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Not really a hotel, but the houseboat on thr Dal lake in Kashmir in the 1970's was hard to beat, including cheap marijuan_ delivered daily (not that we were interested). An honourable mention goes to the Hotel Rossiya (RIP) close to Red Square Moscow, where we stayed in the early 1970's. At...

Bit of a niche thing, I guess, but Agean is currently having its Black Friday Sales Festival with "up to 70% off". It's actually quite a good sale IMO, as I've just booked HER-ATH-DXB in flex Y in late May for EUR 169 all-in. This fare was EUR 228 yesterday, so not a bad deal at all. I'd...

I'm flying JQ CBR-OOL next week (JQ and God willing). I really don't like Jetstar, but, alas, they were the cheapest. So, if they throw a wobbly, I may be screwed, as I'm booked to fly QF OOL-CBR in J the next day (not direct, obviously).

Do we care about AJ? Not me. The less I hear about him the better. However, my cognition, intuition and imagination are fine, thanks.... Oh, and an honourable mention for Vanessa.

Speak for yourself.

As far as No. 1 is concerned, I'm with Stephen on CX. Never thought that would be the case, but there you are.

Not in my experience. Never had a problem with damaged goods. OTOH, I've had the wine delivered to a completely different address. Luckily it was an an aquaintance of mine (!) who lived at the same house number, but a street down from me. Otherwise I'd be filing a no show complaint, and who...

Jeez, that's expensive. I'd pay way less than half that, with full insurance. Not with Avis, but another "reputable" provider. Surely nobody would pay those rates.

But not from China....

Seems like CX has gone above and beyond.... https://newsletter.loyaltylobby.com/td/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjExODI0NzYsXCJsXCI6MTcxODc4NjQwMTQxNzMwOTkxLFwiclwiOjE3MTg3ODY2MDg4OTkwNDE0MX0iLCJzIjoiMzkzZWE0OWQ0OTNkM2U5NCJ9

I'd be surprised if that was the case, unless it was a fully optioned top of thr line model. I rented an Audi Q5 last week and it would have been worth somewhat less than that. Nice vehicle nontheless. None of that Asian penchant for having the vehicle try to drive itself against your will.

I imagine that if it was a ditching scenario the pilot's tone may have been a little different. And he/she likely wouldn't have just left it at that. But without a transcript of the conversations, we just don't know. It's purely conjecture at this stage, so no point in over analysing.

Best personal greetings for me have been on UA, although quite a few years ago when I was 1K for many years. I've been handed a bottle of Veuve Clicquot several times and the odd bottle of red from time to time, for "being a good customer" or "it's your birthday". Same happened to my wife on a...

Well, I do hope it gives the monopolistic and apathetic incumbents a bit of a shake up.

Well, each to their own. My only experience with an EV was with a Hertz rental at LHR (as mentioned up thread), where I was literally forced to take the EV, as they said there was nothing else available (even though I'd booked a petrol car). At 6 am on a cold and rainy London morning you don't...

Well, I for one won't be bothering with it. VA have made me see sense and shown me that there is now little point in spending money with them to earn status. It was fun while it lasted, but now it's gone. As a UA Plat (for life), I'll just use my MP status for lounge entry and priority boarding...

I wonder if this was related to the Cloudflare outage?

Well, despite all of those fine improvements, I expect it's still basically a depressing dungeon. I much prefer the Virgin lounge at OOL.

Just as well you can work through the (music?) on hold...

Reminds me of a funny situation last week At MEL. It was around 7 am and I was heading to the priority lane at T3 (T4). I wasn't really organised, with the BP on my phone, which I was struggling with, so when the "policer" looked at me, she saw my BA Gold tag on my bag and said "that's fine...