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New Zealand announced it would ban the surcharges only for the process to stall out: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/587338/promises-to-ban-paywave-surcharges-going-nowhere

No further news as far as I know. This is the most recent update from the RBA, dated on October 2025:

Popped up on OzBargain. Use code SA100 when booking. Limited to the first 1000 eligible passengers booking by 9th March. https://www.qantas.com/au/en/promotions/flights/take-off.html

Other question that just occurred to me, is it able to take into account access to special rates like the 15% discount that Accor+ Explorer members get?

I have seen it, but was honestly a bit suspicious. How is it making the new booking, do you just give them your details (presumably including ALL number) and they make a new booking acting as a travel agent on your behalf? I think I'd feel more comfortable with it if it just alerted me to the...

You can't seriously think that a poll on AFF is a sample that is in any way representative of the general customer base of Virgin. Even you yourself are saying that, despite your grievances, you've (supposedly) kept flying Virgin during the last year so much that you've now been able to gift...

Sounds like they can't be doing all that much wrong if even someone who despises VA as much as you do has kept flying them so much that you've earned at least enough status credits in the last year to be gifting Platinum. Not such a DiSaStEr after all.

The conclusion I've come to is that there is a solid subset of people in this forum that will never be happy and will complain no matter what Virgin does. Virgin could offer them an international network designed around their individual travel patterns and they'd complain that it doesn't fly to...

There's usually a placard (like this) at the top of the escalators coming out of the train station that points people to "Express Security" (the downstairs security) and has on it that you need to already have your boarding pass and be travelling carry on only and lists the hours (previously I...

They're handy for the turbo-prop services where your roll-aboard cannot be rolled aboard.

I dunno, my experience has been that most of those seats are usually snapped up (either by Plats or paying customers) before check in even opens, especially on the longer flights. I'm a Plat and I always select my seat during booking or immediately after booking. I don't see the harm in letting...

For the purposes of air travel agreements Hong Kong is fully separate. You can check the register of available capacity to various countries on the Department of Infrastructure's website. For China it's on page 23 and Hong Kong is on page 41. The bilateral arrangements are different and...

Loved Banyan Tree when I stayed there about six months ago. Great status recognition too. The one downside is that Banyan Tree hotels don't participate in Accor+, so you can't use any of the discounts or Stay Plus nights there.

That's definitely interesting, although unverifiable. A lot of things get floated in focus groups and surveys that never eventuate into concrete action.

OK, so there's been one fleeting mention of it. Hardly seems like this was a motivating factor and the way it's worded in that interview it sounds more like he's thought it up after the fact in response to noise on this forum. Hardly a "main goal" of the changes he implemented.

I don't know that I've ever seen this specifically mentioned by anyone at VA as an objective of the changes. It gets brought up a lot on here as something people here think might be one of the objectives, but its just speculation. Personally I haven't had much issue with the lounges being...

I'm thinking that until the public transport options really get going, WSI's strength is going to be its parking. It'll certainly be way cheaper and easier than the parking at SYD and a lot easier driving there as well. For people living in the area (and possibly even further) being able to...

I've often wondered about the red-eye flights from PER to BNE/SYD/MEL that are operated by all three airline brands and have been for as long as I can remember. Even when I lived in Perth I only ever did it the once and swore I'd never, ever do it again. To me it's mystifying that anyone would...

To no one's surprise, the aviation industry is now lobbying hard against the proposed scheme, even though it's well short of the "pay on delay" schemes that are becoming the standard in other countries...

My first experience with the new Priority security line at T2 SYD today at 16:30. There was a security staff member at the entrance to the line who was checking boarding passes and rejecting those not eligible. There was no waiting at all and I basically just went straight through security, even...