Made any travel mistakes lately?

[cove]

I checked the wrong bag so I had the journey home from Los Angeles without my Resmed sleep machine. Having two bags that look the same was not a good idea for 20 hours of flying.

 

[JohnK]

I booked BNE-MEL on Virgin and then MEL-BKK award flights on JQ for 3 of us for September 2026.

Ive been looking for flights back to any Australian city for October 2026 and nothing. Some awards on MH which we don't want to do but these are now gone. There were 3 awards for DPS-BNE on JQ a few days ago but when I went to book they were gone. Qantas pretty much has nothing early October.

SQ has award from BKK-BNE and pretty much any other Australian city for the 3 of us but that's around 150,000 Amex points. Thai airways the same. Tried Lifemiles, nothing. United has availability but miles required also ridiculous. One way airfares are ridiculous apart from Philippine Airlines but Im trying to avoid transitting MNL.

Looks like everyone has same idea and that makes this points game very difficult. Seriously thinking about cancelling airfare to MEL and points to BKK which means losing around $400 but can't see anything better as a return airfare from BNE or even SYD/MEL.

I remember before Covid it was fun piecing together award flights for travel at basically anything. Now it's so difficult and it's just economy not business class. Very stressful.