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Yeah, @kpc had me worried because I deferred buying them on the other cards, but I just bought another one successfully. (Will confirm receipt of cashback later.)

This was true back in the day as well. Prior to COVID, business award seats on DL (and VA's own metal) were very rare in advance and might occasionally appear close to departure, but it couldn't be relied upon.

Velocity is turning up EY awards in J in the range of 25-30 days from now. There isn't much from SYD or MEL but (for instance) I can find SIN-xAUH-CDG on several consecutive days in early May. Looking through Etihad Guest there appears to be some occasional space out of SYD and MEL starting in...

Any datapoints on whether I should select my status airline immediately, or wait until after I get the invite having hit the initial qualifying spend? Ideally in terms of people who successfully got the 50k Aeroplan points? Also I see that it lists the seven airlines with Select buttons under...

The answer to this is "about 20 hours later".

Definitely that is a quantity worth caring about.

They replied about a day later saying it had been referred to the relevant team. I have had no further correspondence but today 2750 points were credited with narrative NOVAUTOBNS, which might be related? That number is more than the shortfall I was due, which was 650. It would be 2150 if they...

I was approved today. When should I expect my Star Alliance Rewards invite email?

I am pleased to report that a Chemist Warehouse digital gift card, bought from the main CW website, paid out the Amex Offer. I purchased a $150 gift card two days ago, it was posted yesterday, and the $15 credit posted today.

I agree it's not explicitly excluded in the T&C. I purchased a gift card online yesterday, figuring we'll use it anyway. Will advise. I note that the transaction (now posted) has something like CHEMISTWAREHOUSE_GIFT as the merchant so it mightn't be recognised as the "right" merchant. If that...

This is arguably true of many programs we all use, which have standard rates on partners accessing the limited award space and then broader options on the "home" airline at additional cost. Qantas does this for Qantas metal, and Velocity works like this even for some Virgin partners (notably...

@BriarFlyer I have now emailed Velocity's Platinum desk. I will advise if/when I get any response.

Sorry, @BriarFlyer, nothing yet. I have been meaning to send a follow-up email to the Plat desk but haven't got to it yet.

Calling back to the discussion recently about airlines coding for 3x on Green (or in my case, Gold), we've covered a lot of them (VA/AA/DL/UA/AV/AC/SQ for my datapoints, QF confirmed by @sudoer, probably others). Has anyone confirmed European LCCs? I have a couple of short EU flights with...

I haven't done those in particular recently, but certainly I frequently buy VA tickets on my US Amex Gold and earn 3x.

It wasn't crispy but it maintained structure and was fine, I thought?

This was from VA0827 MEL-SYD, Thursday 21/03/24 09:00. I was in 2C, and they took orders from 1F then 2A/C first. I'm Platinum (albeit unlikely to requalify), so they may have been prioritising status pax. The options were berry crumpet (pictured) or scrambled eggs with bacon and some other...

I think the original poster was saying he wanted merlot, but they only had shiraz and pinot noir. Of course, shiraz and pinot noir are the correct options for VA to offer.

I think it's 7500 IIRC?

I cancelled via phone (because it was necessary to do so in order to pay the cancellation fee in dollars rather than points) a couple of months ago. I had the points back within seconds, and the fees/taxes rebated to my card (less $60 for cancellation) a few days later (less than a week).