u/trekwithme

Hello all

From Puglia in southern Italy. The house has been fully booked all summer, no other guests have seen and/or reported any, and I’ve never seen any at anytime over the last year. They have no photo of it to share. Threatening to report to AirBNB. Says it ruined their stay. Sounds dubious, how would you handle?

Many thanks in advance

Good morning all

Bit of a rant today. Frequent IB user here. It’s shocking to me how bad the flight status functionality is on the app.

Remarkably there are so many IB destinations that are simply not in the database. For example, I travel to Italy frequently and none of the Italian airports are in the database including FCO, MXP, LIN and VCE. Today I’m flying out of Faro (FAO) and it’s not in the database. Recently flew in and out of KEF, not in database. There are dozens maybe more. Impossible to check status and have to go outside the app to a third party app to check. I have raised this with IB constructively several times but nothing ever changes. Is this really that complicated?

Less aggravating but still aggravating and unnecessary is how you have to select between Iberia, Express and Nostrum as the carrier. Does it really matter for flight status? No. They all are IB flights. I fly to some cities that are served by more than one of these so have to figure out which carrier it is to get flight status. So poorly designed.

Good morning all

Not sure how frequently you get recognized for your status on board, but it’s an incredibly small thing an airline can do to show their appreciation IMHO

Doesn’t happen too much for me but did today in an early morning IB flight from Madrid. Was flying economy and during taxi the purser came by from biz to introduce herself and thank me for being an Emerald and flying IB, asked if I needed anything. I somewhat jokingly replied a coffee given the hour and she brought it by along with a snack after takeoff.

Seems very carrier specific. CX is exceptional with this, JL and QF also have been good. Was rare for me on AA but it has happened. IB increasingly good with this, BA almost never.

Anybody else seeing this ? Honestly it’s one of the few personalized things they do that actually makes me feel important. Kind of a nice change.

Hello all

I’m new to Miles and More. Currently have *G status via TAP. Most of my travel these days is on ITA so thinking Miles and More is more sensible for me. I’m struggling with timing of the move.

If I read the Miles and More details correctly the qualification period is a calendar year (ie - Jan 1 thru Dec 31) only? In other words not any 12 month period?

Assuming that’s the case is there any reason to accrue in Miles and More for the remainder of 2026?

In 2026 I will do one business P class return BCN-FCO-BDS monthly on ITA. Likely some other incidental travel but nothing that will accumulate many QP . The earn on this is 2500 miles and 160 QP per return trip. So that’s 960 QP for 2026. Unless I’m missing something with a calendar year qualification period That’s effectively worthless for me assuming my goal is Senator or star alliance Gold. Aren’t I better off waiting until 2027 to start crediting and accruing to Miles & More?

In 2027 I’ll probably be doing two of those return trips monthly so for the Calendar year I’ll certainly qualify for Senator in 2027.

I’m sorry if this is a pretty basic question, but I’m a newbie with this program.

Any advice greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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Hello all

I’m curious what other EU sellers have done wrt opening Meta or TikTok stores. Given Meta cannot process the transaction in The EU and the order gets passed on to Etsy for payment, fulfillment, etc is it really worth the trouble?

I can imagine there would be marketing and exposure benefits but purely from the perspective of transaction processing it would seem to add a layer of complication and integration that wouldn’t appear to be necessary. Wouldn’t just the existing link to our Etsy store from our socials suffice?

For those who have set up the integration, did you use some of the third party products that claim to make this integration easy?

Thanks in advance

Good morning all

Has anyone done this in either direction? Would be curious to know how it went. Arriving DBV after midnight so assume there will be minimal border traffic. For the return from Montenegro any issues getting a ride share back to DBV?

Thanks in advance