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I hear you. I’ve played this game before (getting home though). Ended up driving to Surabaya and flying to Jakarta, KL then Sydney. Booked a few flights that got cancelled, but was able to get the funds back via chargebacks.

I assume from Brisbane? $330 on the Batik Air flight in the morning…

Probably not for VA/QF/JQ. They are super conservative when it comes to volcanic ash. If the mapping shows a volcanic ash area, they’ll go nowhere near it. Have a look at the route VA48 took compared to the PK registered aircraft flying DPS-PER

Interesting to see the Indonesian carriers blasting right through the volcanic ash area. Flights from Perth look to be less impacted but I can’t see any flights from the east coast departing tomorrow (and I’m meant to be on one of them!).

I recall raising the issue of wetleasing when when QF started using AY who were using Thai based cabin crew with Finland based tech crew to operate services from Australia to Singapore (did I cover it all? I think so). I recall being shutdown for being “racist” for suggesting that it’s wrong...

I believe the crew were rumored to have done a “QF service standards” training course. Maybe the crew you got paid attention in said course?

Interesting. I’ll tick over this in about 2 weeks. Will report back on how long it takes

Is this for status renewal? Or the initial status upgrade?

Ouch. They’re onto that. I’ll report back in a month or so on the “didn’t meet 60k spend but have AC status showing an expiry of Dec 25”.

I’m thinking I’ll dump all my points in SQ for the 25% bonus. Does anyone know how quickly they transfer? To be safe, would prefer them to be in the Kris account by 31 Oct

I’ve had this with Expedia in the past. Arrived at a hotel in Macedonia and they promptly said “we haven’t dealt with Expedia for years”.

I’ve mentioned it before but the absolute worst QF flight I had was a BKK-SYD where the crew were so hostile I’m surprised it didn’t escalate into an incident. That said, have recently done a bit of India flying on the 330 and the flights have been excellent (although I did have to crawl up the...

If it goes through a card machine, they’ll be paying tax. If it’s cash… “ah nobody needa know hey”

For a married segment, yes. But I’d like a definitive answer on the “point of sale” claim that’s been made from a little higher up. My understanding is that award seats won’t have that restriction… but I could be wrong.

Do we have any clarification as to the validity of this claim? I had a similar issue with a HND-JFK which had J showing but wasn’t bookable as part of a OWA. Tried after the fact to “change” to the J seat (that was still showing available) and given the “only for new bookings” like. Did...

This is the point I came here to make. The government abandoned and locked out its own citizens for two years. We’ve proven we have zero obligation to our nationals abroad (and the public generally supported that, as terrifying as it was). In this instance, we have a group of people who sadly...

Timing is the issue. They can’t use wet leased aircraft for HND and it’ll take a long time before they can operate their own. That said, I don’t think the HND slot is the golden goose we’ve been led to believe. Japan is saturated and outbound tourism is simply not recovering to pre-covid...

Coming through SYD intl a few times I’ve noticed the JAL flight load is listed in the low 100s. This was a 777 as well. I suspect JL has the weakest brand of the operators to/from Australia, but they’re still pretty poor numbers.

Most of the emails from freq flyer seem to come from the Philippines with associated poor engrish (some of the emails I’ve received are downright embarrassing… “spirit of Australia”!). The Filipinos tend to use “already” incorrectly. It will generally mean “I’ve just done this for you”.

Has anyone had any luck holding onto the extended AC Gold? My status is showing until the end of 2025 and I’m happy to keep the card going to hold onto that, but not so much if it drops to Silver this year (only spent about 35k)