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Hullo to all, especially the "old timers" of this thread - long time between drinks for me. I stopped paying nearly as much attention a while back because my opportunities to put large ATO payments through CCs pretty much dried up. However, I do have a single opportunity to pay a significant...

The much-better-than-normal customer service reps :-) And they send me a free bottle of wine every 12-18 months. I think that's it for "current" benefits. I might've used PP once, but I'm not sure. I used to make use of two now-gone benefits: the free hotel night, and the Citi Travel Price...

Possibly - I'm not sure exactly what SQ do and don't allow in terms of adding extra domestic sectors onto the end of an international itinerary. Hah! :-) Driven by their desire not to overnight in SIN, IIRC. Definitely to avoid a very long connection, even if it wasn't overnight. I did make...

I think maybe you misunderstood Kangol's post? He was asking if you can tack domestic legs on other *A airlines in the USA (so, United) onto the "end" of a SQ award (e.g. route MEL-xSIN-xFRA-xJFK on SQ, then xJFK-ORD on United), not whether you can book SQ R via an award booked with another *A...

Sure, try it once - try to try every F cabin once :-) I've done both - no comparison, SQ R (and to my mind, F) wins hands down.

Aye, perfect time to get one of these cards. Even without the double points, it's as good as it gets for ATO payments (assuming you're fine with the Amex surcharge).

Woops, stupid moment for me there. That's what I get for working until after midnight / posting later. Edited.

1.5ppd (effective earn) on a Westpac Altitude Black Amex isn't appealing ? To any of MH, CX, SQ, VA. I don't think there are any options left to earn SPG points [edit: at decent earn rates] on ATO payments now that Amex-Amexes [edit: only earn 0.5ppd for ATO]. At least not without transferring...

Well that counts me out... :-)

Thanks for confirming... I think I need to start calling KF more often. Is this something you're normally able to achieve easily?

Wow, that is some offer for us CC-tax-payers. 3 (effective) ppd on all tax payments for 3 months - I'm seriously considering cancelling my Altitude Black and re-applying (I can't see anything in the T&Cs which mentions an exclusion period for current customers - just says "...when you apply for...

Are you implying here that the KF call centre manually released a seat / ticketed one of your waitlists ?

Hmm OK, probably not the most useful data point then :-) I reckon I've received an invite once out of four SQ F/R itineraries, and that was in SYD. Didn't get one ex-MEL three weeks ago. Well there you go - I thought it was common knowledge, but I guess not!

Re: Changi Lounge Access Summary If you don't have a Westpac Altitude Black CC, start with getting one of them :-) I've done F on QF 388, SQ 388, SQ 77W, SQ 773, CX 77W, TG 744 (seats, not suites), TG 388 and OZ 774 (not mentioning US dom F - that doesn't count) - quite a few of those...

Easy tiger - just a friendly conversation. Others have pointed out lots of scenarios where pax may be eligible for F Lounge access but not TPR, so I won't re-hash them. The other possibility is that my experience of the personal escort isn't representative given it's based on a relatively small...

One of my business partners who holds a Cent card also just discovered that the FF team had been disbanded - for whatever reason it was one of the benefits he valued most, and its loss will probably lead to him cancelling the card at next renewal. It definitely sounds like they're BS'ing about...

I don't understand how that could even be possible? Every time I've visited the SKL at SIN on a ticket eligible for TPR access (four times, IIRC), I've been personally escorted all the way from the desk at the entry of the J lounge right through to being offered a seat in TPR - even when I've...

Personally, I think people get themselves way, way too worked up about the "risks" of putting ATO through the WOWEDR card. To the best of my knowledge, over multiple years we've had one - just one - member report having the card cancelled for putting through large volumes of ATO (and nothing...

Perhaps a terminology issue on my end - but I'm pretty confident if the ATO directly processes a CC payment (via, e.g., the RBA, which I would assume wouldn't mark-up to other government agencies), they will get charged 0.33% of the amount?

The points are funded by your CC issuer(s), not the ATO or Optus. (I've been thinking for a while that I should offer to build / run a payment portal for the ATO on a 0.08% margin instead of Optus' 0.09% - I'm sure that margin on cove's tax payments alone would easily fund the development and...