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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...

For many obvious reasons: available time, available routings, personal priorities. And until recently (and perhaps still in some places), the fact that you can move freely within Schengen now doesn't mean you have guaranteed full access to all facilities unless you achieve the use of a local...

I think people have to accept that points are either a short play or a game of patience. We're in an exceptional period still, from minimal travel and few planes to bazillions of travellers with hoards of points. There's no reason to assume it won't settle down to the "good old days", but it...

It's never better via Velocity. Sometimes the same. Currently often worse.

I don't think that's the case anymore. Or not always the case. When I was looking quite extensively at MEL-SIN-Europe and v/v two months ago for later this year there was a massive disparity in what the VA website offered vs SQ Saver J . Basically less than half of the Saver award seats visible...

Well $#@ me! I booked a trip months ago (for the future) just moments before they reversed their acceptance of non-essential Australian travellers, so to speak. A month later they allowed Aus tourists back, but only with testing (ok, fine), just a week ago the situation was unchanged, and then...

I have a PP membership with two free visits, via a Bank of Melbourne card. That card account was closed some time ago. Is it necessary for the card still to be active for the free visits to work? (I'm not sure, for instance, whether a charge is sent through to the "gifting" bank and is then...

That's barely two months away, with very high demand for OS travel now. As for next year, I don't know that route well enough from a QF rewards perspective, but school holidays and Easter fall in that period, so it depends on things like that too. And with QF anything else is possible too...

It would be worth testing whether Auspost Billpay earns points. Probably not under these new rules... Using Paypal as the payment method in Auspost Billpay would probably still work, but also worth testing.

It of course also depends on what other applications you've made. Dec-Feb-Apr would be quite a high frequency for one credit provider (and would be a likely negative aspect of your credit record for any following applications). In my experience, Citi (across the whole issuing portfolio, ie...

Hehehe, you know, I started reading AFF not too long after that, so maybe I was inspired by the experience to name my profile when i eventually signed up . Better prepared for eventualities now, including headaches;)

In mid/late 2002 I had to travel to Toronto for a conference, flying back YTO-SFO-MEL. IIRC, you did US immigration clearance at YTO before boarding. I was a good boy and called Air Canada to confirm how early I had to be at the airport in Toronto. 2.5 hours they said. So I rocked up 2.5 hours...

Yep, good points 👍

I have two travel credits (as the result of Covid-cancelled refunds) which don't expire for quite a few months yet. I lose them if I downgrade or cancel. Apparently, if you renew the existing card and then use the existing credits (before expiry, naturally) and then cancel without using any new...