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    United Airlines new Virgin Australia/Velocity Partner

    Had to book some last-minute flights to USA for a funeral this week, flying in the last two weeks of January. Was pleasantly surprised to see so many business (Polaris) rewards on the international leg to SFO or LAX from BNE/SYD/MEL. Either they opened up recently or the demand for travel at...
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    United Airlines new Virgin Australia/Velocity Partner

    Tacking onto the last question, I am wondering if calling Virgin would help me in the following situation. I want to book reward economy flight from LAS to BNE. The stopover is at SFO, and with money through United there is an option of a ~3 hour or ~6 over stopover. When finding the reward...
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    I'm in the VA Lounge thread

    MEL lounge has absolutely nothing to eat right now. The salad section, snacks section, main meal and even the soup/bread rolls are all vacant. Pretty busy with people lined up for imaginary meals…
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    Double velocity points (book by 14/12/22)

    Mine are there this morning too. Excellent. Being too lazy to email pays dividends yet again
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    The Velocity Status Run Master thread

    Not sure if you can get it done in a single day, didn’t bother checking the timings. But something like BNE-HBA via MEL can be had with code ITX13 for $215 each way in Choice, netting 35 SC each direction. Since you only need 65 you could even do one of the legs via SYD (30 SC) if the timing is...
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    Double velocity points (book by 14/12/22)

    Well it seems as if the “upgrades” Velocity recently did with their overpriced loyalty management consultants have broken just about every part of the system from bonus SC to bonus points, even the ones administered wholly in their system.
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    **Insert Month here** Coles status credits Late?

    22 SC for December. Auto transfer is on, but has been on for months. Maybe I earned 5.5? I can’t be bothered going through receipts :) would have expected more (or at least a multiple of 4)
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    Double velocity points (book by 14/12/22)

    Still no double points here from flights on 23 Dec, booked after activating the offer.
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    Melbourne to Europe in Business

    Your guy on the phone was wrong obviously, but to chime in - what he’s saying IS true for one way non-reward (cash) flights, according to a long conversation I had on the phone recently. For example SIN-BNE, even though Virgin will sell a BNE-SIN-BNE ticket for cash, and the BNE-SIN leg one way...
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    VA Partner Business Redemption

    Welcome! I had to figure this all out last year. After a bit of searching of the forums and AFF articles, I know that the Singapore reward business seats drop into the Virgin system 330 days prior to travel, at midnight AEST. Until now I guessed it was the same for United and Qatar but haven’t...
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    The Virgin Australia Newbie Questions Thread

    3 seats available with money, or 3 business rewards seats available? The upgrade with points seats come out of the pool of business rewards seats. The upgrade with $$$ bid comes out of the pool of unsold revenue seats (and presumably unsold rewards seats if there are no bids, but since you’re on...
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    Article: Qantas Points “The Envy of the World”? Absolutely Not!

    To add to this: the SQ J reward availability on Velocity to/from Europe specifically has been great over the last 2-3 months. If it’s Heathrow you’re after, you really have to book it within 48 hours of release. But if you can settle for Copenhagen, Frankfurt and others, I’ve recently had...
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    **Insert Month here** Coles status credits Late?

    You can’t expect a small, billion-dollar+ indie rewards program to not have bugs! They need to cut corners somewhere to be able to afford the buzzwords of a Loyalty Management Solutions company. Dynamic, agile, centralised, cloud-based - these are just some of the adjectives you can use to...
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    Maybe it’s oil from the Truffle region of France
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    Double velocity points (book by 14/12/22)

    Out of interest did yours post yet? Same thing happened to me and wondering when to contact to ask or how patient to be :)
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