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Hi all, I (lifetime gold) put in an upgrade request on Tuesday for a red edeal flight for my partner (FF red) for a Melbourne to Sydney flight next Thursday (I'm booked on the same flight, classic business reward so it would be nice if we could be in business together). I vaguely recalled if you...

I know I've read about this before, but I've unsuccessfully spent about the last half hour searching and can't find anything relevant! My understanding from what I've read previously is that a company can't legally compel employees to give up their frequent flyer points, or to use them for work...

Hi Brains Trust, Hoping someone can offer suggestions for a next step for my aunt. She's was gold status with Qantas. After flying to Europe business class on Finnair she had enough SCs to retain gold but only two eligible sectors, so I told her to book a flight with Qantas or Jetstar to get...

Hi folks, looking for ideas for cheaper (but QF status credit earning) fares in J from Melb/Syd/Bris (prefer Mel) to the USA. Doesn't need to be direct. Have done Jetstar J to Hawaii before but keen to have actual lie-flat bed. All ideas welcome! thanks Rebekka

Hi brains trust, My partner and I will be flying to UK for Christmas - our current plan is to fly book a return flight MEL to somewhere in Asia flying QF Y, with a day or two stop over each way, and then fly to Paris for a couple of days probably on Finnair in J, return flights same way, and a...

I'm flying a lot for work internationally, and although some of it's on my preferred Oneworld alliance, I don't actually get a choice of airlines, and I have several upcoming flights on Singapore and some on Garuda. I want to pick a program for each - *alliance and Skyteam - to credit the...

I flew LAX-MEL on Good Friday, arriving MEL Sunday morning. I was lucky to catch the flight - if I hadn't wanted to be early at the airport to check out the new first class lounge, I would have missed it. Why? Because Qantas apparently can't get their act together when it comes to daylight...

Suddenly remembered this morning that I have economy flights booked to LA, and that I'm supposedly able to pre-order food now and get an extra dish that you can't get on board. But I've looked everywhere in the booking and on the Qantas website and although there are still articles up about it...

Hi everyone, I'm off to the US in March/April, and doing a fair bit of flying while I'm there (some to visit theme parks, some purely for SCs!) - just wondered if anyone knows how many drink vouchers I can currently expect to be given in the lounges, whether I can go back for more, and whether...

Just thought I'd post this, because people told me you can't get a local sim with voice services in Japan, but it turns out you can, so other people might find this useful. I'm in Tokyo and using it at the moment. PAYG SIM | b-mobile It's not exactly cheap, but the network seems fast, 3 gig of...

Just logged in to the Qantas website to check whether the 10 points per dollar spend on Qantas vouchers has come through yet (it hasn't) and then checked my booking to LAX for March. Apparently on the way back I have no baggage allowance, but can pre-purchase a bag from $123?!? Of course I...

Hi folksI'm planning my yearly pilgrimage to the LOTFAP, to visit theme parks, friends and airport lounges (and maintain my WP).I'm going to need a bunch of status credits this time as will basically be doing no other flying (maybe a couple of domestic trips, MAYBE) as I no longer fly for...

Has anyone else noticed that the back button stopped working recently when in a thread? I find it annoying because although you can navigate by using the breadcrumbs, if you were on page 2 (or subsequent pages) of a particular forum it takes you two clicks to get back there as you can only...

I was trying to book a flight in the current sale for Feb next year... apparently it doesn't exist, even though the sale fare is valid for February. Tried the same thing with MEL-SYD - same issue. I guess we're going straight from Jan to March then? Has anyone else come across this?

I've been tearing my hair out trying to work this out from the Jet* website, but it (and their call centre) are hopeless. I'm flying later this month, MEL-SYD then SYD-HNL in "business". Can't work out (a) can I check my bags through to HNL in MEL, or do I have to collect bags and recheck in...

I know this is my fault for booking anything with Jetstar, but in pursuit of cheap status credits I am headed to the US on Jetstar MEL-SYD (starter max) then SYD-HNL in business max. Original flights were booked for 30 April. 12.30pm flight to SYD giving me plenty of time to sample the...

Hi peeps, quick question for you - I'm looking at doing a status run to maintain Qantas plat while in the US in May, and looking at flights I'm getting much better prices for individually booked flights than for multi city trips. Can anyone tell me if I book three separate flights on one day...

Hi folks having found myself in the unfortunate position of no longer having a job that involves constant travel (but luckily having some consulting work that pays rather well) I find myself needing to maintain Platinum, because let's face it, once you've been WP it's hard to go backwards. I...

After a hellish flight in the early 90s, I swore I'd never fly BA again. 20 years on, I was stupid enough to risk it again, figuring I'd get better treatment as oneworld emerald than I had as a lowly Qantas NB back then. Plus it was only a 1.5 hour return flight LHR - TLS. Stupid me. Flight...

Hi all the Qantas website lists one of the benefits of being platinum as being told about upgrades up to 48 hours before the flight - it's now past T-48 and I have yet to hear anything. Booking still says upgrade requested. I'm wondering whether I still might hear or if I should abandon hope...