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Last time I looked at to get me back home to SIN ( have family in Bendigo), the routing was BXG-SYD-MEL-SIN 🤣 With the new schedule, there won't be too many international connections outbound now either, HND & SFO only perhaps.

As we move into the summer timetable at end of October, QF are changing the Bendigo timetable from overnighting a plane in Bendigo to an afternoon return. So moving from evening SYD-BXG, early morning BXG-SYD to an early afternoon SYD-BXG and late afternoon BXG-SYD. Has caused some disquiet...

I guess the closest you get to this is OOL, where you go through to the domestic departure lounge, before proceeding through additional security and immigration to the international gates which is a much smaller space.

My favourite was a place that offered a 5pc discount for cash payments, yet still applied a 1.5pc surcharge for card payments. I’m OK with the former if that’s what they want to do, but still adding a surcharge for cards seems wrong.

Don’t forget that bad debts are funded out of interest rate margins as well. When charging 20% interest and offering at most 4.5% for deposits (or charging 6% for mortgages), there’s a bit of wiggle room there.

Yes correct. SQ still have arrangements in place with SK (benefits still provided for KF Golds travelling with SK and vice versa). You’re correct for all lounges.

If you are using iOS and don't have a physical Myki AND will be using it transport for more than just 2 hrs (i.e. on a $11 daily fare), you can always book a ticket from a Vline coach or train service from outside the Myki zone to Melbourne (e.g. Winchelsea), then you get a ticket (which you can...

It depends on whether the objective is to provide more airlines for customers, or more customers for member airlines? Regardless of onboard product (or the absence of lounges on the ground) or benefits for travellers, Indigo offers one world member airlines potentially improved access to Indian...

We've done it on many occasions. In fact a couple of times, we've flown into LHR (from SIN) separately on TG and SQ, arriving at 7pm, basically within minutes of each other. In fact last time we did it, I flew in on TG and as we moved off the runway after landing, I looked out the window to...

When I hear or read anything airline booking related that mentions late March it seems to be something to do with change from Northern Winter to Northern Summer timetable which happens then. Or could be a coincidence.

There is a third way. To suck it up for the 5-9 hour sectors between Australia and Asia and look for business class award from there (or alternatively just pay for a cheap cash fare from there).. Often easier than finding one all the way.

On MH perhaps? 🤣:p

If you look at Marriott’s own brand classifications, of the luxury/premium brands the Le Meridien seems most conspicuous of those that are absent from Singapore, then Delta and Renaissance and some more niche brands

For those that have been around for a while, am I remembering correctly that the points loyalty bonus option originally came into being as a replacement for Upgrade Credits which you received upon reaching certain thresholds? (I’m talking 20 years ago or thereabouts).

Does it make a material difference? Rex as it was doesn’t exist any more. It is Rex under administration by EY. i am guessing delisting saves the administrators one step and previous shareholders were not going to see any $$$ anyway.

Now we had some cold weather in early September, and there was plenty of snow in the Alps. Next, I went to the car free town of Mürren, and you can see plenty of snow there. You reach Mürren by travelling to Interlaken (on one or two trains), changing to a train to Lauterbrunnen, catching...

Before returning to the north, stopped off in Lugano. Ended up visiting there several times, including a couple of weeks later when we walked up the adjacent San Salvatore and then later in Autumn (as per second picture) when I caught up with a ex-colleague from Milan for lunch. The...

Now a trip south, to Locarno and Ascona on the shores of Lake Maggiore. It was cool, wet and cloudy late August day in Zurich (about 18/19 degrees, but after emerging from the Gotthard tunnel through the Alps it was warm, mainly sunny day of about 26-27 in the southern part of the country...

Now an "international" excursion to Liechtenstein. Starting of with a hike on the "Princess Gina way" a loop from the ski-resort town of Malbun, before returning via bus to the capital Vaduz. The journey back to Zurich included 2 buses and 2 trains with the connections of 2-5 mins between...

Picking this up again, as it's raining outside and have some spare time! A day trip to Lausanne, and an extended walk along the shores of Lake Geneva, with a few pleasant dips in the water along the way, before walking up through the Lavaux Vineyards, and to the town of Cully to catch the...