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  1. CaptJCool

    Qantas to start flights from Darwin to Singapore

    Given the loading on the flight in December last year that I was on originally scheduled to depart at 2315 but switched to Arriving at midnight with no flight out til 6.15am There’s no surprise here
  2. CaptJCool

    Life Time Gold - The [Realistic] Holy Grail

    Seeing my employer paid a pile of my fares, a lot of the earn was at no cost to me Then the JASA converting credit card points into status credits was at no direct cost to me Then premium fares funded by professional allowance and tax refunds was at a small cost to me Many ways to LTG
  3. CaptJCool

    Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

    Surprise you weren’t bumped ! A win for the first booker over the boomer 😜
  4. CaptJCool

    Sydney Meetup/Dinner @ Chin Chin - 21 Feb 2026

    Be Bronzed Family home getting sold out. Country and all hands on deck to clear it out just about then
  5. CaptJCool

    Forfeiting first leg of multi city itinerary

    Until the first flight of the itinerary has been travelled, any changes are re-priced. This malarkey by Qantas of flying less, paying more is what they do (the Australia tax) It’s a regular thing that flying from NZ to Sydney and onward (to LHR LAX) is way CHEAPER than from Syd direct So...
  6. CaptJCool

    Transiting SYD on Domestic to International Connection

    Here it is https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/threads/recent-experiences-with-qantas-terminal-transfer-at-syd.103978/page-27#post-2946675
  7. CaptJCool

    Australian Cricket Season 2025-26 (Ashes)

    No not the biggest concern Getting picked at 21 and keep getting picked as a batter when he don’t score runs is the biggest bugbear The selectors have become soft
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    Australian Cricket Season 2025-26 (Ashes)

    1888 https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/when-kerry-okeefe-took-on-pakistan-with-the-mother-of-all-hangovers/news-story/2234a407ce55bcbdb13b6aec5533cecf
  9. CaptJCool

    United to Fly to Adelaide

    Da United bird at Adelaide airport today
  10. CaptJCool

    Adelaide Virgin checkin upgrade

    I know there’s a bigger upgrade going on of the Northern Terminal Here’s this on the old departure flyover
  11. CaptJCool

    Life Time Gold - The [Realistic] Holy Grail

    without the DSC on JASA I’d have taken a LOT LONGER and that got removed then “re-instated” as $$ qualifications via Points club so you must spend lots to get there with the SC earn devalued by 30% or so. Devaluation
  12. CaptJCool

    Life Time Gold - The [Realistic] Holy Grail

    I’m quite fine sitting at LTG ADELAIDE never had a J lounge until May last year. And besides the beverage is the same in both lounges anyway, and you can be downgraded to the J lounges on particular days of the week (weekends or nights). There’s a thread on that somewhere Or the J fares /...
  13. CaptJCool

    Qantas Neighbour Free seating: Worth paying for?

    If you’re WP or SG it’s likely you’d get a neighbour free seat for free I use it as a signal that the flights has spare seats Subject of course to flight cancellations that soak up the empty seats on your flight
  14. CaptJCool

    Citi cards become myCard - no more CX, KF, EY, QR from 16/11/25

    My points (Rewards card) showed up as usual on 18th of the month
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    AFF Gathering #19 in ADL on 30 October - 1 November 2026

    Play plat seeing I can fly in from home
  16. CaptJCool

    Flybuys Targeted Bonus Promotions

    Yeah I found eating out every night solved the chase of Cole’s
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    Citi cards become myCard - no more CX, KF, EY, QR from 16/11/25

    The other thing that happened in the migration from Citi to MyCard was a systematic F…up charging interest on the outstanding balance….. the Service Recovery on this is really bad. Oh well, we know about it and we will get to it sometime whenever it suits us
  18. CaptJCool

    Australian Cricket Season 2025-26 (Ashes)

    We blame the pitch because… can’t handle the emotional discomfort that in some way or other we might be to blame head in the sand
  19. CaptJCool

    Meet the points geeks

    An article in the AFR today As soon as I got to this part I thought Hmmm 4 properties … Getting obsessed through intermittent reinforcement, consider your share of wallet being directed to one program. And a second article
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