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I fly VA domestic now and then (managed to earn platinum last year and platinum will be earnt this year within 6 months) based on the following: QF don't fly on all the routes - PQQ-BNE, SYD-MCY, NCL-MEL and if I'm connecting with Perth I will usually stay on the same carrier VA can be (or...

Noticed Multi-City Bookings have gone (something I use extensively) ? At the moment the website is next to useless- cannot finalise flight bookings, cannot log into Velocity, try many regional flights and it crashes and some of the (domestic) prices that you can see are making Qantas look like...

Yes - although I was given the email address of the lounge manager! !? Breakfast - Asked for an egg (as per the sign - 30 minutes still no egg - (2 reminders) - gave up. Don't know if they were short staffed themselves? (although there were plenty of inexperienced staff wondering around...

Two recent stays and two huge contrasts.... Status: Diamond Property: Conrad Bangkok Date: 29-31 December 2012 Booked: Deluxe King Received: "Executive" King They got right: Room was nice, with complementary water and some "welcome amenity cookies". Suspect it was not an executive room...

Re: Hyatt Gold Passport - Redeeming Nights In Japan - Do Points Cover Additional Char I redeemed Hyatt Points in Japan in late 2011 - and never had any "additional" charges.

I'll be with the +1 at the Hilton Pattaya looking down on the common people partying, whilst sipping coughtails the Hilton's NYE party :D (and a big thanks to HHonors Diamond Rewards!)

Looks more like an entree! Sure they didn't serve the lunch menu by mistake? :p

You can usually buy fully refundable tickets with Skywest cheaper than flexisavers as well (and you get J class SC!). I don't even bother with redeptions - waste of points and money....... It is going to be a challenging cultural takeover - it's a very old fashioned airline and a few people I...

I received a nice two pack as well - Wolf Blass White Label aged release Chardonnay and a SC Pannell GSM :). Happy with that

Actually thinking about it now... yes that is the reason! :lol:

I'm down for two seats at the Perth advance screening... actually looking forward to it - haven't been to a cinema in a few years....

I just redeemed ~95K points for 2 (Y) PER - CCK- PER. Flights would have cost $2050. 2.15c a point seems good value - although more importantly I get a chance to go to the Cocos Islands

I have been doing about half my regular QF Y flights SYD-PER or MEL-PER with DJ with flexi upgrades over the past 2 months (inbetween the new QF year). On four occassions there have been less then 4 passengers in J - and on one flight I overheard that "they are all upgrades". I even had a DJ...

Did the Syd-Per A330 IN J on Friday (older bird) There were multiple IEFs out of order - in fact about 6 or 7 - all on the F/J/K side (but in no real pattern). Annoyingly of the ones that did work a number of the loop movies had poor quality. Was probably a good thing (in my case) as I had...

Clearly we must be on very different flights... I've had some shockers don't worry but in the 100+ QF domestic flights in the last year I would say 4 or five were below par. With the 30+ VA flights this year about 10 or so were poor (certainly my MKY-SYD VA flight (and pre-flight) experience...

I too think the Hyatt GoldPassport program is probably the best loyalty program - the hotels treat you very well as a diamond- as they know you have earnt it (no short cut for this level!) - but as you say the number of Hyatts in Australia isn't looking too good! Lucky I have 650K points to use...

Re: Will the end of the JSA impact QF points earning on BA (codeshare) flights? It appears a few QF intra-Europe codeshares with BA will remain (Qantas Industry website): Qantas and British Airways are in the process of winding down their Joint Services Agreement. From 31 March 2013, Qantas...

In many ways it is quite a clever change, (although I would have included JQ into this as well). I guess it follows the concept "loyalty bonus" not "fly lots of other OW airlines and we'll give you a bonus" as well. I reached P1 in September with 2 months to spare so put about half of my...

Yes - sounds very familar... Phone call centre - advises you to do it online - you go online and and it states to ring Velocity Centre for SkyWest claims..! Second call - please send us your boarding passes (which has my Velocity number on it, the booking class and everything else one would...

Had a lovely glass or two of a well-vintaged Mount Mary Quintet in SYD during one visit :p