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Also can someone please confirm - if I buy SYD - EU economy choice flights and I am plat va, I can now then request to upgrade those to business? Does anyone know how long that process takes (is it till the last moment or what, etc) ? How likely do you think those upgrades are to go through as...

One thing I just noticed for example, there are reward J from for example CGK to AMS/FRA which is good, just have to edit the search URL. The fees on those flights is insane though, $800-$900 for one way, both short 7-8h flights.

Agree to disagree. Qatar had a lot of awards just before they bought the stake, and somehow almost none after.

Perfect! Thanks.

They only started selling tickets for these new flights just a few months ago, and since they did I have been checking all the time, and never saw any reward seats. There have been many conversations on these very forums about the new qatar/va flights and when they will put them in the reward...

I am suggesting the business lounge, and I would be happy if they had it even just for plat (or plat plus?).

Alright thanks, not the timeframe I have been searching (I need around 20th June), I do not think they are as common as you imply.

Yes, but what lounge? Their overcrowded platinum and gold lounges, with coughpy food, and a 3 hour queue for a shower in a 90 minute layover? Please...

That was only to Doha. I have, and I have been looking for months, not once did I see any AU - EU any combination of airports rewards (J). Where do you enter these promo codes? I can never find it on the VA website.

Where are the positive results then? Why is the pricing so off?

equifax is equally low, experian is quite high - but it's because they have rubbish tracking of credit applications, don't even list most of them.

Been overseas for this whole thread, if not too late to join - I'm pretty keen, the date/time and venue works great for me!

Nothing you do matters and it all pales in comparison with what India and China are doing. The industry is moving forward, and if less co2 is something it cares about, changes will be made over time (it's happening now). Flying less doesn't do anything, other than deprive the industry of funds...

Imagine being a plat. Etihad: Please visit our world renowned first class lounge. Qatar: Here have $20 to buy some slop at the airport. Add to that inexplicably overpriced comically limited code-share flights we now need to buy just to maintain status. At this point it will be cheaper to just...

A tangential question, I'm currently plat, and seeing as how there's no benefit to not flighting on a lite fare other than luggage, will the plat benefits of extra luggage apply to this situation? That is to say, if I buy a lite fare with 0 luggage, will plat status allow me to bring 2 checked...

Still no reward flights it seems? Geez, what's the hold up.

It's a bit ridiculous, and as a plat of many years, I don't see myself doing much to retain it, not even gold probably. The fact of the matter is, VA is intentionally and significantly overpricing the same tickets and the same routes, this is happening far too often and consistency in order for...

CS in my experience has very little impact. My CS is usually quite low (with Illion around 300-400 typically) because I apply for many credit products all the time (credit cards, loans, etc) for points, but I basically never get rejected (only exception to this is HSBC for some reason), and I...

I flew from Europe to AU last week on SQ J, and it's not as bad as it seems. Numerous times there some slight turbulence (nothing burger in my opinion), and they turned on the seat-belt sign, and I am not sure whether this is at the captain's discretion or what-not, but every time they would...

As pointed out, it's counted as a liability, so that is not what they want. In an ideal world, they do sell a lot of points, but then ideally customers redeem those points for very low-value things. Basically the opposite of us - we look at point acquisition cost vs point redemption value, and...