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Currently living In Los Angeles, did a visit home to the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks in February with my wife and 3-year-old kid. LAX-SFO-BNE on UA: Booked LAX-BNE direct in Polaris Velocity points (and Aeroplan points for my kid and wife). Unfortunately, LAX-BNE was cancelled (I think...

It's good to see Bonza doing seemingly well in the Australian market with their rather different business model. It got me thinking, it could make an interesting thread for the experts here. If you were to start an airline, what would you do differentiate? Apologies if this has been asked...

UA have announced that it will be easier next year to earn PQP using its cobranded Chase credit cards. You will be able to earn 25 PQP per $500. This should make it easier to gain/retain status on UA for those of us lucky enough to have a US credit card. Source...

Very excited to have just snagged 3 United Polaris reward seats from LAX to BNE in March. How good are seats.aero alerts! I only had enough Velocity points for one seat so booked one seat with Velocity (95,500 Velocity points) and the other 2 with Air Canada Aeroplan (a bargain 75,000 Aeroplan...

I am moving over to Canada for work for about 6 months. I want to apply for an Amex over there (thinking of using the international transfer feature that Amex offers, it worked well for me when I moved to the UK years ago). I am trying to decide which Amex to apply for and the 2 main...

I flew an itinerary with Air Canada back in July, crediting points and status credits to Velocity. The routing was YYJ-YVR-SNA. The YYJ-YVR leg credited to my account in the usual 3 or 4 days, but the YVR-SNA still hasn't appeared. I put in a missing points claim, and the status was waiting...

I've searched this forum and I can't seem to find this having been covered previously. I am wondering whether there has been a change on the number of times you can use a single item booster like this one: From memory, a while back the fine print used to say that you can use it multiple times...

Quite a bit of coverage in the last day or two about AA suspending interline agreements with Russian airlines, including stopping AA members from earning on S7. There are a lot of nonsense headlines referring to AA suspending oneworld agreement with Aeroflot and S7, which obviously don't make...

Anyone been successful at getting compensation for JQ for a delay? The Jetstar compensation policy states: Source: https://www.jetstar.com/au/en/help/articles/compensation-and-refunds We had a recent flight where we were delayed 3 hours and 19 minutes. No meal vouchers were offered by JQ at...

I just got into Melbourne last week (Thursday) from Canada after spending 3 months there visiting my wife’s family (we needed to go for 3+ months to get the travel exemption needed at the time). I travelled back with my wife and one-year-old toddler, and wanted to share our experience which was...

Anyone have any insight on when UA might start the LAX-MEL route again?

I am looking at a WS operated itinerary and would like to earn VA points and SCs. Do you know if Velocity points are earned on DL flight numbers operated by WS? I know I can credit WS flight numbers to QFF but they don't earn any SCs with QF. Thanks!

My mum is trying to book an airbnb via the Qantas website the usual way in order to earn Qantas points on substantial booking. She is logged on the Qantas website and when she tries to search airbnb via the website, it asks her to enter her QFF number and surname. When she does that instead of...

Mrs Revenge and I are booked on a flight to Canada with United via LAX on 25 September. I was just browsing flights on the Qantas website and saw that Qantas is selling tickets for QF75 SYD-YVR direct on 20 September. We would much prefer to go direct than to go via the US as we will be...

Not sure of this post belongs in this (Refunds & Travel Insurance) forum or if it should be in the Air New Zealand forum. Has anyone had any luck with the compassionate refund scheme to get their cancelled covid flights refunded by Air NZ? Any idea on how long they take to assess? I am trying...

I thought the results shared by Jetstar's on customer panel survey results are interesting. I did think Gold Coast and Cairns would become the new Bali.

I thought this article summarising the ACCC's priorities for 2021 was interesting. https://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/latest-thinking/acccs-2021-enforcement-priorities

My poor mother flew Virgin business class from OOL to MEL today. She was in the lounge this afternoon and said there was no wine. I thought this was strange and checked whether she asked the staff for some and she did and they said they didn’t have any. I noticed the AFF review of the BNE lounge...

I work in the legal industry and this came up in my feed, I thought it could be an interesting skim for some of you. The Aviation Law Review for Australia by Andrew Tulloch from law firm Colin Biggers & Paisley. Published: August 2020...

Hi team My wife and I are working on getting my mother in law an exception to come and visit us from Canada. Ideally (assuming we manage to get permission for her to come) we would like her to fly into Brisbane rather than Sydney as her port of entry. I am having trouble figuring out which...