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    No Champagne in QF AKL F lounge

    At the least the expansion and renovations were completed years ago as promised.
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    Article: What's Your Seat Recline Strategy?

    Overnight flight after the meal service, I recline and have no issues with other reclining.
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    Brisbane international to domestic

    The orange bus is great, very frequent and door-to-door.
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    General Virgin Australia Lounge Discussion

    Disagree, I think the wraps are usually pretty nice. The main dish is usually poor though - pasta with sauce - but occasionally something nice gets put on - I recall a chicken curry with fried rice a few months back.
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    Article: Latest Changes May Not Fix Qantas’ Reward Availability Problem

    The mistake people make is thinking Qantas wants to fix the availability problem. No, they don't, they just want a bit of positive marketing spin to keep them going until the next "enhancement" (TM).
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    Qantas Delays/Cancellations

    QF1 departure today from SYD delayed by four hours.
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    Qatar Airways to acquire 25% of Virgin Australia

    I just want to know if I'll get lounge access as a regular VA customer in J (or in Y with status)! Currently nothing for VA int customers.
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    Don't be shy about pressing the call button.
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    Article: Qantas Auckland Lounge Upgrade: The End of an Era

    LOL, lounge still not upgraded, so rusted-on QF customers get excited about the ice cream.
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    Article: Daytime Flights from Asia to Australia

    Not really because TK cannot sell that sector alone.
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    AFR's Joe Aston goes BAM!

    Clive Palmer is the only person who has come out of this with his reputation enhanced. Joe Aston as well, obviously.
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    AFR's Joe Aston goes BAM!

    Desperation on the part of the government, it's laughable. He is in opposition, they are making decisions affecting Qantas while asking AJ for upgrades and taking them. .
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    VA77 CNS-HND on Tue 29 Oct, the main meal was nice without being great (chicken a bit boring), but everything else was superb. Wonderful service from Laurence, absolutely pitch perfect. Plenty of drinks, snacks offered, etc. Central Otago pinot noir is always lovely. The fried rice (chicken...
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    Major changes to Velocity Frequent Flyer announced 17/10/24

    No, it's not, QFF status tier qual or re-qual only requires four sectors on QF. And they have an actual, proper international network in Oneworld. I've always said that the best part about being a QFF member is not having to fly Qantas - QFF has suddenly become more attractive.
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    Major changes to Velocity Frequent Flyer announced 17/10/24

    That's a massive ouch for me and, I suspect, many others. I comfortably retain WP each year with SC earn (mainly international travel with partner airlines and some VA domestic) but struggle to make the 8 eligible sectors on VA. That requirement is now replaced by the 50% rule, which is much...
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    Velocity introduces Forever Gold lifetime status tier

    OK, thanks, so the old system but a lot fewer SCs earnt than before. This is off-topic for this thread though. Sorry.
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    Velocity introduces Forever Gold lifetime status tier

    How will the new "SCs based on $ amount" work when flying on partner airlines?
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    Velocity introduces Forever Gold lifetime status tier

    Yes, would easily qualify if partner flights and family pooling counted in full, but 9000 credits of the 12000 total need to be VA flights personally flown. So unlikely to ever get there unless VA suddenly starts doing int long haul with a decent J class. (Fingers crossed for the QR wet lease.)
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    ANA partnership with Virgin Australia

    Isn't there some way you can play with the search URL to narrow the search down to business class rewards?
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