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Happened once to me in India that I had preselected to be charged in local currency and signed a slip to that effect. But hotel still charged in my cards currency. I disputed with the card issuer and on a $1000 or so bill the saving by being charged in local currency was about $110 or so...

Yes like the lounges at ZRH. An evening view from the terrace:

And I wouldn't label 777 partners in the same category as "evil" multinationals. They're just a bunch a of rich [self-redacted]holes screwing people over. That's what some people do unfortunately. They seem to be having a laugh at the expense of Canadians and Australians. Quite a contrast...

Surprised no mention of the outdoor terrace in (outside of?) the NZ-operated Star Alliance Lounge at LAX in TBIT. No photos of it, but not hard to find via google search.

Why not take 1 for 1-2 months then switch to another and so on? Eventually the catalog gets replenished by the time you get back to the first one. Play their game.

Or Doug Reid who criminally mismanaged Compass Mark 2 - although his crimes where more serious than trading whilst insolvent, a whole laundry list of dishonest and fraudulent activities associated with his running of the airline.

Agree 100%. And even putting that aside: 1) ACCC take months to bring actions. Something that happens in the space of a few weeks is not going to attract their attention 2) What’s the point of a union strike? What would they be striking against ? They are out of jobs anyway, it’s not as if...

I do recall the rule of thumb for backtracking - is if the distance travelled >x% (40-60%) of the point to point distance. As GVA-LHR-SIN is only 10% longer than GVA-SIN, I doubt this would be considered backtracking .

A great way to get to Italy from PER with a very respectable 11:35am departure. Huge fan of these day flights, as they seem to really help with managing jet lag (you go to bed soon after you arrive). Not sure how the jet lag would be originating in MEL would be though.

My trouble is that priority boarding to me is being able to waltz up to the plane, not really queue at all and just after you board the doors close. Back in the early 00’ies certainly that’s the way it seemed to be. Straight from the lounge after the flight was called and on to the plane...

WT..? 18 square metres, Lets say 30mins work. $90 USD. Not.

The spread of this continues, it used to be resorts & , Las Vegas them Hawaii and New York. This year I'm seeing heaps of Chicago properties who've introduced them as well, including one downtown property I stayed at in June 2022 - who definitely didn't have a destination fee back then.

Tips or bribes ? 🤣

A220's probably would fit the bill, lot of operators seem happy with them. Although in high demand so probably not so easy, or cheap, to get a hold of?

This would be the exception rather than the rule though. And it is called “Premium Flatbed” not Premium Economy. Scoot years ago relabeled their PE product “ScootPlus”, so they don’t even call it PE and it has standard recliner seats, akin to Qantas 737 business class. Meanwhile over on...

Pray tell can you advise which airline has premium economy seats that are "almost flat"?

Agreed. But Qlink would have to be the most expensive carrier in Australia! On many routes. And probably wouldn’t want to cannibalise their existing market. But there’s no doubt 180 seats is too big for most, if not all of the routes. And even on routes where it made sense you might command...

Qantas started (seasonal) BNE/ABX services (for the ski market) before Bonza even started operations.

An interesting hypothetical, with MEL/SYD frequencies it's not hard to envisage someone being bumped off their original flight and moved to a flight 15 mins later that arrives earlier than the flight they were bumped from! I think the airlines would lobby the government hard such that if...

They wouldn't need to offer USD1000 if the "later" flight was 30 mins later, Often these sorts of offers are for accepting flights that are hours and hours later. I can't think of any routes in the US where a single carrier offers 15-30min frequencies, thus completely different scenarios.