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    Qantas rolls out Classic Plus Flight Rewards

    Still I believe qantas ff is lipstick on a pig… I requested from Singapore Air status match to my qantas life gold and after 2 months they have given me gold status free till April 2025… Iam writing this from Colombo and time will tell qantas can be trusted again… Just flown to Colombo on...
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    How does Marriott treat you as an elite?

    Sorry, i was not talking about US credit cards, I was referring to Hyatt membership and getting points while staying… They treat you better than any other.. like Hilton , Shangrilla etc..
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    How does Marriott treat you as an elite?

    ??, This is not the case since you can register with any card.. Where did you get this info? Pls go to Hyatt web and register.. Misinformation does not help. Amex , Visa, MC are all international networks.
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    How does Marriott treat you as an elite?

    I suggest, you look into Hyatt Hotel program. They always looked after me even when major exhibitions that took all hotel rooms by the attendees . Also they never took my points away either since I almost had million Hyatt points and always rooms were there to use with points. I passed lots of...
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    Article: Qantas Considers Bringing Call Centres Back to Australia

    One member mentioned that different accent issue, and it get worse by using VOIP circuits that use for voice calls today.. I find badly provisioned voice network (low cost to save money) create more problems with voice since so many packet losses happened and you cannot understand most words.
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    Article: Qantas Considers Bringing Call Centres Back to Australia

    Around 2006, we(Cisco) approach federal govt. and we did show them that we have the technology to keep call centres in Australia, based on centres are located in outer regions of Aus and can beat overseas call centres on cost... Federal govt. never responded and sat on it with out passing to the...
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    RTW Revenue Tickets

    Turkish airline now into RW using Star Alliance partners and its around $7.6k and pls call these people.. Turkish Airlines Business Class RTW Airfare | RoundAbout Travel
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    Article: Reward Seat Release Patterns Have Changed Fundamentally

    Try Japan Air since they fly to amsterdam from tokyo.. every sept i use to do that..
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    JAL Premium Economy: Australia to Europe from ~$2.7k return

    I will check pricing first on JAL web site..
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    JAL Premium Economy: Australia to Europe from ~$2.7k return

    JAL is a great airline with perfect services and I was using JAL last sept to London via Haneda with 3 hrs transit and their business class pricing is very attractive since its around 6K return and anyone going to Europe this is the best bet and other is ANA. Take a break in Tokyo and visit...
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    AFF Review: Malaysia Airlines 737-800 Business Class (KUL-BKK)

    I would not bother using Malaysian Airline (MH) since 2 months ago I took Sydney to Colombo on business class via KL and It was one of the worst flights both ways. Food on this MH is well below edible since it was not properly cooked and more likely overcooked and when I landed in Sydney from...
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    Qatar denied extra capacity into Australia

    Such a great piece on afr.com Frankly, petro-dictators who keep the equity in their airlines in exchange for the sovereign backing they provide are far smarter than successive Australian governments, which get bled by Qantas for $2.7 billion of subsidies and every other kind of regulatory favour...
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    Qatar denied extra capacity into Australia

    Some of the comments here are mind boggling .. Since Aus is in cough end of the world, we need more transit points if you are flying west, towards Europe and flying towards east got few transit points but well catered for if you going to US or Europe. Qantas has shown its colours when the chips...
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    Best short international trip travel insurance recommendations?

    Try Allianz Travel Insurance, since I find they are quite good with the cover, cost and any claims.. We had an emergency in London and visiting Harley St specialist gave us good report and Allianz Travel Insurance paid total minus excess with out any issues..
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    Next Qantas CEO: Vanessa Hudson

    Creative CFO can be on CEO chair if the person is with 360 vision rather than cost, cost... If old school method of cutting 20% Opex to improve the numbers will not work with an airline since human factor and international service factors are quite complex. I believe major airlines should avoid...
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    Article: Points in Inactive Velocity Accounts Will Soon Expire

    Transfer to Chrisflyer acct free, its 50% value but better than nothing
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    MAS Business points given as Flexible Economy

    My Recent trip on Malaysia Air on business class to Colombo via KL is classifies on Qantas as Flexible economy. My booking is on Z class. Strange factor is Status credit from Syd to KL is 30 with 4000 points but KL to Colombo was 40 status with 2000 points. Bizarre since status credit does not...
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    A review of the reopened Qantas Hong Kong Lounge

    I think Cathay food will be always much better than Qantas lounge but Qantas win with good wine..
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    CX new merged loyalty program

    I have the same and went to WhatsApp and complete failure to do anything and then went to a site for feedback and while i was saying its useless they cut me off meaning they are monitoring live feed back.. wonder mainland morons have taken control of one of the best airlines in this region..now...
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    Article: Airline Status Officially Makes People Spend More

    This does not apply to life members or flying business class..
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