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  1. eastwest101

    Tripcase App being Discontinued

    I have not used the App at all, but I do use the website, at the moment I am still getting flight reminders and change notifications by email for future bookings. Because its Sabre it cannot see any Qantas flight bookings unless you manually enter the flight dates and details and then its fine...
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    Europcar caught scamming customer at Sydney Airport

    I would not be surprised if this was a systematic thing in some rental car agencies at some locations, there would be corporate-mandated KPI's that some managers and staff would be "gaming" the system to pump up their own profitability stats. For every one case that someone is organised and has...
  3. eastwest101

    Tripcase App being Discontinued

    Thought I would dig up an old thread rather than starting a new one but as a Tripcase user I got the email talking about end of life for the Tripcase App from Sabre, although I don't use the App and I use the web version myself I am wondering if many Tripcase App users will be looking at...
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    Jayne Hrdlicka to resign as CEO

    Agree with you there on the main points, you would think that with caretaker mode due to arrive in the future, that the current government would be in a position to realise that this decision is a pretty easy and obvious one if their inclination is to approve, i.e. make the FIRB approvals now as...
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    Virgin Family transfer - 30 day expiry

    This sounds very peculiar to me, but I am wondering if the Velocity accounts of your kids have been inactive for a while without earning, Flybuys earn, credit card or other activity?
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    What cheeses me off

    Just on that - Westpac's IT systems are terrible, it took three visits to a branch over a year to get my wifes surname changed to her married surname on her accounts several years ago. Had no choice as Westpac was the account manager for her workplace salary sacrifice card account at the time...
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    Virgin 737-8 Max Business Class - No Divider

    In stark contrast to the speed at which Bain slotted in extra Y seat rows on its refurbished aircraft the glacial pace of the divider can only be explained by removing the dividers as possibly being a weight-saving KPI for someone within the airline or Bain. I would assume that this KPI is still...
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    Anyone regional SA based can guide me?

    At the moment the Adelaide-based Rex schedule is a bit of a lottery as to whether services are delayed or cancelled, you just need one crew to call in sick or an aircraft to go unserviceable and there can be quite the delay for Rex services to Whyalla, Ceduna, Port Lincoln, Broken Hill in the...
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    Qantas Delays/Cancellations

    Anyone know what happened to QF2016 from Sydney to Broken Hill this morning?
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    New aviation industry ombudsman & customer rights charter in Australia

    I know this has been well documented, but I have recently had luck with a successful claim overnight as near to SYD airport as I could for around $360 so it seems that Qantas at least has got some discretion about the costs for accommodation for pax affected by delays and flight cancellations...
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    Credit Card Offers Westpac Altitude Black Offers for Bonus Qantas, Velocity & Altitude Points

    In a case of pure coincidence, I just did a BPay to cover the first month's spend yesterday (because they lost the paperwork to do an auto debit from my bank account - and yes it is a paper form that has to be lodged at a branch). The 90K QFF points arrived the same day. Appears like this on...
  12. eastwest101

    AFR's Joe Aston goes BAM!

    Thanks for the summary, I have a newfound respect for the Editor of the AFR Micheal Stutchbury after reading about that.
  13. eastwest101

    ASIC sues Rex for allegedly misleading the market on company's profitability

    Yeah - it won't happen and a case of closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, but that would have been worthwhile testing in court as an example of predatory pricing, especially if there was evidence of fares to PER rising in other timeslots but dropping in the timeslot that Rex operated.
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    ASIC sues Rex for allegedly misleading the market on company's profitability

    I remember at the time post-Covid travel boom and Virgin, Jetstar and Qantas were self-imploding with lost baggage, lack of staff, huge check-in queues and lack of planes and mass flight cancellations domestically, and yet Rex still couldn't get off their butts and market themselves despite...
  15. eastwest101

    The Stocard App

    Yeah, I just realized that it might be a geographically staged rollout, in which case if they stuff it up they can learn or someone else can roll out a better app. What were the drawbacks of Google Wallet again? Was it not being able to share other family members' cards? Or is it just a privacy...
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    The Stocard App

    Just tried an experiment, I have Stocard on an Android phone already and installed Klarna app on the same Andriod phone - only 6 of the 40+ loyalty cards I have made it into Klarna App so that's an epic fail right there if that's their idea of a successful migration. Edit: Actually scratch that...
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    The Stocard App

    Same here - I'm an Android user who uses Stocard every day, I have not received any notification about Stocard being shut down. Is it possible that maybe Klarna might shut down Stocard on iOS before Android or vice versa? Seems like the kind of thing you would want to warn your customers about...
  18. eastwest101

    2024 F1 Thread

    Yaeh - the thing that stood out to me in the post-chequered flag warm-down lap was Norris saying that next year will be his year with the obvious celebrations of McLaren winning the constructors. If the McLaren is as good next year, as it was this year, I have a suspicion that next year might...
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    Credit Card Offers Westpac Altitude Black Offers for Bonus Qantas, Velocity & Altitude Points

    I have applied, been approved and hit the spend recently, will post back with how quick the points arrive, the second-month billing cycle due soon and have hit the $6K spend.
  20. eastwest101

    Are QantasLink going to fly to Biloela, Olympic Dam, Quilpie and Cooma?

    Do you reckon the BNE base will be first to go all Q400 with SYD and then MEL ADL later? I have heard on the grapevine that simulator availability is tight so might be might be some alternative places being looked at to convert all Dash 8 to Dash 8 Q400.
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