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Yep the system seems to treat VA as a partner airline when you try and book a second onward leg. So it won't combine the VA and QR flights in the same award itinerary. This is despite the VA flights showing up in the same search (and with the same points needed) as Qatar awards if you just...

I wonder if Qantas will increase the points needed to attain Points Club +/- Plus?

I've found some joy booking Classic flight rewards in Emirates First with QF points in recent years. So it is a bit of a kick in the teeth that they'll both be equalised with QF rewards which in turn will go up by 20% too. Maybe 250k points from Europe to Australia in first now? Carrier charges...

Depends on how they're earned. Bonuses (not just for credit cards) are nowhere near as good as they were a few years ago.

Ah. Well hopefully this reduces some of the demand on the Doha legs anyway. Hasn't been too hard to book reward seats outside of peak times as long as it's fairly close to release date.

Have looked and SYD - DOH on VA flights seems to be the same Avios points price? This is of relevance to this thread given plenty of people would have options to book this flight with either set of points.

Has anyone found these VA seats on Qatar Privilege Club yet?

Just pointing out these redemption opportunities for two seats close to Xmas for anyone who is interested. They involve a long wait in Singapore but flight price is a little over $2k (when cost of buying miles is taken into account) one way for anyone who might be interested.

Damn that’s what I got last year but not getting anything like that this year. Thanks, will call Amex up!

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!