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The certs were garbage. The technical reason they were garbage is not really important. The important thing is that QF are cheap mongrels who minimised value to members while other airlines maximised value. Also, I'm pretty sure the one with the empty business cabin had availability and they...

What I mean is that when a bank makes a major change to an account's conditions, the obvious thing to do is change the account to a product that is more useful to you. If you use a sensible bank, you can do this. e.g. If you want to change the type of savings account you have with Bendigo Bank...

My membership number is in the mid 6 digits. With the Qantas Telstra Visa earning double points overseas, earning tons of points in the late 90s was easy. I did a business class multi-city trip each year, such as MEL-ADL // ADL-DRW // DRW-ADL-PER // PER-MEL or MEL-HBA // HBA-SYD // SYD-PER //...

Savings Maximiser used to be much better. The good bonus interest originally had no requirement to make >=5 card purchases per month, nor to have another account with them. Seems like the stardard MO for ING is to create a product with a good feature and then pull the rug out from under those...

I last flew NZ in 2000. I'll consider NZ only if they compensate me for the AN points I lost due to their mismanagement. I do wonder how much revenue they've lost over the years due to those passengers who avoid them at all costs. The revenue from the dozens of flights I took with QF and UA is...

It is possible. Last time I found one was about 5 years ago. It's not worth the hours of searching. Even if the hotel rate is the same on all channels, the chain itself gives points, other sites (hotels.com, etc) give some rebate (1 free night per 10, etc), Agoda will give at least 7% off ...

Yes. I just received the email. Amex Travel is over-priced for hotels. For airlines, it matches usual fares, but many airlines are missing so, again, that makes it way more expensive. I've used my $200 for a $199 air fare. Way better to get $199 credit than to have to buy something over-priced...

My last AS award was ORD-SEA-LAX-NAN-MEL in business class for 55k miles with a stopover in SEA and I indeed missed out on lounge access in ORD. (but not SEA, of course) You can spend 182.2k QF pts (43.8k+138.4k) for the same route, but 127k pts for access to a domestic US lounge is a bit steep.

The easy way to rack up AS points is to credit QF flights to AS. (I don't remember which decade I last credited a QF flight to QFF. Might have been this century, might not.) Yes, if you are buying points, AC is cheaper than AS.

Would you expect this situation to change at T-80 for a flight for which EF shows seats available?

Getting what you paid for is not a perk. It's what's to be expected of any service provider. Even when flying much-maligned US carriers, every time one of them (or their partners) have had a cancellation, I've been offered a same-day alternative, even if they had to put me on another airline.

I made transfers to AA back in the SPG days (during bonus offers), but that is apparently insufficient for them to send me this notification email.

That's the only one I'd have any hope of staying as it is. AA charges 20k and BA charges 22k, so a rise isn't justified there.

There is really nothing good about this. Look at the award prices for newly added carriers, such as SQ and MH, vs the older ones, such as CX and QF. A region-based table is unlikely to make any prices come down, which means we're likely to see an astronomical increase in the ones that matter...

I clicked on one link from the latest AFF email. No problem. Clicked on a second link and got this. It sat there for several minutes, before demanding that I do multiple captchas. This is the kind of inane coding that makes me stop using a site altogether.

I received a survey about transferring Flybuys points to Velocity Points and earning Velocity Status Credits. Offering 500 points for completion. Hosted by paralleldata.decipherinc.com. It dumped out to the Flybuys home page without warning or any kind of message after I'd answered questions on...

If you really have a stack of FlyBuys points, you can use them to book SQ business class. I can't imagine there are many people who think that is useless. I wish I had more ways to earn VA pts instead of QF.

I wouldn't call it good, just less awful. If you transfer directly to an airline, Amex is 2:1. e.g. 60k MR -> 30k SQ With this offer, 60k MR -> 60k Marriott -> 25k SQ You're losing out unless your alternative airline beats SQ by at least 20% (10% in the case of UA which gets a 10% bonus on...

I expected that VA wouldn't have a toll-free US number as the new incarnation doesn't fly there. Used Google Voice for a free call and was answered immediately by a Filipina who sorted it out. Definitely the way to go if you are outside Australia.

This is all irrelevant. Someone didn't read the second sentence of my post. Obviously I have the PNR or I wouldn't be able to get to the point of VA's web site giving me the error message when trying to do seat allocation. They said it couldn't be done. At all. Not just that they couldn't do...