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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.

But the same problem as always exists with this: Where you are in a row of 3+ seats, it will be hard to comfortably and practically "protect" the spare seat from encroachment by the adjacent passenger.

Yeah, if anyone remember the OLD Doha airport, adding bling, gates, lounges, space seemed to have zero effect, except the toilets are less frightening. Much less frightening. And still bussing for bloody half an hour to your plane.

I'm confused by this. Cover-more is owned by Zurich. The applicable CBA policy and the (presumably direct from) Cover-more policy may have different rules, but they're both Zurich. The CBA policy seems to cover a good range of missed connections - including prepaid travel arrangements (which is...

Broadly agree based on my experience last year. I was lucky to be at the same lounge when people weren't: 06:00-07:30. I was surprised it wasn't very busy. Perhaps people have now cottoned on to the fact that the main lounge is apparently horrendously busy during peak periods and have now moved...

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.

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!

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.

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...

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