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My regular annual multi-trip policy has an exclusion for areas that SmartTraveller classifies as "Do Not Go", but on an upcoming trip I need to land in a city that is in such and area and then drive a couple of hours before I get out of that area into a "Reconsider Your Need to Travel" area...

I'm just wondering if anyone has info on the differences in fees and taxes for domestic J vs Y Classic Rewards? I haven't booked a domestic J rewards seat since the JASA days so I have no idea what they are like now.

Looking at doing the mountain gorillas in Rwanda and am hoping that someone might have done it in the last five years or so and thus has some relatively recent experience.

Flew DPO-MEL-SYD today, the MEL-SYD departed at 4pm, arrived in Sydney to find out that my bags hadn't made the MEL-SYD flight - no idea why. Baggage services told me that the bags would coming on QF478 landing at 19:35 and that they would deliver them to the hotel. They didn't tell me that...

Well that escalated quickly...

Just tried to book a domestic CR seat and the agent said "there aren't any classic reward seats available", so I asked her to request a seat and she said that she couldn't because there aren't any seats of the right class available - does that sound right? First time requesting a CR seat that I...

The problems created when things don't line up between airlines... Qantas says that Europe, Africa etc is the weight system, but Emirates use the piece system to Africa (including Cairo) - and the different systems seems to totally bamboozle the call centres of both airlines - to the point...

As above - if anyone has a long-dated hotel voucher that they would like to swap for a wine voucher then please PM me.

Finally... after two months of Qantas trying to get me back into my QBR account after the Cyber attack I am back in - of all the people in Qantas that have been contacted about this it was the social media team that pointed me to someone that finally got me in. So if you ever have difficulty...

Finally... after two months of Qantas trying to get me back into my QBR account after the Cyber attack I am back in - of all the people in Qantas that have been contacted about this it was the social media team that pointed me to someone that finally got me in. So if you ever have difficulty...

Bit of a mystery - plane crashed into the water in the late 1950's on the other side of the world - unknown if commercial or military but more likely to be military. Wreck has broken up when it hit the water but there are some pretty clear photos of the underside of a reasonably large wing. If...

Just saw this on facebook posted by Pulse Tasmania - "A Virgin Australia flight has landed safely in Hobart after cabin crew extinguished a fire that broke out in an overhead locker during the aircraft's descent. Flight VA1528 from Sydney was approaching Hobart just after 9am today when...

I'm past the 60 days since an online purchase with Kogan, has anyone experienced long delays waiting for the points to hit their account?

I've had all sorts of problems getting into my QBR account since Monday of last week - QBR customer service in Manila have tried all sorts of resets and reactivations etc but nothing they try is working - am I the only one or ?

Because I suffer from really bad industrial deafness (can't properly hear someone talking to me when there is a lot of background noise or in a crowded place where people are all talking such as a pub) I decline exit row seats when the system allocates them to me (as I wouldn't be able to hear...

A quick question for the brains trust as I don't normally fly domestic with loads of baggage but am usually loaded to the hilt on international - As a QFF Platinum do I only get 1x 23kg on a Q400 domestic flight or do I get the normal 2x 32kg that a WP gets for domestic flights (with no...

I tried using TotalVPN when connecting to the hotel wifi at various Pullman's and Mercure's on my last trip to China a couple of months ago, the best I could describe the experience was somewhere between extremely frustrating and a waste of time. Has anyone found any good VPN's that work...

(I couldn't see a better forum for this so please move it if there is!) Is anyone on here a Shopify Collaborator / store builder or SEO specialist?

A few weeks ago it was an airbridge at Brisbane that tore a hole in the side of an Air New Zealand 787, tonight they've broken the windscreen of a Qantas 737 - WTF?