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These Qantas FF fees have been a fairly standard part of credit card fees for a while now. While they might not have been separate like the…

Once the points autosweep, you can cancel the card. If the annual fee hasn't hit, so much the better, although NAB won't refund if it has.

Right now is when to start *looking*. Perhaps start with Google Flights. Timing of the purchase is trickier although as a general rule,…

In this case though, they use the Mastercard rates *provided you load the card with AUD* and use it like a debit card, rather than loading…

Go to flightconnections.com and work out who flies from the airport in Italy you're wanting to use. Chances are at least one of Ryanair,…

Change the date and destination to NYC so you can dig up the direct EWR/JFK-SIN flight (the world's longest commercial flights). Note this…

Got a flight to Europe coming up in Emirates' first class. 227.5K points plus a hefty $1.8k in carrier charges and taxes (which is a sucky…

Set up an alert on pointsyeah.com so you can pounce if one does open up.

Did you apply for a status hold? https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/status-and-clubs/status/status-hold.html

Just hack yourself a Dragonpass membership through MyRegus and buy a pass.

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium! But yes, that looks like a very rushed itinerary, and the jetlag will be a killer for the first few…

Actually, misconduct in the financial services sector (like false or misleading representations) is *exactly* what ASIC deals with, but…

Interstate flight inconvenience insurance on your credit card?

That, and pointsyeah.com are my go to tools...

That's annoying. In that case, you'll need to fire off complaints to AFCA (regarding your own circumstances) and ASIC (regarding the false…

If they come after my FFFL Premier card, I'll be firing off a complaint to ASIC (for breaches of section 12DB of the ASIC Act relating to…

The $2.7 million Richard Mille charges for the official Ferrari watch is a little outside most folks' budgets for a watch... ;-)

When I was last in DC, I stayed in the DuPont Circle Hotel. Very nice indeed, in a nice part of DC and not outrageously expensive for a 5…

Spend $US9.95 on a one month subscription to seats.aero (note it’s segment by segment e.g. CDG-DOH and DOH-MEL rather than CDG-MEL). It…

Flew Lauda Air from Bergamo to Vienna last year. Was an hour late, the seats were rock hard and there was lots of upselling. But…

1. Find Singapore Airlines cash flight you want 2. Determine whether it is available as an award through Virgin Australia (SQ awards in…

Good if you have a specific long haul business class redemption in mind and you can't churn credit cards. Not so good otherwise...

I'm in the same boat - third lot of standard points lobbed in, but no bonus yet.

I booked a couple of tickets on Emirates yesterday. The AUEBOOK code offered a better discount in my case (about $30 per ticket compared to…

As well as CC churning, the other thing is to park cash in a MacBank transaction account, which offers 4.75% (vs about 1.1% for Bankwest,…

Neat! Signed up this morning and they offered the usual four week trial, as well as the 12 month period. So effectively 13 months for $35.…

And said status is recognised by Virgin for lounge access etc. And Aeroplan offers regular deals when buying miles.

I churned the Ultimate card while they had the bonus offer and had no issues. I got the bonus points as CBA award points in the first month…

A forced restart of the app sorted it for me.

I got my 800 points (and $20 cashback) yesterday after buying a Wish card on Monday.