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Can we stop using the acronym VA please! I know largely in this context it means Voluntary Administration. Maybe spell it out in full or use V/A when referring to Voluntary Adminstration and if you mean Virgin say so !

Because what the OP has posted is completely unbelievable. It's simply not even possible to envision a scenario where QF stuff up ticketing of an award of a partner. Never. Or that MH does not have the capacity to fix a simple error. QF has perfect ticketing. MH is an exemplary...

Just following the rule that in an accident never admit fault. Fulfilling her obligation to her insurer.:rolleyes:

Been like that for many many years. Well before YouTube was even invented. As just one example I’ll take a good number of YouTubers, over Carl Stefanovic anyday. But maybe I’m too young too appreciate Carl, I’m only in my mid 50s. 🤣 And let’s not get into some of the radio “shock jocks” or...

Ah, I forgot to mention, if you go back a dozen or so posts, you will see our experience at the hotel , and it seems you did get an upgrade... you were allowed to keep your originally booked room. We were downgraded last time we stayed there (but that was booked under my partner's name, he was...

I have that exalted uber-status with Accor, of Silver ( 🤣), during recent stay in London - admittedly at an Ibis - we received a room upgrade and requested late checkout - and without prompting they offered 5pm . We also enjoyed some nice welcome drinks from the bar we chose a cider each (...

Agree room upgrades are rare. And I think the 250-500 pts welcome gift is ... well that $2.5-$5 AUD, so whatever. I have used the 2pm checkout a couple of times, but mine was a LTG status grandfathered from SPG, which used to have 4pm checkouts for golds as well. I think my one and only...

If it’s any reassurance, over the weekend, my sister had a flight arriving in T6 that was over 2 hrs late connecting to QF in TBIT. According to FlightAware, the time between arrival and push back of the two flights ended up being just 49mins and she made it. (Although the QF flight pushed...

Too much protein in the meal, replaced with something lhey could get away with having even less meat in the dish without it being overly noticeable (such that it has almost no meat in it) - the lasagna dish.

When you are PPS your whole balance has no expiry.

Of course it is. They make up the lions share of the concerns of the travelling public in the US. And on the flopside, how many foreign airlines bribe politicians in the US have their own PAC's to influence lawmakers?

Interestingly it can and IME does pass through some times. . A couple of time I've carried a scrunched up tube of 160g of toothpaste through security at SIN, without thinking about it (and some other ports as well) and been forced to throw it out during the trip, as it does eventually get...

What a sh#tty situation then? That would have not cheesed me off, but really have p#ssed me off instead. Sorry all.

Yeh, likewise in some other parts of Europe (eg. Brussels).

Whilst Barcelona is indeed a distance and in a different country, if you really need to be in Doha, it might well be a pragmatic option. It’s about 4 hrs by train + time to transfer to the airport at Barcelona.

From memory, the zone change is at 2000 miles one way. Thus MEL/CBR-PER are the sweet spots (and of course ADL), being <2000 mi, whist BNE/SYD-PER costs considerably more as they are both > 2000 mi.

My biggest sleep disrupter is not noise but room temperature and the thickness of the bedding. A lot of hotels, particularly if on higher floors during winter tend to heat up excessively over the course of a night. Now I just strip out the quilt and hope the temperature doesn’t cool down too...

Whilst MEL-SYD and SYD-MEL are obviously the same distance ( 439mi) SYD is actually 360mi further from PER than MEL is. It’s this difference that pushes it into the next zone on the award chart which kicks in at 2400 mi. (2479 vs 2120 mi). What you are suggesting could work, for the same...

What you say is true for itineraries that include international segments, but for domestic itineraries a Stopover is defined in the program T&C: Also whilst the system will see PER-MEL as a city pair, it will count the mileage flown for the purposes of establishing the zone of the ticket. It...

.... Won't an overnight stay cost extra points as then you are adding two one way awards together, as for domestic travel an overnight stay is considered a stopover? Edit: That aside, PER-SYD-MEL is actually 2479 miles, which puts into Zone 4 which makes it 57,000 pts instead of 41,500 pts...