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I lived and worked in Dubai for several years and go along with most of the above. One thing I do take issue with is the photos. I am surprised to see a photo of local ladies posted and would recommend that you do not take any such photos under any circumstances. I have seen others do it and...

Without having to read the previous 8 pages, where the issue may have already been covered, it is incredible to think that at the State and Federal government's zoom meetings that they could not come up with a national form for interstate travel.....Traffic Lights (really.....!!!!), G2G PASS...

Being chronically late all the time....would getting up a little earlier be out of the question. just saying!

Oh, BTW, I have one 😁.

You need to find a friend who has the card already so that both you and he can benefit from a wadge of bonus FF Points.

My trip was with points to an international destination in June to connect with another flight. The flight was changed by them early on which then did not tie up with the connecting flight. They stated it would be 3 weeks for return of points and funds. It took 4 weeks to receive points and...

My comment is not entirely in line with the thinking above and I have not seen reference to this elsewhere, but late last year I was returning from Europe and a couple of weeks before I needed the hotel, I started checking prices in Dubai. The first rate was around $250 per night and I...

Thank you La Mouette, a very well written and interesting presentation. I have read several threads on the AFF recently about lounges, upset WPs and the like and it appears to me that there are a number of ungrateful individuals out there. So many among us travel for work and enjoy extensive...

I am travelling around Scotland at the moment and was looking at this with a friend who was interested....I didn't have the time to read the thread so thanks for the confirmation....appreciated.

Just looked at the offer and on the Irish newspaper site it shows only 9000 Avios points on offer.

Helsinki...............you gotta be kidding. Have you been there in January? I spent a week there one day (1980) en-route to Moscow.....-25 degrees.

Definitely a no. I am PER based but cannot think of anything worse that being captive for that period of time, even in J. Now that I am a retiree, there is no real reason to have to do the trip in one jump and besides, I like stopovers en-route, particularly DXB and find that a stopover...

I booked a trip from PER to BKK via HK return and it was 80000 points in J. Great value all the way with CX. I checked with QF at the time and they wanted twice as many points for me to fly in CX metal......! Now that is OW working together. Of course QF no longer fly from Perth to HK and...

I too agree with the above. Something comfortable, clean and tidy with shoes will suffice no matter which lounge you have access to; lets face it, if you have paid for first class then there shouldn't be too much fuss. HOWEVER.....if you are travelling behind the curtain and only getting into...

It might be a bit late; you may have already departed. As a former resident in Dubai I would advise you to avoid airport and old Dubai hotels. Old Dubai is clogged up with traffic and one way systems. It is further to the Dubai Marina, but a long straight 7 lane highway taking no longer to...

A bit late in responding to the article because I was flying, with Qantas. I had not been a fan of QF for some time for a variety of reasons but this last flight, which I managed to utilise points for an upgrade, was good. The crew were clearly making an effort and very friendly although the...

This is unlikely to help you other than confirm the difficulty in trying to obtain seats at the pointy end with QF. I too have had the same problem for years. I started flying with EK in 2008 and have been successful when booking a redemption ticket on every occasion in the past 5 years. I...

Having lived in DXB (until recently) and travelled with EK for many years, all you say is on the button. It is always nice to receive an upgrade to F from J out of DXB, but they won't let you in the F lounge in DXB. A bit of dangling carrot thing I suppose. Only ever had one problem with an...

I have picked up a couple of dozen of these in the past few years and handed them out to all the Rellies and friends. The First class one is better still and an all leather bag.

Maybe Qantas should consider offering entry to the Chairman's Lounge and limit all those freeloaders in the government.