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Trudy, your Wizard card is probably the best card you could have in your situation. Many banks slug cardholders with extra fees on overseas transactions. The amount varies with the size of the transaction - the bigger the spend, the higher the fee. That's the main reason I have a Wizard...

I have a different take on CitiBank. When I worked in the US (late 1999 - mid 2003) I had an ANZ Gold, but wanted to get a US card as well. That turned out to be difficult. In the end, only CitiBank would give me a card. Low credit limit, reasonable fee for a year, and after that they dropped...

TY Thanks for that - very interesting! When coming home the last time from NYC (May 03), neither Qantas nor Cathay were available, so I did a lot of checking on unusual ways to get from NYC to Perth. LAN via Santiago/Sydney and Finnair via Helsinki/Bangkok both fell over, and I didn't have...

Interesting My wife and I made more Perth-NYC-Perth flights between 1999 and 2003 than we care to remember. Most of those were on Cathay, though I'm sure we used Qantas at least once. The BA FF club in the US really beats the drum about OneWorld, and we were under the impression that the...

AA Yes, it is. I have a real soft spot for American. My father flew with them often back in the 1950s, my sister-in-law worked for the airline for many years, and my mother actually hosted three gals from California who needed to do their AA stewardess training in New York. I've flown with them...

No acronyms EDITED VERSION Sounds like you are a family man, so here are some family-oriented thoughts: 1) Virgin's Velocity programme does not allow you to pool miles with other family members. My wife and I used Virgin to fly Perth-Melbourne-Launceston-Sydney-Perth in the past month to...

Re: last question, Perth Rockingham is a long way from Perth airport. We paid $43 for a taxi from the airport to Kingsley on Monday, and Rockingham is easily double the distance. Time, as always, depends on traffic. Allow at least an hour. The rail will extend to Rockingham in the next year...