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Ha ha our best one was at the train station Hertz in Venice and we'd booked a fiat 500 arbath and when we arrived the guy just spouted Italian at us and offered us a fiat 595 arbath instead (the fi-ata) - which tbh for my bro and I we were like ehhhhhhhhhhhh not ideal but foreign country etc...

Nah, if you hire a specific guaranteed model, it'll be there. It's unforunate that lovestotravel's mate had that experience tho... If it makes you feel better, a phonecall is a phonecall, but I'd call the branch itself rather than central booking.

Correct me if i'm wrong brainstrust: - At least in Vic (I assume QLD is the same) hire car companies need to provide basic TPI - like something like a LDW would cover - The only issue with those is well, you know the incredible excess they apply if anything happens - The only upsell I can...

Playing devils advocate here... We all know hotel airline etc pricing are subject to a level of dynamism - now it sucks ya got the dates wrong but yeah, you booked for a completely different time - there might be more demand then, there might be less of that particular class available, there...

Hosties were saying they've only JUST started loading them - badluck :(

Was cheeky abroad my last MEL - SIN and brought up the new amenity kits. 5m later one of the crew came back with a smile and handed me one - don't feel like you can't ask guys! - the Kit itself is much nicer, although I wish it had a few more "lotions and potions" inside. Maybe they can try to...

FWIW - a mate was booked on QF38 the A380 SIN-MEL last night, it got canned because at a guess (and from taking a peek at loads) that it was ... too empty? He's due to fly again tonight, QF38 again, A380 again. Let's hope he has more luck this time around...

Nope - I was on QF292 earlier this month. Really liked the weird business class seat tho - prefer it to a normal seat as can sit cross legged like "on a sofa" - and tbh the bed mode, also great.

Not me personally (luckily fly staff so was upgraded along with the throngs) but we had an equipment change Sat/Sun for QF37 the later of the two flights from a A330 to a B787 - which meant that the flight lost some 80 economy seats and gained 20+ business and 2...8? premium economy seats. Had...

Date: November 2025 Flight: QF37 - MEL > SIN (A 787 instead of a crusty old A330 woo) Service: Dinner, Supper Meal: I had (and I'm sorry I only took a few pics) - Entree - Nicoise Salad w/ salmon (really good) - Main - Barramundi with brocollini and fennel (also very good) - Dessert - both...

Fyi to everyone, if you don't like what's given there's no harm in asking what else is around. Often they have all sorts of random inventory lying around. Dropped off my car today, turns out they offered the Polestars to staff for 30k. An enticing proposal...

You have to have the charged to around 90% I believe, let me double check my paperwork

So landed to absolute chaos at Melbourne airport today across all the car rental places (teach me to land at peak business time) Was allocated a long range polestar but got to the car and found it was not a dual motor. Had a sniff around and actually found a facelifted dual motor hiding out...

MORE data points you say? :P

Or rather, i expect everyone will be having a crack to see if they can syphon some points out of our friends by threatnening to cancel (Got me 150k points last time when they devalued SQ)

After the deval.... I expect y'all will be fast tracking your real cancellations?

I've found that it's worth defintely as a PC or 5 star to just ask what they have available for $0 extra according to what you have booked. Just on the last few times I've been there Booked - J2 'Rav 4 or equivalent Got - Audi SQ5 Booked - Polestar 2 (D2? I can't remember) Got - Well, he...

Yeah 100%. Seems that the data is still a bit all over the shop, but for the charge card it appears retention is donezo. You might have had a unique experience due to being a business card holder - I'm not sure if there's any Amex Charge business card holders in here, but would love to see...

Quite categorically Amex said that they're just applying this whole "nope" for retention bonuses across the board now. This is amex-amex and not co-branded amex tho

Zing! Solid outcome. Wait pardon my naivety what is a QBR (Qantas ... Businesss rewards? Are these QFF adjacent?)