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One of the reasons I use the Ubigi eSIM is that it doesn't show as roaming, unlike some of the other cheaper eSIM options.

That's to put in an upgrade request, which doesn't necessarily require business reward space. Rebooking into a business reward seat is different. Yeah, generally you can do it online

Yes, this is correct. 5000 pts per passenger Nope, that's fine

Just like the no-show penalty, the fee only applies against the value of the ticket if you want to re-book or refund whatever remains of the ticket

That works for regular Qantas Club (it just counts as a renewal), so I assume it does for PC+ too

I assume you're not Platinum 1 anymore as noted in your profile then :P. Do you do enough domestic flying on one visit to make that worthwhile?

Even on most Android devices I understand that the VoWiFi bypasses any system VPN settings. Also I think some commercial VPN services won't tunnel the IPSec WiFi calling traffic correctly.

Just use Telstra WiFi calling? Also, the roaming plan is not required to receive SMS. As noted earlier, you should also be able to "WiFi" call through your other SIM's data connection, although this is annoying to setup on iOS.

I wonder if the QFF credit cards that currently give a discount and/or joining fee waiver (e.g. ANZ FF Black) will be updated to give discounts on the monthly scheme

I think I generally agree, and I personally have no trouble with such an approach on Asian carriers (since I love the vast majority of Asian food), however as we found out earlier in this thread sometimes people can be quite picky with what food they want, so having just one option does sorta...

I agree that Euro business usually has pretty good food quality, but in my experience on these <2h flights with BA, Finnair, and KLM they usually only have one food option, which I'm really not a fan of. At least Qantas will offer 2 or 3 options on these flights, with at least one hot.

I'm pretty sure Deloitte has used the same IT system for previous programs, so I'm surprised something as simple as attaching two case numbers to one account is unsupported. Anyway, it sounds like their call center staff has had about as much training as Qantas' outsourced call centers

Yeah, although technically discount Y SYD-MEL earns only 400, it's just the Minimum Points Guarantee applies and brings that up to 800

The source of truth is really the earning tables: https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/earn-points/airline-earning-tables/partner-airline-earning-tables.html. I reference these instead of using the calculator for everything but QF flights. GMP-HND will earn 10/20/40 status credits...

Yeah, I'm a good fan of CX PE pricing. I've paid about +$200 over economy (and ~= QF economy) for CX PE to Japan a few times. The other benefit of CX PE over Y is that they'll always earn at "Flexible Economy" or "Premium Economy" rates to QFF, as opposed to regular CX Econ which is a coughshoot.

In the past, my emails all say "Your tax invoice is attached to this email". Do yours (which are missing the tax invoice) still say this, or has that text been removed?

I wonder if this is an intentional change on their part, or whether it's just classic coughpy Qantas IT and customer service agents making up something even if they don't fully know the answer just to get you off the line. Probably the latter, and certainly not the first time we've had Qantas IT...

Unlikely to credit as 20 SCs unless the base fare you booked was near full fare economy. Most likely you got Discount Economy + Surcharge, which would give you 10 SCs

After another round of back and forth emails and quoting the FAQs on the DSC promo page explicitly, my DSCs have finally been credited.

The only thing is that per the table, note 2 only applies when the Platinum member is flying an Emirates flight number. In this instance, the Platinum member is flying the Qantas flight number. I assume this is an oversight on the website though.