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    Pick a destination: New Year 2016

    I will probably not leave Australia until either New Years Day or the 2nd (so as to avoid the whole NYE tariffs). So that might keep costs down. Hong Kong is a city I love and enjoy so it is looming large. How easy is it to go across into China these days?
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    Pick a destination: New Year 2016

    Good afternoon all. As always, I am keen to draw on the collective wisdom of our community. It seems that my workplace has decided to 'shut down' for the week of 4 January 2016 with the consequence I am being forced to take some annual leave. Not wanting to let the opportunity pass, I started...
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    Berlin to Canberra - the even longer return journey

    Really enjoying this report.
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    MEL-SIN-LHR very tight 22 Feb to early <arch

    Does it have to SQ or a Star airline? I was looking recently for almost those exact dates and found plenty of availability on BA. Getting back to SYd was a problem though. When I did look at SQ, I thought AMS had some availability if you could transit.
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    I have managed to find the following possible routing: SYD-SIN - BA J SIN-FRA- BA F (the Euro sector in J) FRA- HKG - CX J HKG-SYD QF Y As it is a mixed bag of travel classes I was wondering if I would be charged at the F or J rate? I was hoping the Y sector would cancel out the F...
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    Anat0l- thanks so much for pointing this out to me. Much appreciated. What seems to be coming up is Syd-sin-Frankfurt on BA. As it transited through the UK I thought I was going to be hit. But thanks for pointing it out. The BA fines are a bit of a concern. I had thought that HKG limited the...
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    I have had a bit of a rough run and began dreaming of a trip to Europe. I have some free time and started looking for flights with USDM with short notice. Aa.com is showing availability on BA. This means two things both fuel fines and the UK APD. Does anyone know what these are generally coming...
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    SQ taxes

    Class was j
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    SQ taxes

    Just did a dummy rewards booking on SQ. Looking to go from Syd into Europe so chose to fly into AMS. As I am looking to go soon I managed to find some flights (seems to be on the 777). But the surcharges came in at $1100. Is this about right? I have never redeemed with sq before.
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    Many thanks for the replies. Interesting about MXP. Is CX what people are using to get out of Syd? I am only looking for J if that helps. I tend to be a buy and book straight away kind of person. Will look at signing up to that service recommended to search for more availability.
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    Thanks Sergeyvzn. Does anyone know what the current fee for expedited booking is? Also early reports were the CX availability tended to be good if you were prepared to leave it late (-30 days). Does that still hold true? I am looking at late January. Happy to fly into anywhere in Europe...
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    Good morning fellow AFF community members. I am thinking about signing up to expert flyer. Does anyone have any experience using this tool to search for award bookings using US DM miles? Just wondering if it was a better method than combining JL, Qf and BA searches.
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    New Altitude Black has landed...

    Has anyone had any luck with getting the priority pass bonus offer? If so, how do you get them?
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    Sq v cx ff

    Hi there I am thinking about heading to hkg soon and I have a bundle of Amex points which I would like to put towards an upgrade. I can go to either sq or cx'. Do people have an opinion of the ease of redeemability in either program? Also in order to zero in on my flight I am thinking of...
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    No that's a fair call. I was just looking for people's experience. That's all.
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    7 months is fine for me. Thanks to all for the comments. What about HKG to FRA? Easy enough?
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    US Dividend Miles - Award Booking Questions and General Discussion

    Just out of curiosity how easy are people finding cx or qf availability in j out of syd up to hkg? And from hkg in j to Frankfurt or other euro hubs?
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    QF International sale to Asia

    It's a shame hkg is ruled out from .br. No real difference between qf and cx for the travel period on the aus site so cx is likely to get the fare given the schedule benefits. Shame for qf
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    Travel to Bangkok

    Hi AFF members, I was thinking about Bkk with the recent QF sale. However am aware of the massive political tensions. Has anyone been lately and can give me a run down as to whether it is worth the risk?
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