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Qantas rejected a missing points claim on JAL. It looks like the *class* of travel got mis-specified in the claim, all other details being correct (that or the sequence number) Its irritating as hell how complicated the claim process is, and the lack of inter-Oneworld process to get this stuff...

6months AMS, 3months MVD. In that order, so better to fly west. 2pax, J. The Lufthansa and Swiss things, I suspect only work for North America: they talk about the US leg being to places like JFK. Getting down south from there is a little painful, compared to the LHR/BAI options which less...

blink. does. not. compute. head explodes. the tax on my QF/Finnair flight to Helsinki last year was circa $1k. but, you have to be doing a shedload of AA bare metal flights, to keep status, right? so, this was predicated on sufficient time on AA to keep status. Amazing. The tax alone could...

Thanks for the details on MPC. Its way too soon to jump ship on a rumour, I was fishing for the sense others have of the relativities. 1W is a high value proposition to me as long as Q continue to be able to direct reward bookings to the other partners. I agree that LTG is not a lockin, but a...

I'm a platinum w*nker with 10+ years accrued membership consistently at that level. I'm seriously considering asking one of the other oneworld alliance members for status-match and converting my booking prefs over. Cathay for instance reasons: I suspect Q/EK will break out of oneworld...

Re: Krisflyer web doesn't seem able to book star-alliance flights (ie, off singapore There. I knew I was being a complete nong. Mind you, so was the web designer for SIA. (sigh) Back to the drawing board.

I am probably being a complete nong, but every single flight I have looked at via my singapore/krisflyer login, be it 'using points' or even just a basic flight check seems to hit the big 'I'm sorry, computer says no' response. I just booked the leg I want directly on Lufthansa's site. So, I...

Going Europe Oneworld Q/Finnair. Partner coming on points. Big trip. She's nut anaphalactic. fully managed, has the syringe, meds, and we're in a world of 'never guaranteed' for most food anyway. In the past, when we've travelled cattle, saying 'no nuts' winds up being sandwiches, and tins of...

In defense of the undefensible, if your plan is to make the booking anyway and use waitlist or seat-release to secure the other leg, you kinda need to know you can get it. So, we probably need both modes: searches to secure all-the-way, and then fallback on partials so you can wedge something...

I don't believe there is a way to do it but, if there is some method of excluding seat availability checks from showing routes with significant (international, long haul) segments in downgrade classes, I'd love to know. QFF seem to me to have a significant case of the 'what? you didn't realize...

Brisbane is a royal pain to book premium economy from: so few flights. But, via Sydney just invites pain too. So I wondered, given Jetstar and other second-tier business-almost class to HKK or BKK or SIN or KIX or NRT or ... Which one might be a good choice for some Oneworld points spending...

Re: return > 1 year: worth the risk to try and re-book inside the year or buy 2 sing Thanks for the wisdom! all good food for thought. 2 returns looks the best, most stable choice here.

Using the wisdom of the crowd.. Son flying to the UK for around 18 months. Not using points. Is it wisest to seek to buy a cheap flight with a return around 1 year off, and then pay some rebook fee to extend, or is this high risk? (obviously the ticket class/pricepoint would have to permit...

Q, BNE domestic to meet Syd-LHR. J class. Reroute via FRA, missed connect to Lisbon by a country mile. Bagloss forced delivery via FRA (follows PAX is the rule) even though LHR would have been quicker. The point of the post is to vent. No, seriously, the point of the post was to suggest that...

This has a more plausible, and less paranoid feel to it. I'm going to agree its the best fit. After all, while my perception is we mostly fly together he very probably does solos which add up to (combined with prior travel history) a higher ranking in this weighting process. Since I'm about to...

No. handled by Brisbane. I stood for 45 minutes listening to them reroute via Frankfurt (and btw, I missed a direct from Brisbane. If they'd deplaned on failure instead of holding us on the craft for an hour...) The plane he booked me onto was a far earlier flight which failed, (he told me...

Ahh. I see. I see I'm being naive. I said 'not a mark on his card' but, clearly there *is* somebody who is motivated to ensure he's super-happy, and can mark it VVVIPax: the Travel agent. Who of course, will know the details of why he's worth the investment in subtle kindnesses of a simple...

Using the airline to whom this FF belongs, I indistinctly indicated I would not be adverse to an earlier flight out of Brissie. I neglected to notice the checkin was harrassed, and dealing with a burnout in an earlier flight, and mass rebookings. I wasn't asking for an upgrade or a freebie. I...

Anyone who names their kids to get rewards is indeed a sad loony. But, if its not alphabetical then the depth of their knowledge into company structure, purchasing power, discretionary spending, marketing is immense because we've travelled together for nearly 10 years now, and begob it would...