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Has anyone had a positive experience on a long-haul narrow body aircraft? I keep seeing reviews of Iberia's A321XLR long-haul routes and they uniformly complain about the many compromises that have to be made compared to a wide body (eg this business class one & this economy class one).

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/25/qantas-airbus-come-with-one-toilet-for-every-90-economy-passengers-worse-than-jetstar-scoot-and-ryanair

Not necessarily. Because anyone with access to BA/IB/AY/etc as a transfer partner has access to QR because Avios is a single currency. And you can easily buy Avios.

I'd say Cathay is probably the better option because fewer Australians have access to Cathay miles than Avios, and they are generally good at releasing availability to their own members, but it comes in waves and is not guaranteed.

My word, those prices are highway robbery when compared to some other programs now:

You're unlikely to get 4x J on either airline. Maybe 2x saver and 2x flexi on QR if you're really, really lucky. And yes, both do not guarantee availability over peak season, so they may release nothing. Singapore is the only airline flying to Europe that reliably releases 4x J seats at the...

C1 has added JAL as a transfer partner. There's lots of availability for 2 pax in F on SYD-HND-SYD flights.

Yes. You'll need to pay the change fee.

Yes, the RBA is completely unphased by the banks' efforts to save the existing arrangements: 'She also questioned the fairness of frequent flyer points linked to credit card loyalty programs, saying younger, lower-income consumers were unfairly paying hidden fees that funded rewards for...

Sorry, by Platinum, I meant the US version.

Tempted to get a few of my Platinums reissued in mirror finish for P2 to use as a compact mirror when travelling 😂.

I'm making more off the points game than I ever have, so don't intend on quitting anytime soon 😉 I'm talking about the game as a whole. And it's unquestionable that the game as a whole is degrading in Australia, and will degrade a whole lot more if the RBA changes come into effect. As that...

To give you a sense of what the future might look like. No one 'games' Delta miles anymore because their points are worth a fixed value. Millions of people still collect Delta miles because they have a value — if you're going to spend money on a credit card and fly Delta, you might as well...

Many, many, many programs have gone that way. More generally, this is what has happened to the points space for Australians just this year: Points Redemptions - Devaluation of Qantas points (classic and classic plus) - Devaluation of Singapore points - Devaluation of Velocity points -...

So am I, but all you've done is prove my point.

And if every point was worth 1c each off a cash fare, where would be your sweet spot or loophole? Sounds like I found your breaking point pretty easily 😂

100% disagree. Indeed, it is incredibly easy to prove you are wrong. The world has hundreds of thousands of points programs. 99.9% of them attract no attention from anyone. Indeed, even within the world of airline and hotel programs, there's only a small (and decreasing) number that attract...

Good perspective. Even for the people that love the hunt of finding award seats, they will have a breaking point where all the joy has been sapped out of the points game. My guess would be a lot more people are going to hit that breaking point as the devaluations mounts and mount.

Agree nothing will happen. Just pushes *A that little bit closer to being an alliance in name only.

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