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Europe’s new travel rules for Australians start this week
Apr 09, 2026, 06:17 AMI flew into Paris CDG from Kuala Lumpur on MH20 on Thursday 2nd April 2026 and I was expecting chaos or at least long lines given what I had seen and the number of planes that seemed to be unloading when I arrived around 7.40am but when I got to the passport section I placed the passport on an e-...
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Taiwan’s new entry rules for Australian visitors
Sep 29, 2025, 06:59 PMI have no issues completing whatever forms either paper or electronic a country requires to allow me to enter, but sometimes with multiple flight connections to get to a destination it seems sometimes 72 hours isn't enough of a window especially with countries where 72 hours is also conside...
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How Lufthansa plans to keep the 747 flying
Aug 08, 2025, 09:32 PMA bit surprised they didn't put economy on the upper deck and used some economy cabin for a bigger main deck business class cabin to keep the entire business class cabin consistent. I remember some old 747's had economy on the upper deck and I am pretty sure i did a flight on BA between Sydney an...
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Review: Malaysia Airlines A330neo business class
Jun 30, 2025, 11:17 PMJust got an email from Malaysia Airlines advising of a seat change for MH250 on 24th March 2026 as the plane has been upgraded to the new A330-900 neo. SO it looks like Sydney is getting them as well.
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Update: Emirates first class still open to Qantas Points bookings
May 14, 2025, 04:01 PMI did 2 EK first class sectors in 2024 as Qantas classic rewards from KL to DXB ad then DXB to Vienna. On the second flight only 4 of the 14 first class seats on the A380 were occupied and two of them were occupied by the parents of EK staff. Glad to see that first class will still be avail...
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Once travel resumes, where will you be headed?
Jun 03, 2020, 09:48 PMAlready booked on QF points for Brisbane to Paris via Hong Kong in May 2021, just have to wait another 3 months until I can book the return hopefully, but QF points have waived any cancel fees for award bookings if cancelled by 31/10/2020 so hopefully in a few months we will now more about where ...
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Finding Available Qantas Business Classic Rewards Seats on Emirates - Any tri...
Feb 16, 2019, 01:35 AMI have had a lot of success booking Emirates J as a multi city trip like EUROPE-DXB-ASIAN CITY-BNE OR SYDNEY on Emirates or Qantas and as long as you have stopovers of less than 24 hours the points are the same as a one stop flight
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Why can't I find business class award seats to Santiago?
Nov 30, 2018, 04:53 PMI have been lucky enough to book with Qantas points as multi city itineraries for travel in 2017 and 2018 to Europe and back on Emirates metal in business class but I had to book them as one way multi city to get to Europe and then another back both years but had to book them 11 months or so in a...
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Emirates Award Bookings with Qantas Points
Mar 02, 2018, 07:01 PMI had luck booking Emirates business class to and from Europe for May and returning in August as two one way multi city itineraries OOL-SYD-BKK & BKK-DXB-CDG and returning AMS-DXB-SYD-OOL, the system lets you book them but not complete the purchase and you have to ring the call centre but t...
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Reward Flights from Europe July 2018
Nov 22, 2017, 05:11 PMI managed to get business class to Paris and from Amsterdam for next May and August on Emirates by booking the as multi sector but spending less than 24 hours at the stopover so it doesn't increase the miles needed. Try a multi city such as BCN-DXB, then DXB to an Asian city then that city to you...
