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    Discover Qatar Stopover offer

    That sounds like the STPC program, where there is not an immediate connection (within 8 hours) available. https://www.qatarairways.com/tradeportal/en-au/policies/STPC.html
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    Flybuys Targeted Bonus Promotions

    There should be a correction email coming to an inbox near you!
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    You're getting hung up on surcharges, and weekend surcharges are a separate matter, and they won't go away. The goal has been to reduce surcharges, It's interesting to compare the situation to the UK, where there has been a class action over consumers paying excess prices as the retailers...
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    Their ultimate goal was to push interchange rates down. Surcharging was viewed as a way of giving price signals to help push it down. That was years ago, now cards are almost the default payment mechanism. Even had they not gone down the surcharge path, they would have done something to reduce...
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    Choice Privileges hotels and Why you should look into this

    Australian page is here https://www.choicehotels.com/en-au/choice-privileges/benefits/status-match The email address is uses is [email protected] Subject is Choice Privileges Status Match
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    Citibank takes up to 45 to report card account closures to credit reporting bodies

    Citibank used to have this process (maybe still do), that a card would go into 'pending closure' until the next statement period, before it actually closed. It all takes time......
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    There is a legal exemption in the law for weekend and public holiday surcharges. It was considered wasteful to mandate they produce separate menus.
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    Qatar Airways Privilege Club Pro

    It seems to be an Avios thing BA do it, Iberia do it, Finnair do t.....
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    That's true, although when the made that move in 2003, cash was the main form of payment. That has change in the last 20 years, to the extent that many people don't even carry cash now (and thus can't avoid a surcharge). While I don't agree with what they did, it seems reasonable to reconsider...
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    Wordle!

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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    The second point will flow through as a reduction in reward points associated with cards, as interchange fees partly fund those points.
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    Air India B787 crash Ahmedabad

    On my reading of the preliminary report, they have just given one snippet of the conversation. It's someone short of a transcript to judge the above.
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    U Classic Reward - Downgraded with 24 hours notice

    Could have been worse. They could have gone the United Airlines David Dao method!
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    Air India B787 crash Ahmedabad

    It has been reported that he was retiring to look after his ill father.
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    Wordle!

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    QANTAS Cyber Incident

    The MO of Scattered Spiders (and people think they were behind it) is to impersonate a software provider of IT person. As per Crowdstrike (SCATTERED SPIDER Escalates Attacks Across Industries | CrowdStrike )
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    QANTAS Cyber Incident

    Been able to do it for some time.
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    QANTAS Cyber Incident

    Even if one were to get up, it would be years before there was a result.
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    QANTAS Cyber Incident

    The exec team should definitely get their bonus trimmed after this,
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    Air India B787 crash Ahmedabad

    It's a hypothetical scenario that seems to fit in with everything we know about the crash. I'm not sure in a dual failure you'd have many options, especially if there is no handy river nearby.
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