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How many bonus points are you getting for the referral? Might ring up Amex and ask them if I can get a targeted offer, I put a good amount through the card per year.

Last couple of Januarys have had pretty great Amex platinum referral offers - 80-100k per referral, 250-275k for the person I referred. Still stuck at 50k/150k this year. Anyone anticipating this might improve over the course of this month?

Was going to recommend a couple of friends sign up to Aeroplan for this deal. Is the 100% definitely showing up for everyone? It is for me, have bought my 160k.

Buying AC points isn’t particularly useful for redeeming flights on AC. Much better for other Star Alliance partners

Plenty of seats in J from MEL to SIN/BKK (and probably other SEA destinations) for the few days before Xmas 2025. Haven't checked the return. Works out just over $1k AUD one way. You can also fly to CGK for the same points price (so $2k return) then hop on a return flight CGK to LHR for Xmas...

Hard to predict these things but even if we get a devaluation I’m not sure it’d be a huge one. AC really seem to value the popularity of their program and they still insulate their own seats from these cheap redemptions.

Just received notification from Qantas. Was booked in First on points. Have clicked on "change flights" but no suitable flights found. I assume this is the same for people booked in business on points?

Are we thinking those of us who booked with QFF points will just get a refund? Or any chance EK will work out a deal with Qantas to put us on their service?

So will we have a situation where Qatar Privilege Club members have earlier access to these Virgin Australia reward flights than Velocity members? I would rather redeem through Qatar anyway with my Amex points as far fewer points needed, but it would be quite odd.

Anyone think it's strange they haven't announced an end date to this yet? Surely if they were going to default to end of March then they would've announced this by now? Seems odd they'd wait so long, each paid booking after the deadline means having to offer passengers alternative arrangements...

Haven't booked yet - just looking at options for a future redemption I'll want to do beyond the calendar. Will bear this in mind and call up when I see availability!

Both have the same amount of stops? Unless I'm missing something both stop in SIN and IST only, for the second option the stop in SIN is on the same flight number as it's a refuelling stop but that's about it.

Does anyone know why these two SYD - SIN - IST - JFK options have different pricings in points? Both of them have less than 24h stopovers, the main difference is that SQ are doing the SYD - SIN leg.

Which routings have you found?

Doubt they'd cancel it with such little notice. People would be potentially still on their holidays with their flight home cancelled - if this actually happened Emirates probably would have to even put award tickets on QF flights. But I think it'll still be end of March 2025.

Can stitch together LHR - MCT - CGK - SYD for 176,200 points and about 600 GBP. Does involve a whole day in Oman (flight arrives at 7am and leaves at 2am the next day!) but there's a few big name 5* hotels in Muscat which are 250-300 AUD. Also about 5hrs between flights in Jakarta. CGK - SYD on...

The points devaluation isn't that bad. Worst hit is the long haul J awards to Europe but even then they're very similar points to Qantas. Some others haven't moved much at all - one would hope there's no further devaluations for at least 2-3 years which would make this a good deal.

As a casual Velocity points user, the best use of the points for me (in terms of value and ease of redemption) was being able to fly with Singapore J for 70kish points one way to all sorts of places in SE Asia (and sometimes getting paid J to Europe from there). Very happy to see they have...

For people with Amex this can be done with 100k Qatar points (like I'll be flying in Feb). Genuinely one of the best value redemptions - 31hrs in a Q suite for 100k points!

Can't see much award space in J at all on this route with Aeroplan at least. I know the article showed there was a seat but they seem to have pulled them. I'd be v surprised if Turkish have much award space, they're pretty stingy with J award seats (to Aeroplan at least anyway)