Photos: Virgin Australia’s New Melbourne Pop-Up Lounge

Virgin Australia has opened a second temporary pop-up lounge at Melbourne Airport to ease overcrowding at the airline’s existing temporary lounge, housed in the space of Virgin’s “The Club”. Until renovations of the main lounge are completed in mid-2021, the temporary “The Club” lounge will remain available to Velocity Platinum and Virgin Australia Business Class … Continued

Virgin Opens Second Temporary Melbourne Lounge

Virgin Australia will open a second temporary lounge at Melbourne Airport on Monday morning (3 May 2021) to ease overcrowding at the existing temporary lounge, amid a surge in travel demand. The new, temporary pop-up Virgin Lounge will be located adjacent to “AFL Kitchen and Bar” in Melbourne Airport’s Terminal 3. This is located before … Continued

Velocity Wine Deal: 12 Wines + 11,679 Points for $177.87

It’s relatively common knowledge on Australian Frequent Flyer that you can earn large amounts of bonus Qantas points by buying promotional cases of wine from Qantas Wine. For example, a recent Qantas Wine deal offered 20,000 bonus Qantas points with a $399 case of red wine. But did you know that you can also earn … Continued

Triple Velocity Points on Virgin Flights (April 2021)

Virgin Australia is again offering triple Velocity points when you book a Virgin Australia domestic flight by 25 April 2021. With this offer, you’ll earn at least 15 Velocity points per $1 spent on Virgin Australia flights (up from the usual 5 points per dollar). That’s a good offer, but there’s a catch: it’s only … Continued

Virgin & Qantas Status Extension Confusion

In December 2020, Velocity Frequent Flyer launched a great promotion offering a status extension until 31 March 2022 to existing Gold or Platinum members who booked a Virgin Australia flight by 28 March 2021. Virgin Australia has now extended the status extension for all Velocity members who were eligible for this offer until 30 September … Continued