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  1. DrGear

    Tips for transiting at Manila NAIA T3 to T1

    Off to Japan on Tuesday and travelling SYD-MNL-HND and I've gotta get from T3 to T1. I've got 6 hours between arrival and departure and I've heard they're incredibly slow and inefficient at NAIA. Seems most people recommend using Grab to go to the other terminal as it's a 20 minute ride away...
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    Taken 2x General Qantas lounge passes - expiry 14 March 2025

    Got two general passes available, would like for them to go together and hopefully to people who've not had a chance to experience the lounge before. PM me if interested and first in who fits the bill is welcome to them.
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    Hotel prices in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto exploding

    We've been prepping our trip for March/April again this year and while I knew that hotel prices in Japan had gone up, the amount honestly shocked me. A property we booked for 3 nights in Tokyo last year for $547, is now $480 PER NIGHT. The dates are almost identical, the dollar is at the same...
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    QBR points for international car hire bookings through the portal

    I’m booking our trip for next year and surprisingly, booking through the QBR site is the best value for a little over a week of car hire in Japan. However the terms and conditions have me a little stumped as I’m not sure whether I’d be eligible for points. It’s says on the site To me that...
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    Airwallex to Qantas Business Money

    I used Airwallex for years and thought it was great but they recently brought in monthly fees for the account and I don't put enough through it per month to have the fees waived. Even then, they added fees to stuff that used to be included. Qantas launched a rebadged version of it but I never...
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    Hold onto your legacy plans if they include free roaming

    I've been with Optus for like, 12 years, and 5 years ago I got my usual iPhone on a decent plan in 2019. Went up in price twice since I got it, but for $63 a month I get all the standard call and text inclusions, plus 160GB of data AND unlimited roaming in the band 1 countries PLUS 2GB of mobile...
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    Search and booking issues trying to book Qantas Classic Reward flights

    I don't know if there's some kind of trick to finding flights on the Qantas site but depending on which version of the search I use and what legs I select depends on what gets shown to me. Sounds weird, but bear with me. I use the front page search as well as the multi trip search to try and...
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    Best way to book multi destination CR trip?

    I'm booking our next holiday and looking to do Sydney to Hong Kong, onto Japan then return to Sydney. Finding flights is an absolute nightmare, not necessarily due to time or availability (bronze status), rather the search function is hot garbage. I'm looking to book all CR using points for my...
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    Taken 2x domestic lounge passes - exp 31/8/24

    I won't be using these so glad to pass them onto regulars here given how much the community helped me during my issues with Qantas earlier this year. So if you've been a member here for a few months with over 20 posts, you're welcome to send me a PM with your QFF# and details and I'll transfer...
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    Qantas ruined our rewards booking 2 weeks before flying

    I am in tears right now. We booked last year flights to Japan via Taipei with points and got rewards flights on China Airlines in J. The partner needed to fly home earlier for work stuff. I had extra points and managed to score a rewards flight back a week early for her on Qantas. I called up...
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    QFF Rewards booking with China Airlines

    Finally managed to actually use up a chunk of my points and secured J reward seats on every leg of a trip with China Airlines during peak season to Japan (late March to mid April 24). Absolutely wild luck I swear. Did it a little round about but works well for us. For a grand total of 233,300...
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    Unable to find any rewards flights when and where I'm hoping

    Trying to find some rewards seats to Japan end of the year/beginning of next year and it seems as though there's nothing. Well, nothing J anyway. Am I basically SOL or will some others maybe become available over the next few months? I got a million plus QFF but no status or anything as the...
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    Painfully slow QFF gift card redemption

    Sick of my QFF points sitting there gathering dust, so I took advantage of the gift card sale they had. Fiancee works for Apple so we get a pretty hefty discount, and I needed a new Mac for the business so got enough gift cards to cover what I was after. 3 days later, still haven't had them sent...
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    Thinking of switching from QBR Amex to a Plat

    Had a QBR Amex for the last 2 years and it's been fine, but given the nightmare that is the current Qantas availability thing, I'm considering applying for a business platinum. Given I can't access the back end to see what I could use those points on, I'm trying to determine whether the extra...
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    Good resource to understand the jargon and system more?

    So I've got a QBR Amex that I've had since not long before covid and amassed over 1.1 million points thus far. God only knows when I'll be able to use them given my inability to take a holiday and the general state of flying right now, so I want to try and garner a better understanding of...
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    Newbie with a bunch of points I can't use XD

    Name's Six and I got a Qantas Amex for the business literally right as Covid struck last year. The aim was to use the points for my annual holiday with my fiancee, which obviously ain't happening now. All up I've racked up a little over 550K in points since April last year. The aim was to use...
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