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Hi all, Hoping for some advice regarding a day room in Sydney. Flight will be arriving from LHR just after 5am, so expecting to clear formalities before 6am. Next flight won't be departing until 6pm that evening. I'm hoping to find a day room for a while to clean up and snooze before heading...

Hi all, This will be my first time transferring to a domestic flight in MNL directly from an international arrival. I've just put flights for CNS-MNL-CEB with PR on hold, so would be arriving into T2 (at 0320) and also departing from T2 (at 0555). I've been reading about the horrors of...

I've had envelopes passed to me on QF flights before for the Unicef program, but is something similar done by other airlines? Flying next weekend (VA & SQ), and been clearing out my foreign currency stash, and have quite a lot of coinage to offload. I'd prefer to donate it to a worthy cause...

So I was in line for international security screening at CNS and the fire alarm went off. Well handled, but it shut the terminal down for a while - no evacuation. There was half a dozen firemen running around in full kit trying to find out where it was coming from. Now maybe it's just me, but I...

I sent my paperwork off to renew my UK passport a week or so ago, as it had less than 6 months validity left on it. It's currently in HM Passport Office in Liverpool being processed. However I now urgently need to travel to the UK for a family matter. However due to the renewal, I don't have a...

Hi all, Last time I had to transit in POM (last year), the international terminal was still a giant construction zone and had no shops or anything that were open. I've got a 5 hour transit there in a couple of weeks and am trying to determine whether I should get a day room at the Gateway Hotel...

So I recently ditched my iPhone and bought an Android phone, and this is my first time using the Qantas app on it. Doom. I checked in online using the app, all ok. But then when it went to bring up the boarding passes, it crashed. I restarted it. It crashed again. Rinse and repeat about 10...

My illustrious employer has just sent around an email saying that people's Visa cards are having problems with ATM's throughout Indonesia recently, and that we shouldn't rely on our Visa cards while there. Apparently it's not an issue with Mastercard, but I don't know. There wasn't a lot of...

I've just read that Nauru Airlines is modifying their flight route, and will now be flying to Truk (TKK) as one of their island hops ex-BNE. As a diver, this is of great interest to me, because the United island hopper out of Guam kind of sucks, and anything that breaks their monopoly on the...

Due to a sports injury I'm stuck wearing a moonboot for the next 8-12 weeks. What's likely to be the deal with the TSA/security screening? I know that they usually require removal of shoes, but I kind of can't walk without the moonboot at the moment. I can take my other shoe off, but the...

Apparently... I know this gets discussed with some regularity on airline forums, but it'll be interesting to see how it pans out regardless. To be honest, it's not exactly a new concept. Airlines which operate small 8-12 seaters have been doing this for years in some parts of the world. Be...

One used to be able to check in a 20kg standard allowance, but you'd get an additional 23kg allowance for sporting equipment. It seems that Garuda has now flipped on this, with little notification, so that there is no longer any additional allowance for sporting equipment. As someone who...

I'm in the process of booking a surf/dive trip to Indo, and by all accounts the best way to get where I'm going will be via DPS. Sadly the most practical option seems to be on Jetstar due to connections. Before I go ahead with any bookings though, I'm just wondering how strict JQ's 7kg carry-on...

So this trip came about because a lot of people I know told me that the only way I’d ever enjoy wreck diving is if I went to Chuuk. Having been wreck diving before and having had very “meh” experiences with it, my expectations for this trip weren’t especially high. I booked a week to go to the...

Yesterday our United flight from Guam to Chuuk was diverted, which United claims was weather related. We were diverted to Pohnpei, and told to deplane and that the local ground crew would sort us out. They didn't. We were told that because it was a weather related incident that they were under...

I'm flying to Micronesia next week, and have a couple of long layovers in CNS and GUM on the way over (the way home is fine). I have no status with UA, and am flying Y. Are there any paid lounge access options available to me for the layovers in CNS and GUM? Appreciate any advice :)

I have an international flight into CNS which lands around 2350, and I can't get a domestic connection home until 0630 the next morning. I guarantee I will get hit by quarantine, so I predict it will probably take almost an hour to clear customs, so I'd be surprised if I was out of there much...

I flew TSV-CNS on Qantas, and had initially been concerned about the fact my dive bag would unquestionably be over the 23kg limit the airline has for the Dash-8 flights. Got to the airport in Townsville and while my bag weighed in at 28kg, the check-in guy didn't even blink. Awesome. Then due...

I know the Dash 8 flights have restrictions on check-in baggage weight, but... I have to haul all of my scuba diving gear on a TSV-CNS flight to connect to an international flight. My dive bag weighs in around 30kg - this is unavoidable, I can't rent gear where I'm going. How strict are QF on...

Just booked myself my next dive trip, and the flight schedules mean I've got a long layover in Port Moresby. My domestic charter flight gets in at ~9am and my flight back to Australia on Air Niugini doesn't leave until ~5pm. I know the city itself isn't exactly safe to wander around on my own...