Recent content by mark62

Andrew Demetriou (AFL head honcho) and Bill Shorten (ALP head honcho) at the Virgin lounge at MEL this morning

Smartgate in Sydney has never worked once for me in 30+ attempts. In Auckland it works about 50% of the time however. I still use it because the smartgate assistance queue is invariably a lot shorter than the normal queue. Last Friday am the normal queues at Sydney were horrendous (stretching...

KE122 SYD-ICN last Monday. F was empty except for a re-positioning pilot, J class 50% full and Y about 40% full. Plenty in Y had bagged 3 seats to themselves

Yes all seems to be there now. And I don't think I lost any points or status in the changeover :)

Just used the new Accor website and although I can access My Account okay I can't for the life of me find any links to my points balance and status. My profile is there and hotel stay history, but no points balance or points history. I have tried all the links on the My Account page. Can anyone...

I have zero status with QF unfortunately (an NB I think is the colloquial term:() I do have Star Gold but I don't suppose that will help me much as Air Calin aren't in Star Alliance. Just have to hope some Y inventory becomes available. There is quite a bit available in May so maybe it will open...

Yep but the same situation applies in Sept when the European holidays are over. You can fly just about any day that you want to as long as you are prepared to burn 72k points in business :confused:

I am looking at booking an award flight for my daughter to accompany me on a biz trip to Noumea in August. I am fairly flexible with dates but there appears to be no economy award seats available in the entire month, whereas biz award seats are available almost every day. This is the converse of...

Am I right in thinking that catering policy is usually to serve meals appropriate for the time of day at the point of departure?

I showed the Air NZ card at check in and the number was apparently entered. There was no indication on the boarding pass that I was a Air NZ Gold, but I fronted at the Virgin Lounge anyway, expecting to have to try to prove my status via the Airpoints app on my iPhone. However after scanning the...

Made a booking SYD-CBR return on the Virgin web-site and entered my Air NZ FF number. As I am a Gold on Air NZ I presume I can use the Virgin lounges, although have recently qualified and I am yet to receive my gold card. When the booking came through however a new Velocity number was recorded...

Thanks a lot - you are right I won't be using Airpoints at that cost. Seems like Airpoints $$ are not much use anywhere except on Air NZ

Can I use Airpoints $$ for redemption on a domestic flight within Australia on Virgin? From the Air NZ site it appears not, although I can earn points on domestic flights which seems a little inconsistent. But just want to double-check If I can how many Airpoints needed for SYD-Cairns return?

Assuming you want to use points for accommodation or other hotel expenses, aren't you better off accumulating the LeClub points rather than transferring them? A $250 Accor voucher from QFF costs 33,750 points which at 1:1 transfer would equate to 33,750 LeClub points. But 33,750 LeClub points...

Well I connected in my room (the $10 plan) and it worked fine. Download speed was pretty good