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I am looking into a future long-haul trip; in a few weeks, the booking calendar will start to open for the relevant dates. My daughter has indicated some interest in coming with me, but it's possible she will decide later not to come. If I make an award booking for two people, but in the end...

Yes, I used this for an overseas trip last year after Coles added FX fees, because the Zip FX fee is only 1.0%. But the default credit limit for Zip is only $350, which is quite limiting. (I have a US-based Amex Gold with no FX fee, so I use that wherever Amex is accepted.)

Yes, the Loft is on the A Pier, which is where all the Schengen flights arrive and depart. If departing BRU from landside, the security is common then you head to A for Schengen flights or through passport control to the B Pier for somewhere further afield. (Obvs say LHR or EDI or MAN, despite...

The advice above seems sensible, but I would recommend that if you can get your bags checked through and not clear passport control (both inward then outward) in BRU, that you do that. The Loft is cool, especially the self-pour beer taps, but exiting Schengen at BRU, for a BRU-LHR flight, took...

If you have Australian Amex you can transfer those direct to Qatar Privilege Club. But I'm not sure where the 35k vs 119k comes from? If SYD/MEL/BNE<>DOH, I think that's the Y Avios vs J Velocity rates?

https://www.velocityfrequentflyer.com/partners-offers/airlines/virgin-australia-airlines#VAQRSC You can then change to the Earn Status tab. Likewise you can select the Qatar partner page and it has an Earn Status tab.

A datapoint: Linked accounts, Thu morning. Made (and received delivery of) Doordash order, shortly afterward. Points in Velocity account (two separate line items for base points plus welcome bonus), on waking Saturday morning.

Yes, I'm pretty sure at least one of the places that paid-out for me, used Tyro.

Terminal screen tends to look something like this:

Yes, I effectively got paid $9 to enjoy my ~$45 two-course express steak lunch. 1746674891 I have a datapoint for this too. The restaurant is affirmatively on the map but they've switched to Lightspeed and it didn't pay out.

I confirm this stacked at the Meat & Wine Co in Southbank Vic this week. It did so despite the restaurant not even being on the AEDMO map.

Update on this: Sonetel never got back to me on the porting request (apparently they had a big backlog from the Skype closure) but I managed to get a new number on their network a couple of days before my Skype expired, and reset my US bank to use that as a contact. So far I have minimally used...

I seem to recall I had this specific stack work last year, but I will confirm any new datapoints.

I'm in this situation currently (got Aeroplan 50K/Gold initially, only requalified for Silver based on spend, still have a week to change status airline if desired) and I think I will do the same, keeping it with Aeroplan. If my Gold persists until the end of 2025, then soft-lands to Silver, I...

Something I observed in Jan when the VA-coded awards began to be released, was that QRPC seems to only show combo itineraries with all-QR or all-VA codes, and not a mixture. (That was based on a small sample so it may be more complex than that.) Given that the DOH<>Europe/America/Africa award...

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There is a trick to that (although I haven't tried specifically for VAxQR), but AFAIK it works on the website but not in the app (or at least I haven't figured out how to do it in the app). 1744514918 Someone has posted it before. Let me find it.

I was just doing a quick check of the current 777 airframes identified as fitted with MiniPods (2-2-2), to see what the current risk was between DOH<>AU and DOH<>US. For long hauls, I will happily accept either the Qsuites or a reverse-herringbone config, but I draw the line at the MiniPods...

Yeah, I think as a forum we're quite unrepresentative of the market available to VA. Velocity as a program and VA as an airline are competing with Qantas and QF, respectively, not directly with any number of better airlines (dozens!) or programs (AAdvantage, Aeroplan, KrisFlyer, Flying Blue...

I guess this stretches the definition of a "newbie" question, but: I have Velocity Gold, and have already got the necessary status credits and sectors to requalify on my review date in July, but I have no chance of hitting Platinum. I also have Aeroplan 50K. I am travelling with my family...