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I don't like that idea at all. Cabin air is already very dry, so blowing it on you will make you dry out even more. The only pleasant solution overall is to get them to cool the cabin properly. (ANA too. The Japanese airlines seem to compete to see how sweaty and uncomfortable they can make us.)

My whole point is there is no such thing as "better value in AC or AA" in every case. Best value differs on different routes and even day by day on a route. Sometimes SQ is the best value or simply has availability when nobody else has. But SQ's expiry makes it impossible to choose purely on the...

I think you are being very generous to SQ, by using a very limited concept of "affected". I'd say a very large number (the majority) of people are affected by hard expiry. If one set of points has a hard expiry, then you are inevitably forced to use them at a non-optimal time, at least...

I'd like to see gift cards removed altogether. They are always going to be terrible value and nobody in their right mind redeems that way. If they are the constant worst outlier, they are just preventing the real lowest redemption option from being culled. An issue that was mentioned is that...

A year or two ago my Qantas flight out of MNL was delayed by about 1.5 hrs. The (contract) lounge stayed open for us and seemed quite happy to do so. They started cleaning up, but they told us not to worry, we wouldn't have to leave until we could board the plane.

Yes, it's taken 22 years for the RBA to admit that this utter stupidity that they inflicted upon us is a mess. Note that they originally claimed that market forces would mean that businesses would not rip us off with excessive surcharges, totally ignoring the fact that some businesses are...

My best buy price for LM was 1.10 US cents and for Aeroplan was 1.14 US cents, so I consider them equivalent.

Does it matter? Some US machines that want to do AVS with a zip code accept "00000" for overseas cards. It would be worthwhile to find out if the back end is actually doing anything with that field for non-US cards.

I wouldn't recommend Lifemiles any more as a new plan to join, but I still find it has occasional value. LM used to be great for piecing together awards, but now you have to rely on the web site, which doesn't search as deeply as others. Generally, Aeroplan is better than Lifemiles, but there...

It's fine. Not spectacular. Reverse herringbone seats like many other carriers. Worst thing out of Melbourne is the timings. MEL-SGN-CDG means getting up early at the start and then having over 6 hours in transit in SGN. The lounge is quite decent, but there's absolutely nothing else to do...

It's the last decent value I could find for Delta awards, so I drained my account using these to various parts of Europe, connecting on Air France. (MEL-SGN-CDG-xx_) Funny thing is that just MEL-SGN is 70k in business class, so the 90k to Europe is outstanding.

I just wish there was a button to convert marketing wanker-ese ("earn rate" and "spend cap") into English ("earning rate" and "spending cap"). I also wonder why "Points-Earning Caps" isn't "Points-Earn Caps" for consistency.

I'll be flying Finnair soon because it was the best value airline to fly in business class from UK to Asia on points. Assuming it is a good experience, they might get more business from me in future. For domestic flights, I have started flying Virgin. I've given up making any effort to collect...

I do get frequent and generous offers. No need to make it more complex than it really is just to make yourself sound special. Remove it from Coles web site, input all your data again, remove and replace in Google wallet, remove and replace in the app, change the stored settings on my browser on...

But those are horrible. The first would be tedious and the second? Oh, come on, I need to eat before May. As it happens, wasting some time online worked. 4 x $70 for 10k points offer email just received.

I wish I knew how to poke the algorithm into action. Often, going away for a month is perfect. But this time I get back with no new offers at all. I want to buy groceries, but doing so without a promo offer just seems wrong.

In Asia, this is not necessarily a good idea. You can find foreign exchange booths that give you rates within 1% of the mid-rate. (If you carry large USD notes, you can get much closer than that!) In Thailand, most ATMs charge a 220 baht fee (over $10) for all foreign card transactions, which is...

The American HH Amex Surpass used to offer 10 PP visits a year (plenty for me) with an annual fee of just US$150. At $700 a year, nope, I'll just eat before I go to the airport.

Agents see the same availability we do, in my experience. Amex travel is missing almost every airline and fare that I've wanted.

I'm amazed that they get consistent business ... or really any business. It took me almost a whole year to find a use for the $50 voucher on $150+ booking that QF sent out last year that didn't end up losing me money! I booked a bunch of independent hotels in the past year and typically Qantas...