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Feel free to enlighten me (in the DMs) ;)

Feel free to enlighten me :)

I think it's a product that's no longer issued. Elevate Premium | American Express Australia Seems like you could earn QF, VA, or MR? Someone let us in on the secret!

Charge and credit cards are treated differently by Amex in terms of time restriction for more than one approval. Charge cards don't count towards the 2 approvals in 90 day limit. You might be ok.

Amex (US at least) doesn't like MS to meet min spend. I baulked at the Business Gold offer for 200k MR/$15k/3 months on my account but am now thinking I might take it given I can do $3400pm in rent payments through BILT/Venmo (w/ 3% fee). Hopefully I'm not still in PUJ from earlier this year...

You could call and ask to make a prepayment for the credit value?

Hopefully everyone who status matched will become Miles and More Senator when LH completes their purchase :)

I know that the US Hilton credits for Amex can be activated by purchasing gift cards from individual properties (not general Hilton GCs, though, I believe). YMMV for IHG.

Figure this makes sense if you are doing enough volume with Uber, but for me it would have to be quite a large $$$. Wonder if high enough volume would get attention from Uber (not that they would care if they're still getting fees). Frustrating that in AU there are far fewer liquidation methods...

It depends on the bank as to whether a certain ACH source counts for bonus - DoC has a list with data points for pretty much every bank you could want: List Of Methods Banks Count As Direct Deposits - Doctor Of Credit

Last time I landed in SYD I had filled the form in pencil, they made me write over the whole thing in pen. I'll try crayon next time.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-06/australia-to-join-us-global-entry-program/104187146 I can't imagine this is a huge pool of people.

ATO payment should be ok through Sniip too, if you're happy to weather the MC fee. Anyone know if the Priority Pass membership includes restaurants? [Edit] Looking around the forum it looks like it does.

Update: Bookings being cancelled, not sure if anyone actually managed to get it ticketed. For anyone not already booked seeing this on FT (or SF). I have it confirmed but not yet ticketed. We'll see if it holds. Fully refundable F. Looks like it's only on aa.com. See example booking:

This seems like really good value, property is 3rd night free via Amex THC at the moment. Add free breakfast (seems like a specific property benefit?) and the $100 credit you get with 2+ night bookings!

The louge is definitely good and staff really friendly. This place has been a steal for points too, last time I stayed it was 25k pn.

Just check which SV hubs you transit through, MNL-JED seems to use all 787-9s, which I've had good experience with on SV to ICN. MNL-RUH uses 777-300s, which are all 2-2-2 in business, with the exception of the 77Z type that has F & J (I think these are mainly used on NA/EU routes). If you do...

I usually do have to see an agent, but I think I'm the exception because I have GE from by UK passport but enter with a visa in my Australian one.

Kind of annoying this is restricted to US Citizens/PRs and returning ESTA travellers rather than people returning on visas other than Canadian B visas. I have GE but MPC seems at least as good as GE. Is it?

The current offer has 70k, + 30k points "if you haven’t earned Qantas Points with a credit card in the last 12 months." Does anyone know if this is just bonus points from meeting a spend goal, or also includes transfers from bank points like Amex or Chase in the US?