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So my cruise company booked two of us home to Adelaide from Dingapore via Sarwin. So I suggest this underlies why flights are well booked QF to Adelaide is listed at $501 one way ! JQ STARTS at $301 one way (highway robbery) There’s now a 6 hour layover on 3 December so this will now see...

Has the free travel spawned an exodus into Sydney for the British Lions game on 2 August I’m in Sydney for the week and hotels seemed extortionate Also Darwin continues to have FREE public transport https://nt.gov.au/driving/public-transport-cycling/public-buses/fares

At 1 point to save 1 cent, rounding up to the nearest cent proved to be better value…. I’m yet to recover from the generosity of “twice the value” 😜 And that you can actually just use 1 point. (Perhaps they could get around to enhancing a few other things that require a minimum points spend)...

Well I wasn’t thrilled with the current QF pricing to Sydney tomorrow afternoon ($377) 30 July so booked a cheap JQ Flight ADL to Sydney at 1715 Usually when you book direct with JQ YOU get zero QF privileges Aside lounge access as LTG plus a friend Travelling tomorrow so I can guest him In...

The Americans hold a lot of convictions data on their Immigration system. Again from 2008, I know this as I declared a banana skin so got led over to the side area where the real old computer terminal was open… there was info about offenders Id also expect in the modern times the Americans...

Yes they do Back in 2008 My kids and ex and I did a Disney trip She got the dreaded Centrelink letter (she showed me) which said your kids didn’t come back so we cut off your Family Tax Benefit She had to go to the C office with the kids to say “I’m pretty sure Immigration got that wrong!”...

Look Christchurchca Sin-O So a side trip to Wellington. Might Hold me for Gold

Today the oldest car was on the tramlines Front Rear

And that’s why I’m gonna use it as guidance So if QF/VA is 4 cents And the highest V Atlantic 7+ points And I extract a QF Rewards flight that’s around 7-8 cents then I’m happy Imagine finding a QF flight at 10 cents plus per $. That would be the golden goose !

Depends on what they’re trying to achieve At my age with what’s necessary to get to LTP (from LTG) it’s beyond what I see as value. Or I better get elected to PM pronto so I can get there ! If you want to keep people on the challenge then you need make it realistically possible to make it

Great job ! Gotta start somewhere so this is brilliant Snapshot vs progress over time is a bit like balance sheet to profit & loss statement Similarly earn maybe fast churn or slow and steady over many years and that with ever increasing member numbers has really crunched availability seeing...

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Christchurch

Mt Cook Heading into Christchurch. This am

Melb J International this am

Talking of bonuses Perth after hours I’m here til the late flight to Melbourne at 2355

Prob something like this in the recent past. I got two “random” 3,000 bonuses. Not sure why but did go look see and really not sure

The friendly Adelaide attitude I bet the guy at the front desk is the one I’ve spoken to a number of TIMes now - very affable