Recent content by webslave

Quite right. Just in case that was the reason I made mention of the fact that my wife was driving the hire car upon arrival at Perth.

She certainly did, and I must admit I was thinking the same thing. I get the idea of cutting costs, but here? Ditching dessert and trays in Y trans-con is pretty cheap, but I get it. Slow-playing business travelers who have paid a premium (granted I wasn't full price, but was at least a...

Yes, my previous experience was certainly that keeping you fed and watered for the trip was par for the course, naturally provided you weren't getting silly. I did reply that I thought I'd had three so she told me she would go and check and never returned. It was quite a mood dampener.

Did MEL > PER last Friday night in J. 6-7 people in the J cabin in total. Main meal options were red duck curry, some sort of cod dish, and feta pie. My wife and my colleague both ordered the duck as did I and my colleague and I were later told they didn't have enough and one of us would have...

Traveled MEL->PER in J on an Airbus on the weekend and then back in Y on a 737. My wife and I (and 19 month old son) booked Flexis and used two of my WP comp upgrades for the J leg, and a colleague used his points as SG to upgrade from Flexi to J. The lounge unfortunately called the flight for...

I've had that happen before when the IFE wasn't capable (for reasons unknown to me) of playing the video at the time. It may also be the case if the content has changed but the video hadn't yet.

Not had a problem doing so. The problem is more in trying to get fly-ahead for your travelling companion when they are travelling on your points and are therefore on a separate booking. The fact that the Virgin website makes it such that they can't be on the same booking as you seems to elude...

Your indication that your number is in the system is the text "This booking was generated in partnership with Virgin Australia." in the header of the email.

Not sure about you guys, but my concern each time is whether the card reader is set to read my card for Velocity or set to read my card for a transaction (global wallet?). I've seen different behaviour from the same type of readers all over the place. Some show a "swipe your velocity card"...

For good measure I always go to the Velocity website and then use the link they provide.

Yes, had the same problem a couple of weeks ago. Submitted a missing points claim, waited over a week, got an email saying "We checked with Agoda and you didn't book via the Virgin Agoda link, so bad luck". Unluckily for them I went back through my Chrome history and was able to pull out the...

Weekend just gone I had trouble checking-in both ways. The lounge staff eventually got me checked in but remarked that the "tickets are all VCR'd". They also indicate that the system complains that there is no ticket number, even though they can clearly see a ticket number in the system...

Has anyone here signed up for the Virgin Accelerate program? If so, what have your experiences with it been? I've only booked a couple through it so far, and although the interface is a little clunky it seems to work. I didn't put anyone down for pilot gold at this stage as it's the wrong...

I wondered that when the brought the second container out. The first one looked more like chicken and the second more like pork but they were probably both the same. Lines around 10-15 deep.

Chicken and corn wraps in MEL at the moment.