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    Free additional driver for Hertz Five Star in Europe?

    We will be renting cars in Germany, Austria and Slovenia later this year. I usually use Hertz as I am Gold Plus Five Star from my Amex Platinum card and one of the benefits is no additional driver charge for a spouse. The Hertz Australia website lists "Free Additional Driver - Applicable for...
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    EU261 for cancelled LH FRA-SIN flight

    We are currently staying at a Frankfurt airport hotel ready for an LH flight FRA-SIN connecting with SQ SIN-SYD in J as the final part of our RTW revenue fare. Late this afternoon I received a notification that LH778 for Tue 06 Feb has been cancelled and to use the chat function to organise...
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    Advice re possibly cancelled LA800 on 03 Jan

    We are booked on LA800 tomorrow (Wed 03 Jan) that is scheduled to depart SYD at 11:35. I have done online check-in and received an email from Latam this morning with details of our flight. At 11:39 I received an app notification and an email from TripCase advising that LA800 0n Jan 03 has...
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    KrisFlyer miles earned when flying with partner airline LH

    With the Amex Platinum Membership Rewards changes from 2:1 to 3:1 from October for KrisFlyer I am planning to convert enough Amex points before the changes for 2 x J return Saver awards to Europe. I would need 522,000 KF miles (130,500 x 4) and currently only have just over 4000 KF miles...
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    Advice re SYD-EZE flights for Antarctica cruise in Jan 2024

    We are booked on an Antarctica cruise in January 2024 that was originally booked for 2021, then re-booked for 2022 and 2023 so we definitely want to go next January. If possible we would like to fly in J , flying SYD-SCL-EZE in early January and returning in early February, and we will book...
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    Changes to how you use your $450 Travel Credit

    I've received an email this afternoon regarding the $450 travel credit for the Amex Platinum Charge card. "We want to let you know about some changes being made to the way you use your Travel Credit on your American Express® Platinum Card. Beginning 1 May 2023, you will need to use your...
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    QF or AC for SYD-YVR flights in Premium Economy

    We are considering booking to fly SYD - YVR in Sep/Oct 2023 in Premium Economy with the current sale. When I looked a few weeks ago I was seeing return prices of around $5500 return in PE with both QF and AC. Looking today after receiving an email from QF about a North America Fly Away Sale...
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    Booking WS Award flights with QFF points

    I am searching for WS flights within Canada using QFF points and see I can book flights on routes like YVR to YYC for 10K points and YUL to YVR for 20K points with a lot of flight choices available. I am also looking at flying YYC to YYG and YYG to YUL but YYG (Charlottetown, Prince Edward...
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    F booking downgraded to J after change from 777 to A350

    We are currently booked to fly SYD-SIN-LHR in February, in F on SQ242 and in R on SQ308. We have just received notification from SQ that we have been downgraded to J on the SQ242 SYD-SIN leg. This was to be on a 777-300ER but I see that it is now listed as being on an A350-900 which does not...
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    Are Business Saver tickets refundable for cash?

    We currently have J award tickets SYD-AKL-PPT booked for July, flying QF for SYD-AKL with overnight in AKL and QF code share on TN AKL-PPT the next day. I received a flight change notification this morning that our AKL-PPT flight, which was booked for a Tuesday, has been put back two days to a...
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    Changes to Frequent Flyer ANZ Rewards Terms & Conditions

    I have an ANZ Black Qantas Frequent Flyer Visa card. I've just received notification from ANZ about points no longer being awarded for Government charges from 27 April. I guess this includes Council Rates and Australia Post. Amex give half the amount of points on these charges so I've been...
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    Advice re cancelled and changed connecting flights

    Sorry for the long post but I would appreciate some advice. I have bookings for SYD-PPT in July and PPT-SYD in August booked in J as separate bookings with QFF points. Yesterday I received an email from QF advising me that QF141 SYD-AKL has been cancelled and I have been moved to QF143 that...
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    Booking Star Alliance rewards with SQ KF miles

    We will be booking Saver J awards to fly SYD-LHR in a few weeks when flights are released for February next year and by the time we return home the extra 20kg baggage allowance may come in handy. At the moment SQ don't seem to be releasing Saver fares for return flights from Europe to SYD as...
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    Booking flights to Europe through CX Asia Miles or SQ KrisFlyer

    I have an Amex Platinum Charge card and can transfer points to CX Asia Miles or SQ KrisFlyer as well as QFF. We are planning to travel to Switzerland in Feb/Mar 2023. We will look for flights SYD-ZRH, SYD-CDG or SYD-LHR. If we transfer to CX we can book any of those for 90,000 Asia Miles in...
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    Advice re flights from SYD for Antarctica cruise

    Back in 2019 we booked a cruise to visit Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands to sail from Ushuaia in February 2021. In mid 2020 we moved it to January 2022 and we then moved the booking to the January 2023 departure when that was released since it seemed that we would be unlikely...
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    Baggage allowance with JQ when QF flight is cancelled and changed to JQ

    I booked flights for my Son with my QFF points to fly DRW-HBA last Saturday and HBA-DRW next Saturday, all on QF and Qantaslink flights. There have been several changes to his HBA-MEL-DRW flights, starting with cancelling QF1556 HBA-MEL which was to depart HBA late afternoon and putting him on...
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    Advice re booking PPT-SYD Classic Reward flight

    I have just booked SYD-PPT J Classic Reward flights for July 2022. We were booked on a French Polynesia cruise for August 2020 and we changed it to August 2021 and then to July 2022. We may still need to change it to 2023 when they are released as I don't think we'll be able to travel by July...
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    Cancelling QF flights due to border closures

    I would appreciate advice from anyone who has had to cancel flights due to border closures in recent times or who knows how QF handles these circumstances. We are booked to fly SYD-DRW on QF840 on August 20 but obviously we will not be able to go with the lockdown in Sydney continuing. We...
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    Accidentally overstaying a French visa if flights are delayed or cancelled

    Our Son is currently in France on a 12 month long stay visa that expires on September 1. He has a return flight booked on SQ for 31 August in Y. Having read of people having problems returning home with flights being cancelled or denied boarding and having to re-book we're wondering what...
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    Platinum Charge Accor Plus Stay Plus free night

    I had a booking for the Pullman Brisbane Airport booked for August with my Stay Plus free night. We currently have a booking with QFF points SYD-BNE-PPT and have had to cancel the cruise from PPT in August so have cancelled the hotel booking. I tried to book a hotel in Sydney in November to...
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