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  1. JohnK

    Australian Citizenship interview

    Wife has Australian citizenship interview in ~4 weeks. What should we expect? Her understanding of English is not very good. She struggles with reading and writing and this is not good either. I know the test is multiple choice 20 questions and you need 75% to pass including all 5 Australian...
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    Thailand Car Hire

    I've been renting a car in Thailand for close to 10 years and I've never had an issue with no international driving permit and I just show NSW drivers licence and passport. I'm hiring a car in September for 11 days and it was down to Hertz or Chic Car Rent. Hertz could not confirm the vehicle I...
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    Uber carshare

    Has anyone tried them? My car in Sydney has mechanical issues and looking to hire a car for 3 days from Saturday. Forget that one cannot hire a car past 5:00pm-6:00pm Saturday night the rate is $200+/day which is a joke. Looking at Uber Carshare but never used them. Any experiences?
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    Bordering Corruption (or Conniption)?

    Perks of the job? This is so low it's beyond belief? Anything confiscated should be disposed of not for personal consumption of security personnel.
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    Google Wallet

    I would not have bothered using Google Wallet if not for Good Guys promotion. I've downloaded Google wallet and it has automatically added Aadvantage and Flybuys form my Gmail account. Note Gmail account is only secondary email account and the majority of my emails are on Outlook. Sign up for...
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    SYD Domestic Check in Opening Time?

    SYD T3 opens 4:00am but check-in does not open until 4:30am. Have been here since 3:50am. Cannot use bag drop. Is this SYD airport or a Qantas restriction?
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    SQ Fare Alert

    Does SQ have fare alerts? One can always set up fare alert with Skyscanner, Webjet etc but would ne nice to get one directly from SQ.
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    How to defer paying for flights until closer to travel

    Starting to plan trip for March/April 2023 and would like to lock flights in now but don't want to commit $3000 right now. I've checked Flight Centre online and you can pay for flights closer to travel but they offer limited flight options on SQ and generally more expensive than what one can...
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    Overseas travel with a child in primary school

    Please don't judge me but looking for some thoughts. Travel has opened up again but finances are not what they used to be so need to restrict travel to 2 trips to Thailand a year. The plan is the trips will be 3-4 weeks duration to maximise time spent holidaying but for the next 3-4 years that...
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    Velocity SC Earn on SQ

    Apologies posting here but I didnt want to start yet another thread and this thread seems relevant. I'm doing early planning for Thailand trip April next year and I've come to the conclusion that airfares are ridiculously expensive with Qantas but SQ has some OK airfares but I don't want to be...
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    Not quite back to normal but back overseas after more than 2 years

    This will be my first trip report. I didn't think the time was right to head back to Thailand for at least another 12 months but my wife was keen to go back as she was very homesick. We got back from Thailand on 09/Mar/2020 and stuck here since. We started planning trip for wife and daughter...
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    MEL Dom-Intl Transit on separate tickets

    Im not concerned about minimum connection between Dom-Intl but Murphys Law. Flying MEL-BKK on JQ next month on a Saturday at 1:15pm and thinking of coming down from BNE that morning. VA first flight arrives 8:40am and the next one at 10:20am where as QF first 3 flights arrive 9:40am, 10:10am...
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    Getting Status with Cancelled Travel

    Can someome please confirm for 21 March that the 6:30pm SYD-AVV JQ609 arriving 8:05pm then turns around as the 8:35pm AVV-SYD JQ610 arriving back at 10:00pm? Are there any other JQ flights out of AVV at that time? I can't book a return but I can book 2 one-ways if I know same aircraft.
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    Handling overbooked flights

    Apologies for long rant. Daughter and I on 2 separate bookings. I booked using Flybuys and then booked daughter via Velocity call centre, bookings linked and seated together. Yesterday was a nightmare. - turn up to SYD T2 at 4:05pm for 5:10pm flight to OOL - use Priority check in and handover...
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    SMS with offer of flight voucher to change flights

    Not sure if mentioned recently. Would this be legitimate? Looks legitimate enough.
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    General Estate Planning issues (Wills, PoA, AHDs)

    No will at all. Which leads to other issue. What if something happens to me? Wife doesn't want to stay here. There are points in her QFF account. Need to explain how she can book an economy award flight to go back to Thailand.
  17. JohnK

    Issues uploading files

    Have started conversation with @support but is anyone having issues uploading files/photos from their smartphone? Was working for me until a few days ago and as soon as I choose the file to be uploaded nothing happens. Clicking on Upload file again also does nothing.
  18. JohnK

    LCC Booking with Child

    I had an issue recently where 3K allocated seats all over for a booking for myself, wife and 2 year old daughter. I thought we were sitting together but seats were automatically allocated apart. I've been looking at booking Air Asia CNX-DMK later this month and started booking the flight and...
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    Thread started by someone on ignore does not appear in forum

    It would appear there's a slight glitch where if you have someone on ignore the threads they've created do not appear on that forum. I don't believe that should be the case as there's a sticky thread in 'Your Questions' that was started by medhead but is general to everyone yet not on the list...
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    Australian Cricket Season 2018-2019

    AJ Finch UT Khawaja SE Marsh TM Head MR Marsh M Labuschagne TD Paine MA Starc PM Siddle NM Lyon JM Holland You'd be forgiven thinking that's the 2nd XI in action? Struggling a little post Trousergate.
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