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As someone who visits Australia once or twice a year, the acknowledgment of country often catches me by surprise, but I find it interesting, educational and respectful. I'm more surprised by the reaction from the local Aussie residents I travel with, they roll their eyes at it and apologise to...

I'm not sure if this is related but the Rewards booking site just isn't working for me at all today. When I try to select any Classic Reward flight I get this generic error message and can't continue

The ABC news story quotes a passenger now in Baku saying that Qantas are flying in a new plane from London to pick them up... how does that work, they don't exactly have spare planes in London do they? I assume they meant to say a new crew are flying in from London?

My first thought as well, Dubai or Doha would have been better choices. I can only guess they preferred to avoid any unusual diversions into Iran and Afghanistan airspace?

I think it's the opposite actually. As an Australian who's been living overseas for 10 years, I find the local outrage at it more confusing. It seems to be incited by local politics and media that's not really viewed much outside Australia. edit: I do agree that the Kiwis have done a much...

Story is also a bit confusing... pinned down by three police officers and taken away in handcuffs for "using abusive language". Has to be more to the story surely?

You know it's particularly bad when they don't show the old rate next to the new one for easy comparison.

$5 for a 4 pack at Kmart & Target, but that's their own brand version rather than a big name.

But oddly expensive in the UK/Europe. Here in London a pack of 4 sells for about £8 or $16 AUD. Last time I was in Australia I paid $5.

QF2 delayed at LHR overnight, now scheduled to depart 12 hours later

Oh wow is that still a thing in Australia? In the UK the banks have access to this information via credit reference agencies data, so it's very rare to be asked to send anything in as part of an application. On the flipside it's an automated decision that's hard to contest if they get it wrong...

It's really well known in Europe as a bank scam too. In almost all places I've been recently I've noticed the staff automatically selecting EUR on their POS terminal when setting up the payment, without asking.

I've had British & European friends visit Australia who all said the interrogation and searches they received entering Australia was far worse than any questions they got at the US border. Though turns out they were referring to our very thorough customs checks, not the passports/immigration part.

My recent upgrades to Club Europe have still received the SCs as expected. It's the main reason I take the upgrade offers so I hope it isn't being wound back!

A UK police certificate costs £65 (or $134 AUD) for a 20 day turnaround, or £115 ($237) for a 2 day processing time. UK global entry is £42 ($86 AUD) for a UK background check plus $120 USD for a US Customs check.

Yeah BA is known for routinely denying valid EU 261 claims and making people take them to court arbitration. They'll often pay up before the court date, usually at the last minute when they realise the customer isn't giving up, but they know most people won't bother to take it that far. Anyway...

The most amusing thing for me is that they were happy to post the Platinum luggage tag to me in London, as part of my requalification, but they wouldn’t put a physical membership card in the box. Those are only for members who live in Australia or NZ.

I like the timing on the CDG-PER as it allows for a 6pm arrival into the east coast, whereas the LHR-PER timing gets you to the east coast after 10pm, or QF2 to SIN brings you into a 6am arrival. I usually go EK or QR for their better timing (to me) but would actually consider LON-CDG-PER-MEL if...

A friend took this flight recently in economy, I told them they were crazy - 17 hours on the 787 in economy!? After they landed they told me it was the best long-haul flight they ever took - so empty that most people got a row to themselves. Though apparently an announcement was made several...

This has just happened to me, I can see the flight I tried to book under "My Trips" if I click the shopping cart icon, but when I click the "Book Now" button it then gets an error saying there's no availability and tells me to search again. This doesn't remove it from the cart however and I can...