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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...

Pricing tends to appear different in different countries ... I tried using my browser in Private Mode but the numbers still appeared in AUD so the prices are probably still Australia-targeted. However I just tried using Google Flights, with trip dates spanning mid December to mid January, and...

Woah ... oops! That'll learn me not to just look at the timing on the message or two prior to mine!! Where did she manage to find fares over 28 months ahead of the travel time?!?!

Depending on what time she's arriving vs train frequency, there may be less schlepping (of bags) involved if she stays in the city at one of the hotels very close to Roma Street or Central? Just a thought, 'cos the station's attached to the terminal & people in this thread who know better than...

While I think it’s unlikely an Italian government agency has sold the debt in this way, my wife had problems with two debt collection agencies after someone ran a red light & put her in hospital for 3 months. He claimed to his insurer that he was not at fault, they took my wife (represented by...

They might also have bought the debt? Seems odd to buy that debt off a government agency, but then, it is Italy …

This! They tried to “upgrade” us to a VW Caravelle in Nice … we rejected, waited ‘til the next day to get a Golf … which was so tight in the parking space I had to crawl out the tailgate after parking. No way the 8-seater van would have fit!!

Can you wait ‘til the 6-month-ish point? I know I’m terrible with having to wait for anything that leaves unknowns hanging over my head …

I think it’s a bit early for sale fares that’re quite so heavily discounted to be released yet, isn’t it? Cheapest on Google Flights (really quick search) is $1400 on Untied.

I does, and anyone who speaks it different-like is doing it wrong.

I can sort-of see it as a marketing ploy ... but given the expected role of the FA's I don't think it makes sense to define "best for the job" based on that marketing decision, I think hiring "best for the job" needs to be all the safety & service stuff that makes a bigger impression on the...

China Airlines isn't a LCC, which will be why it's more exxy compared to the rest of that lot (it's also not a CCP airline - just clarifying that due to the original Q about China Eastern).

About 8 years ago we did a South Island trip ... heading towards the west coast from Queenstown on a very straight road yet with lots of gentle undulations I overtook one of the slow-moving camper-vans that infests the country, but because the clear road ahead before the double-lines wasn't...

Surprised the rental company didn’t just bill you after the road authorities billed them as the owner of the car … can imagine a lot of people would just ignore it, unless you go to Italy and they have some arrangement with immigration I don’t know what leverage they’d have over you? Maybe...

Can a Platinum member call some super-secret QF 'phone number and ask a minion the possibilities for all this, eg. the minion actually books the Platinum member onto the Asia-to-Europe flight via $ and then the Asia-to-Australia flight for points ('cos that's more than enough points to do a...

Correct me if I’m wrong … but VA was a LCC when they first arrived, weren’t they? Circa 2010 I had about a half-dozen trips to BNE from SYD for work, VA’s price-point was more like JQ than QF throughout the day. I flew VA most of the time, not only because they used the rear stairs at BNE, but...

My wife was the same … until she worked for a month in Sochi, Russia, in 2014. Then she absolutely understood the joy of touching-down in Switzerland, after having escaped Russia and the secret police couldn’t get your ‘plane turned around.

Well also, those are built on the suffering of slaves; airlines that need to operate at a profit & don’t exist to make a despot look good have somewhat different operating parameters.

It’s absolutely ridiculous, but home & familiarity has tremendous power … one of my mates really fancied one of his sisters’ bridesmaids so we ended-up dropping her at FRA in the middle of a Euro trip in our late 20’s … and seeing that QF livery almost evoked tears after only 3wks away from...