Enough of the launches and offers for us. August 2025 I offloaded 900k points on international business class travel just before the devaluation. I smelt a 'rat'. So glad I did. Even with the new reward points availability interface, I've found availability scant and in fact, the purported availa...

Since its release I've checked regularly for MEL-HKG business class and find it quite useless; mostly inaccurate, and even if accurate, not enough reward flights to be useable. We're about 18 years into successful business class redemptions to HKG; up to twice/year (covid excluded obviously) but ...

First flight with Emirates - travelled Melbourne Paris via Dubai 1st Class and researched its 1st lounges for the transit; only finding the most luxurious reports, and we were so looking forward to the experience. We arrived at a terminal that had the most underwhelming 1st class lounge - somethi...