On this episode of China Uncensored,
what's a Pope got to do
to get some respect in China?
Welcome back to China Uncensored.
I'm Chris Chappell.
In China, if you want to be Catholic,
you have two options:
Belong to the official
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association,
which is under the supervision
of the atheist Communist Party—
or worship at an underground church,
where priests and even worshippers
can be arrested and persecuted.
The Communist Party has never recognized
the Vatican's authority over Catholicism in China,
and vice versa.
And China's 10 million Catholics
are caught in the middle.
The Vatican has made attempts in the past
to work out some of these issues.
Like back in 2007,
Pope Benedict the sixteenth said that
loyal Catholics could worship
in the state-backed churches.
But now Pope Francis is looking to make a deal
with Chinese leaders on the most hotly contested issue:
Who gets to appoint Chinese bishops.
I went to Washington DC to sit down with
human rights activist Benedict Rogers.
He work for Christian Solidarity Worldwide,
which works for freedom of religion
and belief for everyone.
Mr. Rogers, thank you for
joining us again today.
My pleasure, very great to be with you.
So, I'd like to talk a little bit about
the situation for Catholics inside China.
Please tell me about it.
Well, historically, ever since 1949
the Church has been essentially
divided between underground Catholics
who have remained faithful to Rome,
to the Pope, to the Vatican—
and an official Catholic church
that is under the control
of the Communist Party...
Well recently,
Pope Francis has been trying to strike a deal
with the Chinese Communist Party
which ties into all this.
Can you tell us a bit about that?
His goal is to try to unify the church in China
and have the whole church
in communion with Rome.
The compromises that I think are being made,
and we'll have to wait and see the details
of the exact deal that they end up with,
but so far,
I'm extremely concerned about
the way things are going.
We've seen courageous underground bishops
being asked to step down in favor
of Communist Party approved bishops.
Well, I don't know.
The state approved bishops
don't sound too bad to me.
I mean, of the seven Pope Francis looked at,
only two had mistresses
and only one was ex-communicated.
Well, maybe looking at the Church worldwide,
statistically, perhaps that's not such a bad rate,
but no, it's very concerning the way things are going.
Well, tell us a bit about your work
with Christian rights in China.
Well it's important to say that my work
is not just on Christian rights.
I work for freedom of religion or belief
as set out in Article 18
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for everybody.
I work very actively with people of other faiths:
Uighur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists,
Falun Gong, and others.
But in terms of Christians,
we've certainly seen a severe increase
in repression in recent months.
We've seen the destruction of churches,
the destruction of crosses,
new regulations just introduced
controlling religious practice,
and I think that's one of the troubling things
about the Vatican's—not just the substance
of what the Vatican is doing,
but the timing of it—
to be striking a deal at the time
when actually regulations and physical repression
are intensifying,
seems very wrong to me.
What might this Vatican-China deal
mean for Taiwan?
Well, that's incredibly serious.
I find it very hard to imagine that Beijing
would accept a deal that didn't involve
changing diplomatic recognition
from Taiwan to Beijing,
and I think that would be devastating.
So if you were the Pope,
what would you do about
the Catholic situation in China?
I would be insisting on an arrangement
that has the church outside
the control of the government,
has the appointment to bishops
coming from the Pope alone,
and an arrangement that does not in any way
affect relations with Taiwan.
So, China has many beliefs and religions.
If I lived in China,
what religion should I choose
to not be persecuted?
I think you'd have to be of no religion
because even if you choose a religion
that is within the official structures,
even they have come under pressure in recent years.
Official Protestants and I think Catholic as well,
but certainly Protestant churches
have had crosses torn down in recent years.
So, you'd be best off as an atheist.
So what religion should I definitely not choose?
Well, again I think all of the religions
face varying degrees of persecution,
but it's clear that the one belief system
that seems to be target of most hatred
is Falun Gong.
So, if you want to be sure of
condemnation and persecution,
that would be the belief system you practice.
But, really if you're an underground Christian,
if you're Uighur Muslim or Tibetan Buddhist,
you're in for a hard time as well.
Thank you very much for joining us today.
That was a pleasure.
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Things You're Most Likely OVERPAYING for! - Duration: 10:43.
Here are a few things you're probably overpaying for!
9 - Cable If you're trying to save money and be smarter
with your money, one of the easiest things to get rid of is cable.
I'd say to just not watch TV in general, but hey, that's just me.
If you really need shows in your life however, you can easily just get a subscription to
netflix or hulu.
But somehow, a lot of people still choose to keep cable!
If you're one of those people that have cable, make sure you're not overpaying for
your subscription.
The average basic cable package costs around 65 dollars month or 780 dollars per year,
but that doesn't include taxes and all those weird fees they tack on.
It's common for some families to buy packages that has anywhere from 130 to 300 plus channels
included in their subscription.
Research has shown that Americans only view an average of 17 channels despite the massive
variety they have to choose from.
The best way to avoid overpaying for cable is to choose the best subscription package
for you and not the best package the cable company offers.
And just watching TV to watch TV so you can get the max value of your cable bill just
doesn't make sense either!
8 - Bottled water The convenience of having a product that you
can essentially get for free bottled for you has turned into a multi-billion dollar industry
in the US.
At an average cost of $1.22 per gallon, consumers are spending 300 times the cost of tap water
to drink bottled water!
But just how pure is that pristine bottled water in your shopping cart?
As it turns out, the answer varies depending on the brand, and on a confusing array of
water terms.
Artesian water isn't the same as spring water for instance.
The bottom line is that close to half of the bottled water sold in the United States is
ordinary filtered tap water.
The National Resources Defense Council completed a four-year-long study of over 100 brands
of bottled water and found a few disturbing things, such as the case of "pure, glacier
water" having been pumped from a well near a hazardous waste site.
Bottled water brands are fond of using images of snow capped mountains and pine forests
on their labels, even when the water in the bottle may really be from a tap in Pittsburgh.
Or, as one investigator put it, "the same stuff that fills up your toilet bowl."
Just buy a water bottle and refill it!
7 - Brand-name items It happens quite a lot that you go into a
store to buy something and you see the product you were looking for under two different brands.
One is the premium brand while the other is the store brand.
If you take a minute and do a quick comparison of the ingredients and the price, then you
might realize that the brand name product isn't always the best choice, but is often
the more expensive one for no real reason whatsoever.
Brand phobia happens when we always prefer buying the branded product over the non-branded
one, often out of the fear that the non-brand products won't be good enough.
Your headache isn't gonna know the difference between a brand name and a generic pain reliever,
as long as they have the same active ingredient in the same amount.
So instead of spending the extra money on brand name pharmaceuticals, go for the generic
brand and save a few bucks.
6 - HDMI cables When people first started using HDMI cords
to deliver digital signals to their TV's, the cables were another expensive thing to
buy along with the TV.
But as HDMI cables became widespread, you could find them at prices under $10.
Now there's a wide range in price for HDMI cables, from ten dollars all the way up to
hundreds of dollars!
There must be some small improvement for performance for the most expensive cables right?
"In terms of picture quality there's no difference," explains Jeff Park, Senior
Technical Manager for HDMI Licensing, LLC.
"It's digital, so it's all or nothing."
So the short answer is no.
He says quote, "Whether you have a $100 cable or a $5 cable, if they meet the same
specification requirements there should be no difference.
From a technical point of view they are exactly the same."
What people really pay for in expensive cables is just a bit more quality.
That and some great looking materials that make the cable look expensive, but adds absolutely
no value to performance.
Case in point, Magnolia retails a 9.8 foot long HDMI cable for $459.00!
If you need a new HDMI cable there is absolutely no reason to buy the super high-end HDMI cable.
Inexpensive HDMI cables will give the same image and sound quality as expensive cables.
5 - Textbooks Textbooks have long been criticized for being
grossly overpriced.
The giant markup for college textbooks largely comes from author royalties, editorial production,
and marketing.
Don't even get me started on the ROI of going to college itself.
Students have to pick degrees that actually can make them money!
Anyways, textbooks haven't always been so expensive.
Publishers and professors decided to come together and release new editions of a book
every two or three years.
Textbooks became less about educating and more about profitability.
According to The College Board, the average student spends upwards of $1,200 per year
on textbooks.
If you're really trying to save some money, just buy old editions of the same textbook.
Or better yet, just go to the campus library and use the textbooks that's often available
for free.
4 - Extended warranty If you've bought a home appliance, computer
equipment or a used car recently, you probably have been offered an extended warranty.
In many cases, the salesperson probably pushed you hard to purchase it, outlining all of
the benefits of the warranty.
The question here is, are extended warranties a good value?
The answer is a resounding no!
These policies are a great deal for those that offer them, but they're a terrible
deal for the customer.
There are several reasons why.
Most often, you may be purchasing insurance you already have, as most products will carry
some type of manufacturer's warranty for at least a year.
Another big reason is that well, insurance is a losing proposition – it has to be.
Insurance companies aren't in the business of losing money.
They can do this only because, on average, you'll pay them more than they will pay
you.
Insurance companies that issue these policies also factor in breakage.
That is, many people who suffer a covered loss won't file a claim.
They'll either forget that they bought the extended warranty or they won't be able
to find the paperwork to prove they bought it!
3 - Restaurants Restaurants markup the cost of food to turn
a profit of course, but some foods have way bigger markups than others.
Soda from the fountain sells for 20-40 times the restaurant's cost, and eight times more
when it's served in a can.
A cup of tea in a nice sit-down restaurant goes for $2.25 to $3.25, whereas the tea bag
costs no more than 35 cents.
When it comes to pasta, it's impossible to assign an exact dollar figure because the
markup depends on what it's topped with.
But if you exclude pasta dishes with seafood or red meat, you can probably figure that
that bowl of pasta costs the restaurant around a couple bucks, and most restaurants sell
their pasta dishes for 6 to 10 times the cost.
Eggs often come with a hefty markup as well.
The profit margin for a scrambled egg is about 80 percent.
As far as cheese goes, restaurants pay, on average, 29 cents per slice of cheese, but
offer to add cheese to burgers for $1.50 on average, a 417% markup.
If you're really trying to stick it to a restaurant, order a steak, such as ribeye
or filet.
Sometimes restaurants sell it for a loss just because they pretty much have to have it on
the menu.
Do you know what's usually the worst thing to order at a restaurant?
The special of the day!
Typically it's something that's about to go bad, or something the restaurant got
for a great deal.
If you're gonna eat out, at least choose something that you can't easily make at
home for yourself to get the max value out of the experience!
2 - Wine You would think that the more money you spend
on a bottle of wine, the money you spend would proportionally go to the actual winemaking
process.
But, it just doesn't work out that way.
Where exactly does the money go?
For a 100 dollar bottle of wine, around 25-40 dollars of the bottle really goes to what
you can actually taste.
Let's just go through a quick example.
A winery sells their $25 bottle of cabernet to a wholesaler or distributor for $45 per
bottle.
Well, that distributor or wholesaler needs to make money as well.
The distributor charges the retailer $65.
The retailer tacks on the de facto 50% margin.
The wine is now listed at almost a hundred bucks on the store shelf.
When picking a bottle of wine, bear in mind there are two things related to quality.
First on the list are the things you CAN taste – here think about the grapes, the oak barrels,
the winemaking process – and the things you CAN'T taste but still pay plenty of
money for: the marketing, the bottles, the corks, the labels etc.
The cheap wines, something under ten bucks a bottle, put a good percentage of that 10
dollars in making the bottle look good.
For more expensive wines, $100 dollars or more, the biggest percentage of the 100 bucks
in the marketing of the wine.
Yes, ultimately, it's better wine, but you're not getting the best bang for your buck.
It turns out that you get the best value for your money by buying wine in the mid-price
range, for somewhere around 20 bucks for a bottle of wine!
1 - Newest Consumer electronics The newest consumer electronics that comes
out is one of the worst things people overpay for.
One obvious reason is the fact that these products depreciate fast.
Such products face the double whammy of wider availability, as competitors jump on every
bandwagon, and constant innovation, which knocks prices lower.
The longer a product is on the market and the more available it becomes, the lower its
price becomes.
In terms of innovation, the drawback of nearly all electronics is that whatever you buy,
whenever you buy it, a newer, more high-tech product will be on the market within weeks
or months, for cheaper.
Take 3D TVs for example.
In July 2010, the average 47-inch to 50-inch 3D TV sold for a little more than $900 dollars.
A year later, the same TV sold for about $400.
This is why Sony has lost money on its television division for eight straight years!
Buying used or perhaps buying the previous year's closeout model is the smartest way
to go.
You're not going to feel the slight difference in improvement in technology, but you'll
definitely feel that extra money you saved!
Here's what's next!
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This is what it's like to be one of the world's best Formula One drivers.
Double World Champion Fernando Alonso has been in the world's spotlight
for nearly two decades.
He's the youngest man ever to win a Formula One Grand Prix.
Now at 36, with nearly 300 races behind him, he's the most experienced driver in the sport.
You've been at the sport for a long time. How do you stay at the top?
Well, I think as long as you do what you love to do,
that's normally enough to be competitive and to be at the top of your sport.
It doesn't matter if it's motor racing or if it's an everyday job in the office.
Fernando races for McLaren, one of the most successful teams in F1 history.
But the last few years have been poor by the team's high standards.
Having not won the title since 2006, Fernando is optimistic for the upcoming season.
How's the car feeling?
Everything's delivering as we expect, so that's a good sign always with a new car.
But I think we need to prove it when everyone's on the track and in the same conditions.
But so far, so good.
Ultimately winning world championships is a team effort.
Zak Brown is McLaren's Executive Director.
It's his job to make sure the entire McLaren operation
is running at the top of its game.
And thank you for your partnership.
Fernando's the one who gets to spray the champagne
and keep the trophies, but there's a lot of men and women,
nearly a thousand, that go into making a competitive race car.
You have to have the best talent, you have to have the best equipment,
you have to have the best driver, and without all of that
you're going to struggle to win races.
You must get used to this.
Does it get a bit boring, all the PR commitments?
A lot of hand shakes?
Yeah, there is quite a busy period now, especially winter testing with the new car.
Many things you have to deal with. You have all the new sponsors coming.
You have all the PR activities.
You know, if you have some experience in F1 like me, you're still learning.
So what does the future hold for one of motorsport's greats?
Do you think you will stay in the sport following your racing career?
I don't know, really.
I've been in Formula One now for 18 seasons, so it's a long journey already
and definitely it's a possibility because I love motorsport and I love racing.
So one way or another, I will keep going.
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Mystic who �predicted� ISIS, 9 11 had two prophecies for 2018
A blind mystic who many claims predicted 9/11, the rise of ISIS, the Boxing Day tsunami and
Brexit also foresaw two major events in 2018.
Bulgarian Baba Vanga � who died in 1996 at the age of 85 � is well known among conspiracy
theorists who believe she foretold natural disasters and global events long before they
occurred.
Before she died, Baba � dubbed the �Nostradamus from the Balkans� � left predictions up
to the 51st century, when she believed the world would end.
For 2018, she foresaw two world-changing events.
They were that China will become the world�s next �superpower,� taking over from the
US, and �a new form of energy� will be discovered on Venus.
So could these predictions actually come true?
China�s economy has been steadily expanding over the last few years.
In 1970, the country made up just 4.1 percent of the total world�s economy, but this rose
to 15.6 percent in 2015 and it is continuing to rise.
It has not yet overtaken the US, but could soon do so.
In 2015, the US contributed 16.7 percent of the world�s economy, but this is expected
to fall to 14.9 percent in 2025, according to Forbes.
When it comes to Venus, there are no current plans to send a space mission there.
However, the Parker Solar Probe, named after solar astrophysicist Eugene Parker, is scheduled
to launch in July 2018 and will investigate the outer corona of the sun.
While it won�t land on Venus, it will use the planet�s gravitational force to pass
around the sun.
The craft�s mission is to determine the structure of the magnetic fields at the sources
of solar wind, trace the flow of energy that heats the plasma surrounding the sun and explore
dusty plasma and its influence on solar wind and energetic particle formation.
Baba Vanga is said to have predicted 9/11 by claiming �two steel birds� would attack
the �American brethren.�
She reportedly said: �Horror, horror!
The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds.
The wolves will be howling in a bush and innocent blood will be gushing.�
She was also said to have foreseen Brexit when she said Europe as we know it will �cease
to exist� by the end of 2016, and she warned of the rise of an extremist Muslim army that
would invade Europe, thought to refer to the rise of ISIS.
However, last year it was claimed she said that Barack Obama would be the �last American
president,� which falsely led some to believe Donald Trump would never be sworn in.
Other future events Baba warned the world about including the end of world hunger by
2028, Mars� colonies gaining nuclear weapons by 2256 and Earth becoming unhabitable from
2341.
THESE ARE THE FUTURE PREDICTIONS FROM BABA VANGA:
Global hunger will start to be eradicated between 2025 and 2028.
From 2033 to 2045, the polar ice caps will melt, causing ocean levels to rise.
At the same time, Muslims will rule Europe and the world economy will grow.
The rise of cloning will mean doctors can cure any disease.
The US will launch an attack on Muslim Rome using a climate-based �instant freezing�
weapon.
Between 2072 and 2086, a classless, Communist society will thrive hand in hand with newly
restored nature.
Between 2170 and 2256, a Mars colony will become a nuclear power and demand independence
from the Earth.
Back on Earth, an underwater city will be built and something �terrible� will be
discovered during the search for alien life.
Sometime between 2262 and 2304, we�ll crack time travel.
From 2341, a series of natural and man-made disasters will make Earth uninhabitable.
But humans will escape to another solar system and wars will be waged.
From 4302 to 4674, humans are immortal and have assimilated with aliens.
The 340 billion people scattered throughout the universe can talk to God.
In 5079, the universe will end.
Interesting to say the least.
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she ate only pineapple for a week what happened to her body will definitely
surprise you pineapples are awesome they are sweet and super healthy nutrient
bombs this means that you should eat pineapples every day in this video we
are going to show you a simple pineapple diet which will help you lose up to
three kilograms in just one week note it's highly recommended that you
practice this diet for 4 days and is considered to be a temporary remedy
since it represents an imbalanced diet first you should know that pineapple is
extremely effective against water retention bloating and cellulite it's
rich in water about 90% potassium that eliminates the
excess of water iron that creates red blood cells which are known to transport
the oxygen throughout the whole body you should also know that pineapple contains
an enzyme called brah melon that improves the digestion and fights
against the inflammatory processes of the organism another very important
property of this enzyme is that it can fasten your metabolism note this
delicious fruit is a hypocaloric fruit and 100 grams contain 40 calories and
the best way to consume it is when it's fresh and ripe as well as keep it in the
fridge upside down so that the sugar can melt in the whole fruit when it's fresh
its crust is yellowish orange in color and without any spots its structure is
hard and the leaves are green make sure you eat it right after you've cut it so
it can preserve all the properties of vitamin C which is important for the
formation of collagen that improves the elasticity of your skin in this video we
are going to show you a few tips of what to do when you're on the pineapple diet
you should avoid processed meat products and old cheese carbohydrates energetic
and alcoholic drinks note it's extremely important for you to drink tea at least
2 cups of tea a day and at least 2 liters of water a day you should consume
at least 2 tablespoons of oil a day limit the intake of salt spices and
vinegar you should exercise every day as we said you should be very careful the
experts highly recommend this diet only for people who are in good health it's
not recommended to people who suffer from diabetes
and Colitis people who are intolerant to pineapple enzymes and to the ones who
have liver or kidney dysfunction note this is an example of the pineapple diet
for one day breakfast pineapple juice one fruit one cup of tea snack natural
pineapple juice lunch for pineapple slices one slice of bread snack
pineapple juice one apple dinner two pineapple slices 50
grams of boiled rice one cup of tea against bloating note this is an example
of the pineapple diet for three days day one consume only fresh pineapple and
water day two pineapple water and two cans of tuna one for lunch and the other
for dinner day three is identical to day one and you should remember that this
type of diet has just one goal detox because it can happen at the lost
kilograms and especially water return when we go back to the normal regiment
of our nutrition you should eat pineapples every day they
are loaded with healthy nutrients and can provide many health benefits we
really hope you find this article helpful and don't forget to share it
with your friends and family thank you
cinnamon pineapple smoothie to strengthen knee ligaments and tendons we
can't do anything without our knees we can easily say that knees are one of the
most important joints in the human body because they promote proper body posture
and they support movements or our legs while we walk run jump or stand and as
the times goes by we suffer from different injuries and wounds which can
affect our knees these injuries make the ligaments in the
tendons less flexible and mobile because their lubrication is reduced the
lubrication process is completely natural but as we said as we grow older
it's significantly reduced so we all must do something and improve its
flexibility in order to make quick and sharp movements you shouldn't be worried
because in this video we are going to show you one extremely effective natural
method which will help you strengthen your ligaments and tendons this will
help you walk and run much better and it will make your life much easier this
powerful drink is loaded with ingredients and compounds which have
strong anti-inflammatory that can relieve joint pain
it also contains high amounts of vitamin C Bramall and silicon and magnesium and
these nutrients also provide strength and energy to all body parts and systems
cinnamon pineapple smoothie for healthy joints recipe ingredients 1 cup 250
milliliter of water zero comma 25 ounce of cinnamon 2 cups of pineapple chunks
sliced one cup of instant oatmeal one cup of raw natural orange juice 1 comma
5 ounce of crushed almonds 1 comma 5 ounce of raw honey directions here's
what you need to do first you need to cook the oatmeal then you need to
squeeze the juice from the pineapple chunks add the orange juice cinnamon
honey and almonds into a blender when it's still on you need to add the
oatmeal and add the pineapple juice in the blender blend again until you get
nice and smooth mixture note you can add some ice cubes and blend again enjoy
your smoothie you will notice that just after 2 weeks your joints and knees will
be much better and you can walk and even run without any problems if you suffer
from any type of joint pain and if you want to strengthen the knee ligaments
and tendons then you should definitely try the cinnamon pineapple smoothie
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So what are these for? Butterfly backstroke breaststroke and freestyle.
Are we gonna win more this year? Yes!
Morning good morning everyone it's a
beautiful morning in Melbourne actually you remember do you guys remember I used to
start every video saying hello flying friends
hello again flying friends, flying friends I'm flying friends.
I don't do that anymore let me know if you want me to bring that back happy to do
that again. Sadly we're not actually flying today I've got a bunch of errands
that I need to run around Melbourne but whilst I'm doing that I wanted to chat
you about something which is gonna be a little bit tricky to talk about bearing
in mind how much I love Qantas. But I think it needs to be said. Actually got
quite a lot of travel booked this year already and that's part of the point of
this video is there's quite a few trips coming up. In just under two weeks time
gonna be out in Sri Lanka spending some time over there in Colombo and also
hopefully heading out to the Maldives as well which I've never been to before. But
the main point of telling all this is because this was all booked through a
double status credits promotion that Qantas had. So windy this morning
probably a good thing we're not flying actually. This is then gonna be a story
about status credits now well to be technical this is a story about frequent
flier miles but how status credits are really
important to help you get the most frequent flyer miles that you can for
every flight that you're doing. But before I get into too much detail here's
a really quick he's a really quick 30-second overview with very expensive
graphics explaining what exactly are status credits.
When you fly from here to
here you earn frequent flyer miles for every mile that you fly. You also
earn status credits for the same leg. Now when you earn status credits and over 12
months the more flights you do and the more status credits you earn determines
which status credit tier you end up at. But the trouble is if you don't get to a
certain level by the time your year ends your points reset to 0 again and you're
back to 0. A big thank you as well to my daughter who did provide the graphics
and the artwork for that sequence. And the plane! And the plane.
That's the real reason why we're not flying today because I blew the budget
on that amazing demonstration and all those graphics.
So why collect status credits and frequent flyer miles well it's twofold
status credits are great because you obviously get the benefits that come
with the different levels of status. So for example if you get gold with Qantas
you can get into all of their lounges in the airports around Australia and around
the world and you don't have to pay so you save that seven six hundred dollars
however much it is for the annual fee. You go up another tier you go up to
platinum you get access to all the first class lounges around the world as well.
But let's not forget the goal here at the end of the day is frequent flyer
miles that's what we want here that's what you can exchange to actually go
places you can exchange to get upgrades. And as you know with my obsession with
travel and flying that's kind of my objective here. But the higher your
status credit level the more frequent flyer miles you get for the same flight.
Let me give you an example if you do a normal flight which is going to earn you
a thousand frequent flyer miles at the bronze status you'll get a thousand
miles for that flight if you go up a tier and you get silver status you
get a fifty percent bump on top. Gold gets seventy five percent on top and Platinum
actually gets a hundred percent so you get double the points for the same
flight that you're doing if you're a bronze frequent flyer compared to if
you're a platinum frequent flyer. Also side note, it is really hard to say
frequent flyer so many times in the video apologies if I've said flequent a
lot of times I think I'd I think I did. Also realized I really need a haircut
there's a place over there I might go Anyway the point of this video is that I
want to warn you about something you may not otherwise know with status credits
and that is to do with when you take a flight and when you actually earn those
status credits to your account and the timing of when you take a flight and
when those status credits come into your account is critical.
This is not a sponsored video for Abacus they're just a very good coffee shop in
Melbourne and I got my coffee unnecessary pastry. So status credits now
the thing that you need to be aware of the thing that caught us out is when you
book a flight and you're expecting to get status credits as a result of that
flight especially when you're booking it during some kind of promotion and in our
case it was the double status credits promotion, you need to expect that those
status credits are going to appear in your account a fair time after you've
actually touched down. Now this caught us both by surprise because I fly a lot
between Sydney and Melbourne domestically right you get 10 status
credits between Sydney and Melbourne they appear in your account pretty much
by the time you leave the airport. Double status credits is different. When you're
expecting those status credits to come in so you can go up a tier before a
certain point in time you need to make sure that any bookings you're making are
made well before your year's going to end. So in our example we booked that
flight remember when I went to Singapore recently and I was doing that flight in
Seletar and we landed on January the 23rd and Jack my wife's status credit
year expires at the end of January. So there were seven days between landing
and when she was hopefully going to go up a tier. But because those status
credits didn't come in time she didn't actually get that upgrade to the next
tier. Now we followed up with Qantas obviously and we've spoken to them about
this and I will be honest Qantas have been really good in this whole thing.
They're looking at it for us and they're investigating what's going to
happen and we don't know either way whether she's going to get that upgrade
to the next tier. But I thought it's important so you guys know that if you
are relying on status credits to get yourself upgraded from one tier to the
other just make sure that you make that booking well before your year ends
because there's likely to be a delay between your wheels touching down and
the status credits actually appearing in your account. Okay more on that in a
second but first it's my daughter's swimming carnivals she's in the district
swimming carnival for her school so we need to go cheer her on.
I love Melbourne you know if there's one thing we're not short of
here in Melbourne its wide-open spaces. Look at this it's a vloggers dream it
gets you away from all the public on the street who's staring you when you're
pointing a camera at yourself. So what are what are my tips then knowing all
that what are my tips on if you are trying to look to build your status credits and
you don't want to get pinged with an issue like this? So number one don't do
what we did and book a flight which gets you to your destination a week
before your status credit year is up because that's obviously two close as
we proved in our situation. My second bit of advice is if you are gonna book and
if you have booked and if your status credit year is coming to an end and you
haven't got your points go to customer service before your year ends. I think
honestly the longer you leave it the less chance you're gonna get of actually
getting those status credits approved to your account. And my final tip if you
have earned points and you haven't seen them in your account yet there's a
facility where you can jump online and you can put in a points claim request so
that's where you... I just spat on the lens. So you've put in the claim for your points
you've reached out to customer service you've basically done everything you can
to remind the airline that you want to get those status credits. If anyone out
there is watching this who's actually from the airlines and has come across
this situation before and has got some additional tips for travelers leave a
comment in the comments below and you can kind of give us your official line
on what we should be doing as passengers to make sure this doesn't happen to us.
And next up on the channel well we've got another couple of flights coming up
in the Cirrus the SR22 is going to get another workout. I'm trying to take it
down to an airfield that I was told never to land at that should be an
interesting one if I can get permission to go in there. Also want to take the
SR22 overwater I want to try and get it down to King Island and that's about
half an hour over water but I haven't told my missus that so that's between
you and me okay.
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