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In Business? Those are unicorn QF awards!

I have never had the LATAM website work for me for all the reasons in this thread, when I travel to South America I use our corporate travel agent to ensure I get a properly ticketed and paid ticket.

That started well before this year, but Classic Plus rewards have accelerated this. Classic Rewards now seem non existent, and PayWith Points and Classic Plus valuing one QFF point at 0.5 to 1 cent, maybe slightly more if you look around. Tweaking the earn rate on domestic flights doesn't change...

If you booked online with Amex, the fare code is visible at the time of selecting flights - a search just now showed Qatar Economy coming up as S (which is not eligible). That fare code does not get listed in the email confirmation from Amex. If you booked on the phone, you would have to ask...

Eligible fare codes posted here: https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/earn-points/airline-earning-tables/earn-category-tables.html#qatar-airways

Started out with tickets - I still have the old cardstock ticket with carbon paper layers from my first QF flights to Europe as a child. Once they moved increasingly electronic, that moved to boarding passes - although not all are readable as the thermal paper on some of them tends to fade...

$62,500 for 50,000 pre-qualified leads with income data to enrich your campaign database, plus the possibility of converting some into policies. Most marketing departments can only dream of those campaign metrics.

At a "Pay with Points" rate of 0.5 cents, that's $1.25 to get a whole bunch of additional personal data for the algorithms to match up against your personal profile. Clever move by the data crunchers over at Qantas 'Loyalty'.

I travel to the US regularly on business. With airfares so high, I have been considering the cheaper fares which go via Asia, although thinking twice about that after the report last week of an Australian who flew Cathay to JFK via Hong Kong being denied entry because CBP could not understand...

The only really valuable thing from status for me is lounge access: - if I'm flying VA's international partners I'll credit to QF/DL/SQ to qualify / maintain respective alliance status - if I flew regularly with VA domestically, I'd get their Amex which gets you lounge access anyway...

What were the criteria for lifetime PPS?

Fair point, but from my reading on the SAA Voyager rules, that requires 6 consecutive years at Platinum (at least 95,000 miles per year each year for at least 570,000 miles in total over six years) or at least 720,000 miles in four years. That is a LOT of flying - it's taken me over a decade to...

With Asiana about to depart Star, there are no other programs that count alliance partner flights towards LT status in Star, unlike OW or ST.

There is already a FlyerTalk thread with a fuller listing there: Lifetime status by airline -- attempted summary - FlyerTalk Forums The above article misses: Star Air China Egypt Air Sky Vietnam Airlines Non Alliance Philippine Airlines El Al

The last time I bought points was on AA when you could buy the full amount needed for an international F redemption for 20% of what a revenue fare would have cost. The good old days. There may be edge cases now where it is worth it but fundamentally it comes down to whether you can immediately...

This is a longstanding issue. I did this recently and experienced the same "! only got 10% of what I should have gotten". Hilton is not the one at fault, when contacting them they said that they had transferred over the required amount. When interacting with [email protected], they...

Hopefully they can increase the size of the lavatories. They require some deft yoga moves to turn around in!

If I retain Platinum for the next half century I may reach LTP. But even as a Platinum, trying to find regular Classic Rewards for something as simple as SYD-BNE in J for 18,000 QFF points as opposed to 2-4x that amount for CR+ is nigh on impossible. Given I have locked in LTG, CR+ has finally...

I may end up tipping into Diamond based on DL / SkyTeam / LATAM travel over the balance of this year. Are there any AFFers who are Diamond and if so, what 3 Choice benefits do you select? Is it worth using up 2 for Delta SkyClub membership?

It may just be me, but I'd prefer to board without music, if I need it I can put my earphones in.