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equifax is equally low, experian is quite high - but it's because they have rubbish tracking of credit applications, don't even list most of them.

Been overseas for this whole thread, if not too late to join - I'm pretty keen, the date/time and venue works great for me!

Nothing you do matters and it all pales in comparison with what India and China are doing. The industry is moving forward, and if less co2 is something it cares about, changes will be made over time (it's happening now). Flying less doesn't do anything, other than deprive the industry of funds...

Imagine being a plat. Etihad: Please visit our world renowned first class lounge. Qatar: Here have $20 to buy some slop at the airport. Add to that inexplicably overpriced comically limited code-share flights we now need to buy just to maintain status. At this point it will be cheaper to just...

A tangential question, I'm currently plat, and seeing as how there's no benefit to not flighting on a lite fare other than luggage, will the plat benefits of extra luggage apply to this situation? That is to say, if I buy a lite fare with 0 luggage, will plat status allow me to bring 2 checked...

Still no reward flights it seems? Geez, what's the hold up.

It's a bit ridiculous, and as a plat of many years, I don't see myself doing much to retain it, not even gold probably. The fact of the matter is, VA is intentionally and significantly overpricing the same tickets and the same routes, this is happening far too often and consistency in order for...

CS in my experience has very little impact. My CS is usually quite low (with Illion around 300-400 typically) because I apply for many credit products all the time (credit cards, loans, etc) for points, but I basically never get rejected (only exception to this is HSBC for some reason), and I...

I flew from Europe to AU last week on SQ J, and it's not as bad as it seems. Numerous times there some slight turbulence (nothing burger in my opinion), and they turned on the seat-belt sign, and I am not sure whether this is at the captain's discretion or what-not, but every time they would...

As pointed out, it's counted as a liability, so that is not what they want. In an ideal world, they do sell a lot of points, but then ideally customers redeem those points for very low-value things. Basically the opposite of us - we look at point acquisition cost vs point redemption value, and...

A lot of banks seem to be doing this, citibank also has. I am guessing it's because credit card balances are historically high, and this will make them a lot of money as interest rates (and profits) go down.

The operating margin (the only thing that actually matters) is down since the introduction of classic plus, if I were a major shareholder or a board member, I would be asking some serious questions. The rising liabilities of the program (ie. consistently more points earned than spent by far) is...

Now I'm glad I didn't do the status match thing with Etihad, what stupidity.

In the Netherlands charging points are almost everywhere (almost every public parking space), so it's not hard to find one. However I don't know if there is one system that you can use to charge at any one of them - worthwhile doing a little bit of research on that.

I've never been to Bali, but isn't the whole point that it's a cheap summery-weather resort? If they make it expensive, what is the point to go there? I can just go to the local beach here...

It depends on what equipment they use, if it's the best equipment you can leave everything in. What I really hate is sometimes they do say "dont take anything out" but it gets flagged anyway, I don't know if they set the scan settings to too aggressive or it's untrained staff not being able to...

This is a matter to the Singaporean government to deal with, and deal with it they should. Other airlines (like Qatar) clearly don't care.

No airline should arbitrarily compromise business class service because of this outrageous caution, if they do, they will lose business period. I once again, hope that SQ realises this in time.

I thought this madness stopped, the last time I flew SQ it was back to normal (after the turbulence incident). If SQ keeps this nonsense up, they will simply be rated down and people will not give them repeat business.

I think automating ATC would be very easy, but the problem is what happens if there is any failure at all, how do you provide a safe backup? So we're back to a fully staffed human ATC, thus there's not really any point in automating it. What may happen is that an AI will look over all...