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  1. kevrosmith

    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    The new divider between economy and business. There’s another thread somewhere discussing it. (Don’t have the link sorry…)
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    Made any travel mistakes lately?

    I'm curious: did I make a travel mistake recently? It's been a while since I've been through DXB, and I've previously travelled by myself, and I don't think I ever recall arriving at C Concourse with a transfer to either B gates or A gates. Arrived from CDG last week at C gates, and had to...
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    Famous people seen (or even met) whilst flying or lounging

    Troy Cassar-Daley sat behind me in EK J back from DXB the other day. We were in the infant seats, and I felt even more conscious of our son and our phaffing around during boarding once I recognised him. He was very pleasant though. We’d had a poo-nami event just before boarding, so everything...
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    AA15 JFK to SFO

    I would’ve thought “DYKWIA” was the most important 😜 Welcome to AFF
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Yeah I think I’m thinking doesn’t their BCN route go via MXP?
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Aren’t some of those airports the mid point for their fifth-freedom flights on to USA…? So you’re competing not just with end-point redemptions. (Or am I getting g confused with emirates )
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    BNE-CNS 10:40 departure on Friday 23-May Beef quesadilla. It was delicious. Other offer was a vegetarian tagine (I think) with optional chicken. Only had apple juice - feeling jet lagged from Paris return overnight. Alaric was excellent CSM. Even offered a drinks service before the meal...
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    For anyone interested, I went with Lycamobile France for our week in France. It only cost ~$10.50 AUD on conversion for 40GB - way more than I’d need for a week, but that was minimum for 5G speeds. I’m sitting on LTE however, and haven’t had a chance to check the settings. Everything seems to...
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    Accor Plus Membership Discussion

    my guess is it would register as the renewal for your next year, but it’s only a guess. I redeemed my Platinum benefit in the final month of my paid membership, and the membership just rolled over at renewal date.
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    What do you do with your old suitcases?

    An Airbnb I stayed in Tokyo was very specific in their departure instructions asking not to leave suitcases. I guess they may have been left with someone’s discarded case once and were left responsible with disposal. Vaguely knowing Japan’s rigorous rubbish regime, I wondered if it perhaps cost...
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    Am in Uk still until we catch the Eurostar on Wednesday, thus the reason starting to nut out exactly which is better option for a week in Paris. Could even consider the free Vodafone plan from London someone posted earlier. We drive into London on Wednesday before catching the train.
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    eSims, what is your experience.

    Does anyone know which network this plan would roam in France on? Would it still get 5G on EU roaming? I’m looking at the 30GB plan for £5 which gives 12GB roaming in EU. Looks a better deal than direct with Airlao on Elan (4G) at the moment and direct with Orange (4GB for $17).
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    This one? It was pretty good. (Not that I’m much of a champagne expert at all…)
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    London to Edinburgh Road Trip

    Our trip, starting this week follows this: Arrive into London Monday. Pickup Sixt hire car on Saturday at Shepherds Bush. We’ve booked a BMW X5 and really hope we get that model, as with 3 adults + infant, we have a lot of luggage and are going to need the boot space. Drive to York Saturday...
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    CNS-SYD on Thursday Beef rendang. Despite the small size of the beef, I mixed it into the rice and it was fine. Most of the beef was fine… a bit of grissle but was edible. Loved the caramel slice. And my wife had the Mac n Cheese with tomato relish. Described by CSM as “adults Mac n cheese”.
  16. kevrosmith

    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    One of the meals is usually always a vegetarian option, with an optional meat protein available to add to make it non-vego, but can’t say that those meals are especially vegan-catered.
  17. kevrosmith

    ExpertFlyer beta program - April 2025

    Was also been approved for testing. Overall, as noted by dylarr, the look is very similar. Feel is similar though I'm very much a keyboard driven user, so a few keystrokes, tabs and actions are missing for me. Need to go to my mouse in a couple of actions that I used to be able to drive...
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    ExpertFlyer beta program - April 2025

    Well, this is interesting. Invitation sent out to join a beta program to "get early access to new features and help influence the future of EF". Perhaps they have finally decided to invest more into the site. I just hope it's not for the worse. I won't post the link to join in case it's a...
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    Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

    https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community/threads/virgin-changing-its-fare-structure.114706/
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    Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

    Didn't their new pricing scheme basically do away with that where all fare classes continue to be available as Lite, Choice and Flex, just with incremental price increases in each band and bracket as the volume of seats available decreased...?
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