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    Veterans to receive Priority Boarding & "thank you for your service"

    Is this virtue signalling? ;)
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    Devalued transfers Velocity / KrisFlyer from 1.35 to 1.55

    One case is with an infant, you only pay taxes on VA but have to add 10% of the adult cash fare on SQ (can particularly hurt for one-way bookings).
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    Velocity and Hawaiian Airlines privliges

    We used to have access to a Delta lounge at HNL on HA-ticketed flights to Australia (at least back in 2015), bummer that it's now codeshares only.
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    SQ Earning with VA Status Perks

    Can set it up at check-in too, seemed very straightforward the last time I did it.
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    Virgin Valentines Day email (rewards redemption information)

    246k redeemed = top 9%.
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    Velocity/Virgin websites are RUBBISH

    This is still a problem btw, in Chrome on my pc. I couldn't be bothered to phone to make the booking, but was able to move the slider one notch and that brought out the credit card section for only a small waste of points.
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    QF 50% SC bonus to HKG

    Re: HKG Bonus Just a bronze pleb. Maybe they figure I'm not interested in SCs.
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    QF 50% SC bonus to HKG

    Re: 2 x SC for all! (Book by 6th Mar, Travel Mar 17-Feb 19, '18) I received a double points offer with the same dates, no bonus SCs.
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    Economy X [Domestic free for Platinum] - May 2017

    It's been able to detect status for a long time, as evidenced by differences in seat availability between status levels. But yes hopefully the seat charges do not materialise...
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    Economy X [Domestic free for Platinum] - May 2017

    See earlier: So it seems you're fine. Perhaps separate bookings will require some discretion, but this is already the case for allocating non-platinums to row 3 before check-in.
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    Virgin Australia Golds lose LAX lounge access

    It is true for the shortest legs on cheapest fares, now that they only earn 5 SCs on VA. That's 100 flights to reach gold or 80 to retain, vs 70 or 60 flights on QF. Considering this includes SYD to MEL or BNE, that's a lot of people affected by the lower earn rate.
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    Velocity Live

    Pre-sale access to the Brazil-Uruguay match seemed like a decent offer.
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    Seat allocations for no status

    Check again when online check-in opens.
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    Have VA 'enhanced' Agoda? [Yes!]

    Re: Have VA 'enhanced' Agoda? Maybe someone at Agoda noticed that they'd been paying both the Velocity points and their old Agoda rewards points on the same bookings, which seemed erroneously generous.
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    Air NZ looking to sell some/all of stake in VA

    China's Nanshan Group to buy Virgin Australia stake from Air New Zealand
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    I'm in the VA Lounge thread

    They opened it during the delays last night, albeit without food or drink.
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    Hawaiian Airlines to Honolulu

    Another way might be the current status match challenge with United: Status match get Star Alliance Gold status in a single flight - Australian Business Traveller
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    Hawaiian Airlines to Honolulu

    As a Velocity Gold in economy, in HNL you get access to the Delta lounge on a HA ticket (assuming nothing has changed in the last year) - i.e., don't need to be on a codeshare. As I understand it, the reason for no NZ lounge access in BNE is that it's closed for the late evening departure (I...
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    Best options for VA plat to Frankfurt

    SQ on an SQ ticket allows you to choose seats, and will probably earn SCs at the flexi rate if you're booking for next month (check the fare class). Not sure about upgrade options though.
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    Bonus 1,000 velocity points via Auspost mailbox.

    Will the emails still be sent directly in parallel? Not particularly convenient to have to log in to AusPost to read an email. For snail mail, sure I'm all for it (paper bills don't send timely reminders), but for something that's already digital and doesn't require any action? Hmm. Still, 1000...
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