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I generally don't fly with Qantas. We have a rewards program Virgin Australia/Singapore. We have a credit card tied to that but to be honest we are not spenders (aside from travel) so it doesn't do a lot for us. I just look for sale fares. (Our just cancelled trip to Milan was through Qatar and...

Fair point. Life is good.

I’ll look at flights to Canada today. Now that our first choice has been cancelled there are some good reasons not to travel in the coming few weeks though…… We unfortunately live in what is basically a big country town down the bottom of the earth. No cheap flights last minute for us.

I feel those geniuses behind Epic Fury are pretty keen to find an off ramp now. Maybe Pete didn’t think of all the possible consequences because they don’t have economic and political messes on his Play Station. Qatar just cancelled my flight and there are no flights available with Singapore and...

Mr Trump seems to be currently building an off ramp so I may still be heading to Europe of the 22nd. Some snow in the forecast apparently. https://wepowder.com/en

Sounds good. I've got to nail down exactly what is happening with my flight to Europe. Hopefully they'll let me know one way or another in the next few days.

With the cost of lift tickets in the US coupled with a less than ideal exchange rate I think I’ll stick with Canada. If I had a pass of some kind the US might be in play.

I'm feeling that my flights to Milan on the 22nd of this month will be cancelled. I probably won't know until a week before. Alternative flights through Singapore are now crazy expensive so if the existing flights are cancelled I won't be flying to Europe. Are there any reasons I shouldn't fly...

That was the year that the Sierra and Tahoe had 'miracle March' I'm sure. I can still remember the pics of loaded snow at Squaw Valley.

Nice report. Seems like a lot of fun was had.

Unhinged.

This is the bottom line. Religious extremists with nukes is a recipe for disaster. They'd be too willing to become martyrs and get their 72 virgins....... For sure. There is no clear outcome to all of this. I'm hoping your president 'chickens out' and declares some kind of victory so the whole...

Related to this I might have to cancel my Europe trip due to being scheduled to stop for a few hours in a war zone. Alternative last minute flights are likely to be extortionate so I’ll probably look at going late April. I might even consider western North America. @Tony Crocker how is Mt...

It would be interesting to know if the American visitation numbers have increased in the summer hiking/climbing period too. If not I would say your assumption is correct.

Makes accommodation very cheap in the months of April, May, June, September, October and November. Early December, most of January and most of March pretty reasonable too.