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Had a look and it's 75k points for new sign ups and apparently the annual fee is pro rata refundable according to head for points. I'm a British citizen, have a UK address belonging to my parents, have a natwest bank statement which goes to that address...does anyone know how far they check...

Apparently Air India are bringing in their new business class on the Australian routes next year so it'll possible to do a trip to London with the newer planes. There is one seat on lots of dates with Aeroplan but very rarely two seats. My better judgement advises me against it but Lucky raved...

Think this partly coincides with SQ Saver availability for KrisFlyer members also getting worse since the recent changes. Not the sure fire shot it used to be and this clearly has a flow on effect on availability to other programs. You can actually find a bit of availability from SYD earlier...

Looking out to Oct/Nov 2026 (ie when the calendar opens up) the only SQ J availability on Aeroplan out of East coast Australia (SYD/MEL/BNE/ADL) to SIN is SQ248 from MEL. Leavings 0555/0655 from MEL and arrives 1145. A number of days there's availability on Velocity out of BNE/ADL but not on...

I’m a little less pessimistic. I think these changes are in response to the RBA plans. Interchange fees aren’t the only thing that dictates the transfer rates, though of course they are a significant component. I doubt they’d want to do two devaluations so close to each other, that’s the sort...

Think this is very likely indirectly linked to the planned RBA changes. Points landscape is getting horribly devalued here. Not sure we will see anything but a token gesture somewhere else. Amex is probably going to reduce what it charges businesses so it needs to balance it out somewhere.

It'd be a weird way to restrict it though. The seats are available, just not in certain combinations. Still seems to be a booking engine issue.

Really hoping Air India bring their newer aircraft to Australia before long. There's so much award space to Europe and I've read the A350s to London are quite good (and they're upgrading their India lounges) but I just can't deal with being on that coughpy old 2-3-2 777 for 11 hours.

If too many Australians get a wind of this Aeroplan hack then we will definitely see availability get worse and/or Air Canada patch up the sweet spot in the redemption chart. Another good ploy is 90k points return to CGK via SIN then flying cheap $4k business class return to Europe from CGK...

Booked MEL - NAN - DFW on FJ in business with QF points a couple of weeks back, will arrive on opening day. There's decent availability on this route but the DFW plane doesnt run every day. You may need to use multi city. Also booked SEA - SIN - MEL in Singapore business with KF points.

They don't care about devaluing reward points though. I am disappointed about this development. However to be honest these charges being converted into reward points essentially functions as a de facto consumption tax on all credit card users to the disproportionate benefit of a relatively...

Do we know how likely these proposals are to get fully adopted?

Australia still has relatively good CC rewards to be honest, worse than USA but this will take it down to European levels. 30k bonuses for CC sign ups maybe? Wonder what the knock on effect on QFF will be?

24th March isn't long before Easter. Wouldn't be surprised if availability drops off around the Easter holidays

When did you actually hit the minimum spend? Often it can take one or two statements.

Thanks for heads up, though I've paid into industry super fund before via payment processor so it should be okay.

EK F is still worth it even with the high carrier charges. You can literally eat and drink the lions share of those back on a typical trip. It's EK J which is no longer worth it. The charges are the same as F.

Given they've specifically mentioned that Skywards members in various countries can get Silver by opening Emirates credit cards, I'm guessing the aim is to drive sign ups. If it was about rewarding their most loyal fliers they wouldn't have made the point of mentioning this. Of course some US...

It's likely led to a temporary worsening of F availability due to a bunch of YOLO redemptions. Overall this is actually quite good news for Australians though. Somewhat less competition for EK F seats is always a good thing. I do wonder whether limiting QFF access would breach the JV contract...

The one thing that did give me hope was the fact Emirates were relatively broad with which members they kept it open to - if it was just the top elites then QFF would have no chance. Still...what remains to be seen is whether availability will be as good to QFF even if it's possible to book...