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I've never seen that. But I haven't done any extensive A/B testing, so couldn't rule it out. If it does occur, I think it's rare as you don't read about it occurring very often (at all?!).

There's still some First availability on JL for 2x pax around those dates (eg 3, 4, 5 Dec).

They have theoretical access to seats before lower tier members, but in practice it now means nothing — Qantas have largely stopped releasing award seats at T-365, especially in premium cabins on long haul routes.

Australian Government bills earn at the full rate on US cards.

Fair points, but it should be noted that, post COVID, WPs don't have any advantages over other QFF members in terms of award availability now that T-365 releases, in practice, no longer happen for the most part (apart from award release requests, which I already mentioned).

Although it isn't 'insanely expensive', that strikes me as a crazy high amount of money to pay for status unless you were absolutely milking the Platinum classic award request feature or drinking your bodyweight in wine multiple times per month in the first class lounge. The beauty of AA is...

Not available for domestic flights yet.

What an annoying sign up process. Signed up online, got an SMS saying I needed to call to provide my meter number, when I called I needed to go through the entire sign up process again online. Took about 30 minutes. Operator was a bit quirky. Said the Velocity offer was enormously popular...

Well the screenshot I posted earlier suggests average punters are getting confused. Maybe there's nothing you could do to stop everyone from being confused, but what you're pointing to are quite subtle differences — ask 100 Australians if they know classic awards are red in colour and 99 will...

No, unless they have some specific arrangement in place at their residence (eg they live in an apartment complex and the mail comes through a concierge who rejects anything not addressed to a listed resident).

Yes

I think there's a reasonable argument that they've made the situation worse by calling Classic+ the same thing as Classic. If they had called them Flexible Rewards or something like that, it would have helped the average person.

I don't like metal cards for the same reason — more hassle to dispose of. I've resigned myself to keeping a huge pile of dead credit cards and throwing them into the regular trash once they are well and truly expired (years later).

So much for the new program removing confusion among the average punter ....

Book flights now in Y or PE then rebook in J when/if it becomes available. Set up alerts in seats.aero. Be willing to be flexible on the precise date and port (LAX or SFO) you depart.

As with all forms of skiplagging, you can probably get away with it a small number of times, especially if you claim you're unable to board your onward flight due to medical reasons. But it does put you at risk of being banned from the airline.

Pre-approved offers for cards mean absolutely nothing — they don't mean that you'll actually be approved if you apply. So I wouldn't worry about them. My dog gets pre-approved offers in the mail (I once signed them up as an authorised user for a card to get a bonus.)

You can continue to pay a similar amount of points with Qantas if you really want:

High, but there's no way to tell exactly how many seats have been booked — the number of seats occupied does not necessarily equal the number of seats booked.

If only it worked like that.