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Yes, 100%! The primary driver to make QFF gold for us many years ago was because it was common to see classic award availability release at 353 days. We're now platinum and that feels as useful as silver was back then. Classic award plus is such deplorable value for our main destinations - so...

I'll bite...I'd be thinking maximizing their use by using them on seasonal routes, starting with MEL-CTS for December to April

Quick Q - does a QF domestic segment count for the rule of Qantas plus at least 2 oneworld carriers, or does the QF segment have to be international? Or am I reading "other than Qantas" wrong, and you don't have to include QF?

How about SYD-YVR on QF, then YVR-CDG on AF, then the Chunnel to London? Avoids transiting LHR. The AF flight can be had using QFF points - we did this in January when we went skiing in Italy - MEL-SYD-YVR-CDG (all in J award) then fast train to Geneva. Do an overnighter in Vancouver. The...

I put my Bose NC headphones on the second I sit down, so was blissfully unaware of that noise! Forgot to add it was nice to see wine served in Y on an early afternoon flight, wasn’t expecting that so we’d fully taken advantage of the J lounge bar though 😎

Soz, meant seat back IFE, wifey is not a fan of using her own device 😊

We just took our first A220 flight this arvo - QF1257 BNE-MEL. Ms Basalt was very underwhelmed by the no-recline seat! I like the handy smartphone shelf and the USB-C port is nice to see, though at 60w, it's short of the business standard of 65w (e.g. Surface Pro and a whole bunch of Dell and HP...

We encountered this on our BNE-MEL flight last week (737 of course). Very annoying, as johndoe noted the bulk of the material was only available via BYOD with the exception of premiere. The A321XLR replacements can't come soon enough!

Sydney-Sapporo was the 'Niseko Express', maybe it's a typo and should say *Subject to (snow)boarders...

Yeh, nah....a larger share of nothing is still nothing!

100% agree. We're getting more and more p*#@ed off with Q. We're both WP, currently in the LTS twilight zone, and have heavily leaned on T-80 row 4 access a lot. Just another incentive to jump ship once we're LTG. WP/SG is now pretty much useless except for lounge access. The complete lack of...

Wasn't shirking in either of my call ups, no prosecutor wants a firefighter on an arson panel, and offered to postpone second time, but was effectively told no. I suspect I may have actually sounded keen to do it and that dissuaded the JD coordinator from giving me another bash.

You need to match your bias to the case during the preselection. I got called up, went to preselection and it was an arson case. Said I was a volunteer fire-fighter and might be prejudiced, received an instant see ya. Second time I got called up, phoned in before hand and said happy to do duty...

AFF threads are so predictable - does this mean the forum has evolved into a large language model AI? :-D

Yep, fair cop with the occy strap, if I worked in security I wouldn't let that through either! My wife forgot to take a Swiss army knife out of her handbag once, so when that was found, rather than throw it out, she popped outside and buried it under a rock in the airport grounds. On her return...

It does say 'within 8 weeks' though they usually arrive soon after the flight. Last two DSC promos I received every DSC the day after the flight. Several of the promos before covid the DSC dropped randomly between 1 and 3 days after the flight for me.

My wife had an occy strap in her hand luggage that was refused at security (in Melbourne). I once took a MTB hydraulic disc break through security - it was questioned but allowed, but that was 1999, seriously doubt it would be let through these days.

Flew MEL-SYD on March 4, still no DSC, flying return leg tonight, will report back when they do drop...

Or if you're carrying dangerous items.

I've tried to use the 737 J USB socket several times to charge my iPhone with zero success. I suspect they're rated to 5W but delivering a little less, and iPhones later than, realistically, the 3S are rather pernicketty about their supply current.