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    Virgin Australia flights to Doha

    https://www.velocityfrequentflyer.com/partners-offers/airlines/virgin-australia-airlines#VAQRSC You can then change to the Earn Status tab. Likewise you can select the Qatar partner page and it has an Earn Status tab.
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    Velocity partners with DoorDash food delivery app

    A datapoint: Linked accounts, Thu morning. Made (and received delivery of) Doordash order, shortly afterward. Points in Velocity account (two separate line items for base points plus welcome bonus), on waking Saturday morning.
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    AMEX Delicious Month Out: 20% back on dining - May 2025

    Yes, I'm pretty sure at least one of the places that paid-out for me, used Tyro.
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    New Amex statement credits

    Terminal screen tends to look something like this:
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    New Amex statement credits

    Yes, I effectively got paid $9 to enjoy my ~$45 two-course express steak lunch. 1746674891 I have a datapoint for this too. The restaurant is affirmatively on the map but they've switched to Lightspeed and it didn't pay out.
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    New Amex statement credits

    I confirm this stacked at the Meat & Wine Co in Southbank Vic this week. It did so despite the restaurant not even being on the AEDMO map.
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    Skype replacements

    Update on this: Sonetel never got back to me on the porting request (apparently they had a big backlog from the Skype closure) but I managed to get a new number on their network a couple of days before my Skype expired, and reset my US bank to use that as a contact. So far I have minimally used...
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    New Amex statement credits

    I seem to recall I had this specific stack work last year, but I will confirm any new datapoints.
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    Credit Card Offers HSBC Star Alliance Credit Card: Fast-Track to Star Alliance Gold Status

    I'm in this situation currently (got Aeroplan 50K/Gold initially, only requalified for Silver based on spend, still have a week to change status airline if desired) and I think I will do the same, keeping it with Aeroplan. If my Gold persists until the end of 2025, then soft-lands to Silver, I...
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    Qatar Airways to acquire 25% of Virgin Australia

    Something I observed in Jan when the VA-coded awards began to be released, was that QRPC seems to only show combo itineraries with all-QR or all-VA codes, and not a mixture. (That was based on a small sample so it may be more complex than that.) Given that the DOH<>Europe/America/Africa award...
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    The Virgin Australia Newbie Questions Thread

    There is a trick to that (although I haven't tried specifically for VAxQR), but AFAIK it works on the website but not in the app (or at least I haven't figured out how to do it in the app). 1744514918 Someone has posted it before. Let me find it.
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    Change in aircraft - (In) Voluntary downgrade

    I was just doing a quick check of the current 777 airframes identified as fitted with MiniPods (2-2-2), to see what the current risk was between DOH<>AU and DOH<>US. For long hauls, I will happily accept either the Qsuites or a reverse-herringbone config, but I draw the line at the MiniPods...
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    Major changes to Velocity Frequent Flyer announced 17/10/24

    Yeah, I think as a forum we're quite unrepresentative of the market available to VA. Velocity as a program and VA as an airline are competing with Qantas and QF, respectively, not directly with any number of better airlines (dozens!) or programs (AAdvantage, Aeroplan, KrisFlyer, Flying Blue...
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    The Virgin Australia Newbie Questions Thread

    I guess this stretches the definition of a "newbie" question, but: I have Velocity Gold, and have already got the necessary status credits and sectors to requalify on my review date in July, but I have no chance of hitting Platinum. I also have Aeroplan 50K. I am travelling with my family...
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    What to do with expiring LifeMiles

    I just went ahead and donated them to the charity bucket.
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    What to do with expiring LifeMiles

    I have my last 4k LifeMiles expiring in a week. I don't want to buy more because I don't think it's a reliable channel going forward. It seems like you can donate to their charity bucket, which I will do failing anything else. Is there a better, more targeted way to give them away?
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    Skype replacements

    This is similar to my use case: I can roam fine with my Australian phone, and make calls to and within foreign countries at zero or very low rates. But what I paid Skype for, and need to replace, is a US-based phone number for when my US bank or Amex need to reach me. It looks like something...
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    redemption on QR

    Others can feel free to correct me, but I think: 1. Yes, you ought to be able to, provided on a QR flight number and (if bought with Avios) presumably purchased from a Oneworld airline, although Qantas is not above jerking Qatar passengers around. 2. Yes, a long-haul inbound in F with an...
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    redemption on QR

    Is DOH-ATH on a widebody? If I had plenty of Avios and the dates matched my plans, I would probably jump at that. (To compare, AU<>EU in QR J is I think 90k Avios.)
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