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This is definitely the worst part of the QF web site. You have to choose class (other than economy) after already doing the search, which is just demented. Then, if the day you look at has nothing appropriate (e.g. that "business class" award includes an international leg on Jetstar in...

Isn't it best to use points to maximise value? If so, it's best to use QF points on partners which charge little or no carrier fees and use AA or BA or AS miles for booking Qantas flights. (Yes, QF's restrictions on international routes are an issue already for that.) For those of us who use...

By the way, though marketroid wankers use verbs as any part of language that they feel like, the thing you're looking for to modify a noun is a present participle. Is there any chance someone could correct the thread title to use proper English. (e.g. " Reduced AMEX earning rates from April 2019")

In the thread about the Marriott/SPG changes, I wondered why they decided to screw over Australian cardholders on Marriott transfers. (Comparing to Canada, where they get 1000 MR->1200 Marriott instead of our 1000 MR->667 Marriott.) Sadly, it seems the answer is now clear. They were about to...

Do you like alcohol? Honestly, I think that's the most important question. I can sleep in either J or F. The food is acceptable in either. The big difference is the alcohol. The booze in A380 F is vastly more expensive than in J. (esp. Champagne and the liqueur muscat and liqueur tokay.) The...

What I wonder most about, apart from the outright lies and deception, is why they decided to screw over Australian cardholders. If we look at Canada, whose currency is of very similar value to ours, we see their Amex cards went from 1000 MR->1500 Marriott to 1000 MR->1200 Marriott. Ours went...

Did you receive any response yet? I tried phoning American Express and was told that the new earnings rate is an improvement and therefore they didn't need to inform users of the change. Furthermore, they assert that it was up to Marriott to inform American Express users of the change to the...

I guess they might move them a little later. I'd vastly prefer afternoon flights too, but there's no evidence that it might happen, given how seldom they do that now I don't understand why you'd think this is positive. The MCT on the previous stop in SYD would have to increase by at least as...

As I saw this because of US Immigration Preclearance Explained, I'll start with that. Presumably, this advantage would be with people who've never tried it. i.e. Absolutely awful. I've entered the USA through HNL, LAX, SFO, SEA, ORD and IAD, as well as through preclearance at a few Canadian...

What you call "good practice", I'd call a waste of time and a waste of money. Just know the rules and obey them. Simple. You were fine for Hong Kong, just not China. I was booking a trip to the USA via Asia once and wanted to have a stopover. As my passport had less than 6 months left on it, I...

The article is wrong. Some business class can be booked online. e.g. SEA-DUB, with USD6.37 in carrier charges! (DUB-SEA is much higher.)

It seems to me that the perverse answer to this is always to use other airlines (BA, AA or AS) to book QF awards and QF to book awards on other airlines. I would generally value a QF pt at about half the value of AA/UA, but those airlines have raised their transatlantic award costs, so that is...

No music at all on my A330-200 SYD-MEL. (VH-EBM) Luckily, the flight was so delayed that there was time to watch a whole movie. :)

I moved most of my flying away from Qantas many years ago. I'd fallen for the promises of status, yet the majority of times that I tried to use free upgrades on Qantas, they refused. Once, they even removed business class service from the plane because insufficient passengers were flying (paid)...

No, they are completely different things. Most IFE systems play some ghastly default at you unless you choose something else, so my first action when I put the headphones on is to go and choose some music that I like. Then I can navigate the system, look at the map, etc, without listening to...

I can't sleep sitting up, unless heavily sedated by alcohol. (or possibly other drugs too, but I've not tried that) This makes for a horrible (or no) sleeping experience in Y, unless I can get 3-4 seats to myself. If I can be horizontal, I can sleep. That can work at special times, such as...

I don't find it surprising at all. It's not what I would do, but it doesn't surprise me. Airlines have been telling customers ever since the advent of e-tickets that we don't need to reconfirm anything. This, to me, is the biggest issue. I'm used to checking bookings every few months, because...

Resizing an irrelevant bandwidth-sucking, CPU-sucking auto-playing video isn't worthy of being called an improvement. The only way to improve that is to remove it.

You call that bad? When I click on "MENU", disgustingly in all caps in the top right corner, the menu it displays does not even fit on my screen! Even among all the other badly designed sites out there, I can't think of one where you have to manually click to get a menu and then that menu...

This time I got: 4 pts per litre for the next 2 visits.