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Well, a little off topic maybe, but I'm flying BA Club, seat 1A, LHR-PSA next week on an A319 with 28 J seats, all occupied (as are all seats in Y). I'll be a little disappointed if I don't get at least a couple of glasses of champagne with my meal. Qantas might struggle with this, although...

They didn't "have to" abruptly shut down. It was ANZ's decision. No one actually ran out of money, just that Nuno didn't see it as his core business. And I imagine that he didn't wan't to draw too much negative publicity. Hence the gracious and generous shutdown arrangements. In my case I'm...

I've rented from Hertz Fyshwick a couple of times recently (as a Gold) and received a Subaru on both occasions (a Forester and a Crosstrek). I found both vehicles to be underwhelming, gas guzzlers and rather clunky, when compared with other modern SUV's, such as RAV4 and CX30. As for a...

Any lounge that has several different self-pour champagnes available at any given time can't be too bad. I actually prefer it to the Qantas F lounge at SYD, and am looking forward to being in there a couple of times later this month. At least in the LHR BA F lounges you can help yourself (if...

As far as I'm concerned they're not that bad. Crowded maybe, but not bad (unless you're talking about the lack of natural light at MEL Intl). There are many worse airline lounges around the world, and the QF business lounges do put any VA lounge to shame (although that wouldn't be hard). As for...

Well, it sounds like you haven't experienced it then. I have, you should. It's like trying to have a plated meal in a coffin. Never again.

Perhaps the Japanese could squeeze 500 pax into a 787-10 if they really tried?

I just use the "free" Covermore travel insurance from my CBA Diamond Awards Mastercard.

I have to say that these days, if I need to apply for a visa in advance (VOA is OK), I just don't go. Doesn't worry me at all. and probably keeps me safer. It was different when I worked for DFAT over 30 years ago, as they handled all the paperwork, for several places I wouldn't go to now as a...

The whole thing is a bit of a shamozzle. I have a Qantas J award ticket on WY for next week, KUL-MCT-LHR. I hope everything is in order with this ticket. However, without ringing the Omanair customer support desk in Muscat, who could know? The Qantas website errors out when I try to access the...

After previously speaking to several agents in the offshore call centres (with no apparent results), I thought I'd give it another try this morning, and was lucky enough to get a helpful and knowledgeable agent in the Hobart call centre. She said that she would get it fixed while I waited on the...

I've been to Okinawa several times, and it does have some nice beaches (not as nice as Oz IME). It also has a lot of US Marines, which tends to taint the ambience a little.

I'm not sure who would argue that, but some entities come to mind.

Rare indeed. I've done it a couple of times, but obviously only with a BP in hand. You first of all have to find the transfer desk, then find the person who should be manning it and then convince them that they should be helping you. But that's the fun of CGK. Is it worth $50 I wonder?

Qantas doesn't care . It's a monopoly (well it thinks it is).

I tried to cancel a reward booking online a couple of weeks ago. Well, the good old Qantas website refused to cancel it and just kept erroring out. So I had to phone the call centre and got a bit of a runaround, but eventually I was told that it had now been cancelled and I could expect my...

Isn't everyone on one of those???

I'm QF WP, and will be for the foreseeable future (hopefully). I'm also VA Plat and like many others, I'm letting it bleed out. And, like you, I'm also a *G member, (for life) so I don't care a jot about losing access to VA lounges via Velocity. UA *G will help me out there, as long as the...

Gee, that's adventurous. What's gas, by the way If I got a gas bill I'd be concerned.

I don't care one little bit about the CR+ devaluation. I would never use CR+, I'd rather just purchase a ticket (probably not on Qantas). Good luck to those that do, but they should really know better. Just my point of view. YMMV.