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Hi all. I am an Australian moving to Bangkok for a new role. I will be doing a lot of flying to the US east coast, Europe, Australia and around SE and North Asia. A range of 120-200k miles per year. I am looking for advice on which airline, network and FF program is the best for my new home...

Last year I published my "Business Traveller Tip: 12 survival tips for staying at a 5 star hotel" on the BOOT blog (cant share the link as not high enough status here but if you google "Business Traveller Tip: 12 survival tips for staying at a 5 star hotel" you'll find it Three of my biggest...

A few years ago fog in Sydney saw me re-directed to Brisbane while flying CX. I eventually made it home to Sydney on a domestic flight. Meaning I missed collecting my duty free. A quick call to the Sydney duty free company and I was refunded without hesitation. I am sure it will be the same...

I went to the Air NZ lounge and asked very nicely and was told (equally nicely) that I was not welcome to come to the lounge flying pac blue

I am flying Pacific Blue out of Sydney. I am gold on Qantas, United, Singapore and Velocity. From what I have read Velocity Gold on Pac Blue is not good enough to get into the NZ lounge. is there any lounge I can get into in Sydney International with any of these cards while flying Pac...

After ten years I have lost platinum status with Qantas. I fell about 8% short of the status credit target so find myself in the unexpected position of carrying a gold rather than platinum frequent flyer card on my many travels. Time away from the black card has allowed me to reflect on what...

I have a theory here as to why Qantas is removing anytime access. (sorry if this is covered somewhere else in this long thread). I think one of the reasons why Qantas has taken this step is that changes at Sydney airport (international) have dramatically increased the usage of the Business...

Re: "Mile Run" documentary video you might like - top US flyers talk mileage obsessio I know "Wow....look there is a plane from Australia"!

Re: "Mile Run" documentary video you might like - top US flyers talk mileage obsessio am glad you liked it. The golden triangle part was fantastic

Dear Forum watchers. I have just posted a 18-20 min video documentary on my blog (the Business Of Online Travel) which follows a number of hard core mileage collectors as they go on mileage runs to maintain status. Includes a guy that paid people in Thailand to fly a particular Thai route four...

Usually discounted business. This year my oneworld long haul travel was exclusively Cathay and BA to either Hong Kong or Europe (with a little JAL thrown in). Means they are more likely candidates than AA. Are you top on AA because you fly them or do they act as your Oneworld program but...

Very good point

Wow - thanks for fast response. Agree you can't "move" status. What I meant is that I stop collecting miles/status points on QF and instead open up a BA or CX FF membership and start collecting their. Would take me a year to achieve top with either of them. In the meantime my QF LTG retains...

Dear Frequent Flyers. Long time stalker, first time poster. I just earned QFF Gold for life and renewed by QFF Platinum for the ninth year. That said, I flew less Qantas in 2009 that any year since 1999. My last long haul flight with them was over a year ago. Lots of trips this year on CX...