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Speaking of site weirdness: just saw a Business Reward flight that was going for 0 points plus $25.53... (Didn't book it.) Edit: oh, I get it, it's one of Virgin's one-off "special" flights. Still...

I see Business Rewards available up until Tuesday 26th March, at least for some of the routes I had my eye on. Not very many, but at least some tickets are in the "lowest price" bucket. Everything after that date seems sold out however. (These are my own observations. I don't have access to the...

A small report from our trans-Tasman and NZ flying in the last week. This is as Velocity Gold. Flew SYD-AKL on a VA codeshare flight (booked with Virgin but on Air NZ metal). Couldn't pre-select a seat online, and didn't feel like battling with the call centre as they had just done the Sabre...

Whilst the SCs earned are lower, the thresholds to qualify for (or retain) Silver/Gold/Platinum are lower than for Qantas too.

Re: Need 4 DJ sectors and 130 SCs by Sept 1 You can try flying Delta between LAX and (somewhere in New England). In Business/First Class with one of the "Y-up" fares, you'll earn status at the highest Velocity rate. Because it's Delta, you'll quite probably connect in Atlanta: this will earn 80...

If not aviation, then we're veering away from the subject matter... ...but you can do a search for radio licences at the ACMA: Australian Communications and Media Authority: Register of Radiocommunication Licences (enter the frequency, and your postcode). There are other search tools at the...

So you're Malaysian, want to try some Canberra restaurants? If you go to Civic, then Sammy's Kitchen (Malay/Chinese) at Canberra Centre is pretty popular. If you go to Dickson, it's a miniature Chinatown, you can try Rasa Sayang (Malay/Indonesian), or the Scholar (Chinese), or a dozen other...

According to Google it's only about 9km. So a taxi costs around $20-30 one way, probably. I haven't recently driven in that part of Canberra during peak time, but it doesn't get too slow, you could probably make the journey in 20 mins. Buses won't be much fun as you'd have to change over at...

Good advice if you have a regular mobile phone. However if you have a smartphone (or anything with Internet access), you should turn data access off before taking it out of flight mode. And research how much roaming data is likely to cost you. Because this is how some people have ended up with...

We also bought our AT&T prepaid SIMs (GoPhone) off eBay... but found that we couldn't activate it online as it required a US credit card. We charged them up after touching down in the US. A handy place for phone recharges is 7-Eleven. They're quite common, and they stock most brands of recharge...

If you don't care about points or credits, you can fly JetBlue from BOS-ORD. They're inexpensive, good legroom, complementary IFE, complementary snacks and drinks. I'm a fan. Boston is a JetBlue hub city, so flights from there are in good supply.

Also DJ1693 from CBR-OOL at the same time, 7:45 p.m. So at least 2 flights! And (as they say) OOL has the highest per-capita number of Platinums...

Whilst they discontinued the nonstop flight, they did preserve the price—$145 from Canberra to Townsville is cheaper than other comparable Queensland destinations! I presume that instead of a nonstop flight, it's now via OOL. Since I'm currently sitting at Townsville Airport (!), about to fly...

Re: Virgin Business Class Lottery - now 0 for 2. Pay for Business, get Premium Econom I don't know about CNS-TSV, but I strongly suspect that TSV-OOL and OOL-CBR will be on an Embraer 190. (I'm going to be flying that route in a few days.) If so, you should reconsider whether you really want to...

A quick trip report. Flew CBR-BNE-TSV today in Business, thanks to a Velocity redemption of 6900 points plus cash (about $170... when compared to the regular price of $1049, I calculate the value of a Velocity point at 12.5c each!). Besides aiming to try the J service, I wanted to convince Mrs...

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