Recent content by bcworld

The only thing I can say is for international I have not had a bad departure experience since the lifting of the travel ban. Typically, from check in to duty free shop has been 5 mins or less for me...every time...without using the priority lane. That's all...arriving is an entirely different...

Essentially you would be looking to make that booking 1-2 weeks out. Obviously you would check every day in advance of that...but that is the sort of time period where you're going to start to see seats pop up. Although there was a time a few months ago where there was a lot of UA J availability...

The activity date might be Mar 28 though.

You use the website, not the app...and the My Benefits page: https://www.velocityfrequentflyer.com/my-velocity/benefits

Enjoy Qantas' legendary, accommodating and empathetic service! 😂

Missing a flight connection is an ENTIRELY different scenario to failing to check in on time for the first flight in your itinerary.

I'm a QFF (no status) and have far more success with Velocity. 1712697858 Maybe Qantas should negotiate away the 3 day booking window for QR business and Emirates' heinous carrier surcharges?

You're not getting QR flights 350 days out because Velocity's booking window starts at 330 days

With a small amount of flexibility its actually fairly reliable to get seats on UA close in...but I can understand the stress of taking that approach.

Yes...because the terms you quoted clearly state the max bonus is 125k during the promo period.

The small print says: That seems very clear that any total over $75k will still earn only 125,000 bonus.

It was all good until the "not flying them again" part. Oh, and the debit card chargeback...but can put that down to not understanding the purpose of that process properly.

I think it would be 23kg...but no extra allowance.

No different to the ticketed allowance. Extra baggage is only for ANA operated flights between AU and Japan...and domestic flights coded with a VA number (i.e. they would have to have been purchased as part of the international itinerary). The same applies to priority check in and baggage...

They're high for sure...but they don't come anywhere close to EK levels of cash grab...they're "only" about 40% of what EK charges.