Recent content by blundeni

Hi Guys, Due to illness in the family I may have to take a rapid trip from BNE to Marbella, Spain (AGP) this week. Still, even with the rush there is no point wasting an opportunity to increase my FFP's. I am a member of AA (not used yet), QF (Bronze), VA (good burn rates), VJ and Emirates...

I've just used 30k VA points for an Air NZ business class return BNE - AKL. Gave them 4 weeks notice and it was all confirmed inside of 2 days.... They are very easy to use - we've booked 5 trips on Air NZ now via VA - never had one knocked back

As long as you keep using VA, points never expire...they have a 3 year rolling expiry which renews each time you use your account - this includes both adding and using points

I recently flew Business from SYD to AKL on a 777ER - they have the new business and first class seats - suite seats for first, and way more room in business. There is a new entertainment system which is basically on demand On the return - AKL to BNE I was on an older 777 (non ER) which had...

As someone who is neither an Ozzie citizen, nor who had any credit record in Oz, I applied for and got the Amex Maximiser credit card after being in the country for only 6 months. I would have applied earlier, but it took that long to get a job over here :lol:

Let me know what the response to your questions is - I think that we too will be transferring to VA. I had previously thought about AA, and indeed have started to use my AA number rather than my QF number on some flights. However with the AA costing 35k points return in business, and it...

This looks pretty definitive... 16.1 All mileage levels are for a free return ticket excluding passenger taxes, duties, fees, charges and surcharges. All reward flights with partner airlines are subject to availability. Blackout dates may apply and certain routes may not be available...

Assuming that I am reading this correctly thats a very cheap business return...

I was just looking at the burn rate on Air NZ - one of VA's partner airlines. Business Class awards are 30k, Economy 20k - there is no mention anywhere on the site that I could find to indicate wether these were one way or return. Anyone have any ideas - or could point me to the relevant...

I've flown Virgin a few times, and I'll admit to prefer flying QF however this is mainly for the free beer and the FF points. My company has a policy of taking the cheapest flight - so this is often Virgin - although I always manage to get QF back as their flexible flights seem to be cheaper...

Oh well - it's done now - live and learn I guess - I don't complain often so I'm pretty new at this. As for specifying what compensation I want - I felt pretty mercenary even putting in that I wanted compensation in the first place with out letting them know that only First Class round the...

The last message we received from the Virgin staff was that the hotels had been informed that we were allowed $20 per passenger for food and beverage - I'm not sure when anyone from Virgin last visited a hotel in SYD, but I can tell you that $20 pp does not go very far..... My wife, myself and...

Heres the actual content of my letter of complaint - it's basically a rehash of the above, extraneous detail removed, and with a little more feeling..... To Whom It May Concern: My family and I booked and flew Pacific Blue from BNE to NAN on DJ177 on the 18th of June, and were booked to...

In general I would say that this sort of cough up could (and does) happen on any airline. I think the measure of any airline is how well prepared they are for this sort of inevitable issue, and how they deal with the affected passengers. In my mind, for this incident, PB were not ready. I...

Generally I agree with that - my complaint is not with the handling in Nadi - I expected that to be bad, or with the flight cancellation itself - it happens - we had a viable alternative I'm OK with that. Where I really have issues, and where I think that PB / Virgin let themsleves down badly...