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    ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

    I'm after some quick advice. I sold some shares that I'd held for many years and I now have a $90k capital gains tax bill to pay as part of my income tax assessment. This is a personal income tax issue, not a business tax one. I've only just received the assessment but the due date for payment...
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    Assistance required re flight change by Qantas

    Rang them, spent forever in line on the phone, then got it sorted (F on QF2 on the following night). Thanks everyone for your help. Much appreciated.
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    Assistance required re flight change by Qantas

    I'm after some assistance if anyone would be kind enough to offer some suggestions. A few months ago my wife and I used points to book business class flights to the UK at xmas time. We will be travelling over there together to catch up with our daughter who has recently moved there for a year or...
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    Reduced AMEX earn rates from April 2019

    Everyone is talking about length of membership and annual spend as being/not being determinants for doubling of points. I wonder if they are also looking at number of card sign-ups during the last few years as well. Surely they don't want to have to double those freebie points, especially for...
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    Poor service from Turkish Airlines

    Thanks for the comments. Checking again on FlightRadar24, our flight was the only one in 10 days that used the A330. It seems like it was just a case of wrong place, wrong time for us. I'm still not happy with Turkish Airlines but given the low chance of getting something from them, I'm...
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    Poor service from Turkish Airlines

    Thanks for the comments. I did consider that there might have been other reasons for replacing the aircraft, and there may indeed have been a valid reason. I think it still could well have been done for economic reasons though. In terms of upsetting passengers who were downgraded, I think I was...
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    Poor service from Turkish Airlines

    I'm sitting at Changi airport, still really peeved at the service I just received from Turkish Airlines ("TA"). In a nutshell, I've been added to the list of people that have been downgraded from business to economy. We booked our flights ages ago through Singapore Airlines ("SA") using AMEX...
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    QF not honouring points for QR flights

    Yeah, I've got a better understanding of it now. Thanks for your comment. The whole thing has been a good learning experience for me.
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    QF not honouring points for QR flights

    Thanks everyone. I'll look into QR and AA programs as suggested and see what I can come up with. And yes, it is very frustrating.
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    QF not honouring points for QR flights

    From memory there were more 'No Record of Travel' annotations initially but there is still one there, even after I submitted all of the boarding passes.
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    QF not honouring points for QR flights

    I went back to one itinerary and it showed the various Qatar legs as classes T and O (with class Y on Turkish Airlines for one leg). The Qantas website indicates classes KLMV for discount economy, BH for economy and Y for flexible economy are all eligible booking classes. Is Qantas being overly...
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    QF not honouring points for QR flights

    I've done a number of trips to Turkey for work in the last year. Four trips in total but three of these were on Qatar. All flights were in economy and were only booked a week or so in advance of the trip commencing. I've gone into my QFF account and claimed the QR miles but my claims were...
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    Which is best to EU - Singapore or Etihad?

    I have flown both on numerous occasions (not to London though) and both rate very highly. Both are in the world's top 10 airlines. One thing to consider will be that with Singapore, you will get a short first leg then a long second leg. With Etihad it will be the other way around but with less...
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    Need help organising award flights

    Flights are now booked as recommended by you guys. Thanks notzac, rtyuiop and bismarck (and JohnK) for your help. I'd have wasted a lot more time trying to figure things out for myself. Your assistance helped save me a lot of time. I must say that the KVS Availability Tool looks very useful. I...
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    Need help organising award flights

    Thanks for your input Danny. That's really useful information. I'll make a phone call and see where things end up. I did check the QFF website yesterday and whilst there did seem to be some economy seats available, I'm not overly keen to do a 14hr flight in economy. I'd prefer to do a two-leg...
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    Need help organising award flights

    Hi everyone To cut a long story short, my wife has booked a cruise for the 2 of us in the 2nd half of May 2015. The cruise is from Barcelona to Dubai, so we were thinking that we might fly to Paris at the start of May, then slowly make our way down to Barcelona to board the ship. At the end of...
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    Another newb signing in

    Okay, thanks JohnK. I'll follow your suggestion.
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    Another newb signing in

    Thanks guys.
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    Another newb signing in

    Yeah certainly, any assistance would be much appreciated JohnK. To cut a long story short, my wife has booked a cruise for the 2 of us in the 2nd half of May 2015. The cruise is from Barcelona to Dubai, so we were thinking that we might fly to Paris at the start of May, then slowly make our way...
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    Another newb signing in

    Hi everyone. I've read through some stuff on this forum numerous times in the past but only just signed up today. I'm trying to organise some rewards flights and it's doing my head in at the moment. What a learning curve. I'll start a new thread in the Flight Search Assistance section and see...
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