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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Apologies if you’ve told me before but remind me where in western Switzerland you are? I live in Lausanne.
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This is a kind of niche new skymiles program question - they're moving to rear end-in-seat miles without bonuses for fare class etc, but are they also getting rid of the 500 mile segment minimum? Like am I going to be earning 280 miles for my flight to philly rather than 500? segment warriors get no respect
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:This is a kind of niche new skymiles program question - they're moving to rear end-in-seat miles without bonuses for fare class etc, but are they also getting rid of the 500 mile segment minimum? Like am I going to be earning 280 miles for my flight to philly rather than 500? segment warriors get no respect I haven't seen anything that notates that one way or the other.
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Beef Of Ages posted:I haven't seen anything that notates that one way or the other. Okay, that’s what I thought. just checking to see if I missed something. I’ll ask!
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Oct 24, 2023 21:54
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:This is a kind of niche new skymiles program question - they're moving to rear end-in-seat miles without bonuses for fare class etc, but are they also getting rid of the 500 mile segment minimum? Like am I going to be earning 280 miles for my flight to philly rather than 500? segment warriors get no respect Are you talking about million miler qualification? If so, I think that's right. If you're talking about annual elite qualification or redeemable miles earned (towards award flights), that's all based on the price.
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Small White Dragon posted:Are you talking about million miler qualification? If so, I think that's right. I'm talking about Million Miler qualification.
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knox_harrington posted:Thanks! I'm heading on to San Diego but will need to head to our Seattle office sooner or later and will hit you up. SD resident here, let me know if you need recommendations for food/POI/etc
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Trying to book a reservation to Yakumo Saryo in Tokyo and I tried doing it through their partnership with My Concierge, but it only lets me put in a single date and time and I got to wait 48 hours for them to tell me "no that time doesn't work but we can't tell you what will so you have to pick another time and wait 48 hours and hope that one does!" So I said gently caress that and called my credit card concierge to ask them to call in Japanese and talk to a human for me. They were like "Okay we'll do that but first we filled out the My Concierge page again for you and we also sent them an email. We will call as soon as they are open to make sure we have the best chance of getting you a reservation," and I'm just listening to that thinking "Oh man, I can't think of a better way to piss off a Japanese business than to contact them 4 times about the same thing and act super impatient and pushy about it. I'm totally hosed for this trip and I'll be lucky if they don't blacklist me." KillHour fucked around with this message at 04:09 on Oct 27, 2023 |
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Oct 27, 2023 04:07
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KillHour posted:Trying to book a reservation to Yakumo Saryo in Tokyo and I tried doing it through their partnership with My Concierge, but it only lets me put in a single date and time and I got to wait 48 hours for them to tell me "no that time doesn't work but we can't tell you what will so you have to pick another time and wait 48 hours and hope that one does!" I have never once thought to try and use any credit card / 'free' concierge type thing because I just assumed it's all useless. People are expecting the Hollywood-style omniscient dude who knows a dude who knows a dudette to help you get the thing you, one of 100000 credit card holders, wants. (sorry though, that sucks, that place looks cool...)
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Oct 27, 2023 22:57
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movax posted:I have never once thought to try and use any credit card / 'free' concierge type thing because I just assumed it's all useless. People are expecting the Hollywood-style omniscient dude who knows a dude who knows a dudette to help you get the thing you, one of 100000 credit card holders, wants. It didn't work out, but the request was less "I want you to call your cousin who knows a guy who can get me in" and more "They won't talk to me over the phone except in Japanese - can you have someone who speaks Japanese call and ask for a reservation?" I've heard the best thing to do is have your 5 star hotel's concierge call on your behalf, but I don't have that because I'm not staying at a 5 star hotel.
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Concierge in Japan is a real thing…. Most places that really want to be exclusive will only take calls in Japanese and will not accept calls from hotels or concierge services. Also I’ve had weird luck with credit card concierge. Got a client into French Laundry at prime time on Friday. Good stuff at a few other spots. sellouts fucked around with this message at 00:26 on Oct 28, 2023 |
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Oct 28, 2023 00:23
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Amex got me a table tomorrow at an 8-seat restaurant that was full when my girlfriend called. First time I've tried using it for restaurants.
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Oct 28, 2023 00:31
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ya it’s really not bad and worth a shot
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Oct 28, 2023 00:40
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I did a Hail Mary for the very last night in Japan and oh gently caressquote:[ Yakumo Saryo ] Please complete payment to make your reservation. 
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Oct 28, 2023 14:42
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KillHour posted:I did a Hail Mary for the very last night in Japan and oh gently caress The Japanese concierge fears the American tourist.
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KillHour posted:I did a Hail Mary for the very last night in Japan and oh gently caress Have fun that place is cool
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Oct 28, 2023 15:17
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I stand corrected about my bad / wrong concierge opinions
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Oct 28, 2023 17:50
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movax posted:I stand corrected about my bad / wrong concierge opinions I think skepticism is warranted but they do occasionally work as noted earlier. It's one of those things that is worth a try for special or unique places because the cost is low (part of your annual fee) and the worst they can say is no.
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and Japan works different. It just does.
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KillHour posted:[ Yakumo Saryo ] Why aren't people aged under 20 allowed? Is that a normal cutoff in Japan? My brain is telling me it's too good and their malleable brains will be damaged by the flavours
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knox_harrington posted:Why aren't people aged under 20 allowed? Is that a normal cutoff in Japan? Legal drinking age in Japan is 20, so it's probably because they serve alcohol with the meal. The cutoff for tea service is 15, and that's probably just to avoid loud kids or whatever.
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Oct 28, 2023 20:13
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Just FYI - that My Concierge Japan site charged me a 15% service charge(!) to make the reservation through them. I could have maybe had my credit card call again to try to get the same date since I know it was open, or tried to call in my terrible broken Japanese, but I didn't want to gently caress around with it considering how much the entire trip cost. Still, that's a hell of a foreigner tax. The site omakase.in only charges like $3 / person for the restaurants in their network.
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Oct 28, 2023 23:00
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Last call for the JetBlue and Alaska status matches for Delta elites. What a stupidly generous promo—JetBlue has comped me 4 free helicopter transfers with Blade and Mint Certificates to upgrade on any of their routes.
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i fly airplanes posted:Last call for the JetBlue and Alaska status matches for Delta elites. On Alaska, you have to get their CC though, right? By end of year? Not sure I need another CC…
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movax posted:On Alaska, you have to get their CC though, right? By end of year? Not sure I need another CC… Same for JetBlue. ...And Barclays denied me for that card. Jerks.
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Small White Dragon posted:Same for JetBlue. I'm worried about being denied too. Barclays is very manual and my credit aging report is not... great.
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fun iphone bug: the little lock screen notification for boarding passes doesn’t correctly adjust for daylight savings time changes. i was worried for a sec this morning that my flight had been moved up by an hour
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pmchem posted:fun iphone bug: the little lock screen notification for boarding passes doesn’t correctly adjust for daylight savings time changes. i was worried for a sec this morning that my flight had been moved up by an hour I’m glad I read this post before checking my own flight info, I totally would have panicked. Fayetteville/Bentonville today for some UArk and Walmart adjacent stuff, I’m definitely going to get into the catfish hole tonight
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e: wrong thread
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e: wrong thread x2, jesus christ
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pmchem posted:fun iphone bug: the little lock screen notification for boarding passes doesn’t correctly adjust for daylight savings time changes. i was worried for a sec this morning that my flight had been moved up by an hour Yep, same — I’m convinced I have lost a hour in my layover here in Sydney, but we are also about 40 minutes early. I know KAYAK had a bug ages ago where reservations you input prior to DST would not adjust when DST occurred, so notifications were all hosed up. The solution, as always, is to abolish time changes. I don’t think I care which way, just get rid of them.
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Has anybody hosed around with Thunderbolt 4 laptop docking stations yet? Ideally something that works great with apple laptops and dual monitors.
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I really, really want docking stations to be less complicated but it's always been disappointing. In other news, https://x.com/NoCapFights/status/1719642482341011718?s=20 Am I actually supposed to ask before I recline my seat... 10 degrees? I don't think I've ever asked or even complained if they person in front did their leaving me little to no leg room.
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Hadlock posted:Has anybody hosed around with Thunderbolt 4 laptop docking stations yet? Ideally something that works great with apple laptops and dual monitors. Yea, and it didn't go well... I ended up having to get monitors that supported video over USBC, and connect those directly to the mac. Whenever I tried via the docking station, I'd only get 30hz refresh rate out of one monitor.
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Gucci Loafers posted:I really, really want docking stations to be less complicated but it's always been disappointing. A number of people flip out and start punching the back of the seat if it comes back a millimeter when you sit down in it. At this point I wish they'd just take reclining out entirely.
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My seat sags back mid flight and they always wake my rear end up for landing because of this, robbing me of an extra 15 minutes of shut eye. Remove the recline
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Some cultures* are civilized and will ask the person behind for permission or let them know in advance if they are going to recline. *old Japanese guy on the Shinkansen and the seat wasn't even close to me
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Midjack posted:A number of people flip out and start punching the back of the seat if it comes back a millimeter when you sit down in it. At this point I wish they'd just take reclining out entirely. Prior the pandemic I had almost over a hundred domestic flights and not even once have I had a silent protestor or anyone complain about me leaning back... 15 degrees?
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I get annoyed if you yeet your seat back in to my laptop screen without warning but at worst I’m going to seethe and give you dirty looks as we deplane.
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I'm as antisocial and introverted as the next goon, but if I am occasioned to be in coach, checking with the person behind me before I slightly recline seems like the most reasonable thing to do. I also check with people behind me at concerts because I'm 6'5" and want to make sure they can still see when I stand up.
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