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.....actually strictly speaking it is a query on minimising TA, CC and online booking fees on QF codeshare flights on Emirates metal ex-Europe (since QF only use their metal for LHR). I generally prefer to book online to avoid the TA commission for simple itineraries (and Aussies TAs...

Recently got my new EarthBlack card and while flicking through T&Cs in a moment of boredom, I noticed this paragraph relating to the complementary travel insurance: "Cardholders, become eligible for this Overseas travel insurance when, before leaving Australia on an overseas journey, they have...

I need to take at least a single flight to ensure continuation of my FB status, but most of the options open to me are codeshares on non Flying Blue partner metal (such as Austrian). The T & Cs state "Except as specified in FB Communication, flights which qualify for Miles accumulation are (i)...

While looking for flights to Europe in December, I notice most of the cheapest * Alliance options seem to be with CA. However most options seem to have two stops listed. On closer inspection, these seem to be both within China - normally Shanghai followed by a sector to Beijing. There is no...

Some time ago I recall that somebody posted a link to a website that allowed the choice of selecting and booking either Star Alliance or Oneworld. It was a commercial website like webjet (but different), not the actual *A or OW website. Any clues?

No response to this on Flyertalk, so hopefully the good folks here may have some insights. I have a Premium Economy booking AKL to YVR on NZ and wish to upgrade to Business using an M&M *A upgrade award. The outbound and inbound sectors are booked into O and U class respectively, and according...

Now that Matrix one is dead, I have been unable to figure out how to exclude the non-upgradeable booking classes ( E, N, O, Q and X) for a Qantas fare query (say, SYD-LHR, for example). Could anybody provide a example text for such a query so that I can cut and paste it in? Cheers

As far as I am aware, it is not possible to hold two Australian passports (except if one is an official or diplomatic one), but I have recently heard that it may be possible to get two UK passports at the same time. As a frequent traveller who is often waiting for a passport to come back from...

Folks, i know that the number of points actually acquired for a particular flight may vary slightly when comparing Great Circle Mappers vs number of miles listed in airline timetable and databases, but looking at LHR to AKL and there are two vastly different options with NZ going opposite ways...

Has anybody ever managed to redeem an award flight on OLP-ADL or ADL-OLP? While flights are operated by Alliance with a QF flight number, I would have thought that it was considered similar to QantasLink in terms of redemptions (after all, you can earn SC's on these flights), but it is not...

Has anybody here had any experience with flying Malev and having points and SCs posting to Qantas FF? Every one of my recent flights with them (including one as an Optiontown upgrade) has not posted and seems to take forever to rectify it. Of course, I make sure that the flights appear in "My...

Folks, maybe my aging memory is playing tricks on me, but I had thought that in the past if one didn't have enough points for both an outbound and inbound international sector upgrade, the system would still accept the request for both (in case the first one did not come through, the second...

Folks, does anybody have any idea how to find out what booking classes "Click4Sky' and "Value Special" tickets for Czech Airlines are? N class or U class, for example. It effects the amount of Skyteam points accumulated and therefore my end of year status. The Australian booking people don't...

Folks, anybody know what happened to the Turkish/QF deals to Europe that were listed on the bestflights.com website up to a couple of years ago? Do they still exist? If not, anybody know if QF and Turkish still interline baggage (better yet, anybody know where too find a list of airlines that...

Folks, need to urgently change an existing Korean Airlines ticket from Brisbane to Tashkent via Korea to 28th August and make plans around it ASAP. Korean website not able to check less than 5 days in advance and reservations currently closed or with a possible kaput number. Anybody able to...

Folks, while I understand that it is not possible to book QF107 as a standalone LAX-JFK domestic sector, it is possible to take a LAX stopover on this flight and continue onto JFK on QF107 rather than AA metal. However, does anybody know if it is possible to arrive into LAX on another QF (or...

Folks, I have a business trip booked through our corporate travel agent from Oz to Oslo through Heathrow (using QF to/from Heathrow and BA to/from Oslo) I have a free weekend on the return in Heathrow and I wanted to take a private European side trip from Heathrow on BA using points or payment...

Folks, having gone from gold to platinum and then retained platinum again for next year only two months past my anniversary, I figured that there was little point in continuing to accumulate status credits in Oneworld at the moment. So I was toying with the idea of trying to gain status on...

Folks, while toying around with the OneWorld desktop timetable I noted that a number of JAL operated flights are given as codeshare options for QF flights (eg QF 374 KIX to BNE). Now even though JAL have not yet formally joined OneWorld and they are not listed as a QF partner airline, I would...