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Cusco is 3,399 m above sea level. Wikipedia says that altitude sickness "occurs in about 20% of people after rapidly going to 2,500 metres (8,000 ft) and in 40% of people after going to 3,000 metres." I have big lungs and a high VO2max for my age, so I expect to be fine, but my husband is not...

He also didn't mention altitude sickness, which I have since realised might be an issue for Quito and also for Cusco (we are also travelling to Peru). I've made another appointment to follow up on Yellow Fever and to ask about altitude sickness.

No, this is the first time I have been to an affected country.

Oops! Thanks for mentioning yellow fever vaccination! We are visiting the Amazon in Ecuador very soon and had already seen our GP and got a raft of vaccinations, but for some reason, he missed mentioning yellow fever! Our flight into Ecuador is into Quito, which is in the safer part of the...

Trying again: U63SQ

I got the two month extension. I also got a half-price renewal without having to cancel and rejoin. Perhaps they keep an eye on how much value you get out of it and offer this when the value prospect is otherwise weak (i.e., you aren’t getting so much out of your discounts).

For hotels: * Adequate, easily accessible power points beside the bed. * Good overhead lighting in he room. * No blinking or excessively bright lights on smoke alarms, air conditioners or TVs. * Ability to control the air conditioner temperature. Airlines: * Using titles and last names instead...

When you get cataracts fixed, your lenses are replaced so they eliminate vision problems that are due to lens shape, no matter how long you have had them. My father recently had cataract surgery and no longer needs glasses for the first time in 60 years. Admittedly, he didn't have glasses as an...

They had a little niche suitable for glasses and phone in the back of the seat in front in economy on the QF 7 flight I took a couple of weeks ago. Very convenient!

Nice of you to say, but I think almost everyone would have done the same in the circumstances.

Thanks for the update. I haven't heard anything, so I guess I wasn't on any of the affected flights. I'm very surprised, as every booking I made during that period was changed at least once by Qantas. Maybe I booked early enough that they hadn't yet decided for sure that they wouldn't be running...

Just wanted to share a positive experience yesterday. I was sitting on a SYD-BNE Qantas flight yesterday morning. It had been a long haul: 3 hours DTW-DFW, nearly 6 hours in the airport at Dallas, 17 hours DFW-SYD, 2 hours in Sydney airport, and another connecting flight still to come after...

Happy to report that I was mistaken: my seat was bulkhead aisle premium economy, not middle seat. And yes, the upgrade was very worthwhile: closer to business than economy. Thanks to those who advised me to try it!

SG QF7 (SYD-DFW) 21 June. Flexible Y fare. Requested upgrade to J when I booked on 3 March, with fallback to PE. No luck on either, but I did get an empty seat next to me in Y, and a personal greeting. SG (now LTG) QF8 (DFW-SYD) 1 July. Flexible fare. Requested upgrade on 3 March. Unsuccessful...

No, Virgin Silver because my work requires me to take the best practicable fare, and that’s often Virgin.

Many of the hotel booking sites are doing this now, so my workplace has changed its policy: we are now required to book directly with hotels to make sure we can get an invoice every time. If enough employers of business travellers start doing this, maybe they will get the message.

Just reached Qantas Lifetime Gold myself; almost entirely on domestic economy flights over the last 30 years. It’s been slow and steady — I’ve never once hit Platinum and have dropped into and out of SG over the years, though have maintained it for probably the last decade, along with Virgin Silver.

I hit 160,600 points credited towards Points Club around the 27th of May and the app says the threshold for membership is 150,000 points, but it has not yet awarded me points club membership or the associated benefits. I took a screenshot on 29 May to show that I had hit the required number of...

TSV-BNE this morning: much improved over a the offering a few months ago. Vegetable frittata with a small pork sausage and what appeared to be boiled silverbeet. BNE-PER: Choice of the reliable chicken quinoa salad or a beef noodle stir fry that tasted more or less like a fried spag bol, but...

But speaking as a former Westpac shareholder... sometimes when businesses are caught out and pay penalties, they and their shareholders do eat the costs.