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    Express Path at MEL Intl Arrivals

    Yep, I can confirm the above from @QF4L . Down the stairs and pretty much straight ahead. However, I read somewhere that it is not necessarily available outside of peak times. Can't confirm. When flying back into MEL last October I saw the Express path for the first time, closer to the actual...
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Came in yesterday DAD-SIN-MEL. On the 737-8 from Da Nang, service was really good, with attentive communicative crew. One of the couple in front of me was celebrating a birthday and SQ (clearly pre-arranged by the partner) had a little birthday treat for her. It was surprisingly cute, and...
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    Tokyo-Europe via Dubai - late May

    No-one can answer those questions, as much as I'm sure many of us are worried about similar things. Most people would assume that by May things would be "less dynamic", but here is a war by lunatic fanatics against fanatics. It would all be unfounded speculation about how long various parties...
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    Does your AU voicemail diversion stop working when your phone is off-AU-network?

    The absolutely key parameter in this dispute with Amaysim is whether you have an international roaming add-on active (which should not be necessary, historically, with other providers). Are you saying your calls divert successfully to VM *without* an international roaming add-one active?
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    Does your AU voicemail diversion stop working when your phone is off-AU-network?

    The voicemail-to-MMS functionality is a separate option on most services, so is different from the basic voicemail service from all providers. (But I guess if you have no data, the MMS wouldn't arrive.) Basic voicemail has to be stored on telco servers, and that's what I'm referring to. Note...
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    Does your AU voicemail diversion stop working when your phone is off-AU-network?

    Yes, it was only after a friend alerted me that I then had the joy of sitting in slow-as-tortoise online chat with Amaysim.
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    Does your AU voicemail diversion stop working when your phone is off-AU-network?

    So this question is kind of the opposite of what this subforum is about, but about the best place for it: Once upon a time, when I was travelling I would have a non-AU SIM/eSIM, with my Aussie SIM just there for receiving SMSes without needing any sort of international roaming setup. (And yes...
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    Problems booking flights on Lifemiles site

    Have you checked that it isn't *your card provider* that is blocking a transaction from Colombia?
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    Article: The Airports Offering Convenient In-Town Check-in

    There are some useful caveats/notes that could be added to the article: Kuala Lumpur: you have to be in possession of a KLIA Ekspres ticket (Transit or Ekspres service) but you do not have to take the train immediately - you can enter the actual ticketed area of the station anytime later that...
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    Westpac Velocity Altitude Black - 180,000 bonus Velocity Points - 1st year annual fee $200 (+ program fee $75)

    I was hoping to apply for this but am on holiday o/s (Vietnam) until after the deadline for the 30K. Does anyone know from experience whether card applications are more likely to fail if lodged from overseas?
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    New Luggage Recommendations

    Virgin Australia staff are definitely formally incentivised to check oversize/weight hand luggage, both in the check-in area and at the gate.
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    Back in the days of the paper Visa Waiver for the USA, you could get in a hell of a pickle if you didn't submit the stub upon exit (I think at SFO where you could do airside transfer to some international flights, there was even a little "mailbox" type setup to drop your stub into. A friend was...
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    Selecting seats on Finnair reward booking

    Perhaps there is no equipment assigned for this flight for some reason, and hence no seatmap available?
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    The Master SQ Guide (Krisflyer, Waitlists & Waitlists Clearing)

    I love this description. I had often wondered about the enthusiasm for TPR, but have no prospect of visiting it. Nonetheless, it seemed so unlikely, looking at blog-published menus, that this was going to be great fare for such a small selection of passengers distributed across each day.
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    Nipah Virus

    World Health Organisation: Basic conclusion with relation to your question: transmission appears to require much closer contact with infectees than is the case for Covid or Measles or some other diseases.
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    Best tool for seat maps

    Yes, true, but there used to be one really really valuable type of information on Seatguru for Y-flyers (which is why I think it has gone largely unnoticed in places like this)... Seatguru used to tell you reliably (at least on airlines I was flying) where the underseat IFE boxes were blocking...
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Absolutely! Drives me nuts every time.
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    Credit Card Offers Bankwest Qantas World: 100,000 bonus Qantas Points (min. spend $35K)

    Thanks! So you went for the World despite all the cough (and the poor value bonus offer)? I'm stuck in a run-out-of-churn-options scenario, with just Bankwest remaining as an option. I hate the 5mths-of-massive-spend and the tiny number of points, but as the next best option is the Platinum with...
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    Credit Card Offers Bankwest Qantas World: 100,000 bonus Qantas Points (min. spend $35K)

    Is the Bankwest statement period (approx) activation date, or a (approx) fixed date for all customers (e.g. end of month)?
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    Public Transport to our airports - what's cheapest?

    I noted annoyedly today that the Melbourne Airport to Sunshine Skybus is now full price $17. Feels a bit rude.
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