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SYD is correct about the lack of seats from mid November 2022. It is due to the World Cup. For l the past two years I was tracking award ticket releases on a daily basis. Once they got to 15th November 2022 they never released any seats for the duration of the World Cup.

I just checked and my annual fee was charged in late December. Since then over 100k points. This is the QFF card. I thinkt there are different caps for the different types of card. Have you been capped?

Nope. I just checked and i am over 100k this calendar year.

From the welcome letter it says: An Establishment Fee of $199 will be debited to your Account on the date we issue you a statement of Account for the Statement Period in which you first use or activate your Account. I have finally activated my account after having multiple failures. It seems...

They have wines with velocity points too. If you can stack those amex discounts with cashbacks and get bonus velocity points you are laughing.

Applied last night. Approved this morning. Will be doing the same as Woodyren said in post #6.

Mate flying to Bali today from Sydney on Jetstar. Got to the airport 3h15 minutes before take off incase of delays noted above. Made it through to the gate in 30 minutes. Had 2h45m to kill now he has been informed the flight is delayed by 2h20m. Probably becasue of the delays out of DPS noted...

Henrus is right. Etihad took all of their A380's out of service so they barely have any first class routes anymore. I think there are none into Australia. There are a few 787's with first class still operating but they are on limited routes like Geneva.

Woodyren, Let us know how you go. I was browsing the velocity website this morning and that offer also piqued my interest. Didnt seem to have have any minimum loan amount to get the full 150k points. I too have a couple of Citi credit cards so not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. A $5k...

The mobile phone booths like in the JL lounge, Narita.

Be very careful about booking an itinerary originating from Doha through the Fiji or South Africa call centre. I did exactly this three weeks ago. What a monumental waste of time for a simple A to B flight. Took 9 days to ticket with calls every day and multiple broken promises of call backs...

Also funny for me cause i did the same thing late last year. Burnt almost 1.5 million points on two overseas trips that should occur between October- December 2022. Hoping Japan opens up soon otherwise i will be getting a big refund of worthless points!

Practically yes. Currently they are accepting limited numbers of North Korean style guided tours with chaperones. I am an independent traveller. They do not allow this at present.

I am hoping Japan opens up in the next three months in which case I will get to use the overseas credit. Does anyone have any recommendations in Osaka? Thank you.

For me the answer is no. The reasons being 1. The total bonus of 140k points is huge compared to most other cards especially considering the low $6k credit limit required and low annual card fee; and 2. Fo me the points are posting punctually with no phone call follow ups required. If all...

Thanks for that info. Once the correct points and taxes are charged i will have to ring the number you mention to get them to refund the multiple international assistance fees they deducted.

Do you need the physical card or can you just use the app to prove you are a cardholder?

Exactly the same for me.

Gday The help desk is still a circus of useless fools. Nine days ago I rang up to book a simple one way classic reward trip originating from Doha (hence cannot be booked online). It all went pear shaped from the first call when the agent charged a 7,700 point international assistance fee...

I called again this morning and it was answered almost straight away. The agent took my details and looked at my PNR and after being on hold for a while he said that I would have to call back Monday morning at 0700 as he could not reinstate the points for the incorrectly charged international...