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The Japanese embassy Canberra website was updated today with basic details confirming what the Prime Minister said last week. Essentially (if you are triple vaccinated) it is a return to 2019 style travel to Japan. (With the exception of loading your proof of vaccination into the MySOS app)...

Does anyone have official notice of the changes that were mentioned from 11th October 2022 in writing? I have checked the Japanese embassy in Canberra website, the Japanese consulate in Sydney's website, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs website of the Japanese government but could find zero...

JL release more award seats?!!! LOL! 11 months ago you could have booked 9 J reward seats!

I also got this email requesting the Velocity number today. I received the same email last month and replied on the day. Looks like Citibank systems havent changed. A word of advice for those uninitiated with Citi- take screenshots showing you have submitted the required details as you might...

Paging @sudoer . I'm planning to next month so I will let you know. From what i can tell all you do is book a restaurant through the pocket concierge app and then pay with your plat charge and then that's it. The credit should flow through.

I did the exact same FHR booking aswell and it also triggered the $150 credit. The booking showed up in the Hilton app straight away.

I have left about $500 outstanding. The interest cost of that over a couple of months is immaterial. No idea about the credit score as I'm not in the market for a mortgage. I wouldn't worry too much about the credit score. The bloke a few posts up got rejected for the loan with a pretty high...

billmurray i am going through the process now but from my experience yes it looks to have been reduced to a $2k loan. Whatever amount you apply for is deposited into your nominated bank account. You then repay that over a period of up to 5 years. You can make early repayments for no penalty...

Same issue with the app saying 60 months but only letting you do 24 months. I just set up a 24 month one starting this month. Then another 24 month one starting in September 2024, then another 24 month one starting in September 2026, then another 24 month one starting in September 2028. Done!

Only last week I set up my monthly recurring payments for the next 8 years. My transfers were for more than $20k a month so I wonder if the transfers I have set up will be cancelled or capped out. Or does it only apply to newly initiated transfers?

The Japanese government has never made these decisions with the economy at the forefront of their minds! With regards to the daily 50,000 tourist cap- i think this is just bureaucracy for the sake of it. When i looked up Japanese tourist numbers pre pandemic they were about 32 million in 2019...

To get a tourist visa you need an ERFS.

The outrageous prices continue into next year. Anything close to school holidays/CNY/Easter is eye watering. I am looking at KUL-SYD return and Airasia is coming in at $1,350 return, Scott and SQ both just over $2k, MH ~$2.5k. All economy. I have booked PR J. Will let you know how it goes!

In my experience all phone calls with banks in Australia are recorded. BTW i really like this thread. Has a whiff of The Castle about it. Nothing like the little man sticking it to the greedy lying corporate pig that is qantas.

I also never got a response to my query last week which was similar to Seat 0B's. The process looks extremely painful as like you said you still need to apply for a visa and the Japanese consulate in Sydney doesnt even have any appointments available for this until late November..... Cynicor...

Pfft volatile markets. That's a throw away line. They are still yet to achieve dot point number 1 from your post #4.

I got the same email today. It says once you tell them your membership number you will get your points within 90 days. They still haven't been able to link up my loan to my online profile so i havent repaid anything yet.

Children's renewal. Got to the 9 week mark and hadn't heard anything. Rang to get it escalated. The next day I got an SMS saying it had been posted. Two days after that it arrived.

No. I had the physical paper document they posted. They could have updated the terms since then. Bit of a bummer if they did.

See post #72 in this thread.