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There's also the PIMA Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. It's a a mix of indoor and outdoor, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Prefer QR over CX or over QF? I have a choice coming up to return to AKL out of Europe on BA & CX via LHR & HKG (three flights total, 12 hours in HKG) or QR via DOH (two flights, 2 hours in DOH). Leaning towards CX for lounge hoping.

:D I will be in Jordan in a week with a different tour company (Exodus); will have to up my TR game ;) What is your final destination/when do you leave Jordan?

You think so? I suggest it'd be one of the safer countries - whilst Saudi may be throwing their toys, I strongly doubt they are going to do anything militarily. Iran would be (at the least) reticent about attacking a Gulf State with whom it is on good (relative) terms. The US has part of it's...

Proxy wars/battles and general instability are nothing new to the middle east. Iran and Qatar largely get along fine, more so since the other Gulf States threw their toys and cut off ties with Qatar. I am flying QR next month and the following (inc. through DOH and other parts of the MER) and...

Bah, just missing SMJ & JC by 24 hours. Oh well next time ;)

Date Flight # DEP Airport Lounge Time Guests Comments 12/11/19 QR942 DOH Al Mourjan 2015 1 Flight time 13/11/19 QF36 SIN F 1940 1 Flight time 14/11/19 QF171 MEL F 0910 1 Flight time

Hmmmm completely disregard me. I conflated QR with EY; it was EY that gave me married segments grief!

This one is to Jordan, w/ quick side visit to Doha. F& J flight redemptions. I'll have to remind myself to do a TR; I always have the best of intentions but invariably forget.

I'd say it might even be the married segments rule. AA sometimes shows aadvantage redemptions on QR which whilst looking legit initially are married segments and won't ultimately book (because there is no published fare for that journey at all or in the correct fare buckets). I could be...

@JohnM Thank you very much for your post - probably one of, if not the most helpful post anyone has taken the time to write in reply to me in all my time on the internet (so 17/18 years!). I've since had a look at Peregrine trips for my destination and they look markedly similar to Intrepid...

Thanks for the recommend for Exodus Roo! Just about to cancel a tour with Intrepid and go with them as it seems a lot better. Have shot you a PM in the event you are intereted in the refer a friend discount :)

Thanks for that! Trying to do it on AA's website tends to break the process (website throws up an error) so may have to, however it would be $250 AUD cheaper for me to use a separate AA account to do the booking (as I don't have to shuffle points around). There's 5 hours between the BA flight...

I'm looking at splitting an upcoming trip to the mid-east to gain a decent stopover (+shower). I can't get the exact flights or routing I want on one through ticket and the overall points cost is the same hence the split. If I multi-city the trip, will it all appear on one PNR/ticket? I.e...

Thanks Serfty - that was my understanding too - if you can put it on hold, the inventory exists - however when the same flights weren't appearing on Award Nexus OR when searching QF's own website, I was a bit concerned I was dealing with something new. Now, I just hope work still sends me to...

Thanks for that, I didn’t know about The JAL tool! Flight ticketed approximately two hours after committing the points to it, so I’m pretty happy with that F redemption! Will follow up with AwardNexus as to why it didn’t show in the search results.

After a lot of 'first or business is not available on all flights' trash, I've managed to put on hold a SEA-LAX-MEL-AKL flight for May (with QF doing the second and third leg) with a Sabre PNR and I've also got the QF PNR, both of which come up fine on each airlines website. The kicker is that...

Perhaps? Sadly that is about as good as I can give at the moment - it's a surprise trip with the GF for my 30th. So have to work in around her particular dietary needs, as well as limited time (in on EK 1930hrs Sat, out 0710 Mon)

Much regret unable, due to not being a darwinite anymore these days! Best wishes to CH and Steady :) Though, I will be in MEL over Easter (EK J across the Tasman with the GF) and back out on the 17th.

Not a recent one, but in late 2015 I was flying DRW-SYD-AKL for a job interview. Bought myself a nice new suit for the occasion, new shoes too. The outbound DRW flight was an 0145 departure. I was up at 0700 the previous day and spent most of it helping a mate out with a domestic crisis and was...