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So whilst I like most of the Accor hotels I stay at regularly, I find the A|Club program patchy at best. There have been many reports both on here and Flyertalk about having to chase to get points, and benefits given sparingly. I attempted on three occasions between October 08 and April 09 to...

Ok, so you can tell I'm bored....Sitting here in a hotel room in Suzhou, China browsing the site - as you do - and noticing that the "Google Ads" are all in chinese (I presume that the ad server uses some type of IP location based system), which is not that useful to me as I can only say that my...

On landing at SYD yesterday morning at 0900, there were three visible A380s on the Int side of the airfield - one EK, one SQ and one QF. That got me thinking and hunting (I'm still excited by the sight of an A380 by the way!) to find that there are only 2 (or maybe 3, if the Air France plane...

I shall be working on another project in China early next year for several months, but as times are hard the travel cost budget has now been drastically slashed. The budget that I'm given is only just enough to fly J on China Eastern BNE-SYD, though QF Y is just under half of that cost. So the...

Returned today from CHC (first time setting foot in NZ) and came across something that I haven't encountered before - a departure tax not included within the ticket price and payable separately. (I've searched on the forum and can't find it mentioned anywhere, though it only took a few minutes...

Having taken advantage of yet another Jet* sale, the 2MP clan are heading for CHC for a long weekend. Now I can play it safe and cheap and stay in one of the Accor properties in the city, as I have a goodly collection of a¦club vouchers to use. But I'm looking for suggestions for nice...

Radar failure hits Brisbane airport | The Courier-Mail Is this the JohnK time of day to fly?

This is another of those times where the domestic multi trip bookings throw out some bizarre prices..... The background: was looking for a cheap way to get back from Cairns in mid August having booked flights for the other 6 in the party in the recent Jetstar 2-for-1 sale. Also had a $200...

First of all the story: Sat at work this morning, getting all my stuff together for my next trip leaving Sunday, printing itineraries, hotel reservations, e-tick....ah. Problem. Flight not ticketed. Ok, so jump on Singapore Airlines website to see if it says the same or if the Corporate TA...

I'm now confused about how Krisflyer works. I logged into my account this morning to see if yesterday's flights had posted yet (they had), but then noticed that current 'Elite Miles' was showing zero. My year is not up until the 30/6. "WTF???", thought I, then I noticed that my current tier...

I had a flight last Friday, where a Dragonair flight from PVG to HKG was late, meaning that I missed my QF98 connection to BNE. I was put on the next available flight which was CX103 leaving one hour later, and today the points posted, but as the CX flight and not the QF flight originally...

Has anyone managed to successfully transfer from A¦club to QFF yet? I've so far attempted to make 2 transfers of 4000 points each in October and December, neither of which has registered in my QFF account. A chasing mail via their website elicited the following response: I'm interested if...

I had my second ever experience of MEL airport on thursday this week, and to say that it was not a happy experience (in combination with a less than perfect airline) would be an understatement. It was my second flight with VN, the first being the outbound leg from SYD-SGN, and this one being...

BBC NEWS | England | BA jet in airport 'hard landing' Airliner crash lands in London | The Courier-Mail Shows the difference between british reporting and australian media. On the BBC it shows as a hard landing, on news.com.au it's a crash!

Over the last 6 days I've had 6 flights taking in BNE-SYD-HKG-PVG-HKG-SYD-BNE. And during this week, I have probably set a few records in getting from one terminal to another, transitting from one flight to another and exiting airports. Is no-one flying any more??? The airports seem empty, and...

Generally I have found Seatcounter to be very accurate. But I have found something odd when trying to gauge the load for an upcoming SYD-PVG QF flight. Seatcounter was reporting no seats available in J, be it C,D or J class. But Checkmytrip was showing 8 empty seats, and the QF site allowed me...

Ok, there are many serious questions to be answered in the world at the moment - the global fight against terrorism, the future of the world economy, how Barack Obama is going to manage his first year in office and whether the Californian economy is officially bankrupt yet. But more important...

Was sitting in Shanghai last Friday and very much looking forward to coming home. About 11am my mobile rings and it is Qantas Hong Kong (current preferred route is KA PVG-HKG QF HKG-BNE) "We're very sorry sir but your QF98 2230 flight is delayed until 0300". I thanked the guy (after he had...

OK, so later this month I'm flying BNE-HKG on QF connecting to a KA HKG-PVG flight. It's a flight I've not done for a couple of months, and this time was determined to try out the CX Wing lounge rather than the fairly average Dragonair lounge whilst waiting for the connection (as I didn't know...