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    Retirement Planning & Experiences

    I fully understand what you are saying, but (as a centrelink pensioner, amongst other things), I've found the care in ACT hospitals to be not too bad. Not wonderful, but better than what you are describing.
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    Qantas Hotels - Expedia

    Sounds like the Sounds like they may be in the Philippines. I tend not to use Qantas hotels as I don't like to pay upfront. My preferred booking site is booking.com, although agoda is useful too, if you know how it works.
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    Shanghai Layover 4.5 Hours

    Yes, that was pretty much my experience. I did take the maglev, and I'd recoomend it if you have a few hours to kill.
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    It'll only take one minor slip up (like an EK plane going down) and the whole shooting match will be off. I hope you can understand my colloquiums.
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    Old, and maybe sensationalist news. But the Iranians do seem to have taken rather a dislike to Qatar, based on what seems to be happening.
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    When I last looked at FR24 a couple of hours ago there was quite a lot of activity around DXB. including a couple of Aeroflot flights. Almost looked like business as usual. So what's actually happening and what we're being told don't really seem to gel.
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    Retirement Planning & Experiences

    The best retirement (non) planning is to have a partner who dies in service with the NSW Govt or a university (Unisuper). Ask me how I know. Personal experience, more than once. It's not something you'd wish on anyone, but it can set up the surviving partner for life.
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    So what traffic are you currently seeing in the Gulf of Hormuz?
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    United to remove passengers who use their phones and iPads on flights without headphones

    All I can think of here is the treatment Dr Dao received. Be careful what you wish for with UA.
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    Current Qantas First Lounge Menu (SYD/MEL) and relevant topics

    Yeah, I find the SYD FCL to be very hit and miss. Seems to depend on the quality of the latest recruits, who only seem to stay for a short while. I wonder why that is?
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    Air Tahiti Nui starting Sydney flights

    I can't see it being a successfull venture (just my take). And yes, I have been to Papeete many times.
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    Qatar Airways Lounge eligibility in DOHA

    Never had a problem getting one, but that was a few years ago. And they are very nice...
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    This is not going to resoved, full stop. Airlines may fly, but now with a little risk.
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    Middle East Airspace Diversions/Cancellations

    You may or may not be right. But at least you know what you are doing. I truly hope my EY flight in 3 weeks is cancelled, so I can get on with my life. Note to self: avoid ME in future (similar to my note to avoid the Americas). I guess I'll be holidaying in Merimbula for a little while, then.
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    What's your prediction on the Australian Dollar?

    It's going up. The new world order.
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    Article: Qantas’ Regional Lounge Refreshes

    Whys is the MKY refresh taking much longer than the others, I wonder?
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    2026 travel plans

    Let's meet and I'll throw one at you I've recently caught from Lake Burley Griffin.
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    Refused Drink Service on Qantas

    Must be an old pic. Castelnau?
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    2026 travel plans

    Travel plans. Tell me about it. I have a ticket for 3 weeks time MNL-AUH-MXP. I don't have a good feeling about it actually happening (you know why). So I would love for the flights to be cancelled, so I can get my money back, and change my holiday to Thailand. Flying through the ME will be a...
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