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  1. MTR

    MTR Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for this......Still working it out.

    Last time I flew to USA economy class it worked out to be a 40 hour trip, my better half organised this, needless to say there were no presents for him on my return....
     
    MTR, 28th Mar, 2016
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    Azazel Well-Known Member

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    What the heck?
    Did you fly via Uzbekistan?
     
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  3. MTR

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    No.... he said it was the shortest flying time, but he left out the stop over hours...:eek:
     
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  4. sanj

    sanj Well-Known Member Premium Member

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    haven't you got over 1 millions FF points?

    why are you paying cash for any flights at all?
     
    sanj, 28th Mar, 2016
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  5. Kate Moloney

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    If you have a credit card with a good points system you can fly business for free, just put all your property expenses on the card, you'll accumulate enough points in no time. When we were developing we were even able to put our MCU and headwords charges on the credit cards. That got us 2x free business seats from Melb - LA.
     
    Kate Moloney, 28th Mar, 2016
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  6. MTR

    MTR Well-Known Member

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    I have definitely been slow with this, OK, I will need to look into this
     
    MTR, 28th Mar, 2016
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  7. Kate Moloney

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    Virgin Credit cards have a good $/points conversion.
     
    Kate Moloney, 28th Mar, 2016
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  8. MTR

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    I am with Virgin, buy 1 get one free
    must be doing something wrong
     
    MTR, 28th Mar, 2016
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  9. wylie

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    I had about 340K points with Altitude and used them to pay for about $2.5K worth of travel. I looked into converting them to an airline, but I got better value booking through the travel agent connected with Altitude and using points that way.
     
    wylie, 28th Mar, 2016
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  10. lewy89

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    From memory my old man got bored one day and decided to figure out which credit card had the best rewards program per $ spent.

    Jetstar mastercard was head and shoulders above the rest
     
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  11. TMNT

    TMNT Well-Known Member

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    Any chance you could elaborate on that

    Im genuinely curious
     
    TMNT, 29th Mar, 2016
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  12. TMNT

    TMNT Well-Known Member

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    yes I do, I havent gone long haul for a while so waiting for my opportunity to come up,

    and Im trying to accumulate poiints at a rate that I can do 1st or business eveyr 2 years ,
     
    TMNT, 29th Mar, 2016
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  13. wombat777

    wombat777 Well-Known Member

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    I've flown business to the UK on Qantas. It was fabulous. Still didn't sleep due to the noise ( it was an A380 ). The new Dreamliner aircraft is excellent. So quiet!

    No way I would pay for business class flights out of my own pocket.

    Btw - highly recommend jetabroad.com.au for researching / booking cheap flights, including multi-stop and round-the-world. Much more flexibility than a traditional round-the-world ticket and you can achieve the same or better pricing.
     
    wombat777, 29th Mar, 2016
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  14. TMNT

    TMNT Well-Known Member

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    a vote for skyscanner from me, pretty darn good, they say they dont charge any fees but it always seems to be $25 more expensive then going direct, so I use them to find the deal and book direct
     
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    He is in China at the moment so he is pretty much off the grid. I will elaborate when he gets back and I can ask him
     
    lewy89, 29th Mar, 2016
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  16. MTR

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    I rotate credit cards every 4 - 6 months. Refer to a credit card site like pointhacks and you can pretty much gather the 50k - 100k bonus points every 6 months with different credit cards. The best one at the moment is the ANZ black card, no annual fee and 75k bonus points.
     
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  18. MTR

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    I just flew Bus class with Qatar, upgrade for fraction of the cost. Amazing deals
    They are brilliant
     
    MTR, 17th Sep, 2017
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    You can fly for free if you're willing to sign up for a number of credit cards with large sign on bonuses - but don't expect that to do you any favours cum time to apply for loans etc.
     
    Lacrim, 17th Sep, 2017
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  20. MTR

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    Yes I will give that a miss
     
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