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  1. CaptJCool

    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    $2 billion last financial year says they are doing just peachy fine ! 😝
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Bora Bora The run from the airport. Air Tahiti provide a nautical shuttle catamaran Magnificent
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    Seen the hotel prices during the Ashes Test matches? Just as awfully high
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    The view or two from my "office"

    It’s plane to see I’m still on Moorea Havin’ a Whale of a Time!
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Moorea It’s plain to see it’s another day in paradise 😝
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Mista Tahiti 2025 The local culture dancers
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    The view or two from my "office"

    Moorea Looking to Papeete
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    Virgin Australia Neighbour-Free Seating

    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”
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    2025 AFL Grand Final

    Local Angel 😇
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    My understanding was the surcharges got reinstated during the Howard Govt Lil Johnny helpin’ small business
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    Card payment sucharges banned in Australia from 2026

    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...
  12. CaptJCool

    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    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
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    Cash or Card? Countries where you still need cash.

    Cash is still prevalent in the Pacific A flat tyre on the hotel bike saw me at a local bike shop and cash only
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    2025 AFL Grand Final

    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
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    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...
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    Cash or Card? Countries where you still need cash.

    From what I can tell that’s the expensive hotels on Denarau island Where Fiji airways offer “checkin” at the front desk !
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    Cash or Card? Countries where you still need cash.

    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...
  18. CaptJCool

    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    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...
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    Cash or Card? Countries where you still need cash.

    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
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