The totally off-topic thread

[RooFlyer]

I'm just over the fact the QF system prioritises the male on any booking (regardless of status). Even if I book and pay with my credit card, all the booking emails come to my email account addressed to TV. They also tell me what seat he's sitting in, but all thats listed for me is a link to "seat preference".

Maybe Mr Joyce should engage in a campaign on gender equality? ( That's tongue in cheek, folks!)

 

[whatmeworry]

Chemist warehouse sells little bottles that can be filled with Shampoo, Conditioner or other liquids.

 

[TomVexille]

I thought they came to "adult 1"?

QF have admitted that it defaults to the male in the booking

 

[Denali]

Zip lock bags are great for toiletries ! And you can easily see what you have got.

I now use a large clear plastic box, full of toiletries & meds ect. Now I just leave it on the bathroom bench, take out the essentials and leave the rest to be easily found.

Also restocked our first aid kit - havent done that for a while but when hubby fell/hurt his wrist, I was glad for the ice/heat packs, compression bandages ect.

 

[Denali]

Chemist warehouse sells little bottles that can be filled with Shampoo, Conditioner or other liquids.

I dont travel with shampoo unless we're off the beaten path and the hotel doesnt provide them. Im not fussy with what I use.

 

[blackcat20]

I thought they came to "adult 1"?

QF have admitted that it defaults to the male in the booking

Unfortunately as above, it defaults to the male. So even being Dr doesnt get me anywhere, nor does WP.

Re toiletries, I have different bags for different trips (I use a fold out hangable one for international). Problem is I dont have enough toothpaste tubes etc to pack for both and keep one to use until we go

 

[Denali]

.... Problem is I dont have enough toothpaste tubes etc to pack for both and keep one to use until we go

My husband, who has a fondness for taking ALL the toothbrushes/paste on SQ flights, also takes as many as he can from his dentist.

As I refer to him as the most expensive dentist in NSW, I dont mind his hoarding of toothpaste. He came home with about 8 of them the other day, each one lasts about a week for both of us so great for trips.

This is the same dentist that bought and carried a very large concrete gargoyle from Paris for my husband and when Souths was playing in the NRL final (first win in about 40yrs), he gave us his member tickets as hes a panthers fan. Very nice guy.

 

[docjames]

This may be a little bit too on topic (mods feel free to spin off into a thread).....

I can't help but wonder, given the chronic losses and capital injections required by VA over the last few years, along with merciless flogging of points offers and bonus points on point transfers into velocity, as well as the crazy-priced J RTWs last week, and now super cheap Y RTW fares, it just strikes me as an urgent "cash-grab" by VA, with the longer-term penalty of costs incurred being kicked down the road (and a later-date revenue problem).

Maybe i'm jumping at shadows.....

 

[Denali]

...Maybe i'm jumping at shadows.....

Ive been saying to hubby for a while that I want to blow the 800K points hes sitting on because they can be devalued at any time.

This time next week, Im hoping to use 500K points. Fingers crossed.

 

[equus]

Damn. Yes her policy didnt cover hire cars but the offending drivers did.

More specifically, the offending driver had third party insurance. Whether it mentions car hire or not would be irrelevant - it is simply part of the third party damages. Offending party with no third party property insurance is the real problem. We have compulsory third party insurance for injuries, and I for one would like to see that extended to third party property.

There is a mob advertising heavily at the moment styled Rigth2Drive playing on this. I don't condone them at all - they are basically working off a general ignorance of people's rights to charge inflated rates for hire cars, that they will then "claim" from the at-fault driver's insurance (and of course they will never lose out, as if there is no insurance to pay, or the fault didn't lie where the user of their service thought, the user has agreed to pay that inflated rate).

 

[Pushka]

More specifically, the offending driver had third party insurance. Whether it mentions car hire or not would be irrelevant - it is simply part of the third party damages. Offending party with no third party property insurance is the real problem. We have compulsory third party insurance for injuries, and I for one would like to see that extended to third party property.

Correct. It was part of the damages settlement because the other driver had insurance.

 

[Bindibuys]

Sometimes hotel points can come in useful.

Flying to Newcastle this weekend, so I made a hotel booking using points, the quoted pricing was outrageous, the best thing about points bookings on IHG it means the booking is then flexible.

Then I decided to change the booking and have a 2nd night, but first I had to cancel the existing reservation then using points and cash to have enough points for 2 nights.
Then I decided to cancel that reservation to go back to 1 night, best thing with IHG is that your purchased points come back as points.
So now I am back to 1 night in Newcastle on Saturday night, and now have 30,000 points available for a hotel stay in Melbourne for AFF Xmas gathering since the Hilton South Wharf is changing.

So I started with 4,000 points that were about to expire and turned that into 60,000 points which I now have 30,000 points as one night and have a spare 30,000 points that could go into 1 night or 3 nights,

Confused yet.

See you at dinner on Saturday night at Scratchley's?

 

[JohnK]

Chemist warehouse sells little bottles that can be filled with Shampoo, Conditioner or other liquids.

If travelling hand luggage only?

 

[whatmeworry]

If travelling hand luggage only?

Yep. Although you could still use the bottles if you have big bottles at home and want to cut down on weight in your main luggage. I guess they could be filled with booze.

 

[Flying mermaid]

I'm just over the fact the QF system prioritises the male on any booking (regardless of status). Even if I book and pay with my credit card, all the booking emails come to my email account addressed to TV. They also tell me what seat he's sitting in, but all thats listed for me is a link to "seat preference".

this has annoyed me for ages. I made it to WP before Mr FM, but I may as well not exist as far as Qantas is concerned. Last time we booked in F with Qantas, all my details were in the booking, but the first host still phoned Mr FM not me. Once we both received invites to a Qantas evening, him because of WP and CC spend and me because of Aquire spend, invites accepted separately. At the evening, my name wasn't on the list I had become his +1.

Ms FM was a WP (in her own right) and partner was bronze - they kept prioritising him on bookings - she didn't seem to exist!

 

[Katie]

I'm just over the fact the QF system prioritises the male on any booking (regardless of status). Even if I book and pay with my credit card, all the booking emails come to my email account addressed to TV. They also tell me what seat he's sitting in, but all thats listed for me is a link to "seat preference".

I have had similar-ish issues, thought not losing my seat preference and +1 keeping his. I suspect your situation, similar to ours, is exacerbated by the alphabetical order of your surnames. I believe that's why my +1 sometimes get priorities and gets turned into the primary person on bookings, even when I've put myself down. I've also had some seat assignments put him with the kidlet, but not me - fair enough, they have the same surname.

I am less certain about Hilton and Hyatt reservations being alphabetical; I suspect adding a Mr to the booking there truly does affect their prioritisation, and I've had bookings change into his name after adding his name at checkin. I no longer add h is name to reservations, and it's been fine since.

Adding - have just read TV's comment that QF have admitted defaulting to males.

 

[Katie]

I thought they came to "adult 1"?

Nope. I have had the same - though as I've just suggested in a post, I suspect that's because my husband's surname is earlier in alphabetical order than mine.

 

[Flying mermaid]

Nope. I have had the same - though as I've just suggested in a post, I suspect that's because my husband's surname is earlier in alphabetical order than mine.

we have the same surname.

 

[Denali]

we have the same surname.

What if you have different surnames but its the same booking?

What if both people are male on the booking, or female, does the person booking/paying stay as pax #1?

 

[Flying mermaid]

What if you have different surnames but its the same booking?

What if both people are male on the booking, or female, does the person booking/paying stay as pax #1?

I have never really noticed in depth. I always do the bookings when Mr FM and I fly, I am always pax no 1 and I seem to get ignored, so it certainly isn't alphabetical. When I booked for Ms FM and her partner, they had different surnames, he was bronze she was WP, she was pax no 1 in the booking, but he became the person.