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Has anybody here successfully accessed seatmaps for their QFF bookings on CI for late 2026 ex TPE? Trying to work out whether my problem is a change in policy or a glitch. (I'm in PY.)

Yeah, That's "normal". There are always further days released beyond the latest date you can initially search for, and it will show availability for one day more than is actually clickable. I have a PY booking (sadface) for Dec 2026 and for the first time I'm not being offered a seatmap on the...

Having been monitoring this for a few weeks, I was about to post a warning about this to the forum, so your post is a good reminder to say: there is fairly regular phantom availability in the initial results from a QF search for TPE-MEL. It'll show as available in the date list, but when you...

Or if you can get the chatbot window to appear on the contact page, it is another way - ask for an agent. The wait and/or incompetence might be better, might be worse.

Many a time, I have started writing a trip report, only to run out of time or motivation (the last one spent eight months as a draft and then I gave up), but finally I have one well underway and here we go with Chapter 1... It's written as a present-tense narrative but is now in the past...

But as with most conveniences, you can't rely on the average user to do the due diligence, alas

Soooo, I toddled off this evening and thought I'd give ChatGPT a burl again, given my earlier post about not having tried AIs for travel purposes except for a failed attempt at routes. I asked for snorkelling recommendations with certain geographic and timing criteria, and origin conveniences. I...

I think the description of the various good uses for AI have been very interesting.:D I haven't used AI for this so far, but do a number of other complex research/explanation tasks with AI from time to time and *almost always* encounter significant errors. So, I think it'd be great if people...

I really don't think you should ever be less than certain when entering a country.

Just a reminder that a foreign transaction fee will be incurred when buying points this way on most cards (nowadays, given so few fee-free cards).

You could use Gmail's "plus addressing" or similar from other providers, but yes, as long as you can consolidate into one interface it is a good solution (and one I've used to identify two providers who had unidentified/undeclared breaches in the past).

Wow, good point, though that could easily create bus capacity issues. I can't imagine the cheaper fare lasting long unless, perhaps, they have patronage issues. The Eastern Express is full price.

Having a bad day at work, your great pics have now made me very annoyeder because I just want to fly there right now :P

Agree. But it does kind of coordinate with the first two trains arriving on the Geelong Line (05:36, 05:50) plus Ballarat (05:32). I would guess that as the assumption is this bus is primarily for non-Sunshine-locals (ie, a much broader "west/southwest" catchment) then there is some logic to it...

This. However, even Y+ can be cough for long legs. I was very pissed off on SQ when there was a controller box in the middle of my legroom.

China Airlines's PE cabin is very pleasant (hard shell seat and all/mostly 2-3-2). I found SQ's PE a real step down in comfort. Entertainment and food, however, will generally be better on SQ or EK.

Yes, that PE fare looks way cheaper than I've ever seen with SQ.

I would also say that their branch contact email centres sometimes provide clear written replies, so I prefer that as my contact point, rather than phone. Choose the country version for the CI website and then the "branch office" page under "contact us". For interlining, VN or TW would both have...

The queries I've had with chatbots almost always need human assistance. I strongly prefer being able to write clear descriptions of issues in the hope they'll be read properly and actioned, but for airlines in the last year, I've found that the humans staffing live or asynchronous chat solutions...

Oh that's good to know that expectations are managed clearly (re QF), though I suspect most people going down this path will probably still be in a "it's mine" mindset.