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Nope, 500% is not a bargain. The current points plus pay situation is a joke; I live in the US now and it’s 900,000+ to get a return LA-Mel booking.

I’m platinum and LTG, for a good few years now, and the things I’d like to see are Upgrade on booking for international flights, not this nonsense about waiting till a few days before the flight. Simplicity. Don’t complicate the program. Really all I want is to know that if I have loads of...

I live in the US and access to AA flagship check-in and lounges is nice.

I booked business LAX-MEL-LAX in November using points yesterday, processed very quickly and points deducted. Must say I was very pleasantly surprised.

Business class still faces in. What are they thinking??

We had made a reward booking for flights in December for our daughter, mysteriously the points reappeared in my FF account so she needed to ring Qantas to find out why. 2 hrs on hold, to finally find out that the booking had been cancelled (an issue in itself but not relevant here). Crazy.

This 'just like prisoners' argument is one of those false arguments thrown out by the likes of Tucker Carlson looking for ratings and airtime. Quarantine is no more prison than spending 14 days in a camp ground in Albury is. But yes, the inconsistencies between international arrivals and...

Not at all, that's my point.

Either way, Australia will not be on their priority list of destinations for some time now.

No way American will start again in October. More like 2022, they’ve got real staffing issues across the US as travel gets back to normal plus Europe and Canada aren’t far away.

Good response to the endless conspiracy theorists coming out of the woodwork these days. Thanks for sharing.

China is starting to re-open it's borders, resident visa holders from 36 European countries and 13 Asian countries as of August 27th. Restrictions still apply of course, like 14-day quarantine, but the point is steps are being made.

Pretty much mirrors our experience; we're Melburnians living in Newport Beach so just up the road from you. It's a bit surreal watching the case numbers around here and comparing them to Australia and New Zealand (where I am originally from) but at the same time going about our lives here in a...

For others info, I have cancelled two trips with American this year due to Covid-19, one LA to Prague (the conference was cancelled) and one Orange County/John Wayne to Frankfurt (travel restrictions + AA cancelled one leg). In both cases AA fully refunded the fares, which were 2x business...

This is a good thing, there will unfortunately always be winners and losers in all such things. The winners here are people who's status runs out between now and Feb 2021 and will be short SC's and 4 QF flights to re-qualify.

Frankly I wouldn't go. I live in the US, the place is starting to shut down and they are so disjointed in response and public health it's extremely likely to get way worse before it gets better. No, the US is not a place for a holiday in the next few months, sadly.

I'm up to 4 cancelled trips now, expecting a 4th scheduled for June to get canned as well. Going with the flow.....

Well, I just cancelled two bookings in April/May - one LAX-MEL return and one MEL-SYD return. Followed the process shown on the Qantas website, no voucher option offered just the standard statements about terms of the cancellation. I took screen prints of everything and will give them 24hrs to...

To the posted question, conferences in Europe are being cancelled now too. I had one cancelled today in Prague. Qantas will want to remain competitive in the post Covid-19 period, other airlines will be offering extensions.

I fly a lot within the US and am not on any trusted traveler program. Sometimes I get TSApre for no known reason, on United at least but hardly ever on American. No idea why. Roll on GE for Australian passport holders is all I can say.