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    Qantas starts international wifi

    The heat death of our sun will occur before a fleet wide rollout
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    International Drivers Permit

    Depends on the country. You won’t get a car in Japan without one.
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    The Skiers & Snowboarders Thread

    I think you can use epic at rusutsu and lotte. Hence both have increased crowds and lift prices massively. Good times
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    Yes and no. They often vpn home, and you have limited selection of local carrier. It’s not just the best carrier on the ground
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    That’s not a problem limited to eSim. Physical can have the same issue. The problem is the sim carrier and whether it’s local vs roaming.
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    The Skiers & Snowboarders Thread

    Yep, yuzawa area. Shink to Gala direct, not echigoyuzawa station, and they are set up for day trippers. 80 min each way journey. Simple enough slopes for any level for a day.
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    Qantas Points Cracker promotion

    For anyone who “didn’t get the offer”. It’s universal, or at least everyone with an AU address. You may need to update the app or log it out and back in, but you will have it eventually.
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    That’s cheap for Tokyo now. Hotels I stayed in regularly pre-covid for 400-600AUD a night are now somehow asking 2000. And the dollar has strengthened, not weakened, so it’s not an exchange rate issue. Insanity, considering no renovations etc to justify it (shangrila and Conrad are 2 examples).
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    Japanese Yen - Cash

    All cards allow you to withdraw local currency. The atms wouldn’t be stocked with anything else! What mac bank offer, similar to Bankwest and a few others, is no foreign exchange fee and no foreign atm fee.
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    Travel Insurance, connections

    NIB will cover stopovers for 72 hours without being listed!
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    Sydney T3 Security Checkpoint - lost property

    I’ve heard the only way to recover property there (SYD) is go in person.
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Hilton are great about not playing that BS game of “we upgraded you to a club room without club access”. I’ve never heard of any Hilton-wide brand hotel doing it.
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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    One off. Seems like some nonsense misunderstanding tbh that gets blown up because no one takes responsibility. Should post asking for an update, if I remember to do it
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    HSBC Premier credit card - too good to be true?

    Not sure anyone has money with them. Everyone on here seems to have set up the same auto transfer. Takes about 2 min to setup on my banking apps and it’s done, I guess I lose 1 month of coughulative interest on 9k, with 3 days per month that money is out of action. Not insignificant but the card...
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    ANA Perth-Tokyo flight - now year-round

    Yes and no. Its first season was 2019 Sept so it stopped running in 2020, of course. Also I think this has a thread already and was posted when announced.
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    Amex Application: Is 1xCC better than NO CCs

    It is taken into account. If you had an issue prior you’d get even less credit
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    Finnair Flight disruption - Overnight layover support

    The answer is always book in advance. Sort your own stuff out and get compensation later, if any. At least you’ll be comfortable, and only possibly out of pocket
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    Skyscanner cheap flight booking sites

    Do you pay Skyscanner? There’s your answer as to why they promote various sites. You get a rep for selling the cheapest flights on any search. Even if people book a level higher or a different site, you go back because they were so much cheaper.
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    ANA Perth-Tokyo flight - now year-round

    SQ have their own lounge. I am certain which lounge ANA use firsthand, as my only trip with them from PER was in 2020, but I’m pretty sure it’s Aspire. NRT, while longer, has some simple connections esp for Shinkansen and certain domestic flights. For my purposes is works well, but HND would...
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    Linking 2 separate rewards bookings

    what he said. Though it’s about a single ticket, it is technically possible to put them in the same PNR; but it’s irrelevant because the ticket is not 1 single ticket with protections.
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