Recent content by Monarch

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    Melbourne airport parking - Pickup Options

    The 'grace period' feature is offered by major parking business such as Wilson Parking and Secure Parking, so I doubt it's under threat, even at Melbourne Airport. Most people probably aren't organised enough to take advantage of it!
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    Another explore gold (Flybuys) offer

    Like others, my application on 21st May took took near three weeks to be processed. Email confirmation on the 11th June with a 9th June effective date. Now to book some flights!
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    Another explore gold (Flybuys) offer

    After many years of Gold, I soft landed to Silver last year due to a change in employer with reduced business travel. The 'Explore Gold' offer has arrived just at the right time for me, as it was going to be a struggle to maintain Silver.
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    Guidelines for guests travelling with Gold Velocity member

    Priority check-in and priority baggage (although I have had to offer to have all bags checked-in under my name occasionally to ensuring tagging) and priority boarding have been provided for me with travelling with another on the same booking - although it's far easier to 'justify' this when it's...
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    Virgin Atlantic - free silver

    I processed my 'upgrade' on an iPhone which showed up immediately upon logout and then log-in. Was either using Safari or Chrome - can't recall which...
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    Flexi meal 'flexibility'

    Last Thursday on the 5:10pm ADL-MEL a colleague asked to do exactly the same thing - she was initially refused. Oddly it was only as I was handed my Flexi 'meal' and I asked about why a substitution couldn't take place that then the FA capitulated and said she'd make an exception. My colleague...
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    VA Meal Service

    QF manage to serve a breakfast/lunch/snack in their flights to the same destinations (and more) that VA fly to. Maybe VA need to start allocating Flexi fare pax to the forward zones, treating them as a virtual status, so guaranteed meal service can be confined to a smaller area of the cabin...
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    VA Meal Service

    I do have a problem with this. Last Thursday on a mid-morning ADL-MEL, none of the Flexi fare passengers appeared listed as such for meal service from what I overheard from the FAs, and they had to trust those (like me) who asked for their meal when the trolley came by. The problem was that by...
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    Selecting a seat 48 hours in advance, does it still work?

    Would the bookings of the people in (row) 3 have been corporate bookings? My employer is a part of the Accelerate corporate programme. When I book via our corporate portal, this seemingly yields superior seating allocations that via the public booking site - however, I don't know if this method...
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    MEL-ADL: different Velocity Points?

    Hi all, my first post to the VA section. Thanks for the wisdom and information here - it's brilliant. Due to my current employer's preference for VA over QF, I'm flying on VA more than I ever have, and am a little confused about how VA calculate the Velocity Points. I can't understand why...
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