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I've been called away on a work trip so cutting short my usual January in Victoria to just the first week. So I am on JQ7 again in January. (SQ and QF were very high pricing and no award tickets of course). I'm probably playing a dangerous game though, as i've only allowed 39 hrs time...

OK, I may have jumped the gun. But still worth knowing the process which is rather convoluted. I was able to have the vouchers applied to the new booking and the payment is being refunded to my mode of payment. So a few hoops and hurdles but it looks like it will work out as planned.

Yes, I was aware of that happening with legacy carriers. With JQ, as origin and destination changes are allowed free of charge as well, I assumed changes related to the amount paid - which still must be for origin and/or destination changes - but seemingly not to changing date/time.

They can charge a blended surcharge that in theory is not making them a profit. So someone paying by EFTPOS is charged the same amount as (and is subsidising ) someone paying with triple iridium (premium) card. Also lack of enforcement probably means some merchants do charge slightly higher...

I understand Jetstar FlexPlus allows time and date changes (free of charge, subject to fare difference) and change of origination destination. However I did not understand that (supposedly) the underlying fare class is the driver for the fare difference - not the actual fare (rookie error that...

Was your hotel booking just one "room"? (i.e a single room number, regardless of how many rooms within the room number). There policy states "A$200 or local equivalent value per room booked reimbursement (receipts required)^" It penalises those with multiple occupants of a single "room"...

Going to DPS I agree and flip that coming back (which is what I was talking about to MEL).

Agreed. Especially coming back. Either it’s an overnight or you’ve got to get up really early to take the 7:20am flight out of Bali. TBH to MEL the morning Garuda departure or even the late morning or mid afternoon Jetstar options which get you there in 5.5hrs seems better (in an extra...

Unless they take exception with status runs and criticisms of American based hotel chains or American based carriers, AFF tends be very very neutral. Certainly doesn’t have people going down rabbit holes that could raise red flags.

I think Philippine law has long since changed. I just checked Krisflyer awards, for a route with multiple star alliance options MNL-FRA. If on Singapore Airlines own metal, they don't charge fuel surcharges, as is the policy across their network. Same with Air India. Taxes come to about...

TBH would never request a birthday cake for myself. Would for others but not myself. The only time I’ve ever had one was when my partner requested one for my 50th birthday - on the actual day - when we were travelling in First to FRA on SQ.

How do airlines cope with this sort of cough...

Perhaps not quite so ingrained in the far western part of the country as it is elsewhere. But OP was at ZRH airport not GVA, so yes surprising.

Who's blaming the data? It might well be good data in the context of a frequent flyer forum, but I think in the context of a thread that has the title "Have Australians Stopped Flying to the USA?", it really isn't helpful at all, and therefore rather meaningless.

When you see numbers thrown around like 20% (if it’s annual) I just don’t believe it. Unless there’s been some significant external factors - or major increases in capacity -you don’t get those sort of changes from year to year on major traffic routes.. Maybe it would be easier to believe for...

An airline booking reference (PNR code) that starts with DUD. Given that it's into and out of New York mid February ...... Is the airline trying to give me a hint? 🤣 (OK not really cheesed off, more amused, but if I were a little superstitious I'd be worried about that booking ...)...

What's there to wonder about? Of course they're designed that way. Someone has thought about it and deliberately introduced steps to discourage or at the very least delay compensation claims.

Although TBH 400USD is chump change compared to what accommodation costs across a lot of the US these days. That's about the same as the "resort" or "destination" fee for a two rooms (for a family of 4) in Vegas for a what 4-5 days?

No airbridges, and When boarding from the tarmac, would it really matter? I assume pax will be at the international gate and then walk to their aircraft. Look at how AVV is configured on satellite view of Google maps.

I always assumed that China knows exactly who it doesn’t want to let in and those people know it so don’t even try. Whereas with the US , whilst there’s a solid base of people they don’t want to come in that doesn’t change and for the rest it depends on what the President ranted about on Social...