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RIP my 200,000 QAN FF Points and $3,000 ish in Air NZ dollars :D. Any wine recommendations? Can probably get a few cases before the points are worthless
Any good suggestions for spending air dollars? I have about $1000 to spend today.
All in on the Mt Difficulty Pinot
https://www.airpointsstore.co.nz/win...Selection.html
It truly has been fascinating
It clicked for me about 14 days ago when Tom Hanks, several NBA players and several English Premier League footballers and Aust govt minister came out and said they have it. At that stage there were 80 reported cases in Aust, and about 600 in the US and UK each.
But what are the chances of all of these famous people having it when the infection rate is so low?? It's impossible. Then I realised f*** this thing is going to be massive and everyone has it, it's just that famous people are more likely to be tested.
That's when I realised everything is **** and shorted anything I could find
With the way they're squeezing their suppliers, I personally wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole!
I've got quite a few APD that I had redeemed on flights, but I don't know yet what I'm going to do withe the balance. The AP store represents rather poor value.
Yep it's a bit of a rip off price rise. But figure I'd rather get some useful items (Mitre 10 voucher, new coffee machine etc) than risk losing them as this airline heads for even worse turbulence. All my APD came from reimbursed work travel so it's not like it's costing me anything ... although my dreams of the once-in-a-lifetime free business class roundtrip to Europe are rapidly fading!!
$ 1.08 ...Beagle you take your short back ?
Thanks very much for all your suggestions. Shopping done and happy to be able to.
Probably standard retailer behaviour, especially when expecting a downturn, and seen a huge risk-off currency move on the NZD. Stores are individually owned - and some are pretty substantial owners - so don't have any concerns. Anyway, off topic.
Indeed, not great value, but bit of a bonus when travelling for work and all the weekends have travelled on or been away. Might get some paint and do the house if we get to lockdown stage.Not going to travel privately for a while.
No mate...I am clinging on to this short with "dogged" determination. The last bailout was at 25 cents and the funny thing about history, it has a strange habit of repeating ! Greg Foran is too nice a guy and other management don't care and know they will be there forever and a day because Grant Robertson has repeatedly said "we need a national airline". Too big to fail.
Management haven't got the gonads to make the changes they really need to or the will to do so and consequently minority shareholders simply cannot win. In effect, minority shareholders will end up wearing the vast majority of the losses while senior management dine out at their expense and the Govt will soon be back to collecting $500m+ total per annum in PAYE, GST, Tax, Interest and eventually dividends again. Being a minority shareholder in AIR is effectively a mug's game.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of senior management remuneration Beagle, the fact remains that AIR would quickly become insolvent if it wasn't for the proposed govt funding. I'm sorry for minority shareholders' position but management are powerless to help in these circumstances.