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I've got to admit, up until today I had no idea the "two small pieces plus personal item" option even existed! I don't know how much difference it's going to make as I can't really think of a situation where I've seen people trying to get two rollaboards plus a personal item onboard, so this...

Im giving Roamless a try in Singapore today. I've had some discount codes for it sitting around for a while. I'm using the Flex option where there's a rate for each country and it just gradually uses up your dollar credits. All seems to be working really well, the internet breakout is in...

So are a lot of unpleasant things like overflowing garbage bins, rats on the streets and pretty crime, but we take measures to reduce and eliminate those. This is no different.

Hmm, another quirk I've just noticed, my ALL Signature used to appear in the app as well under Paid Cards, but now doesn't seem to. Anyone else with both Plus and Signature noticed this?

Yep, I'm finding this a bit frustrating. Previously you just opened up the app and there was your card to show. Now there's two cards in the app (one right at the front and one buried further within) with different numbers and you show different cards depending on the circumstance. I suspect...

Oh yes, good point. I'd forgotten about the US system of doing it. I think they're the only country (that I know of) that doesn't do outbound immigration checks.

ADL and CBR have that as well. I'd be curious to know what airports overseas are doing the co-mingling of domestic and international passengers. I don't think I've ever seen it.

So everything seems to have updated and applied to my account correctly, but I have noticed a quirk. My membership number seems to have changed. I've noticed this happen with going up and down status levels in the past as well and it's a bit confusing. Hasn't caused me any issues just yet but it...

One of the problems the RBA pointed to in the initial consultation paper was the Payment Service Providers were bundling in other services (supposedly for free) into the cost of their services, things like inventory management software etc. Effectively masking the cost of these services into the...

I think this is partly also because the surcharges are the bit the consumer sees and the bit that will impact them. Most consumers wouldn't even know what an interchange fee is.

Just got a reminder email from Cashrewards to go in and withdraw any money I've got waiting in there. I'm sad to see them go and I think they're handling this shutdown a hell of a lot better than most businesses that have to abruptly close down. I guess that's the benefit of deciding to...

Just got a success email for VA569 SYD-PER tonight. Bid was just $140 (this flight is usually fairly lightly loaded), so for a five hour flight I'm pretty happy with that.

For the curious, the responses to the latest round of consultation on the proposed reforms have now been published on the RBA's website. There's obviously quite a few that are just restating their position from previous consultations, but also quite a few submissions from interested individuals...

From my read of it, you'd need to make it a 51¢ transaction so that it gets rounded up. A 1¢ would get rounded down to zero, and a $4.25 transaction would be rounded down to $4.

I've still got a few to be approved, but I'm guessing their database servers are going to be spending the whole day (and probably some of the night) churning through these transactions moving them into Approved, so I'm not worried, still plenty of time, I'll check back in on it tomorrow afternoon.

I've noticed one other small, but positive change. A few years ago AmEx changed how the points were calculated, They use to round the cents of a transaction the nearest dollar, then calculated the points. They switched to removing the cents, then calculating the points. So $4.75 would be...

Just got the email now. It also notes that the Amazon Prime rebate is ending this year. That's a bit disappointing, I found that quite useful as it had been something I was paying for already and now I was getting it rebated. I hope they replace it with something else, but who knows.

Would also eliminate the need to ask the hotel to spread the payment over two or three cards, to get the offer on each.

Having done a bit of searching on them I think they're pretty new (like only three months or so) and perhaps I'm being a little harsh pointing out everything that's missing when they're just getting up and running. I wish them well, more competition is always great and drives others to do better...

That one is missing a whole raft of travel providers that are on the other platforms, like Accor, Virgin, Singapore Airlines, Expedia, Air New Zealand, Agoda, Booking.com. Hell, even large department store providers like Myer and Amazon are missing.