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Just a note for those of us who have used the Ambassador Transit Hotels in the past: prices are much much higher than I remember from pre-Covid (but my mind might be playing tricks). Six hours is now about A$250, and 12 hours A$375. And that's single occupancy!

Sure do. At least in my cases.

I can confirm that they added a 3% commission for the two June transactions mentioned earlier up-thread and have misrepresented this in correspondence with me. I am threatening them with AFCA action if they remain in breach of the terms.

UPDATE: Coles Mastercard online support claim that the observed "international transaction fee" in my statement transactions is in fact not an actual international transaction fee that has been charged:rolleyes:. I'm going to have to go back and compare prevailing forex rates on all dates to see...

Is that on a statement or just in your online transaction list? As far as I can tell, the online entries do not disclose an included fee, but it is disclosed on the monthly statement.

And now my statement today shows two transactions in late June to which an international fee was already applied. I'm guessing they didn't get their cough together and process those two until 1 July, despite the transaction date. Grumpy message sent. Check your statements!

Part of that is that they are profit-driven entities "cooperating" for commercial reasons. A visit to an SQ lounge as a UA or VA or... ticket holder presumably triggers inter-airline fee transfers. No idea about baggage calculations on award tickets. But yeah, so the various entitlements are...

Totally agree with the comments above. I feel Matt's article is too generous. Airlines and their loyalty programs have been swathed in rules for decades. They know the game they're playing, even if aspects of it are made worse by indifference and neglect when it comes to public-facing...

End of uni holidays for some unis, peak European outbound travel period, only 5 weeks away... . It's a while since I've followed TG availability, but in my experience it needed to be searched many months in advance.

Oh that's a pity:( If the application form asked you for after-tax income as well as gross, maybe there was some sort of discrepancy there? I'm still in the processing stage myself, and have had to upload my bank statements three times so far because they clearly aren't checking the previously...

"Conditionally approved" is simply standard bank terminology. It means that the basic criteria were fulfilled (i.e. your claimed income is ok, your claimed debts align with your credit record, your credit record contains no dealbreakers). It does not mean you've been approved. Whatever actual...

As the terms definitely say "approved", I would get the skates on! The application process is fraught... For me, the website threw errors on every page of the application (thankfully recoverable) and then timed out at the final step. The review team don't reliably look at the documentation you...

For instance this article from 2020, but I think some fees have gone up since. https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/finnair-business-class-seat-selection/

I might be wrong, but Finnair gouges most passengers in *all* classes with significant seat selection fees, so the value of the ticket may need to be weighed against the additional seat costs (if applicable to this offer's booking class) for those of us who like to know where we're going to sit.

The carry-no-cash-can't-tip problem had been obviated at a hotel in Vancouver recently: there was QR code payment portal option shown on multiple stickers in the room!

Just see the comment upthread about using the Czech Airlines website to achieve seat selection.

Well my need is suitcase size (65cm), not carry on, but that's certainly ouch for carry on!

Thank you! A quick Google indicates that they're quite difficult to acquire at the moment! (Hard in Australia, and even the US website has very limited in stock product.) I shall research them further.

I wonder if there are any current recommendations for 2-wheel (ie, enclosed inline-skate wheels) softsided suitcases at the moment? (Replacing 65cm, 3.2kg Paklite.) Like some upthread comments, I find 4-wheelers ill-suited to many places and the fragility of the wheels in transit is also an...

Well, the problem is that there are different configs on different TK routes, so it depends both on route and flight number whether you get Eurobusiness or a recliner or whatever. Considering the added cost in $ and points for the add-on short-haul leg, it was important to mention it so that...