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Unlikely, knowing who stand to gain the most involves additional (and quite sophisticated) computation that goes beyond just calculating how many SC you are eligible for. And Bain is never going to pay a developer extra money to have that functionalitiy. It's probably just a simple script that...

I’ve seen people use it. The crew has a POS terminal and it all just work like it’s on the ground.

Yes, quite a few that was ticketed in early Jan but flown in Feb. Also had 2 Economy Lite fare in the eligible flights, didn’t affect the status credit’s posting at all.

Yes, the last flight that’s ticketed during the promotion was on the 14th. I had 4 flights that were eligible and the 85 bonus SC arrived on Tuesday.

Last flight taken was 14th and the bonus point arrived yesterday.

It’s not bad, although bit cringy. The first bring on wonderful was much better though. I actually quite like the music on the first one.

I'm planning a trip to US East Coast later this year, does anyone know what's the situation with VFF's access to UA transcontinental domestic flights? Looking at a few dates there seems to be plenty UA J availbility from Australia(SYD/MEL/BNE) to SFO/LAX within 60 days via VFF but can't seem to...

I’m actually surprised HNA group airlines have not come back as a redemption partner more than a year after flights to China have resumed and they were being kept as earning partners with status benefits throughout this time. I'd say that gives some hope in redemption would come back at some...

If I'm not in a rush I'd enjoy the complimentary upgrade to NH and/or a direct flight and an extra night in Tokyo with hotel and meals paid for ;), but if you are a Japanese tourists with accom booked in Cairns for your holiday then it would be an issue.

How does this work when it comes to qualifying for a higher tier? I expect the dump of points I get to push me over the line to qualify for Plat and some more, should I expect the excess points to count towards retaining the status for next year?

It depends on your local distributor. In VIC we have electricity smart meter so it can happen fairly quickly. No smart meter for gas and meter reads happen every 60 days roughly so it’ll happen when the next meter read happens or you can request a special meter read for extra cost. When I was...

I disagree this is the harshest penalty. The harshest penalty would be cancel your whole booking and don’t give you a refund. To be even more clear if there was not another VA flight that was able get you to the connecting SQ flight that’s probably what would have happened m. Stop throwing the...

Are you alarmed because Qatar might buy VA or alarmed because foreigners own airlines that operate domestically? If it’s the latter Rex and VA has been majority foreign owned for many many years and so is Bonza. Why is that suddenly an issue? I’d argue if foreign entities are interested in...

The rates are not bad, better than what I current on have with origin electricity in Vic so will be making the switch.

What makes you think they don’t already do that? SQ only releases J rewards on long haul flights to its own KrisFkyer program and selected partners (AC, NH, OZ and VA are the only 4 I think). VA wouldn’t be in that list to get access to SG long haul J rewards seat if they had not negotiated...

Gone are the days when you can just sit in front of your computer 350 days in advance when the reward seats are released and get exactly what you wanted. With dynamic pricing, data science and AI etc airlines are now very good at predicting what they can sell and for how much. To play this...

It’s alright. It’s a complex topic that requires a lot of background knowledge to fully understand. Also a political minefield so I won’t go into the details here.

I’m sure if OP was only sharing this as a lesson not to book a flight that’s departing in 1 hour and didn’t try to pin the blame on online checking not working or unaccommodating staff refusing to let him on despite being only 5 minutes late then we wouldn’t be here. It’s ironic isn’t it. Pax...

Where are you finding those ?! From where I can see there's sporadic availability on MU (seems to the only Chinese QF partner if you don't count CI?) going to PVG ex Australia but usually nothing on the return. Also can't really find anything on EK even just SYD/MEL - DXB often turns up empty...

Your familiarity with the system didn't do you any faovr this time around. Even for the simplest domestic flights you should not assume you would be able to check in online until you've actually checked in online. A number of issues (say flight being oversold, lack of available seats to the...