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What I often do (in any city) when I need to wait for a pickup is to wait at the front of one of the hotels, or in their lobby. Easier for the drivers to find you and safer as well if it's late at night. The Ritz Carlton is right across from Southern Cross Station.

The FAA has started reducing traffic in US airspace, with 4% flights cancelled on Friday, required to rise to 10% over the next week. Some airports seem to be coping better than others. LAX had 50 cancelled flights on Friday and 160 flights delayed...

I suspect this is because the customer actually has some recourse if the driver if hostile/abusive. The customer can leave a one-star rating, complain to Uber and usually get a refund, and if that starts to happen regularly there'll be consequences for the driver for the poor customer service...

It's not looking good for the roll out of the digital arrival card: https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/australia-digital-arrival-card-delay The timeline for full deployment now seems to run out to 2030.

Oops, fixed up now. 🙃

I stayed there just two weeks ago and the lounge was still in the small space on level 5. It's nice enough, but if there's things going on in the adjacent function rooms then there can be quite a bit of foot traffic around the lounge area. I'd also add that I've stayed at the two Pullmans and...

If you've got an early morning departure and you've got breakfast included at your hotel, you can sometimes ask them to give you a takeaway breakfast box. It's usually just fruit, a sandwich, a pastry and a juice box, but enough to tide you over until you can get a proper breakfast. Did that at...

There was. It's $60, and while I'm not sure what a 'normal' taxi fare would be, for an Uber/Didi it'd normally be about $45-$50 including tolls. The taxis were never really competitive anyway but now it's possible to immediately compare prices, no more mystery pricing. I think that was the...

My preferred solution was a giant custard cannon that would take a picture of the offender after it had coated them in custard. That would then be automatically projected onto a digital billboard over the M2 with a banner reading, "Shame! Shame! Shame!". I suppose this will have to do instead.

I agree, I can't think of any other situation where you're told one price then charged a higher one and it's OK. The worst is the Lightspeed terminals, they're completely silent about the surcharge, not displaying a warning or the adjusted price at any time. The only way you'd know it happened...

What really kicked it up into high gear was when the payment service providers starting building the surcharge system into the payment terminal software. Before that it was a hassle to add it on and far fewer places did it. But once it was in the software it became much easier and the providers...

In Phnom Penh today and Roamless is connected to Metfone with the internet breakout in Singapore. Everything is working quite well and I like how the Flex credit is just gradually chipped away at, but if I don't use it all it just sits there for next time. Previously I've often been buying eSIMs...

As long as it's small enough to fit under the seat in front of you. https://www.easyjet.com/en/help/baggage/cabin-bags

Thinking about this a bit more, I think I like these changes, assuming that as it plays out there's a lot of encouragement around the one-up-one-down rule. All the enforcement lately has focussed on weight, which is really not the problem. Even if every bag coming on to the aircraft only weighed...

Sure, but the point of these rule changes is to reduce the amount of cabin baggage and if it really was just people taking two handbags plus personal item there would have been no problem either.

I've got to admit, up until today I had no idea the "two small pieces plus personal item" option even existed! I don't know how much difference it's going to make as I can't really think of a situation where I've seen people trying to get two rollaboards plus a personal item onboard, so this...

Im giving Roamless a try in Singapore today. I've had some discount codes for it sitting around for a while. I'm using the Flex option where there's a rate for each country and it just gradually uses up your dollar credits. All seems to be working really well, the internet breakout is in...

So are a lot of unpleasant things like overflowing garbage bins, rats on the streets and pretty crime, but we take measures to reduce and eliminate those. This is no different.

Hmm, another quirk I've just noticed, my ALL Signature used to appear in the app as well under Paid Cards, but now doesn't seem to. Anyone else with both Plus and Signature noticed this?

Yep, I'm finding this a bit frustrating. Previously you just opened up the app and there was your card to show. Now there's two cards in the app (one right at the front and one buried further within) with different numbers and you show different cards depending on the circumstance. I suspect...