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Title. Is commendation=shortlist or better?

I'm 15 but I travel more often than most adults, about a round trip every two weeks from Northern Europe to the US where my parents live. I mostly fly economy and exclusively on Skyteam airlines (chasing AF/KL status).

If you're under 18 you can always opt for the Unaccompanied Minor service. It's expensive and makes no sense if you fly often enough to have airline status, their lounges are usually terrible and only offer water and instant noodles (AF UNMR lounge at CDG 2E is surprisingly good but definitely the exception) and there are some really dumb seating restrictions like only last few rows in economy or very first row in business (the one with no foot room on intraeuropean, first world problem I know but annoying nonetheless)

If you're 14-15+ you can opt to fly as an "adult" which is what I always do. It makes sense if you have status since you can use priority check-in, security and boarding. The real annoying thing is the lounge situation. Most European countries have laws prohibiting minors from entering lounges unaccompanied due to the self-serve alcohol situation, or Delta in the US because they like being difficult apparently (they only serve alcohol from the bar). KLM lets you go because the Dutch have no problem with it (which is why I love KLM and fly them whenever I get the chance). Some other airlines let you kind of dodge it. SAS's system lets you in and the attendants never really check, I've only ever been "caught" once. Korean Air's ICN lounges are amazing and also have no system restrictions so you can enter super easily and its great.

Little fun fact specific to the UMNR service is that if you depart from a regional terminal without a UNMR lounge they send you to a different one first. For example at CDG if I arrive at 2F and leave from 2G they send me through passport control to their biggest lounge at 2E and then back into Schengen a few hours later. Very fun

I'm 15 and I'm travelling alone long-haul for the first time from Oslo to Boston via AMS. I've flown alone within Europe before with SAS and AF and although neither of them accept minors the scanners at the SAS lounges always let me in (Flying Blue Platinum from my travels with family) and I've only ever been asked to leave once after the counter lady got suspicious and asked to see my passport, while the Air France system automatically denies entry. I have accessed the Crown Lounge in AMS before (with my equally underage girlfriend) but I was on a group booking with my school so perhaps the system assumed I was accompanied. I can't tell from my online research whether or not KLM accepts youth in their lounges if they have access, and if not whether you can still sneak in like with SAS. The UNMR service doesn't make any sense and slows me down during the layover

Flying to Boston next month on an a330-300 and I saw that in many reviews as recent as 2025 the cabin still has the old seats with the ancient screen. However, in some 2026 reviews the seats are of the newer generation found on the a330-200. Can anyone clarify? There are 6 rows of economy comfort instead of 5 which seems to suggest it’ll be the newer cabin

Open to any questions about pretty much anything except I will not reveal which school it is for obvious reasons

EDIT: I’m still in high school btw, sorry if the title is misleading, perhaps “to a T5” would have been better? Don’t really say it often lol

Flying business on a long haul flight to Paris in an hour and the check-in agent informed me that the seat door would be broken. Should I request compensation onboard from the purser or after the flight online? I’m told I can expect about 50k miles. Thanks in advance

The stated goal of the in-person post-shortlist interviews in recent years was to filter out plagiarism and Al use. This has already been done by now. If they are interested in specific essay info and opinions, they have our Viverly transcripts.

The most convincing fact is that in the "next steps" category in the shortlist email the interviews aren't mentioned at all.

Thoughts?

The teachings of the Quran and the Bible are deeply flawed and in many cases contribute negatively to our society. Pointing this out is not "hating on religious people" it's just addressing a major problem.

As an atheist and a libertarian, I believe people can be whatever they want to be, but they shouldn't expect people to always call them as they wish and they shouldn't get mad and publicly crucify you if you dont. Just like its your right to be trans, its my right to call you whatever I want to

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How do I practice for paper two? Just did my first practice test and mowed through English pretty well (got 710) and paper 1 maths but I absolutely got cooked on paper 2 and just got 610 in maths… how do I improve??

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