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Ive done a few "Y to MNL, J onward" trips on separate tickets, and have never needed a visa for the overnight in between. (AU Passport) Concur with the Belmont Hotel recommendation.

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And approval email received 10 minutes ago.

Already had a scan of the Passport page. The application took no longer than usual, but I don't recall previously having to have a "US Contact"?? Might be my coughty memory of course... 🤣 Lets see how long it takes this time, assuming approval!

Not exactly...but a similar situation. Did a quick SYD-AKL-SYD to lock in Gold on NZ for a series of upcoming long hauls... As we approached AKL one of the FA's started going through connections (we were running a bit late)..she looked at me and said... "Mr trooper... you are connecting to...

USD $66 sounds very much like a paid Lounge access charge????

Tallinn deserves more time.

That might help explain my experience on that flight... 🤣 FASTEST Taxi ive experienced...pilot seemed to be in a real hurry - at both ends! Must have been a light load, that ATR LEAPED into the air... Good fun.

The latest work by a dear friend... (watercolour/pastel pencils)

Aren't interline agreements mainly in place for single ticket bookings?

I have a great many pre admittance instructions to follow which are very similar to pre-colonoscopy prep as you say! ...Right down to the "lovely" preparations I have to drink...lol The surgeon involved has performed over 700 of these procedures... and when he sensed my interest he showed me a...

Well. All booked in for the Prostate surgery in July. Or to give it the full title (IIRC) A robotic laparoscopic radical prostatectomy :oops: A bit scary but what can you do....shrug! Not much of a 'trip", it's only the other side of town... but as costly as a nice longhaul return Biz...

Had this on an NZ flight AKL-LAX. Exit row aisle seat... and we both had the same seat number on BP's. FA scratched her head and said she'd talk to the senior FA. I quickly pointed out to her that I HAD submitted a points UG request for PE (Hey, nothing ventured, nothing gained 🤣 )and after...

More pitch is relatively easy... but more WIDTH means less seats per row.. and that IS PE territory... Splitting the Y cabin into sections sounds good... but they'd have to be very careful not to back themselves into a corner where many people bought the "cheap seats" with a reasonable...

Yes, that seems fairly light...but just how much weight would you expect crew members to literally "manhandle"? Baggage is limited to 32kg per piece for OH&S reasons....and most allowances are 23kg... Twice that IS 100 lb. How much weight would you expect those crew members to manage...

Bill Engvall did a little rant about this.. pointing out "They number them NUMERICALLY!"🤣

ONE trip in Economy.....even a multi continent one like that is not VERY likely to gain much in the way of *A Status. Silver maybe? Which unfortunately has few benefits...

What LCC's do that on a 3 hour flight like SYD-AKL? DY didn't ARN-LGW and U2 certainly didn't LGW-GIB....

Definitely look at Y to an Asian port then J to somewhere cheap in Europe...and a short Y flight from there. Just playing around you can get, for instance, MNL-IST in J return for AUD$2500. MH will get you to/from MNL in Y for around $600 (longest leg to KUL is under 6 hours) and IST-DBV is 2...

Got a speeding fine in Chateauroux (south of Paris) Nothing charged by the car rental company, but received the French infringement notice in the mail well after arriving home. (So clearly the rental company had passed on my address) Even though that must have taken a while I was still able to...