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$2 billion last financial year says they are doing just peachy fine ! 😝

Bora Bora The run from the airport. Air Tahiti provide a nautical shuttle catamaran Magnificent

Seen the hotel prices during the Ashes Test matches? Just as awfully high

It’s plane to see I’m still on Moorea Havin’ a Whale of a Time!

F’d UP!?!

Moorea It’s plain to see it’s another day in paradise 😝

Mista Tahiti 2025 The local culture dancers

Moorea Looking to Papeete

When the NFS offer arrives in the email, it’s a signal the flight won’t be full so I take my chances on getting a free NFS based on status and shadow… Seems to work best on QF in rows 5 - 10 but not 4 as “extra legroom” encourages some to “buy up big”

Local Angel 😇

My understanding was the surcharges got reinstated during the Howard Govt Lil Johnny helpin’ small business

If the interchange fees are indeed “funding” rewards programmes then that tells you they are overpriced. That said, when I got sent my Platinum card, I didn’t realise at the time that meant the merchant fees charged by the provider were “doubled” So it’s not always obvious who’s profit...

I’m sure you didn’t mean JETSTAR This year I’ve flown Indo AirAsia Fiji Airways Air Carlin With Air Tahiti to come Last year I flew with Airitalia, JAL, BA, Aegean, Iberia Next year likely to head to Jakarta and hack my way to Europe with cheap AirFrance or KLM or Etihad or EK

Cash is still prevalent in the Pacific A flat tyre on the hotel bike saw me at a local bike shop and cash only

Cause the AFL are tone deaf ? The Lions to victory easy in the end Perhaps Geelong used the pre-match entertainment. To gee themselves up cause by the end they’d run out of legs

Had a choice of 4 bikes and voila selected the one with the flat Got directed to a bike shop to discover only cash What to do No wallet Dug deeper and found I put some cash in passport (just under $A20 for the tube and fix) PS plenty of travel mistakes recently Yeah the classic reward...

From what I can tell that’s the expensive hotels on Denarau island Where Fiji airways offer “checkin” at the front desk !

Fiji Can book taxis via booking.com (funny story shared a “taxi” with two young ladies who went from the airport to the Fiji Gateway hotel all of about 400 metres for $A32… they had a laugh. Out loud about how ridiculous it was Plenty of CC Bike rental Restaurants (food pricing was low) BUT...

So we need to alter our expectations. It’s a low supply high demand system which Inflates prices and accelerates the pricing upwards the closer to flight date Red-E deals have at least 8 price points so you can see how people are paying more for booking late Often I found CRs are available...

Indo also has the QR codes to transfer money from your bank account. Seems locals don’t have credit cards Even the local Jakarta transit system is now cashless (fares 40 cents) Apps like Gojek and Grab for taxi rides