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True that. I ordered some pale ale a few weeks and while the specific variety I ordered was out of stock, the Coles/LL store substituted a slightly different pale ale from the same brewery (they shouldn't have but anyway...) Moral of the story - don't order anything you don't want to drink!

So it looks like some routes from Australia to North America in EK F are available again through the regular booking engine BUT they now seem to price each leg separately. So where I'd paid 227.5K points (and a heap of cash) before 5 August for SYD-DXB-SEA, it now costs 390.8K points (and a...

$80 for 800 points. And 1200 points for a $20 spend on sunscreen (which I don't need), 600 points for $10 on freezer spend and 450 points for $15 spend on pantry items. $80 spend not happening as I have a big Coles order in for this week to take advantage of the big booze discounts and my Coles...

But it is fun! Could do EK F one way on a QF code, and go the other way in cattle...

Looks like TK no longer offers mixed class fares out of Australia. :( (Not surprising given they offer services out of SYD and MEL now, but it's sad as it was a way of having a fairly risk-free way of getting to Europe part of the way in J for under $5k with a decent array of connections from...

Thanks - missed week 1 of my 4x$90 due to a case of beer out of stock but looks like I'll do weeks 2 and 3, so if I also do week 4, I'll give them a bell.

This has just changed to 1 September 2025. NAB is so dodgy. Can you please extract $100 from them?

And it's been damp in Melbourne. Let's just say the sun's shining metaphorically. :) Just got to have Qantas see the error of its ways on non-lifetime status of the loyalty SCs now...

Yup - MacBank has been great over the years as a backup to my Citi Plus. They have a really good app that allows you to do shockingly radical things the NAB app can't manage like save favourite PayIDs... Now it steps into the spotlight, and UBank becomes my international fee-free backup Visa...

Maybe sales weren't as good as expected. Mind you, for a loyalty scheme to piss off those people who aspire to be its most loyal customers takes a special kind of hubris. That's our Qantas!

https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/member-offers/twice-as-rewarding.html

In that case, can second the recommendation of a long weekend in SIN as suggested upthread. Did it last year as a mattress run and it was good fun.

Is that with or without the loyalty bonus?

There's no guarantee anything you order at Coles will be in stock. The saving grace is that any dollar discount continues to apply (unless the entire order is $0 or less, in which case it gets cancelled).

JAL out of MEL via NRT to the west coast of the US and YVR can run to as little as $6.2k but is more typically $6.8k in the first few months after bookings open. Note also if you want to do a stopover in Tokyo, you can use the multi-city booking engine to fly Y over, J back (or vice versa), and...

Coles' 'stocklotto' is annoying, but as you note, the dollar amount of the discount stays even if the item is out of stock. You can use this in your favour by comparing stock levels in Coles and the relevant LL/FC/VC store. ;)

Out of where? Personally, if I needed to do a status run, I like the look of MEL-BNE-NOU as it's somewhere I'd actually want to go, and yields 480SCs (240 normal and 240 bonus) for about $2k. There are cheaper runs per SC, but not nearly as interesting.

I'll be able to report for duty at the end of September.

Are you an ex-Citi NAB customer annoyed that they're about to remove the international fee-free status of your NAB debit card? Well, you can demonstrate your anger by... um... signing up for NAB subsidiary UBank's account which offers fee-free international transactions and a Visa debit card...

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