Recent content by twiningb

I received March credits a few days ago.

I don't know if it's officially stated as a rule, or whether you can get such itineraries if you call the call centre, but in my experience Velocity won't offer mixed-class award itineraries online. For the same reason, even if there's QR space (say) MEL-xDOH-DXB, you won't get it to price in a...

I stayed at the Conrad Tokyo in 2019 and in the Exec Lounge they recommended to me an umeshu. It was tremendous.

Actually, it turned out I could choose to change the existing booking, select an identical routing to the waitlisted one, and just pay the change fee rather than the higher cancel fee and waiting for the miles to be redeposited. And I could do all that in the app without having to call the call...

Yes, they're less than a year old. I just don't want to put any more into KrisFlyer without a specific purpose, because of the hard lifespan.

What's the easiest way to cancel and redeposit miles for a KrisFlyer award now? Can it be done wholly online? I have a better option that just cleared the waitlist and I'd rather use the miles from cancelling my backup booking than transfer more into KrisFlyer.

Anyone done a status match with BA before? Would a fresh Aeroplan 50K from the HSBC Star Alliance card do the trick or do they want to see substantial flight history? I'm just looking to get some priority check-in/bags/etc on an upcoming trip with a group of friends, so I wouldn't be concerned...

OK. I received the card on Wednesday and paid just on $4k of a large bill I'm otherwise putting to Amex, in order to expedite the status uplift. (I am aware that will throttle my earn for the first month and it's a reasonable tradeoff for my purposes.) That transaction posted overnight and I...

I think @Cynicor is likely right that you'll get proper full breakfast in Tokyo. However, is this a direct Hilton rate or through HC/FHR? If relying on Hilton Gold, I think you'll get breakfast for two and perhaps you'll have to pay for the kids?

Yeah, @kpc had me worried because I deferred buying them on the other cards, but I just bought another one successfully. (Will confirm receipt of cashback later.)

This was true back in the day as well. Prior to COVID, business award seats on DL (and VA's own metal) were very rare in advance and might occasionally appear close to departure, but it couldn't be relied upon.

Velocity is turning up EY awards in J in the range of 25-30 days from now. There isn't much from SYD or MEL but (for instance) I can find SIN-xAUH-CDG on several consecutive days in early May. Looking through Etihad Guest there appears to be some occasional space out of SYD and MEL starting in...

Any datapoints on whether I should select my status airline immediately, or wait until after I get the invite having hit the initial qualifying spend? Ideally in terms of people who successfully got the 50k Aeroplan points? Also I see that it lists the seven airlines with Select buttons under...

The answer to this is "about 20 hours later".

Definitely that is a quantity worth caring about.