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Used this to buy 3 x $50 vouchers in person today (on three different Amex cards) - pretty good little deal. Seems to be "working" for Amex / Westfield too, as all three people on front of me in line were buying $50 gift cards on their Amexes. Almost instant email confirmation of the $10...

Gah, I only just found out about this promo! I don't suppose Altitude or Amex transfer instantly to MH nowadays? I have heaps of points in both of those programs, but no MH points!

I can't recall what the int signage looks like, sorry. But it's essentially the same as the old dom signage except with a black background and white writing - the black really makes it stand out. I didn't notice if they've updated the small sign separating the two lanes too though - just noticed...

I saw the new signage for the first time this evening - it was up at the SYD domestic gate my flight arrived into (all other gates in the area still had the old signage). Much, much better.

Didn't CBA recently announce that they're "enhancing" the earn rates on their QFF cards?

Completed my fourth Suites segment today - a very enjoyable SYD-SIN, where once again I had the entire left half of the cabin to myself (and centre screens raised to really make it feel like it was all mine). SQ's marketing doesn't exaggerate when they call Suites "a class above First". While...

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A Forgot to reply to this in my other post. Based on our experience, it seems that TG can manipulate more than just the segment in question. I'm unsure exactly how it works on a detail / technical level, but according to CheckMyTrip we ended up...

Definitely not by spending them on flights via the Westpac site - transfer them to Velocity, or one Westpac's other airline partners' frequent flyer programs. Velocity is your only (easy) option for domestic, but not (overall) your best option for international - for the latter, check out...

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A Thanks for the quick advice everyone, very much appreciated. We got the situation sorted in about two (stressful) hours of phone calls (and AFF posts :)) - friend is now re-booked on an alternate TG flight. Glad it wasn't too hard to sort as the...

This is completely logical... but in my experience none of the major CC issuers operate using much logic :-) I do the former for every single one of my cards every year, and the latter on most of my cards on a semi-regular basis, and not one of the CC issuers has ever blinked an eyelid (at me...

Re: Best Status Run Options - Questions and General Discussion I think what that Whirlpoolean is saying that he/she has been refused credit due to too many credit file hits spread over four years, not that a he/she has been refused credit for four years because of too many credit file hits at...

re: Avianca "Life Miles" - New FF program in *A A friend of mine has just discovered that sometime over the past few months TG have cancelled the KIX-BKK flight he had as part of a LM itinerary, and the replacement flight they've put him on has him misconnecting in BKK (BKK-MEL departs 5 hours...

I think you might want to read that ruling again (unfortunately)... As I said in the post I was writing at the same time as you were writing yours, I'm pretty sure during earlier discussions someone found a ruling (or similar) indicating in cases where FBT applied the FBT-able value was based...

It's a valid concern, and was discussed at some length earlier in the thread. IIRC the ATO is a little unclear on it, but does indicate they may take some interest in cases where more than 200k (?) points are earned per year, or (might've been "and", not "or") in cases where points are being...

That's assuming the payment gets through to them / is processed properly and shows up as a payment on the ATO account! I'm assuming it won't, CC charge will probably be reversed at some stage - just hoping that doesn't take too long.

Had a bit of a situation crop-up today while paying some PAYG, and I'm looking for some advice: Due to a miscalculation, I'd loaded the CC I was using with enough funds to cover the actual tax being charged to it, but not the CC surcharge (as most of you know, these are charged as two separate...

Unless something has changed in the past 6 months, it's SIN-xFRA-JFK and vv. No NRT.

Re: Best Status Run Options - Questions and General Discussion Thanks - I'll compare the JASA cost of that to MEL-xSYD-ASP. Sorry gizzard, poor wording on my behalf: thanks for your input, what I meant to ask was if there was any other further suggestions on an effective SC run / agreement...

Re: Best Status Run Options - Questions and General Discussion You forgot one other biggie (for me, anyway): the ability to request extra award seats to be released. That, and access to the SYD/MEL F lounges, is worth the "price" of the SC run to retain WP in my book. YMMV though, of course :)...

Re: Best Status Run Options - Questions and General Discussion Sorry, omitted a very important piece of info from my OP: I'm talking about using JASAs here.