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One of the current affairs shows covered this story for Japanese tour groups being herded into souvenir shops in SEQ that were owned by Japanese business interests.

The foam earpieces were disposable and wrapped around the inner hard plastic tube, which would poke through at times, making it a painful experience. As we do with electronic plug malfunctions, sometimes those acoustic ones also didn't have any sound. How did the volume work on them? Did a...

I *knew* AFF was the best place to ask for it! Thanks.

I was trying to describe those uncomfortable stethoscope-like earpieces with stiff dual tubes that went into a dual hole in the armrest back in the 1970s. As a student I used to avoid the $2 rental fee by making a cone from a menu card and poking back the flap that stopped the sound from...

Question about breakfast menus, particularly on SQ and more particularly for Hindu vegetarian. First, here is the MEL-SIN AVML on SQ218 18/03/13: Fairly substantial meal and quite tasty. Here is the one departing 21/06/13: SIN-MEL SQ227: Fruit, juice, one roll and margarine. The local time...

The only rule where we do the same as in the US is - give way to traffic on the right. You will get this at 4-way intersections and large mall car parks. If you are in traffic, you'll be able to do what the locals are doing, but it's on those quiet roads where you're the only car that you can...

Good point, FlashKiwi. Had forgotten about the 5-year uruwhenua, so could be worth less for a renewal. I am not sure about the need for returning on the Aussie passport bit because for some years after leaving the RAAF I did not have a regular Aussie passport (in the 1990s) and only used the...

Silvermarch, you can't work in the US with a B1/B2 visa, which I assume you have, given that this thread is about them. I would not even mention volunteering to be safe. You need an immigration lawyer who will probably recomment an E3 visa. Source: The Consequences of Working on a B1/B2 Visa...

I am a dual NZ/AU passport holder so I compared both country forms: http://www.immi.gov.au/skilled/business/_pdf/form-1390.pdf http://www.immigration.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/23492FF8-7990-46A7-AECA-1C6AE6237857/0/APECBusinessTravelCardApplication.pdf Crikey! The NZ form is two pages; no...

There is a major subjective element of lounges when food tastes differ so much. Most people I think love pasta, meatballs, bacon and sticky-date pudding (not picking on hdfb at all). I totally dislike bacon (no religious angle) but love ham and a decent tom soup. Pasta and meatballs are low on...

I mainly travel AVV-SYD and SYD-MEL every week and am a paid member of both QF and VA lounges. Y-grade QC in SYD is better than VA Lounge when it comes to food and availability of Macs (VA is BYO computers). However, an under-appreciated aspect of lounges is the peace of mind that you can leave...

I noticed this at the MEL carousel for Virgin Australia yesterday. Priority has a purple taped off area where a human pulls priority bags on to the floor. All kinds of other bags were coming off and the occasional Priority tagged bag in between. I have noted at many airports when I was late to...

Just installed the iPhone app and looked for something I have wished for when browsing the long threads in the various "I'm in the xx lounge" forums. The search feature isn't finding me a lounge guest thread that is current. I am often in the SYD VA lounge on Thursdays around 3 pm and can...

I keep getting this screen after I choose to install the app (after visiting the AFF URL with Chrome on an iPhone 5). The app installed properly by using iTunes on my Win 7 PC.

I signed up the same day as your post but Gold membership cost me $50 a year (not complaining = great value).

What is the technology that connects the bag owner to the bag? IOW, do we supply all our contact information when sending the stamps to admin and he keys that into some airport computer?

It was in 2000 and I was doing a 3-month training course in the US, so I am trying to stretch my memory. I might have emailed or texted her, as I rarely call Australia from overseas. Not to save money, but often the time zones aren't convenient and she was teaching. But I have never been in a...

Different people react differently to the same "emergency". Fortunately, my wife of 33 years has coped with everything that might have happened during the numerous times I was away. She has worked with little kids for most of her career, so that may have trained her to recognise a real...

TMI. Probably Glenorchy, unless there is also a Glenorbie.

Only AFF readers can truly appreciate your pain there. Ouch. A couple of weeks ago, I rushed out of the QP in SYD, read the wrong row of the departures monitor, went to the wrong gate and found out the hard way that the barcode scanner lights up red if you're in the wrong queue. I went through...