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Cathay jacking up fuel surcharges from 18 March. https://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/en_HK/latest-news/other-news/fuel-surcharge-updates.html

Luck will be involved but a few things to try. 1. Check from 360 days out. While Qantas releases at 355 days, some partners release earlier (e.g. CX) 2. Set up an alert on a site like seats.aero or Pointsyeah 3. Be prepared to book partner airlines (e.g. FJ - noting that FJ’s business product...

Pros - three free nights in Istanbul as a stopover; excellent catering; can book points to SQ. Cons - that ‘one stop flight’ is actually two stops (SIN for MEL, KUL for SYD); the new business seat is tight while the old one lacks direct aisle access for some seats; lounge in IST is usually crowded.

Spend $2 on a bag of chips to get $2.50 worth of points? Yes please! (It helps that I can walk to my local.)

Most people don't want to hear! (But agree that the use of phones etc without headphones is a scourge of the modern age.)

It's one of the paradoxes of status that in order to get its benefits akin to business on economy flights through SG, you generally need to fly business class a fair bit. Whether to do a status run to get there depends on how much the status run costs (in both money and time) and how often...

Although in practice, the AccorPlus China hack still works apparently provided you buy it after the regular Accor Plus. Mind you, I haven't tried this.

QF9 is getting a fuel stop in SIN it seems from 4 March and is now QF209.

EY67 now bound for LHR from AUH, the first commercial service out of the UAE since all this started, has indeed got away successfully... https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ey67#3e8f83d6

Back down to a $60 spend - for 700 points. Won't partake as am heading OS on Saturday.

Waiver now pulled back to 5 March. https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/agency-news/march-2026/airspace-closure.html

Qantas waiver extended to flights up to 20 March (EDIT - now 5 March - see below): https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/agency-news/march-2026/airspace-closure.html

Qantas waiver now in place: https://www.qantas.com/agencyconnect/au/en/agency-news/march-2026/airspace-closure.html

Possibly the Qantas IT not picking up the rollover. It should tick over in a day or two.

Yes - it's just a coupon code.

So it's on... again... Israeli airspace closed to civilian traffic. No word yet about other diversions etc but I suspect they'll come soon.

No 4 week spend offer for me, but that's okay as I'll be in China next week. Hopefully a few low value spends will get my offer down for the next one. (I got 2000 points for $90 last week - did that, so the algorithm might have the wrong idea about my spend patterns.)

I suspect you've probably left your dash too late. When hunting for cheap IB fares, the best deals are several months out. FWIW, I forced a LHR-MAD-HAM flight on 29 May using IB's multi-city tool. Came to 367 quid so about $720.

Try using UK Skyscanner or Kayak. I've found they're good at digging up cheap IB fares.

Yes, between PCP and Green Tier, requalification for gold only required 450 SCs. Eminently doable for me as a leisure traveller who mostly flew economy but would stick a business leg in from SE Asia to Europe to get across the line. From next year, it'll require 700SCs to get the same thing...