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  1. Supersonic Swinger

    HSBC Premier credit card - too good to be true?

    It looks like these are the same travel insurance policy terms which apply to the other HSBC cards with travel insurance (Premier, Platinum and Platinum Qantas) which have lower or no annual fee?
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    Who else still holds the Citibank Free For Life Premier Card?

    Perhaps ironic that one of the definitions of "nab" is "to take something suddenly"...
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    Article: The 8 Former Oneworld Members that Left the Alliance

    A big missing mention is the 2003 announcement that Swiss was joining oneworld. https://archive.md/20120908074428/http://www.oneworld.com/ow/news/details?objectID=1282 According to Wikipedia, that did not occur because: "After almost a year of disputes, Swiss was finally accepted into the...
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    2024 Qantas Inflight safety video

    Personally, I struggle with safety videos padded out by destination marketing / employee vanity shots / 'celebrity' placements / marketing gimmicks. My eyes roll on the first viewing and by the 20th time I'm actively trying to focus my attention on a book / podcast / show. The JAL A350 video...
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    ALL link with which partner airline

    Is it not possible to switch once you have made a selection?
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    Qantas Lounge Pet Peeves

    Related to this, my pet peeve particularly from the Brisbane lounge - the music constantly played through the speakers in every part of the lounge, so loudly that you can still hear it through earphones when you are on a call or playing something else. Nowhere is the entire Qantas Club or...
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    Status Update

    Something is definitely screwy within the QFF systems. As well as deleting my Platinum and Points Club status three days into my new membership year (which I've raised in a separate thread), I logged into the app yesterday (8 January) and it was telling me that I still had my 2023 balance of...
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    Status disappeared?

    Update on this - after emailing QFF, I got a reply from them that "After thoroughly reviewing your query, we are delighted to inform you that your status has been upgraded to Platinum". No explanation of why I had already been upgraded to Platinum back in November and why a few days into...
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    Status disappeared?

    Has this happened to anyone recently? My QFF membership year ends in December, and in 2023 I qualified as Platinum as well as Points Club, both through to 31 December 2024. This morning I have logged in and on both the website and app, I am just showing as Lifetime Gold, with 1,400 SC to...
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    Life Time Gold - The [Realistic] Holy Grail

    I crossed over LTG as well as annual Platinum recently while having a shower on board the Emirates A380 in F on a QF codeshare somewhere over Germany. At the rate it took me to get to LTG, I'll be LTP in my mid-100's...
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    Bangkok Airways Flights on QF booking

    I flew them on a QF codeshare (QF3xx_) 3 days ago and the points and status credits posted today (vs the BKK-SYD flight which posted on landing in SYD).
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    Who else has to regularly chase up Qantas for points & status credits owed....

    Does anyone find they are often sending emails like this to the Frequent Flyer Centre regarding BA flights? 'I submitted a claim for this flight (BAxx_ from YYY to ZZZ on 15 Dec), but it was denied due to "Unsuccessful - no match on booking name or flight". I am a little confused as to why...
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    What scares you about travel?

    To quote the late, great George Carlin, 'It’s those sudden unscheduled corn field and housing development stops that seem to interrupt the flow of my day'
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    All AU Diners Club personal cards will be cancelled in January 2024

    Ominously, the "Business" and "Corporate" pages of the website no longer give you a way of applying for them or even calling to apply. It looks like DC is going the way of the dodo.
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    Crediting to two different FFPs

    Thank you - I don't think the agent who booked the ticket would know that but there is one more experienced agent at the branch whom I have used before who may know how to "segment relate my FFN to the applicable flight", otherwise I will try your second approach.
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    Crediting to two different FFPs

    Thank you, I gave the Flight Centre TA both my QF and DL numbers, but all the flights are showing on my booking on the QF app. Should that happen if they allocated the LA flights to the DL FF number? The flights are straight return flights to Brazil. I only check in when I leave Australia and...
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    Crediting to two different FFPs

    If this is answered somewhere else, please direct me there: I have return flights to South America at the end of the year, flights between Australia and Auckland are on QF operated / coded flights, and from AKL onwards and back are LA operated / coded How do I have the QF trans-Tasman flights...
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    Qantas lounge music

    I think this might be at the manager's discretion. Sometimes in the Brisbane lounge, it is so loud you can hear it through headphones. Personally I don't think lounges shouldn't pipe any music in, everyone has devices they can use to listen to music on through earphones. It's a lounge, not a...
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    Is NAB going to "keep" Diners?

    I think the problem with that is: - US Diners Club cards are actually Mastercards issued by BMO Montreal. Discover owns the master global Diners Club franchise, but this has excluded Diners Club US and Canada since the 2000's. - For a while now they have not been taking applications for...
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    Does anyone else find the Qantas app slow?

    If I have no upcoming bookings, my app works fine. But if there are any upcoming bookings, the app seems to frequently need to 'sync' with something at Qantas which freezes what you can do on the screen until it's 'synced'. Can happen several times during a few minutes of having the app on. Am...
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