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The headline and entire premise of the article are wrong. It asks if Australians have stopped flying to the US, but presents data that does not breakdown by nationality. The United States Government provides break downs of incoming tourist arrivals by nationality. The data shows that total...

If they add 66% capacity to the route as some in this thread are suggesting they'll do, you will be in luck 😂

Fairly standard. It goes as low as 60K & as high as 100K.

Indeed, I think that will be the first step.

And it's going to need to be a whole lot cheaper once the route loses a bunch of passengers to Sunrise, especially given SIN-LHR will be losing the airline's most profitable customers (SYD/MEL-originating corporate & wealthy pax). At a certain point, the route becomes unprofitable either because...

That's certainly possible, but the end result is simply that it makes QF's SIN-LHR route even more vulnerable to a capacity war. You start trying to steal customers from a bunch of much bigger competitors, you know who's going to lose. Just ask Virgin when it tried to fight a capacity war in the...

Qantas has said that PER-LHR is among the airline's best performing routes, so I'm not sure why you'd sacrifice it over SIN-LHR when SIN-LHR currently requires the premium traffic from SYD/MEL, which will be stolen by Sunrise. Qantas' competitive advantage is the ability to offer non-stop...

Sunrise is going to steal many of the price insensitive corporates and wealthy because of the convenience factor. Indeed, that's the whole point of these planes and why they are so premium heavy. Once you take out those high yielding passengers, the SIN service becomes uneconomical. They're now...

That's exactly my point! My prediction is SIN-LHR will not survive long-term for precisely this reason.

Whether it is 2x SYD-LHR or MEL-LHR + SYD-LHR, I can't see them maintaining four services into LHR (2x Sunrise, PER-LHR and SIN-LHR). The trend for Qantas has been to reduce capacity into LHR.

I don't think it's going to make a big difference at most major retailers. You have to remember that wealth inequality is massive in the US. The vast majority of spend is done by the top 10-15% of households. What cards do those households mostly carry? Ultra premium ones. With that said, be...

Qantas say a lot of things that they don't end up doing. At the end of the day, it will be economics that drive the decision. My prediction is Qantas will do well with the direct Sunrise flights & struggle with the one-stop flights via SIN, ultimately dropping them. Once you're doing a...

You usually should be able to get at least USD 2c per point, which you would be with that redemption, so I'd consider it a good one.

You don't know what a spend-based program means. A spend-based program does not necessarily mean spend exclusively with the airline. It also includes spend with on-the-ground partners. Indeed, that's exactly what Alaska Airline's program — the example used in the post — now means. It is also...

No FTF. Issued by BOA. TBD if they'll care about 100% foreign spend — they've pitched the card to US expats (they have different categories of community, and one is that) so they're clearly expecting some people to do it.

Indeed. Even if you were spending $10K/m on your Amex ($120K pa), you'd need to spend for 3 years to afford 2x J return tickets Australia to Japan, and that's not even long haul imo. Edit: changed the calculated assumptions to earning 2.25 ppd on the Plat.

Qantas have been flirting with this idea with the 100SC for PCP and now the SC on the ground promotion, so it's not unreasonable to think they might move this way. It's worth noting that Alaska's choice is heavily tilted. When they introduced spend-based status earn, they removed a lot of...

As others have suggested, it is okay value when you're redeeming points acquired very cheaply (or completely freely). But it's a complete rip-off if paying cash. It's an inferior product to what's on offer from many others carriers to Europe, so I don't bother with it when headed west. But...

To be helpful to the OP, the answer to your question is you're looking for an email or PDF that has an e-ticket number. It also appears you have flights on Malaysian Airlines as you're travelling through KL. In which case, you should ignore the advice of another member saying 'It is completely...

Your response is now confused (you are expecting the OP to read your mind that you were not responding to the question they asked) and incorrect.