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Forum: Australia
Aug 12th 2008, 6:10 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,798
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: Flights via singapore

I have not thrown my toys out of the pram at all, in fact you have completely hijacked this debate by trying to sound like you are the World's Greatest Authority on airline travel! On the last thread...
Forum: Australia
Aug 12th 2008, 3:46 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,798
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: Flights via singapore

Okay, since you will not let this go. My reference was to the comments that you made on this and the other thread about baggage allowance. Although I tried to give an honest account of our personal...
Forum: Australia
Aug 12th 2008, 2:01 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,798
Posted By Phoenix97

Thumbs down Re: Flights via singapore

From what I have read on this and other expat web sites there is clearly ambiguity as to which airlines do give double baggage allowance and my original comment was well intentioned and based on our...
Forum: Australia
Aug 12th 2008, 1:48 am
Replies: 38
Views: 3,798
Posted By Phoenix97

Angry Re: Flights via singapore

Pardon me, but did you make the booking? Stop being so pedantic - you are like a dog with a bone!
Do you get some perverse pleasure in trying to put other's down?
I may have been wrong about the...
Forum: Australia
Aug 11th 2008, 4:09 pm
Replies: 38
Views: 3,798
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: Flights via singapore

Hi,

We flew BA to Singapore had a two day stopover and then onto Perth with Qantas. BA gave us double their allowance but Qantas charged us £300 for excess baggage, over 20kg even though we had...
Forum: Australia
Aug 11th 2008, 3:29 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 830
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: So many Questions !!

Hi,

We are on a 457 and only get basic Medicare ie. emergency treatment which is then claimed back from the UK Government with a reciprocal arrangement I believe.

Under the terms of the 457...
Forum: Australia
Aug 10th 2008, 9:37 pm
Replies: 103
Views: 12,132
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Anyone emigrated over 40

Hi,

We are both 54 and came to Perth 4 months ago on a 457 temp visa.
We were given the opportunity and grasped it with both hands. If everything works out and we enjoy it here, we may go for a...
Forum: Australia
Aug 10th 2008, 9:07 pm
Replies: 9
Views: 1,040
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Is this normal?

What you are feeling is completely normal. I was running on adrenalin for months before we left and I even found I was on 'automatic pilot' when saying my 'goodbyes' to people before we left.

The...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2008, 11:33 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Baggage allowance when you do a wee stop over ??

You are, once again, missing my point entirely. Qantas double the allowance for those emigrating along with several other airlines. 20kg x 2 = 40kg.

As I stated before, we had 40kgs which was...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2008, 9:05 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Baggage allowance when you do a wee stop over ??

Hmmm....thanks a bunch for your sympathetic response! :p If you read my post properly, you will see we did 'take it on the chin and we did pay up'!
The reason for posting is to make others aware...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2008, 6:04 pm
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Baggage allowance when you do a wee stop over ??

What really cheesed us off was that Qantas and BA are part of the same 'Alliance', so in theory, you would have thought they would take into consideration the first part of the journey we had been...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2008, 2:35 pm
Replies: 19
Views: 2,402
Posted By Phoenix97

Post Re: Worst day so far

We had the same dilemma when we started to sort out and pack up, so we sold some things on ebay, but eventually we took 8 large boxes of unwanted items, china, toys, ornaments, garden equipment,...
Forum: Australia
Jul 26th 2008, 3:35 am
Replies: 15
Views: 2,294
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: Baggage allowance when you do a wee stop over ??

Hi,

We emigrated to Perth in April with a stopover in Singapore. The first part was booked Edinburgh to LHR then on to Singapore with BA and we used our airmiles + cash to upgrade to Club World....
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 14th 2008, 2:27 pm
Replies: 17
Views: 2,022
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: flying premium economy - worth the extra?

Hi Vicky,

We used all our Airmiles when we came to Oz and upgraded to Club. It cost us 140,000 airmiles + cash to fly with BA from LHR to Singapore. Unfortunately we couldn't afford to upgrade the...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 16th 2007, 8:04 am
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: 457 Visa Query for over 45's

Thanks for that.......will check them out.
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 16th 2007, 5:29 am
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By Phoenix97

Re: 457 Visa Query for over 45's

Hello Emma,

We haven't even started the process yet as we are still researching the visa options.
He has the job, this is to relocate so he can be based in Oz as he travels over there and to...
Forum: Immigration, Visas & Citizenship (Australia)
Mar 16th 2007, 5:10 am
Replies: 4
Views: 462
Posted By Phoenix97

457 Visa Query for over 45's

Hi,

We are planning to come to Oz on a 457 temporary visa sponsored by my husbands Company in the UK. We are both over 45.

We (and the Company) would like the move to be permanent and are aware...
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