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Someone who is OW Saph can use the OW J lounge of their choice when there's more than one in an airport, right? Is someone without status flying in QF J only allowed to use the OW lounge that QF designates?

One thing I'm not too clear about. Say you fly SYD-LAX return to qualify, in a class that earns 1.0 qpoints. You would qualify as Platinum during the LAX>SYD leg. Would that leg get the Platinum mileage bonus? Or would it only be for flights after that? Similarly, if you enrolled in both the...

So there's this American company, JetSet, that acts as a mileage brokerage. People with miles they want to sell get in touch with them, and then they put you in their database. They then find a customer who say wants to fly JFK-LHR J class. Rather than paying $4,000 for a "normal" ticket...

Even though it's a business card, card companies base their credit decision on the history of the person who is the primary applicant -- the person in whose name the card is. So make sure your friend gets the card in the boss's name: list the boss as the "primary" applicant, with the boss...

That will change if/when they eventually join SkyTeam They would fill a gaping hole for SkyTeam: Having just Korean Air to cover Asia just isn't good enough. They're really one of the only airlines that can do it for SkyTeam, with Cathay, Singapore, and Thai already in alliances. [edited...

So Air Asia is owned by MH? I found Air Asia to also be pretty good, up to the same standard as Western LCCs. Their fares are also very low, even for an LCC: KUL-BKK one-way is typically US$36, on sale right now for US$13

So what exactly are the rules? What are the numbers that we can't exceed? Thanks!

I agree. Three years ago I flew NYC-DXB-KUL-SYD-KUL-DEL-KUL-DXB-NYC and had a wonderful experience. Definitely one of the best economy class products in the air. Very friendly staff both in the air and on the ground. I had no status with them, and on one flight, at check-in the agent said...

Ahhh... ain't that the truth...

In my excitement I skipped over a footnote stating exactly that: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is..." Sorry about getting people's hopes up

I was looking at US Air's earn partner page, and saw that you could credit Qantas flights to the US Air Divident Miles program! Has anyone considered doing this? US Air is in Star Alliance, so you could consolidate both Qantas and *A flights into just one program! Is there some catch to...

Do they charge you in SGD? Or in the currency of your choice (ie AUD)?

Thanks a lot Lindsay :) I'm a very visual person who loves graphs and uses Excel for almost everything... even frequent flyer program analysis :P The 4 programs are just to ensure that I have converage with almost any airline that I fly. The further to the left the program is in the chart, I...

Thanks a lot for the very helpful replies! I really appreciate the thought that went into them. I'm starting to get my head around the various options a bit better now. Lindsay: Thank you, but your AA post was definitely better and more interesting. I'm very interested to hear more about how...

I have an EK flight coming up soon, and I'm faced with the choice of where to credit it. The more I think about it, the more I'm rethinking my overall program strategy. So I thought I'd lay it out here, and get feedback on it, both overall and whether Skywards should be one of the programs I...

Remember though that if you have the platinum charge card, you can get the platinum credit card for free, getting a free flight

I got Flight Centre to waive the credit card surcharge for me today :) They gave me a quote for an Emirates flight I'm taking next month, and I supplied them with a quote from a competitor for the same price, but that competitor doesn't have a credit card surcharge. With their "price beat...

Very interesting post over at the Upgrade Travel Blog (via Gary Leff): http://upgradetravel.blogspot.com/2006/03/black-art-of-repricing-tickets.html Apparently if you buy a ticket, and the price goes down, United and US Air will give you a voucher for the difference (only upon request, of...

The new QF Amex cards seem great if you spend a reasonable amount of money with Qantas on your card, because you get 1 additional bonus point for every dollar spent with Qantas. If you're like me and your Qantas spend is almost entirely on your corporate card, with relatively little on your...

30,000 points were deposited for into my Velocity account on 7 March. I had applied for the Visa under the 5k offer, then called up and asked to be switched to 15k. Then applied for the Amex with the 15k offer. So despite the problems some have had, it does look like some of the call reps did...