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I've seen many ambiguous errors in this process, but not "deserialising"!

See my post paragraph above regarding seat reservation. It's usually not hard to *do*, just hard to log in! 😋. Other AFF members can hopefully advise re your luggage.

Ah, I'd overlooked that little fact. How strange.

Interestingly, MH has added more text to their main page about dining, listing routes affected by the cancellation of Chef-on-Call and Special Meals. It's notable that SPML problems are supposedly only going to affect shortish haul flights (not Japan/Aus/Europe). You have to wonder what's going...

Just saw this on the MH website: https://www.malaysiaairlines.com/content/mh/au/en/mh-media-centre/important-for-you/inflight-food-beverage-services.html Amongst other things: Seems that they ended a catering contract in KL and didn't manage to get a new catering contract in place in time.

November this year? That's way too short a timeframe for an award seat on SQ via Velocity unless there's a lucky release of some extra seats. Earlier posts in this thread show how hard it can be.

Does Aeroplan have greater access? Just curious, because some award-seat-search platforms return a fair bit of Aeroplan SQ availability where there's nothing via VA, but I haven't paid attention to the points (knowing that Aeroplan has horrible variable pricing), as I don't have Aeroplan points.

I'm going to add a few bits which mostly repeat/confirm what others have said in various posts/threads, but hey, all in one place :cool: I made two J redemptions a few days ago, reasonable value TPE-YVR and then YVR-TPE-MEL. It's really hard to avoid the extremely long daytime layover in TPE...

And imagine if there were some modifications of tram priority along the way!!

Once you take into account the cost of each kilometre of tunnel (ballpark $100m/km), completely new infrastructure for its entirety, the immense delays associated with planning, geological testing, site acquisition, community objection, etc, it is immediately clear why a tunnel is pie-in-the-sky...

Oh my search didn't yield results that seemed to be the same scenario, sorry!👍

My Explorer anniversary date is next week and I'm planning to cancel (my last attempt to cancel, a few months ago, resulted in an acceptable retention offer, so I doubt I'll get another now). However, i just noticed that I received the $400 annual travel credit about 15 days ago! This seems very...

Weird stuff, eh. Maybe all that revenue-up is in the "resort/destination fee" gouging :rolleyes: (which might end up being outlawed sometime soon if Joe Biden gets his way).

AND I've now discovered another reason to hate QF... I checked this availability and it sure is there from SYD, but even though there's award availability on the first flight MEL-SYD of the day, giving a legal 3hr transfer, Qantas isn't offering this routing if you search MEL-LAX. FFS.

That's great feedback thank you. :) If only I could jump on it! August is just a tad too early (self-employed and have to plan absences way in advance).

Seven days is not a lot, realistically. Given the question, I would assume you've not spent much/any time in that part of Europe. Keep It Simple. Paris is fantastic on so many levels (and you can see suggestions and enthusiasm above), but I meet lots of people who somehow aren't prepared for the...

I'm on a foolhardy quest to create a comfortable trip to/from North America ex Melbourne, using my relative paucity of hard-scrounged SQKF miles and/or my Covid-induced slightly better stashes or QFF and VA points... (I also have 65K Amex... but I don't think that'll solve these problems). I'm...

I've also found some surprising domestic bargains on American Express Travel in the last year, but not sure if this happens for North America.

Ok, so I'm not going nuts - that's the first benefit of all your comments, thank you! I appreciated the AAA tip. Still seems like the baseline is outrageous... I saw a dorm-bed for US$150 and thought I was misreading the currency! (And I don't do dorms!)

I've been a very infrequent traveller to North America in the last twenty years, but each time have been aware that hotel prices tend to be much higher than in Australia for my category of accommodation. Looking at prices now for a number of cities, it seems like the difference is even greater...