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Interesting. A bit of digging seems to suggest after Lauda’s merger with OS that it was a wholly owned subsidiary and this route was operated by Lauda but with OS livery and the AUS flights were given OS codes, with VIE-KUL-SYD given the honour of flight code OS1. It wasn’t that long ago really...

I am also wondering when NAB will award the bonus? Mid-way through my second month (I met the 1k spend at around 2 weeks after activating the card). Weekly VA points been posting every Monday, but still no bonus…

I believe the last time this route was served was an interesting VIE-SIN-MEL OS operated direct flight with fifth freedom from SIN, which was terminated in 2007. I think there was also an OS VIE-KUL-SYD too… Initially I thought maybe TR figured it would have better EU onward connections than...

Ok not as impressive as the others 🤣 But here’s HAM’s Beatle-Platz

Most memorable moment was def seeing Nadal in 2022 (I think? or maybe 2021 I forget…memories are blurry around that period in Melbourne) and scoring some really cheap tickets. If I recall correctly it was the year we were just coming out of our last lockdown and rules around 50% capacity? So you...

Coincidentally we’re the exact opposite. I did Tel Aviv twice back in the days and glad I squeezed that in in the before times… First was a general touristic trip (including Carmel Market, Jaffa, Jerusalem and the dead sea, which also had the world’s lowest altitude bar), which was a side trip...

HAMBURG! Will be returning to HAM in May and might just check that area out again its been 7 years or so - first saw them on a Beatles tour there along the Reeperbahn…toured the seedy places where they first played long gigs (allegedly) under the influence of copious amounts of amphetamines...

Very true - I think the beer works out to be about 6-8 times the cost it is in Berlin lol Northern winter - what about the year-round inhabited Greek islands ? I did Naxos between Santorini and Mykonos in 2023 and it was dirt cheap and just an amazing island to holiday in…little villages with...

That’s an excellent point. I once had a delayed QR or EK flight back to MEL and had no ‘public’ options to get home and to add insult to injury was forced to accept the surge pricing with uber…which was >$100

You and me both (re cheap southern accomodation)! In my first trip to EU after covid I spent 7 nights in the Pestana on Gran Via in Madrid in peak summer for 747 EUR (king bed, rooftop pool with sunbeds, al fresco rooftop buffet breakfast included). Now it’s 3 x that price! Funny you should say...

At some point if it reaches $30 that would be about half the price of an uber from my apartment, with my complimentary uber one membership (from my CBA ultimate rewards card) - i’ll probably never use Skybus again ! Just madness as it doesn’t even get you home and terminates at Southern X where...

I wanted accomodation right next to Ostbahnhof as it’s the perfect station for me to get everywhere I normally need to quickly in Berlin (and is often a stop on the intercity DB trains in Germany with no need to get to the Hauptbahnhof first)

I originally found it on booking.com but it was more exy (suspect they were taking a cut), so I went to the source and was very pleased I did!

Curious, was the queue for door ticket sales or even for ppl with advanced purchases? In peak travel season Aug ‘23 I managed to walk straight into the Picasso Museum in Barcelona with my pre-bought ticket and no line (although VERY crowded inside). It was a rather small exhibit tho…no idea what...

Bit off topic, so apologies in advance, but I suspect the difficulty in speaking German is getting the grammar right - ie ordering your nouns, (ad)verbs and adjectives, conjugating the verbs correctly, remembering gender, and getting those damn pronouns right (which I struggle a lot with) Much...

I booked a large double bed room, not the single bed one (it was cheaper in Dec; although at EUR1320 for 28 days during Euro summer the single bed was very tempting!) Too old to skimp on mattress space - it’s my 40th bday trip after all! Can’t be travelling like i’m in my 20’s again haha

AF lounge CDG 2F as well as JFK T1 - complimentary 15min facials at the Clarins booth. At JFK it’s also a PP accessible lounge that serves real and self-pour champagne.

can confirm - I applied and got approved immediately 6 months after cancelling my last Virgin Money Flyer Card and got the second bonus

Thanks @Seat0B ! I’ve done MAD and BCN to death (both 2 x in last 2 years alone) and was keen on building a long itinerary to tick off the other cities (1 month in Spain and 1 month ‘working from home’ in BER to improve my budding German!) I’m going back to MAD for Madrid Pride, which I went...

As a datapoint, i’ve never had any luck with this (eg, combining KF SQ saver J MEL-SIN-FRA with *A LH J saver FRA-BER). The general consensus over at Flyertalk seems to be that you need *A J saver availability for all sectors, but there have been a couple of instances I’ve read that ppl have...