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What routes are you looking at? I've had no trouble at all getting J class awards lately, even quite close to the date.

While I agree with everything else, that part is definitely not true. It's a device whose sole purpose is to be detected. If the airlines wanted to scan the bags for them they'd have no trouble doing it. There's even a standard for scanning for unwanted trackers...

In this context, those are a reference to each class of travel, where: F = First J = Business P/W = Premium Economy (usually) Y = Economy You might sometimes see C used for Business as well, particularly on Star Alliance carriers.

This is a bit of a shortcoming of the airlines, if you're using an AirTag/SmartTag it's useful for giving you info about where the bag is but the airlines haven't caught up, their systems just have no way of entering or using the information you're providing them. I did use a Samsung SmartTag a...

I know this is a bit of a vague question, but other than free food, what's the attraction of the lounge? I've got admit that even though I've had this benefit for a couple of years, I've barely used it. I tend to travel solo and since you can't bring a guest into the lounge I haven't seen much...

I'm about to drop back from Gold to Silver on QF. I got the Gold status as a match from Virgin Platinum back when VA went into administration and I figured I should hedge my bets in case VA didn't recover. Since then I've been giving QF a red hot go, both for business and personal trips...

Looks like they got those fifth freedom rights sorted out. https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/830037

Might be more workable with the 737 MAX though, SIN-CBR is within its advertised range and the plane is intended for these "long and skinny" routes. If the Batik air flights are cheap enough we might see people starting to that in reverse, coming from SYD to CBR for the flight! (Though there's...

What I do like about this offer is that the booking and travel period are the same, so there's not the same pressure to plan way ahead and book right now that you got with the previous double status credit offers. Having said that, the bonus earning potential on this is much lower than in the...

You're right, I overlooked that PERLHR was referring to the Virgin Australia branded AmEx credit cards., not the Platinum Charge. I've edited my post to clarify.

The Platinum Charge card provides lounge access to the Virgin lounge, when travelling on a VA flight. But the Virgin branded AmEx cards do not, though some provide single use lounge passes.

Another experience, I'm in Auckland for five days, got a eSIM from Yesim for €0.50 (after referral sign up bonus) for 3gb for seven days. Simple process and it's worked flawlessly when I land last night. Internet breakout is in Poland though, so there's a little latency, not a big issue but...

So my card will expire in the coming months and I'll get sent a new one. Previously I would have simply cut up the old card, but with the metal card that's going to be hard to do without a set of bolt cutters. What have people been doing to dispose of the old card? Does AmEx send you any advice...

I think the bit we're overlooking in this discussion is that we're mostly assuming the route is unprofitable, even with the Queensland gov subsidy and we just don't know that. There's a decent chance that the route could be profitable right now (with the subsidy and cargo revenue) or, based on...

A few years back when I had a misconnection TPE-SIN-PER they rebooked me onto the next PER flight and gave me an op-up to Business class because there weren't any available Economy seats. I'm *G, but through Asiana. I've also had (more than one) op-ups from Premium Economy to Business when the...

I can't find it now, but there was an article on one of the FF sites like Point Hacks that had a list of all the dates for past DSC promos. There's pretty much always one around Feb, right after school holidays finish and leisure bookings are at their lowest.

There's a very good Wendover vid on YouTube that delves into the problems with airline IT systems in general. VA is certainly not alone in having these sort of issues and a lot of the IT systems that we use today from airlines are just slick wrappers that sit on top of ancient infrastructure...

I haven't tried this yet, but it would be nice to be able to get the free WiFi on flights without sending the points to KrisFlyer. However, if I understand correctly, if I put a KrisFlyer number with no status into this new field and then put my Asiana number with *G into the accrual field...

The Novotel Perth Murray Street does have a decent gym (for a hotel gym), though I haven't checked the brand of the cardio equipment. When I stayed at the Sofitel Singapore City Centre about a year ago I didn't check out the hotel gym but was told by reception that I also had access to the...

Success on PER-SYD for $285, which was $10 more than the minimum. Came through with 25 hours to departure. Looking at the seat map this seems like it's a fairly quiet flight, in both cabins, though the seat maps can sometimes be deceptive if people haven't selected a seat yet.