the Grand Ambassador Seoul using an Accor Advantage Plus special rate. One...

Flights: Here there was a little disappointment. ketsuzei had originally set me up with a return in F on Asiana's seasonal A380 service using 100,000 Avianca LifeMiles. Asiana then decided not to offer F service, and downgraded me to J. Avianca were not prepared to refund the 20,000...

Background: Michelin published its first guide to Seoul on November 7. As a restaurateur in Japan I well remember the circus when the first Tokyo guide was published back almost a decade ago. Never having been to Korea despite living so long in Japan, I decided a couple of months back that...

I would be informing them of my intention to escalate and asking for proof that the email with the alarm clock was sent.

You are not quite there yet. The 10x part of the scale does not relate to energy. i do not have the numbers at hand, but I think the energy increase is 32x for each point of magnitude. I lost family members to a quake in 1998, which is perhaps why it sticks in my head. Best of wishes to...

That is not correct vis-a-vis energy. A two-point increase means the energy is around 1000 times greater.

I received it via email for a very lightly used Reserve.

If this is at the end of a stay in Japan, the lounge food should not enter into the equation. if the JL sushi tastes good to you, then please get out more in Japan. Entirely different level.

I like the NRT departure even though it is no longer an A380 just because of the departure time.

Re: 2016 US Presidential Election I see. So it was not so much the thread itself you objected to, as one of the turns it took. More farewells than Frank Sinatra.

Re: 2016 US Presidential Election Presumably unintended, but quite accurate.