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The most recent stats from BITRE are from September. It's not broken down by individual city in Australia, but they show that during September Virgin had 90 flights in each direction from Australia to Qatar and the average load factor was 84.2% inbound and 80.6% outbound. (See page 14).

I have a hunch that the reason Qantas settled that case was because it effectively couldn't win. If it lost the case it was going to get hit with a massive fine and potentially have to completely rethink its T&Cs. If it won the case there would have been a public uproar and demands for a...

Would definitely agree with you that it's not as good as the AFF podcasts. Very heavily focussed on credit cards. Still, it does seem to be all that's out there.

With the Travel Pointers podcast going on indefinite hiatus, does anyone have any recommendations for other travel/points/airline podcasts to listen to that are focussed on the Australian traveller?

The other solution was the one I saw at Denpasar airport with GoJek. They have a parking area and the drivers get out of their cars and wait at that GoJek lounge. When you arrive the staff summon the next driver, check that the PIN has paired you up successfully and then the driver helps you...

I've been using Up, but I also have Macquarie and HSBC. The HSBC one is a bit funny with exchange rates, but it's my fallback card, in case I need a Visa.

Dunno why I've missed out then. Oh well, maybe it's still in the post. 📧

I still haven't got mine yet :( Maybe it's because I've still got another flight with them coming up in a week.

For comparison here's QANTAS over the same period.

Sounds a bit "don't call us, we'll call you". Seems like its stalled for some reason that they don't want to discuss.

I may have missed something, but has there been any word yet on Phase 2 commencing or being delayed? Looking at the official page on the AusCheck website, it says "later in 2025" and you can't get much later in 2025 than now.

So I've noticed that Accor is back on ShopBack. https://www.shopback.com.au/accor-live-limitless The cashback rate is 3% now and it has this extra exclusion clause: Though it doesn't list which hotels, specifically, or which elite levels.

I've found with the scanners that my work boots generally produce a square on my ankles that prompts a pat down in every airport except Melbourne, where I'm asked to take them off. I dunno what they'd do in Melbourne if the square appeared on my shoulder, ask me to take my shirt off? I have...

I've turned to US Topcashback, it still has 6% for all status levels, though not for every brand. https://www.topcashback.com/accorhotels/ I don't know how long it'll last for, but with the much smaller USA presence of Accor it might be for a while. You can get the money paid to a US bank...

They are available, you just have to dig around a bit as it's not in the media release. The details are available in the contract notice on AusTender. https://www.tenders.gov.au/Cn/Show/225aa8be-63a6-4123-a089-b58f56f2b324 It's $63 million over the life of the contract, 1-Nov-2025 to...

What I often do (in any city) when I need to wait for a pickup is to wait at the front of one of the hotels, or in their lobby. Easier for the drivers to find you and safer as well if it's late at night. The Ritz Carlton is right across from Southern Cross Station.

The FAA has started reducing traffic in US airspace, with 4% flights cancelled on Friday, required to rise to 10% over the next week. Some airports seem to be coping better than others. LAX had 50 cancelled flights on Friday and 160 flights delayed...

I suspect this is because the customer actually has some recourse if the driver if hostile/abusive. The customer can leave a one-star rating, complain to Uber and usually get a refund, and if that starts to happen regularly there'll be consequences for the driver for the poor customer service...

It's not looking good for the roll out of the digital arrival card: https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/australia-digital-arrival-card-delay The timeline for full deployment now seems to run out to 2030.

Oops, fixed up now. 🙃