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Everything landed today for me. Hotel and wine vouchers, 150 SC's and 5,000 points. What's not to love. Well, apart from the awful experience I had a couple of days ago trying to cancel a domestic points resevation. That's for another thread I guess.

I think I'd rather stay in a hotel overnight....

I made a BA Avios redemption booking on the BA website a few days ago. Of course, it won't let you enter a non-BA FF No. So the solution is to phone the BAC call centre in Newcastle UK and ask the nice agent to enter your QF FF No. No problems, all done with an (imagined) smile in a couple of...

Probably won't appeal to many, but I've just booked it, departing AMS end-September 2025 and returning mid-May 2026. Best fare on a decent airline I've seen in quite a while. Seems to be widely available for many dates to mid-2026 at least. Here's an example...

Oh dear.

I think I'll sit this one out, as I've already made enough bookings to requalify for WP from September 2026. However, I don't have a real problem with the promo, especially as it's the second one this year. The freebie SC's would have been nice and well timed for me (Sep-Aug qualification...

Yes but aren't they wholly owned by Qantas, so not really a separate company at all. Just accounting smoke and mirrors? And FWIW, and it's completely irrelevant, I did meet the startup owners of NJS in Adelaide circa 1989 as a CAA officer. As I recall it, they were planning to fly BAE146's.

Didn't happen.

As far as I understand it, you don't have any choice at T3. You have to go through Immigration. So, that being the case, I'd just cross the freeway on the "Runway Manila" footbridge (as mentioned previously) Runway Manila · G2C8+7G3, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines and head off down...

Talking of Bintan, I was rather surprised when I discovered recently that there was a modern, functioning, internaiional airport on the neighbouring island, Batam. Just a half hour away from Singapore by ferry. Who'd have though it?

How is that relevant?

Yes indeed. Will be interesting to see how the owners Bain, QR and the retail investors go. Might end in tears, a way down the track. However, the American management will probably have hightailed it by then, having seen the writing on the wall.

I think we got the message (we already knew it).

I've never had a courtesy upgrade from Qantas, and, quite frankly, I never expect to get one. The main reason I fly QF is to maintain OWE. However I've had lots from other (international) airlines.

Nothing planned for 2026 so far, apart from a couple of business class trips to TPE on CX in Feb. I expect I'll book a couple of business class trips to Europe for next year in due course, when something comes along that takes my fancy. But no need to plan ahead too far.

No neither am I, and now try and avoid them. I'd rather fly CBR-MEL on a Dash-8 than a 220 (and I've booked such). I do like the Dash-8's, but that's another story. My one and only flight on a 220 in J was awful. Like you I was in seat 2A and thought it was cramped and claustrophobic. That was...

I guess the email was from Nigeria. They tend to has a distinctive style.

I might have been tempted when I was (much) younger, if it saved a few $$$. But now... I couldn't begin to imagine a public bus journey from Campelltown to Badgerys Creek to start my oversears journey in J (with a basic generic lounge, at best, to comfort me while at the airport). With mainly...

Living in Canberra, usually by public transport. Either flying in from CBR or by train to Campbelltown, then changing for Mascot, then bus. Or, occasionally, Murrays bus direct to Intl terminal. If it's a very early flight I usually travel to Sydney the day before and stay overnight in a hotel...

Hey, Poochie, you've forgotten CBR. The lovely R3 bus will whisk you to the CBD in about 25 minutes for a princely sum of not very much (I don't know how much as it's free for elderly folk like me). But, yes, let's not forget the Tassie Govt. They'd rather spend taxpayers money on an AFL...