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    Trying to understand these travellers' unfortunate ticketing/insurance problem

    Crucially to interpretation, they don't say they bought a separate ticket (which would make no sense with regard to losing the rest of the existing ticket) - they refer to a "new booking" or "flight", so for me it sounded like they were forced to pay a fee for the rerouting.
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    Trying to understand these travellers' unfortunate ticketing/insurance problem

    There are many tickets that are more complex than that, mostly constructed via travel agents... I guess that's an experience many people haven't had anymore! I guess my last one like that was in the early 2010s!
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    Trying to understand these travellers' unfortunate ticketing/insurance problem

    I think the "lost" reference is to the rerouting SIN-PAR instead of the original SIN-CPH-NCE. It does read as if this is all on one ticket. And yes, my curiosity is exactly why NCE wasn't the rerouted outbound endpoint no matter what.
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    Trying to understand these travellers' unfortunate ticketing/insurance problem

    It was hard to choose the right forum for this one... Saw a letter in the The Age about someone's ticketing/rebooking mess and I can't see how their situation makes sense. So out of simple curiosity, I'm wondering what scenarios could have caused these travellers' problems? (I'm not assuming the...
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    Melbourne SkyBus gone up again

    Watch your mouth🥺 And of course it has to be bloody $kybu$ rather than PTV. 😤
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    Carrying medications into Thailand

    The problem with this is that codeine clearly belongs to a family of drugs which by law are restricted to widely varying degrees in many countries. If you enter a relevant destination in possession of an opiate you are at risk in some destinations of being categorised as being in possession of a...
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    Article: The Pros & Cons of Different Aircraft Types

    I guess this will be across all modern Airbuses: in a complete accessibility fail, the signs for whether toilets are free or occupied break the rule of informational redundancy (only a colour change, no cross-through or text) AND the warm green and red difference is a total cough for red-green...
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    Lisbon airport tips?

    I last went through it two years ago. It has always been incredibly slow for luggage on arrival (seemed improved most recently) and the airside on departure was very busy but not "chaotic" in any way. Boarding, on the other hand, involved TP dragons in a cramped gate lounge doing a lot of...
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    General Medical issues thread

    Thank you. The squeaky wheel approach is essentially what the GP recommended today, as the updated referral remains untriaged, so I'll be following up directly with the hospital. Waiting lists in Victoria are very long at the moment and GPs get very little feedback from the hospitals.
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    General Medical issues thread

    Ah yes, I remember reading your account of some aspects in earlier posts. Thanks for commenting here:)
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    General Medical issues thread

    I'd like to ask a question on carpal tunnel syndrome management here as I know some have experienced it and some have clinical knowledge. Sorry for the length; I hope it's clear. 12 mths ago: symptoms began to worsen markedly (after 18mths of milder ones), with significant sleep disturbance from...
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    Ubank "Enhancements" Incoming - 15/7/25 & 1/10/25

    Yes, but unlike Ubank, you cannot transfer into the savings account at all, so the already-clunky Save->Spend rigmarole for outward payments with Ubank is doubled for Bankwest (because of Transaction->Savings for inbound payments). Plus a hard $5000 daily outbound limit on PayID.
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    Article: The Difference a Foot Net Makes on a Long-Haul Flight

    I recently tried a homemade solution for foot positioning: I took a foam roller (fitness thingy) and cut a 20cm slice. This is useful for two scenarios: (1) foot elevation, and (2) thigh/calf realignment. Both of those options help to alleviate back pain in Y/PE for me, and allow for positioning...
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    ATO (tax office) payments by credit card

    So I'm unlucky enough to have a newish account that only got a $350 limit. Nonetheless, I have cycled about eight payments of $350 through it to the ATO over about five days and it didn't get locked. In about half of the cases, I paid off the balance immediately, and in the rest I did it the...
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    Scams like these

    Oh that's smooth enough to suck in a lot of people.
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    I'm over (most) lounges

    I guess it also depends on how people process the world. I think I appreciate the less "busy" environment of a lounge (in the sense that, even if it's a zoo, there's less movement all around me than in the actual terminal). On the other hand, if the lounge seating is very close together I will...
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    Specials meals on economy international long-haul

    It depends on airline and the catering station. My experience of Y vegetarian (ovo-lacto: VLML) on any US airline has been abysmal. (Gloopy cheese pastas, the same corn and lettuce and tomato salad replated multiply...) The safest option on most airlines (and sometimes very good), as long as...
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    Up to 30,000 (extra) bonus Velocity points with credit card sign-up until 30/4/25

    My second Virgin Money statement was generated five days ago and the 30k bonus was credited to my Velocity account at the same time as the points from the card earn (1 day after the statement).
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    What's your golden travel rule?

    Totally! It's so much harder to manage morning glitches anywhere in connections/disruptions/cancellations/misadventures.
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    What's your golden travel rule?

    THIS. You can sit in a lounge waiting for the departures monitor to change to "go to gate" for as long as you like, but it's worth doubting the alignment with reality when scheduled boarding commencement has long passed! However, I also almost missed an important flight once because the gate...
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