The next step should be for Australia to remove the need to visit a kiosk between landing and immigration. Last Thursday I arrived home to Singapore and didn’t even need to show my passport to clear.

1 negative and 1 positive of Solitaire. If you generally fly only business class then the upgrade awards are mostly useless. Few flights have first class and, even if they do, good luck getting a seat. I have 7 awards and have only managed to use 1 in 3 years. For the positive, you do get a few e...