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    Article: Premium Economy Flights You Can Book with Qantas Points

    Why would it be in Qantas's interest to do that? Japan Airlines is not releasing that many seats to Qantas members (or any non-JMB members at all I suspect). You can still get JAL seats reliably in all classes of travel if you book at the end of the calendar though, for instance;
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    Earning points on Cathay Pacific

    Well if we think about CX PER HKG or HKG TPE (120 and 80 respectively), the earn is in line with a Qantas flight of similar length (QF SYD HKG is 120, SYD PER is 80). It's just the competing routes such as the aforementioned SYD HKG where you earn half (60).
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    Earning points on Cathay Pacific

    Generally speaking you'll always earn if flying partner Premium Economy or above. You'll earn "full" status credits on flights unless it's a route where Qantas operates the route or sometimes if it's part of a 1-stop routing to Europe. There's a few other exceptions but that's generally the...
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    Credit Card Offers Qantas Premier Titanium: 150,000 bonus Qantas Points

    160k, but who knows what their system thinks
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    Qantas' Impending Change to Tokyo Flight Schedule

    It looks like the HND-BNE once launched will arrive in Brisbane 1645 local, so you should be able to connect?
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    Qantas' Impending Change to Tokyo Flight Schedule

    I wonder what the loads on NH889 are like. I've taken it once, but only in J so couldn't observe economy load.
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    The last VA BNE-MEL (VA356), last BNE-PER (VA474), and last BND-SYD (VA990) tonight (Sunday 10th) have been cancelled. I believe there was some bad weather that delayed the evening flights, but these flights were delayed beyond the end of the weather then cancelled.
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    You can now transfer Altitude & Amplify Points to Everyday Rewards

    I find that if you request a Classic Reward seat release as a Platinum member, they'll be happy to hold that seat for you for at least 72 hours. Once I managed to have them hold it for 7 days.
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    Where does the Eskimo data routes via (if in roaming mode)? A lot of these go via. Thailand or Singapore. It's not a big deal but a non-local IP sometimes breaks country specific services, and it also just makes general usage worse due to increased latency.
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    No, you cannot make calls to numbers outside Australia whilst WiFi calling overseas
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    CI A350 + Cathay A330 vs JAL 787-8 J

    I've flown with a friend in Apex Suites and the window+aisle worked very well. You have to lean forward a bit but not a big deal.
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    Quickest status run totalling 830SCs in <24 hours

    Thankfully Hokey pokey is the best flavour :) I'm surprised you can get EXST on Business Class to be honest.
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    CI A350 + Cathay A330 vs JAL 787-8 J

    I dunno, haven't tried the A351. I booked the A351 for my trip to New York and they last minute equipment changed me to the 777 :mad:
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    CI A350 + Cathay A330 vs JAL 787-8 J

    Unfortunate to hear that you don't like it (although I would disagree re. the hard product having flown all the products named), but at least it wasn't the Shell Flat Neo I suppose. Hope you have a good flight anyway (despite your experience with the seat).
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    JAL 777-300ER back on Sydney route

    Curious. I wonder if JAL are dropping last minute unsold F seats ~2 weeks in advance
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    Qantas' Impending Change to Tokyo Flight Schedule

    Because there's only one flight to SYD a day, and evidently they think it's better off as an overnight. Evidently Qantas doesn't see the day slot as more precious than the night slot. Yep, I'm impacted too :( Used a Qantas hotels $100 voucher which cannot be refunded. JL51 is overnight :( The...
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    I think I lucked the holy grail….

    Congrats! I'm sure you'll enjoy EK First class. As an aside though, I would generally recommend against using points + pay to pay the taxes for any amount as AFAIK it means you can no longer cancel or change for 6000/5000 pts respectively, which is one of the biggest advantages of classic...
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    Qantas Hotels Vouchers used without my permission

    No, in my experience they never go away after redemption (even if it says they will)
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    Qantas' Impending Change to Tokyo Flight Schedule

    That's true, but if they're reducing capacity to Sydney then someone people are gonna have to get re-routed. Specifically I'm booked on the daytime HND-SYD which will no longer exist. I guess most likely I'll take a re-routing via. BNE (more status credits this way too :) )
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