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It's that time of your again! This thread is a place where you can post 2025 Black Friday & Cyber Monday travel deals that are relevant to Australians.

Interested!

Looks like both Binge and Kayo will stop awarding Qantas points on all subscriptions after 30 November 2025.

This is back again for another year: https://beachpassport.org.au/h/ocean I can't tell whether QFF members who did the Beach Passport last year are eligible for a new round of 150 points this year...

Follow up on my compensation owed from Iberia: the amount arrived in my Australian bank account yesterday. Turns out, Iberia can refund money to an Australian account! The whole process took 9 months, though.

If Air NZ cancels your flight due to this strike, will they claim it’s due to reasons beyond their control and therefore refuse to refund your money?

As I believe @QF WP mentioned to you, our second guest speaker Phil (the man behind the Flybuys account on AFF before he retired a few years ago) specifically mentioned you during his speech. He has a lot of respect for your engagement in Flybuys and contributions on this forum. It's a shame you...

This morning’s walking tour group:

The Culture Capital Walking Tour will start at 11am outside the State Library of Victoria. See you there! :)

Last night’s brilliant guest speakers: Udhara de Silva from Singapore Airlines, who tackled all of AFF’s prickly questions with grace A big thanks also to Singapore Airlines for donating lots of giveaways and prizes!! And Phil Hawkins, former Flybuys COO:

The Melbourne Sights Walking Tour group

Feel free to come by.

This article is probably worth a read if you follow this thread: https://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/virgin-status-credits-trick/

Thanks for that explanation! Yes, I believe we did vacate at taxiway Golf.

This one might be a question for @AviatorInsight. I was flying yesterday on a Saab 340. When we touched down in SYD on runway 34L (i.e. a very long runway for this small plane), the main landing gear touched down firmly onto the runway but after that there was no real braking and the front...

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Air New Zealand will rebrand its Airpoints program to Koru in April 2026. Other than the name change, it seems the only real difference will be a new "Koru Black" tier which sits above Platinum. https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/koru-loyalty-programme

Has anyone else noticed that Virgin Australia now has a regularly scheduled red-eye flight from Cairns to Melbourne?! VA1302 operates six days per week, leaving CNS at 23:55 and arriving MEL at 04:15. I wonder why, and if anyone is actually choosing to book this! 🤔

You should be able to change the frequent flyer number after booking, either on the operating airline's website or at the very least, when checking in. That way you'd get Qantas Gold benefits. Alternatively, could you use AAdvantage miles to book for "someone else" and then enter that person as...

Virgin Atlantic Flying Club is launching lifetime status recognition in the form of a "High Five" program. If you fly with Virgin Atlantic in five different years, you'll get a bonus of 12,000 Virgin Points and 10% bonus points on future flights...