Made any travel mistakes lately?

[Bundy Bear]

Not really travel as such....

....went onto Qantas Wines last night to purchase some wine: many gifts, bonus points and work towards PC requalification all in one. I knew I had a PC voucher to use, too.

Did all the research, checked wine trackers, weighed up options.... finally put together a cart, paid for it, order went through.......

....forgot to put the voucher code in.

You reminded me I have a voucher to use, I just did my Xmas shopping
Didn’t even cross my mind when paying.

 

[alexczarn]

I flew Jeju Air on an overnight, does that count?

 

[DejaBrew]

Just got airside at SIN and realised I left my checked bag luggage cover at the Swissôtel. How I missed it is beyond me?

Need to see what options are available with the hotel, but if anyone is swinging through SIN shortly and has capacity to carry it back to SYD I’d be eternally grateful!

 

[Daver6]

Just got airside at SIN and realised I left my checked bag luggage cover at the Swissôtel. How I missed it is beyond me?

Need to see what options are available with the hotel, but if anyone is swinging through SIN shortly and has capacity to carry it back to SYD I’d be eternally grateful!

Is it a boogie board bag?

More seriously...how frustrating! Enough time to get a Grab to bring it to the airport?

 

[DejaBrew]

Is it a boogie board bag?

More seriously...how frustrating! Enough time to get a Grab to bring it to the airport?

Nah, just a normal full-sized checked luggage cover, but it’s a perfect match to my bag.

Don’t think I’ll have time to get a Grab to bring it, but I can likely get a colleague here in SIN to collect and “hold” it for me for the time being. So annoyed that I missed such a bleeding obvious thing though.

 

[Hvr]

Just got airside at SIN and realised I left my checked bag luggage cover at the Swissôtel. How I missed it is beyond me?

At least you have a cover story if you need it.

 

[DejaBrew]

At least you have a cover story if you need it.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

3 months ago I joined Aeroplan because of all the good reports on here. bought points with a bonus offer. time came to use them this week.
first was BKK - SYD. Absolutely nothing on TG October/November with Aeroplan. Lifemiles did have Y awards on TG. J came up but on the days I wanted were phantom and Mrsdrron won' fly that long in Y.

Second was SIN-BNE. Aeroplan had some Y awards but nothing in J to any of SQ's flight to Australia. Velocity though had quite a few days in Ocober often with a choice of flights. Problem was I had run out of Velocity and KF points. I had already bought all the velocity points I could for this year so ceased family pooling with Mrsdrron and this allowed her to buy points. So warned they would expire next month as all her activity was immediately forwarded to me. no problem as within 15 minutes from the points hitting her account they were gone. Effectivly a 60% discount on buying the flight.

Now I am left with 2 hard to use programs with LM easier to redeem than Aeroplan.

The window for TG is much closer in… days before departure, then it’s often wide open. There has been the odd availability opening up in the two-three month period, but it’s less reliable.

I looked at a random date in October… the 9th… SIN-BNE is available via DPS, ADL, DRW and CNS, with SQ on the first lag and VA in the second. 2 seats available on all of those.

Checking dates around that, 2 seats available via DPS and at least 1 via ADL or CNS each day… so it is out there.

 

[drron]

The window for TG is much closer in… days before departure, then it’s often wide open. There has been the odd availability opening up in the two-three month period, but it’s less reliable.

I looked at a random date in October… the 9th… SIN-BNE is available via DPS, ADL, DRW and CNS, with SQ on the first lag and VA in the second. 2 seats available on all of those.

Checking dates around that, 2 seats available via DPS and at least 1 via ADL or CNS each day… so it is out there.

But my date was 17th October or soon after. I got the flight I wanted through Velocity on 18th October.
My hopeful back up plan was TG from BKK. I could find that on 28th Octobr that got to payment page but was adding 11 days to the trip. Others showed up but errored at payment so lots of phantom results.
However our 2 TG awards from LM this year SYD-BKK were just after release so LM better than Aeroplan for what I want.