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It's hard because we don't know your personal preferences, financial situations and future plans. What I will say is do your own math. Look into destinations you want to go, how much it costs to purchase that ticket with cash and how much it costs with points (minus any cash surchare and tax)...

Or potentially appoint a QR approved external candidate - no point in doing that if the FIRB reivew falls through. Seems reasonable that QR would not want Paul Jones to be the CEO - it doesn't need another wave of TWU bad PR and more holes to be poked on now it's got skin in the game.

Might very well be the rule, and my understanding is that you cannot refund to cash by paying the $99 fee like you would normally (because your original form of payment is the travel bank and it's already expired). But the loop hole is that when you refund to travel bank, the system creates...

Buy a full flex/business ticket as far out in the calendar as possible, sit on it for nearly a year then when you are ready to fly cancel/change that one free of charge and book whatever you want, or putting it back into travel bank a few days before the flight and sit on that new travel bank...

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/virgin-australia-says-it-is-aware-incident-fiji-involving-crew-members-2025-01-01/ Better journalism from Reuters this morning.

Was J rewards space available on the new flight? Or was VA able to transfer you across to the new flight by booking into a cash fare or somehow have SQ open up inventory on the new flight?

Had a Thai vegetable curry (optionally add chicken) on tonight’s VA878 SYD-MEL. The curry was pretty tasty, though it reminds me of the vegetarian curry served at the Sydney lounge on most Thursday which I’m all too familiar with 😂

For sure there’s room to grow in the domestic market and that’s enabled the fleet growth of both players, but that room doesn’t make it easy for a new entrant to establish into the jet markets. It’s easy for the incumbent to incrementally grow its fleet year by year to support growing demand...

Since we are flexing: Top 1%, 49420km, 70 flights

I got the feeling that it’s coming since a few weeks ago that banner asking you to keep your information up to date showed up. I was not wrong.

Yes, once you’ve booked the ticket swap out the VFF number and replace it with your UA MP number. That entities you to whatever benefit VA provides to UA member, including lounge access.

ANA's HND-SYD flight usually have good business availability close in. I'd take the gamble to book a economy ticket now (choose a slightly flexible fare knowing you are likekly going to cancel it so the upfront cost isn't that big of a deal) and then look for those business awards close in, then...

VH-REX returned to MEL as VA9926 yesterday.

There is a VA counter once you clear immigration and customs that would let you check in and drop your bad. Depending on your arrival time it may or may not be open.

I have not and I understand what you mean. Sydney’s lounge has got a fine foundation. It just needs to have some interior design changes made to better utilize the space and I’d expect a 15% capacity increase is totally possible using the existing space with just adjustments to the floor plan -...

Sure, I expect that’ll happen as furnitures age and the Sydney lounge will get a refresh in the coming years just like Adelaide and Melbourne. It’s relatively inexpensive and they don’t need a capital injection for that. And VA has been getting more and different planes. 7M8 and M10 are coming...

Can VA not can one of the milk run flights and use that slot for the Doha service? Or would international slot be separate from a domestic slot?

Do wonder if the protection on these services not approved applies to redemptions via FFP points. I wouldn’t be surprised if VA releases a large number of reward seats on the new service as part of the launch campaign which if of course wonderful. Would be a shame if Velocity members are left...

Presumably he meant the current JV between QR/BA/IB. I don't see why ACCC would be against it. What's BA bring to the table if it were to operate as a compeitior to QR? 1 daily SYD via SIN, not much in the grand scheme of things when you look at the major participants/JV in the market (SQ...

The points hack article actually had the “correct” interpretation I think. Existing partnerships are the “some exceptions” but VA won’t add new partnerships in those regions without a nod from QR.