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Hi All. First post in a long time. I am about to take my first international flight in two and a half years. I am coming home to Australia from Bangkok for a visit. Flying on SQ. Paid ticket (return). What should I do with the miles I could earn? Pre-COVID I would put them on my Thai card...

All Am flying EK from BRU to BKK in biz class (one way). Am QF LTG (+ TG Star Gold) but am nothing and nowhere on EK. The earning rates of QF points on EK are horrible. But what else can I do? I am nothing on EK. I do a lot of flying (out of BKK). 150-200k kms a year. But most of it is...

I am flying to MIL on TG biz class. Anyone know any details about a TH or Star Alliance arrivals lounge at Malpensa? Google searching produces no results. Thanks

Hi. Flying tonight on EK is Y class. Am QF WP. What's the best lounge? QF or EK. Especially, which one has the best champagne:)?!

Two years ago the QF status changes on non QF oneworld flights made it near impossible for a non-Oz based flyer like me to maintain WP. So I did the AA challenge and quickly made WP equivalent on AA. Shifting all my miles collection to AA. QF gave me a soft landing WP putting me WP on both AA...

Hi All I have two redemption options from a trip from BKK to NYC. Either CX or JAL in premium. Neither has business class available on my dates. Would be grateful for views on which is a better product? Cost is factor. The CX seats are 6k less QF points and $200 less in taxes. But if the...

Last week I received a panicked call from a friend of a friend (person A) who had just landed at BKK for the start of a 2 week TH holiday. Somewhere between boarding their flight in Dubai and getting to immigration at BKK this person's travelling companion (person B) had lost their passport...

I have been doing a lot of flying out of BKK on EK in the last few months. The EK lounge is under renovation at the moment so EK passengers are being sent to the QF lounge (which is the old combined BA/QF business lounge). I thought (at first) that everything was in the same in the EK version...

I had a monster flight year this year. 2,450 SCs on QF, 65,000 EQMs on AA and a bunch of other flights as well. With the help of the AA Challenge I achieved AA Plat and am 65% of the way to E-Plat. The challenge is what to do next in 2014 to plan for 2015 My flying in 2014 is going to drop...

At the end of my last trip I ticked over the 2,400 SC mark and cashed in for 50,000 points. But now I have to decide where to credit my next four months of flying. I won't make P1 because I am based in BKK and my upcoming big trips are to Europe and America (mainly flying CX). Simply not enough...

I first joined the QFF program in 1991. In those days a trip to Europe in Y earned enough points for a free Sydney to Noumea round trip. And when I say free, I mean 100% free. No taxes, fees, petrol or "just because" charges. In the years since I have mainly been WP but have spent time in...

Mornings at Sydney airport are crazy at the moment. Traffic is backed up half a km from the airport, check-in is a scrum, security is a war zone and (yes this is a real first world problem) it is impossible to get a table for breakfast in the QF first class lounge. I presume this overcrowding is...

I am QF WP. Have been for 10 of last 11 years. I flew EK recently for the first time from BKK to DXB. My prompting to fly EK was the new EK and QF deal. I was flying under an EK number so only getting a fraction of the miles I would if it was a QF code share number but preferred that to...

I am a QF WP flying EK next month from BKK to DXB and back in J/D class. This is my first time flying EK despite more than a decade of averaging 200k miles a year. I am looking for advice on the best way to collect miles for this flight. I know that I can collect miles on QF flying EK but at...

Hi all. I am an Australian moving to Bangkok for a new role. I will be doing a lot of flying to the US east coast, Europe, Australia and around SE and North Asia. A range of 120-200k miles per year. I am looking for advice on which airline, network and FF program is the best for my new home...

I am flying Pacific Blue out of Sydney. I am gold on Qantas, United, Singapore and Velocity. From what I have read Velocity Gold on Pac Blue is not good enough to get into the NZ lounge. is there any lounge I can get into in Sydney International with any of these cards while flying Pac...

After ten years I have lost platinum status with Qantas. I fell about 8% short of the status credit target so find myself in the unexpected position of carrying a gold rather than platinum frequent flyer card on my many travels. Time away from the black card has allowed me to reflect on what...

Dear Forum watchers. I have just posted a 18-20 min video documentary on my blog (the Business Of Online Travel) which follows a number of hard core mileage collectors as they go on mileage runs to maintain status. Includes a guy that paid people in Thailand to fly a particular Thai route four...

Dear Frequent Flyers. Long time stalker, first time poster. I just earned QFF Gold for life and renewed by QFF Platinum for the ninth year. That said, I flew less Qantas in 2009 that any year since 1999. My last long haul flight with them was over a year ago. Lots of trips this year on CX...