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However you get there, enjoy Dublin as I’m sure you will. We’ve been there several times and will do so again on our next trip.

I don’t like your chances. I have about those points, but have had to purchase J fares for my wife and I on Etihad. Qatar looked even more impossible. i hope I’m mistaken

I’ve inadvertently poached seats a couple of times, but happily moved when asked. Once though I was asked to move from my window seat on a longish flight to a middle seat to allow a family to sit together. I refused, much to the annoyance of the FA. I then had a nap without a hint of guilt...

On the back of this promo (which gets me half way to plat) I have now booked enough flights to get me to 8 sectors and just over 1000 SCs. With me and my wife’s pooled J flights to Europe next year, two more years of platinum. I must say I have been missing the little things, like paying extra...

Yes, I told my Travel Agent that this is a must. With some cheaper hotels you really have to dig deep to find a guaranteed en suite.

Sort of. Planning J or F if lucky flights to LHR to start. Budgeting $300 per night for accommodation. Any less than that in central London and you can’t even guarantee your own bathroom.

Yes I know that. Normal family pooling on the flight to SYD will do the job.

Thanks. I’ve factored in flybuys, and status credits for credit cards seem to have dried up. I’ve decided to do a status run to Sydney with my wife in J before the end of the year (worse places to go) which will tip me over to Platinum before my renewal date. This will not only mean F lounge...

You’re right, there are no F cabins out of MEL now, but who knows what will happen before we fly in March. It looks like all the other legs do though. The A380 ones certainly do.

Maybe. It does take time for status upgrades to take effect though.

Won’t happen unfortunately. I would actually have dropped to silver if not for this promo. We will, of course, get into the Business lounge, which looks fine enough, and I will be doing my best to get an upgrade from J before we head off next March. Would love to experience First Class lounges...

Flying MEL-OOL return business 240 points, which will maintain gold. Wife and I will be flying to Europe and back in Etihad J, so Platinum will be well covered. Jeez, it’s hard work doing it on my own dollar after a couple of decades of company funded flying. But have somehow managed to keep...

Hi newbies. I’ve learnt so much from this forum, but I am miles away from the knowledge base of some. It’s a treasure trove for frequent flyers. And good fun too.

I must say that I have had great success with VCAT, successfully staring down Apple, Harvey Norman, an insurance company and a travel agent. All settled satisfactorily. But more relevant, how Qantas can threat such a good customer so poorly is inexplicable.

It hasn’t happened for a while, but when flying around Australia almost non-stop, on driving home in Melbourne, I was regularly on the lookout for the turn off to the Gold Coast or Wollongong. That was when I decided to cut back for a bit….

My wife are flying Etihad Business to Europe next March. When we did the same 10 years I was able to upgrade to First at checkin for $800 each, and was planning to ask the same question this time around. I see on their website they now have an auction system two days out. Has anyone done this...

Same here. More than once.

Got VA gold and platinum mainly through work travel, and have been platinum for about five years. Having retired mid last year, it was more of a struggle, but managed to retain my status with business class return with my wife to Bali, Sunshine Coast and a couple of times to Sydney, augmented...

I saw VA fares from MEL to SYD in January with lowest fares $220 one way, fully flexible $400 and J $290!

Yes. I was pleasantly surprised. 1615517111 You are now going to tell me I was ripped off......