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Yep, agreed, the city basically IS the suburb, for an Australian address. The city doesn’t mean anything really … “the bigliest population centre which this location is connected-to by other suburbs” maybe?

Problem is … that message was potentially sent to a bunch of random numbers, many of which aren’t anyone’s ‘phone number … and by replying you’ve confirmed that your number is real.

And what that actually means is another thing … my FIL had two passports, because he visited the USA but also Vietnam & Cambodia regularly, and the USA was very weird about Vietnam & Cambodia. So … Egypt is on the list, if your passport has an Egypt stamp in it and you’re female will Mr Trump...

^ I’ve had those calls, as soon as they ask me for ID related info (as that’s always private) I tell them thanks very much and I’ll call back straight away. They always know why when it’s legit, and never have a problem with me doing that unless it’s a scam call.

Impressive what modern aircraft are capable of!

Well hornswoggle the mains’l and yee-aargh the first mate me hearties! Ever since I heard “and it’s seven forty-seven, the Boeing time-call” on morning radio I’ve associated 7:07, 7:17, 7:27, 7:37, 7:47 and 7:57 with Boeings. :) As for my username … needed a name like Thrug, Grug or similar...

My sister lived in London for ... I guess 5-6 years, from her mid 20's. The first place she worked was in an office environment with another couple of dozen similarly-aged financial-services professionals who all behaved much the same as she'd worked-with & had drinks after work with in Sydney...

^ It's also worth underlining that China Airlines is not a Communist Party airline, they're Taiwanese, you don't share the cabin with chickens or pigs or whatnot like you do on Air China / China Eastern / etc (and similarly Clyde probably isn't flying the plane & the engines on the A350 haven't...

Hmmm, I might consider spending 15 hours in Y if someone is paying me $750, who's offering that?

@elanshin are Y+ seats more readily available? Only asking because of what I said earlier - if you can get daytime flights then a lie-flat isn't super relevant, Y+ seats seem comfy enough for a ~9hr flight, JAL & ANA have J Lounge access in Y+, and J airline food isn't worth paying extra for...

How much closer to now did you check? I think what you probably need to know, from those who have a clue (unlike me), is when you'd see a release of award fares for the relevant airlines for a Sep 2026 flight ... ? As I think you're thinking, 'tis prolly a wee bit early. Speaking of airlines...

It’s much bigger news that the Trump regime has deployed the military against a few protesters than the protesters themselves are … as a tourist you’re going to be in WAY less danger than you are if you look like media.

They LIKE their journalists being targeted by authorities in retaliation for reporting on what the authorities are up to! The Channel 9 reporter caught on TV apparently isn't the only one. Looks like the Trump regime fully intends to escalate this, they're sending a coupla thousand Marines to...

This gels with what little experience I've had in the same area ... while at school & Uni I had a part-time job working for one of Mum & Dad's friends, this was during the initial rise of Pauline Hanson. He & his wife have Chinese background, and family in both Singapore & Hong Kong were on the...

Any chance the airline running those flights does an all-economy cabin on those routes?

Very much being not-an-expert myself, the ~$750 for Scoot, return from Sydney, looks like something that won't get appreciably cheaper even should a sale pop-up. If you saved a couple of hundred on that fare, do you care that much about a couple of hundred? (I mean yeah it's money that could...

^ I got that one from Manila last week, too! Was surprised +63 is Philippines, for some reason, I knew +64 is NZ and +62 is Indonesia so I expected the codes to be in a more geographical order …

I think over the last 20+ years the FF programs have become too lucrative to wind it back to something that's only directly linked to travel ... didn't I read around here (a while back) that QF makes more outta the FF scheme than any other single chunk of their business?

Maybe with everywhere else, a safe way to avoid breaking the local rules is to do what the locals are doing? :)

In case it helps … Santa uses snow-white kangaroos (“boomers”) in Oz to pull the sleigh, Oz is close to the international date-line so he does here pretty early in the piece; they’re all tuckered out pulling a sleigh mid-summer, so he switches over to reindeer after finishing with Perth. Hope...