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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...

Have to say I've never had a problem with them, and the wine usually arrives within 3-4 days of ordering (to the ACT). Points are usually credited before the wine arrives.

And do you think the NSW Govt is going to change this any time soon. Gravy trains are few and far between, so you don't let them go without a quid pro quo.

IMO, this is by far the worst Qantas business lounge in Australia. Poor food options and no self pour. When I'm at BNE, I head to the J lounge, and at least have a decent drink. Unfortunately, no food (to speak of) there.

Yes, that's a good option, but just being able to select a seat (for a small fee) beats the pants off Murray's sit where you are told approach.

I rented a car at LST recently and was given an "upgrade" to a higher class vehicle. This was an Audi Q5, which was very nice. But there was a sting in the tail, in that Hertz charged me more than the quoted price for the original vehicle class (a Mazda CX30 equivalent). I didn't regard that...

Was in the MEL Dom J lounge on Monday, and there were plenty of the mesh towels in the shower cubicles. Same as were previously available in the loos.

Yes, I flew the 220 CBR-MEL recently in 6A and thought it was pretty good too. I also flew on the 321XLR SYD-MEL a couple of days ago in 7A and thought that was really nice. The equivalent of VA's Economy-X. So go Economy Plus!

Just to wrap this up, my flight from LST to MEL today was cancelled. Luckily I returned my rental car early, and was able, via the lovely Qantas staff, to rebook on the LST-SYD flight that was departing in a few minutes time, so I got home to Canberra a couple of hours earlier than I otherwise...

Well Poochie, today was the day I needed to get from LST to Launceston. I had decided that the bast way was to rent a car, as the cost was not much more than using Uber or a taxi. Driving along Evandale Rd to Breadalbane, I did notice that the paved bike track seemed quite suitable for walking...

I'll be staying overnight in MEL tomorrow between flights. I was thinking to stay in the city, but really couldn't face the hassle using MyKi on the bus and train (and wasn't fussed about using SkyBus again). I do have a MyKi card, but have never used it. I've previously lived in Melbourne for...

There doesn't seem to be a lot of such rewards around atm, but just a short random search has suggeted a couple, as follows:

I see that Flixbus is now a thing in Australia. I've used them several times in Europe and IME they're fine. They have a promo at the moment for $9.99 for MEL-CBR-SYD (and points in between). I've just booked CBR-SYD (Dom) for next March for $9.99. Was going to take the train, but this is...

Yes, I've stayed at thr Tune KLIA2 and it's very convenient, but not particularly cheap for KL. I didn't depart on Air Asia, but had to go to T1 for my OmanAir flight. But it was still very convenient. KLIA2 is more of a very large shopping mall than an airport. It's a complete maze.

Flixbus is fine. I'vre used them LJU-ZAG and VIE-BTS.

Not true. Those are paid extra legroom seats and only become availabe at T-24. Ask me how I know...