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Not sure which forum this goes in sorry...looking for RTW in PE (or mostly PE) in January. not many stops. One on each continent would be fine. Trying to get to Oaxaca, Mexico in particular. I am Gold on SQ til October only, nothing else useful apart from a few Emirates points but wanting status...

I have June flights via KF which I want to change until December. I can select the new flights but can't push the button to submit the request, it's greyed out. I can't get hold of anyone at SQ..seems like they never refunded 500k points from a trip never taken in December 2020 and I keep going...

Weird they chose you - how hard were you pushing? I've definitely heard people are being quietly refunded. I'm just waiting to hear back from TI, and if they refuse I'm filing a claim in small claims in NSW immediately. Not sure why this hasn't been raised as an option here at all. The contract...

They won’t spring you out of a Dubai jail if you do CPR on an Emir who subsequently dies though. If we’re talking about Western countries I wouldn’t be worried in the slightest - there’s medical indemnity, there’s the fact that common law countries require negligence for a successful lawsuit...

But what you did was appropriate (including stepping aside). The role of a medical bystander is to provide basic life support, plus use of an AED if available. If nothing else, the ambos have the IVs, the fluid, the airway equipment and the monitors and are very adequately trained. It’s not...

Well he has been awarded a doctorate so can use that title I suppose. Pretty sure that the “doctorate” doesn’t involve an actual doctoral dissertation and is basically a courtesy title like a medical practictioner’s if not more so.

In Australia. If you are in France, for example, the legal situation is entirely different. And we are talking about international flying here so the legalities are completely unclear and untested. And that’s where there are legalities at all, what happens when you are in, over or diverted to a...

I’m not convinced there is any obligation, certainly there isn’t legally here (Dekker had a few unique features but was overturned anyway with no clear obligation found to exist). But if you are on xx_Xistan airlines flying from Burma to Bhutan no-one will be able to unpick the legal situation...

Hippocratic oath doesn’t apply, we don’t encounter it in Australia. I think it’s an oath not to perform surgery as much as anything else. There’s no legal obligation to assist a stranger in theory in Australia. There have been cases which almost challenged this. Failure to assist is however an...

The benefits are carefully calibrated so as to not breach Good Samaritan principles of help without reward. I already have a better textbook than they offer and from memory the FF points were worth $30...my specialty is critical care in remote environments and training is superfluous so at least...

I think it’s completely unreasonable for a multi billion $ corporation to charge someone $15,000 for a flight and then inform they they are unpaid on call for the next 15 hours in an unfamiliar environment. Then next time I’m asked in advance (as opposed to helping in an emergency) I will...

If we are talking about EK or anything to do with the Gulf States I’d be very, very happy to stay a “Mr” which is what I will do in future. I’ve heard stories of pax being told they might be asked to remain with staff (?detained) after bad outcomes and some bad stuff happens in Dubai itself to...

This is kind of a weird development but I had heard that Emirates had started routinely greeting pax with “Dr” in front of their name by saying (basically) “welcome to the flight, we will contact you for any medical problems during the flight”. I thought people were being precious and then it...

It’s been fine but depends entirely on the property and you need to be careful not to get so attracted by the price that you go somewhere less than great. Lotte Arai was not great (Tripadvisor’s 1-3 star reviews explain why) and they are readvertising it now. Did the Tokyo Hilton which is also...

Hi! I need to fly from Melbourne to Vienna for a meeting starting early on the 3rd of June 2018 and stretching until the 8th of June. I am QFF with no status but we get 300,000 points a year and fly to NYC every couple of years in J (i.e. getting a few status credits by flying QF or CX won't...

I'll get plenty more QF points eventually (thanks ATO), especially if the top rate goes back up to 49.5% .. so I can live with less of a sign on bonus as long as Altitude is an OK program. I think I saw they are scrapping the Amex mid-next-year.

I can't find anything specifically about this although someone must have asked? I was just sent a Westpac Platinum card + Amex due to a new home loan, no annual fee so I said yes (I think there was a sign-on bonus)? I chose the non Qantas option because I want to explore Singapore/Virgin but...

I thought the airline would treat a pram as checked luggage and substitute an airline (or airport) supplied pram after the security barrier (ie. pre-cleared). Nope, I have a Japanese travel pram that folds up as small as a briefcase. You sling it over your shoulder up the stairs or skybridge...

With 4m flights per year, if they need staff members to manually process each refund, including several calls to each customer (and when it happened to me they must have tried to reach me six times before I was able to take the call) - I'm not surprised they have staffing problems. I just...

I am travelling MEL-HKG-Newark and want to take my little Launchkey keyboard on board to record some music on my laptop (with NC headphones on obviously). My family is insisting that it will be confiscated. Surely it would be OK? Here's a picture: Novation Launchkey Mini Mk2 USB/MIDI keyboard +...