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Re: Best Status Run Options - A quick overview! Hi Guys, Long time lurker, but generally not a prolific poster. Despite this, I remain in awe of some of the general knowledge that I've managed to pick up regarding travel on here over the years. It's certainly made the last few trips for work...

I was in Turkey in 2008, returning home after a rather gruelling schedule of intra-country flights. I was looking forward to sitting in the lounge at IST, then collapsing for a sleep as soon as I boarded. Lined up to check in with EK to come home - no record of my booking with ~1.5 hours to...

Not sure I totally agree here. Customer service, just like the hard product needs to be "installed" (swap for "instilled" in a funny game of synophone semantics ;) ) properly and maintained. Get it right from the start and it is not too expensive to maintain (unlike the pressurised tubes...

Thanks Sam, Easily solved.:)

Hi All, Apologies if this is covered in another thread, I haven't been around AFF for a bit, and am only just coming back into the fold with an increased commercial flying requirement for work. My query relates to Q tags. I've just re-qual'd up to SG after a couple of years of slowly degrading...

Great topic! In no particular order: 1. Japan, making sure to take in Hombu Dojo - where Aikido was founded. Headed there in Feb so soon to be knocked off the list. 2. Persia. Pretty much all of it. 3. North Eastern Syria / Far southeast Turkey. I have been here already but there is so much...

I can second the suggestion of Perisher as the best Aussie place to go. it's absolutely huge, which means even in the school hols there is never a really huge wait for lift chairs, and you can always find space to ride. The only really crowded slopes are those in the front valley. I would...

Just ordered 2. Thanks for re-opening the order page. Tags look awesome and will do well to replace some ageing SG tags. Will play spot the tag in Perth from now on....:)

Hey Batesy, It was actually reading your post that gave me the impetus to email them! In addition to normal work flights, I have PER-SYD-ZQN-MEL-PER coming up in July, and then an award flight for myself and the lady PER-NRT-PER for three weeks of northern hemisphere snow in Feb '11. All our...

After a less than stellar year last year for those of us in the resources industry, my run of SG looked like coming to and end on April 30 with only 310 SC's to date. Given that I have a couple of reasonably significant holidays planned for the next 12 months, I was really going to miss the...

Considered a local Sam! I too have a house there that makes a visit a lovely tax deduction. Very helpful when travelling from WA rather than the east coast. Sadly I can only dream of spending more than 10 or so days there at the moment. Work in the desert, prefer to spend holidays in the...

Fair Call ejb, Perhaps I always managed to snag the dirty old buses on my direct SYD-ZQN flights, and then became suitably unimpressed. Only ever flew J on the company dollar to ZQN, and always fly on the cheap for my own $$ to spend more on-snow. For a 2.5 hour flight I just can't justify the...

This isn't always the case though. I managed to score flights for both myself and the lady PER-SYD-ZQN and then ZQN-AKL-MEL-PER all as QFF classic awards for my last trip to the snow.I even managed to book without the aid of ExpertFlyer, just by looking at the QFF website. I do recall that I...

Hi guys, Thanks for the welcome. Bang4Buck, I'm looking at Nozawa Onsen at the moment. Lots ofsnow, plenty of free Onsen to enjoy, and the oppurtunity to stay in a Ryokan rather than a western hotel (I'm a bit of Nippon-phile). Sikeveo - how did you guess!? ;) I certainly am a geologist. I...

Hi All, Despite being a relatively prolific flyer over the past few years, I'm only a recent initiate to the FF forums. However, I wanted to say a general thankyou to all of those who have posted on just about every topic I could possibly have a question about with respect to my SG status, and...