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Hmm I see your point, but I'm not sure I agree with your conclusions. We agree that everything is fine up until the return to Australia. Now, the previous trip out and back is over and forgotten. If my return to Asia needs to be cancelled I can show the insurance company both requirements. I'll...

I think I'd still be fine in this situation. My CC just requires me to spend $1k (for both of us) on any expense of the trip to be covered. If I have to cancel the flight back out of Australia, I can show the price of that airfare was put on the card and I should be covered? The fact that the...

Good point, I will check this out. I've been looking at having to pay insurance and the extra cost eats a long way into potential savings by booking overseas return flights.

I just checked the terms of the credit card insurance I've been relying on to date. HSBC allows qualification with a $500 spend, not necessarily on airfare. However one requirement is : "... you have a return overseas travel ticket before leaving Australia." Looks like I'll have to find an...

Thanks, great point about the insurance. I'll keep it in mind.

Great, sounds like a common practice so shouldn't be any problems. Phillipines Airlines have very cheap return J fares, in fact not much more than I've been paying one way economy MEL-KL so that'll be the plan.

Haha precisely my plan! Good to hear you've had no problems. My main concern was showing an ongoing ticket but I've just discovered it's very easy to buy a dummy ticket (genuine, fully valid for 48hrs) for visa purposes....

My wife and I are Australian but have spent most of the last 10 years living in Malaysia. We now divide our time between Malaysia and Australia travelling back and forth each three months. As return flights from Malaysia to Australia are far cheaper than return flights from Australia, I'm...

Hi, I'll soon be travelling MEL-SFO on UA61 in J, booked as part of a RTW fare with Lufthansa. I'm assuming I can use either Air NZ or SA lounges on departure. Can anyone tell me if there are any lounges I'd be able to access on arrival into SFO at 0830?

Thanks to the contributors to this thread so far - very useful information. I am looking at extended car hire in the USA later this year and wonder if anyone has gone the route of hiring the car (excluding insurances) direct from a US company and self-insuring separately? One example that...