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FWIW - a mate was booked on QF38 the A380 SIN-MEL last night, it got canned because at a guess (and from taking a peek at loads) that it was ... too empty? He's due to fly again tonight, QF38 again, A380 again. Let's hope he has more luck this time around...

Nope - I was on QF292 earlier this month. Really liked the weird business class seat tho - prefer it to a normal seat as can sit cross legged like "on a sofa" - and tbh the bed mode, also great.

Not me personally (luckily fly staff so was upgraded along with the throngs) but we had an equipment change Sat/Sun for QF37 the later of the two flights from a A330 to a B787 - which meant that the flight lost some 80 economy seats and gained 20+ business and 2...8? premium economy seats. Had...

Date: November 2025 Flight: QF37 - MEL > SIN (A 787 instead of a crusty old A330 woo) Service: Dinner, Supper Meal: I had (and I'm sorry I only took a few pics) - Entree - Nicoise Salad w/ salmon (really good) - Main - Barramundi with brocollini and fennel (also very good) - Dessert - both...

Fyi to everyone, if you don't like what's given there's no harm in asking what else is around. Often they have all sorts of random inventory lying around. Dropped off my car today, turns out they offered the Polestars to staff for 30k. An enticing proposal...

You have to have the charged to around 90% I believe, let me double check my paperwork

So landed to absolute chaos at Melbourne airport today across all the car rental places (teach me to land at peak business time) Was allocated a long range polestar but got to the car and found it was not a dual motor. Had a sniff around and actually found a facelifted dual motor hiding out...

MORE data points you say? :P

Or rather, i expect everyone will be having a crack to see if they can syphon some points out of our friends by threatnening to cancel (Got me 150k points last time when they devalued SQ)

After the deval.... I expect y'all will be fast tracking your real cancellations?

I've found that it's worth defintely as a PC or 5 star to just ask what they have available for $0 extra according to what you have booked. Just on the last few times I've been there Booked - J2 'Rav 4 or equivalent Got - Audi SQ5 Booked - Polestar 2 (D2? I can't remember) Got - Well, he...

Yeah 100%. Seems that the data is still a bit all over the shop, but for the charge card it appears retention is donezo. You might have had a unique experience due to being a business card holder - I'm not sure if there's any Amex Charge business card holders in here, but would love to see...

Quite categorically Amex said that they're just applying this whole "nope" for retention bonuses across the board now. This is amex-amex and not co-branded amex tho

Zing! Solid outcome. Wait pardon my naivety what is a QBR (Qantas ... Businesss rewards? Are these QFF adjacent?)

Mine was an anomaly in that my earn rate was the same as my charge card. Don't ask me how or why tbh. So I never really had a reason to use the charge unless I needed to - for things like using the the restaurant credit. All in the past now. How is the regulatory environment you think hitting...

RE: Green card - yep spot on, reduced earn rate, same as the gold - oh I didn't choose either one, they didn't really suit me (I was angling for a like, here's 200k to take the gold and we'll waive the feed) RE: Insurance - given you have to buy the ticket with the amex and my current location...

I can't confirm this but the 'onshore' 'offshore' thing is yeah, dead I think. Previously before they shifted a bunch of stuff off, aka, concierge time, fair. But I've always gotten my bonuses speaking to whomever from the offshore part of their customer service arm. TBH they were more pleasant...

If you can make it work it works, if you expect Amex to quote value you as a customer... Yeah not much love anymore

Ah yes, this I forgot to mention. Thanks Daver6!!

Right so here are my data points after a very pleasant conversation with Amex (offshore, but not sure this matters anymore tbh) On the platinum charge card: They are 100% no longer allowed to give out retention points - charge or credit or otherwise - bits has got it right in that, although...