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When we were working we accumulated nearly 1 million QF points. Upon retirement we burnt this down to 200 000 QF points with international flights and also accumulated 150 000 Virgin points. Points were mainly gained from credit cards after retirement. In the past few years we have not paid full...

We are staying in Tokyo for 3 days/2 nights in August 2019 as part of a much broader itinerary. Does anyone have any suggestions on seeing the sights. I have a list of places such as Menji Temple, East Palace Gardens etc. but no idea on the best way to travel between sights. Bus tours appear to...

I am a recently retired earth science consultant. When I was working I travelled extensively around Australia and Asia. I was a QFF Platinum for a number of years and currently LTS heading for LTG with many FF points. Since retirement we have travelled to Europe, Asia and the USA and cruised in...

I have had 2 incidents with a CBA credit card duo. First was a lost wallet and the CBA upon immediate notification cancelled the card and any unauthorised use was rescinded. The second was unauthorised transactions by another party. Again the card was cancelled and all unauthorised transactions...

I have been retired 18 months. Spent a lot of my working life as a consultant in Asia. Since retirement I have visited Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia & Malaysia as a tourist with my wife. During workdays I always flew business class and continue to do so. An accumulation of hundred's of thousands...

The only major differences are: start and end point (Dallas for us, Los Angeles for the tours), days in stops (tour co. spends more time in Las Vegas but equivalent time in start points) and stop overs (we are wiggling north from El Paso to Yellowstone and back through the mid-west, tour co...

I have just completed booking a 42 day journey through the Rockie Mts of USA. The booking cost for 3 pax of $30 000 included return business airfares, car hire, hotels (mainly Holiday Inn), tourist trains and a helicopter flight. A tour company, by combining a few bus tours, quoted $95 000 for 3...

I don't know what the problem is with credit cards in retirement. Whilst employed I mainly used a CBA Amex Black and ANZ Amex Platinum with associated MasterCard & Visa. The ANZ cards were cancelled by me when they ceased issuing Amex. Then the CBA made FF rewards miserable so I looked for a...

We have done 12 cruises in the past 12 years. All ships have been under 2000 pax on HAL & Princess. Never had any problems embarking/disembarking or onboard price gouging. Ship based excursions are expensive so we arrange our own before sailing. The small ships can visit exotic ports that the...

Babies in First. ugh! To many people with FF upgrade points and status that would normally not be in First. Good for the airline but not for the passenger. I have flown First a few times on many airlines and not had any problems. I have been to Sydney First lounge and Concorde Room in Heathrow...

Never had any problem booking reward seats as long as I was flexible with dates. I have booked with QF and CX in business recently no problems. I am LTS with QF.

Crikey. QF service has downgraded. Maybe there are staffing problems. Many years ago our flight from Townsville to Sydney was cancelled. A few days later we received a QF credit voucher for business class flights. We were originally booked in economy. We were then QF Gold. Maybe now there are to...

Thanks for the report. I will be doing QF SYD-DFW return next year in First. Will try to arrange Winston Churchill on both legs.

I regularly rent from Hertz. Generally no problems in Sydney, Melbourne or Adelaide. However had 2 problems in Perth, one about unlogged previous car damage. It was pouring with rain on pickup so had no opportunity to photograph the damage therefore no evidence to present to Hertz. The 2nd was a...

I have contacted Qantas customer service twice since 13 September using the appropriate form. A notice was received that they would contact us within 15 days. So far after 23 days total silence. If they treat their long time gold ff this way what chance does a bronze passenger have?

Thanks Red Roo but your link was old. I went to Qantas website and successfully completed a customer care form. But 15 working days for resolution seems a bit extreme.

I tried a QF customer care form but the booking does not have a numeric and has been rejected.

My wife, a long time QFF gold, returned from Sydney in Business on QF542 on 13 September. A dinner service consisted of a box of mixed cheese, crackers and a slice of bread. Other nearby passengers were offered similar or a bowl of soup. This is economy service and does not rate the standard of...

Currently I am SG after dropping from WP even after not achieving 600 SC. This term I will just scrape into SG. This is good enough for my purposes as travel these days is recreational not business. The majority of flights are OneWorld business class and under the old Qantas system I would have...

I am in the same boat. We are both LTS with Qantas but are not impressed with their enhanced FF changes. However we use our FF points store judisously to maintain Gold Status. We only fly business class after years of being spoilt. We aggregate heaps of FF points through our credit cards and use...