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I understand there are fewer award seats on Qantas flights for Alaska Mileage Plan members than there are for Qantas points holders, and if any award seats are left for Alaska members they are typically released later. Can Expert Flyer be used to find availability just for Alaska members, or...

Update: I pursued a chargeback through the credit card used to pay for the tickets, and after first refusal from the credit card company, resubmitted, and lo and behold there's an approx $1000 credit appearing on my credit card account as of 21 May. Just hope it sticks and isn't refused by ANZ.

I live in Canada and wanted a UK bank account so that the UK Dept of Work and Pensions could deposit my UK pension in GBP rather than converting it to C$ at an unfavourable rate, and so that I could easily send money to relatives or companies in the UK. While visiting the UK I tried to open an...

I am not losing any airpoints, just 50% of the ticket price. In August 2019 we purchased two seats on a flight from Australia to Canada for late May 2020. Air New Zealand emailed me yesterday (2020-04-06) to tell us that our booking was cancelled and that we will automatically be given a credit...

I hope that this will make it easier to use Alaska miles for Canada-Australia award seats on routes which are currently available to Qantas members but not to Alaska Mileage Plan folks. It appears the availability of routes and seats is not the same (i.e. less) when booking through Alaska as it...

If you get a chance to tell us about these that would be super interesting. By the way sorry I mispelled Carnaval de Québec.

Two points are relevant; Airlines: My experience has been that some airline checkin staff are ignorant of the requirements mandated by security, customs and immigration, and err on the side of obstructing one's travel. US entry: Being a "trusted traveler" e.g. Global Entry, Nexus, Sentri etc...

Anyone else planning to visit should know that -12°C is not considered particularly cold as it's around average for Québec City in December/January. It's coldest winter nights typically have lows in the minus-twenties °C. Temperatures below -30 °C occur occasionally. A wind chill factor will...

Not that it makes any difference as to who needs an ESTA, but not all assengers landing in the USA actually pass through Border Security, some preclear at the originating airport (Dublin, Shannon, Aruba, Freeport, Nassau, Bermuda, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton...

It shouldn't need to be pointed out that this not the first all-electric plane - such claims distort the source news releases. The real firsts are: - the first seaplane converted to all-electric. - the first airline with plans to convert to an all-electric fleet It is interesting that the first...

No-one is entitled to take as much food and drink as they want! The understanding and the unwritten contract between customer and the hotel buffet or airport lounge is that you can take as much as you can eat and drink while there. Taking away bottles of drink and containers of food is just...

The type of baggage trolley used is usually more dependent on which airport you are at and what type of plane it is than which country you are in.

Will JMB show OneWorld award seat availability if you don't have the JMB miles to book one? I ask this because I have no JMB miles but have lots of Alaska Airlines miles good for Cathay Pacific and Qantas, among others. Alaska has no online access to Cathay Pacific awards. I will sign up for JMB...

The suggestions about the clothes and footwear fro keeping warm are fine but I would like to add one to help you stay on your feet if you are going to be walking on icy surfaces in the city or on a trail. You should put urban traction aid devices/city crampons/icecleats on your shoes or boots...

Reminds me of the time when flying BA from SEA to LHR connecting via YVR was much cheaper than YVR to LHR alone. I doubted I could have joined the trip in YVR (near my home) so bought a separate 1-way ticket YVR to SEA to join the BA flight back to YVR, and still saved, albeit with two extra...

Since all the RTW routes I checked on OneWorld starting from YVR were much more money than the Finnair examples starting in Oz, I wasn't sure it would be possible to get the sales on itineraries starting outside Oz.

A Tasmanian devil I could understand they wouldn't want, but totally banning hedgehogs is silly. If my companion hedgehog is contained in a carrier that fits under a seat and I pay the fee, why not treat it the same as other small mammals. .

Is there any point looking into Finnair sales prices for RTW trips not originating in Australia. I live near YVR Canada.

Flight time non-stop AMS to KEF is 3 hours, and return is 3 hrs 10 mins by Icelandair. Expect to pay around €370 for a lowest price regular Economy Class seat, with Special Economy fares sometime as low as €238. In other words somewhere between A$370 and A$530 for the return ticket. Some...