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Cant find this issue elsewhere, so opening up to the AFF hive mind. Looking at an extended trip in Sept - Aust to Tokyo, then to NY and home thru EU. Been able to price most of what we want with SQ, using their 5th freedoms Aust/Sin thru Tokyo to LA, and NY via FRA to Sin coming back. But...

Here’s something other Velocity FF’S hv probably dealt with. I cancelled a points booking recently but havnt seen the points back in my acct. When I phoned to check I was told they’re there, just not showing online. Velocity offered to send a statement by email - it arrived and while it shows...

Anyone else been confused about emails from Emirates’ chauffeur service Around London ? A month ago, leaving Mel, we got 2 emails about our LHR chauffeur booking, one from Addison Lee with a link to their website that didn’t work, and another from Tristar which was just a confirmation. EK staff...

observations on our first Intl departure for A Few Years. Off tonight on EK 407 from Mel which departs 2115h and posting this from the convivial surrounds of the Q F lounge. Fortunate Qantas have a Dreamliner to LA leaving tonight around the same time, otherwise the lounge would not be open...

Hey VA, how come you can have 4 flts from Hobart to Melb on a Mon, Thurs and Fri, and 3 flights Tues + Wed, but you have only One single direct flight from Melb into Hobart which departs at 20 past 7 at night, on 4 out of 5 weekdays ? Does nobody do a day's biz in Hobart any more ??

heard from VA booking desk yday they couldn’t assign seats to an upcoming booking because there were changes to the seat plan coming up. was told it wouldn’t be in J, so that leads me to think VA might be getting rid of those 2 rows of Eco X and squeezing in another row of Y ? That could be...

What a schemozzle.. looking at a trip from clean, disease-free Tas to nearly equally clean WA. Not many choices on flts and many of them are transits thru Mel. Thats alright, last time I checked Mel transit was OK for most other states - just don’t leave the airport between flights and it won’t...

A question for the SQ experts : Got close to PPS membership with SQ after a busy year of flying with them in J and a little bit in F (on my own dime..) and SQ been good enough to grant me a year's PPS membership - given the current restrictions I would not have made the Sin $25k annual level...

Anyone been looking at EY online bookings recently ? Have been challenged to get to Dubai for something next week. EK fares in J (let alone F) are stupendous at a time of shrivelling demand, so I look at Etihad. That’s OK, credits welcome to my VA acct. Some curious differences in fares to and...

Recent trip to Myanmar booked direct with SQ, and (presumably) my KF freq flyer number was automatically included in the booking because I used their app. I am happy to book direct with SQ, but generally will use my Velocity FF number for points/SC credits. So at check in for first leg...

A strange set of circumstances allowed me to see what I hv been missing the last 10 years - QF J on one of the old 747's. Once QF was my absolute first choice, with years of platinum and eventually LTG, but for reasons tedious these days I fly VA and usually their partner SQ. So that's how I...

We have a few days in late Oct (OK, the working weekdays in between rugby world cup games..) and using our JR passes we plan to do the Japan Alps - the so-called Alpine Route , Tateyama/Kurobe, starting from Tokyo via Nagano and finishing in Toyama. There's plenty of info at the official...

Just back from London where, apart from the tourist crowds, heat and general sense that all public infrastructure is a minor interruption away from extended collapse, we came on a new and noteworthy car service. A magazine ad for Wheely caught my attention - we had a few instances in our...

Have an Aust/Tokyo trip in J booked direct with SQ. The return flt NTA/SIN is an ANA codeshare - Have been able to make usual seat selection for the SQ legs but cant do it for the ANA flight. I can bring up the booking on ANA website using the same SQ PNR but I cant access seat selection page...

My sister, an Aust citizen in her 60's, long resident in the US, has been home for a week to attend our elderly father's passing and funeral. Her return trip was able to be brought forward a day, but then turned into chaos because of Thursday's weather disruption in Sydney. So instead of flying...

This is a first .. anybody know why, 20 mins ago, I would be required to show my passport and boarding pass to buy a bottle of grog at Syd Int’l duty free ? Showing one’s BP is fair enough - to confirm overseas destination etc., but why does Heinemann need my passport as well ? The checkout...

Just back in chilly Tas from a SYD/LHR/MEL trip with Etihad in F - 3 legs in the A380 apartments and the last return flt 777. There has been any amount of critical comment about this airline - so after one of the very best flights ever (in 40+ years of intl flights..) I thought it time for some...

Booked a simple HBA/MEL same-day return recently, with flexi return leg so cud likely get an easy points upgrade. No upgrades were avail upto day before, so I just checked in online, but didn't proceed past the text message to actually load up BP's on my phone... Next I phoned VFF to find that...

I saw today that Etihad just announced an extension of a marketing deal with Tourism Aust which prompted this post : is anyone else cranky at those videos shown just before arrival ? Last Fri eve on EY arriving Melb we had the usual immigration/quarantine video (its made to look soo...

No doubt there are wise words already on the AFF site about this : why do CX fares on their website bear no relation to the real world (eg. Aust/UK rtn at $21k for J) and why also can I not see CX fares on comparison sites ? Given this (and appreciating CX as I do) how does one get to their...