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Would be interesting to test that. Problem is, that would be cutting off my nose to spite my face; I would end up with no benefits, rather than less, because I'm pretty sure they'd offer to refund a tiny proportion of my original fee. If we lived in a more litigious society (and I'm glad we...

Mine is to fly in J as often as possible on long haul internationals - which (on average) I do once every 10 years, and to upgrade to J on PER MEL and PER BNE legs, which I do far more often, as well as J to AYQ, as well as (admittedly low value) domestic legs for the family to accompany me when...

I agree 100%. I paid for benefits that have been removed. Of course, that's part of the risk for paying in advance, but that doesn't mean I need to be happy about it. To those saying "fly more if you want status" - I don't want status, just the benefits I paid for. I agree that customers...

Fair enough. I guess I should have saide for the QF FF program; primarily because the vast majority of my travel (and thus earning capability for points and status) is domestic, and most of my points / balance is in that program; so I'm looking to maximise points there. I have 560,000 points...

Thanks for that. That will buy me some breathing space. Can work out what to do in 11 months about the fee. I was a bit lazy, just applied online via Netbank, where they have all my details. I'm a HVC with them, so should be able to at least get a fee waiver, but we'll see. Bonus points would...

I know this question has been asked before a million times, but... I was a happy CitiBank Platinum No Fee for Life (upgraded from Gold) cardholder, who, for the first time, has been capped (7 months into my year), so I need a new primary card. Also hold a Qantas American Express Premium Card...

Same. Time to ditch it. Did like fee free platinum, but not no points. Have to do the maths on what to replace it with. Probably need to shift $120,000 of $150,000 per annum to an Amex on 1.5 x, and leave the remaining $30k on the platinum.

I suspect there is a happy medium between not recognising it at all (current situation), and treating it the same as Platinum (which would suit me just fine). I've had QC membership now for 17 years - bought life 17 years ago for around $3400 if I remember correctly, so it costs me around $200...

My points transferred across. Interestingly I can now access both the old (closed) gold card and new platinum online - both balances are the same. The only odd thing is that the points accrued for the month only shows 78 (which is probably the two transactions made on the new card since the...

Got the upgrade as well on Monday, and was going to check here before upgrading, but ended up just activating, and asking the questions on the phone: Yes, fee free for the life of the "new" account platinum. Yes, all charges against the old card will be accepted automatically and show up on...

Unbelievable! So I rang again, did the "I'd like to cancel" bit, got put through to a customer relationship manager, who asked me why "I didn't ask for the fee to be reduced". I pointed out that I had, but had been point-blank refused. Anyway, best she would do was no annual fee for the...

Thanks, Everyone.

I grabbed a platinum card almost a year ago with no fee for the first year. Fee is due in a couple of weeks. My first call to the call centre asking about a fee waiver was met with a straight up no. What's the form here - do I have to "do an amex" and ring up asking to cancel, or do CitiBank...

Re: Business as Usual at the aero-bridge tonight They must have been celebrating pretty much every Sunday night in Brisbane and every Friday night in Melbourne for the last six months!!

Business as Usual at the aero-bridge tonight Waited five minute for ground staff to move the aerobridge again. Business as usual.

OK, so it's not an upgrade... but: QF633 BNE MEL 16:20 The flight will be full - always is on a Friday. When I checked in yesterday, I got 20D ininitally - it was the first aisle not allocated to other pax with higher statuses. I swapped that for 7E. Just checked now - 9 hours before...

I reckon the opposite - takes only about 60 seconds to click though the process to find a better seat, and they are almost always there. It might only take five minutes longer to get off the plane, but that five minutes might be the difference between walking straight up to a taxi, and a 30...

I usually OLCI soon after the flight opens - 4B or 4E is far preferable to 22C or 22D on a packed peak hour flight. Food first, drinks first & more often, and first to the taxi or waiting car. Provided OLCI isn't broken with a Sorry, but your session has timed out. Please start again. (#...

No, but I used the 716s up until a week ago when I lost them and my Sony NW005 :oops: when they fell out of my bag (I think) getting into a taxi at BNE. My ears are still ringing after two flights without the benefit of no noise. Loved them. Only thing I found was that they were a very tight...

If they don't appear by your second statement date, definitely then.