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Flying to Syd - london via AUH in First Apartments in 3 weeks time - will give a trip report - my first time in first:D! It is a work trip and will be earning points - should give my velocity account a big boost! Will go again with wife next year.

I managed to score 4 business class seats on sa ...flights are booked Dar to Johannesburg then onto Perth. Never flown with SA so I look forward to the experience. My kids are spoilt rotten.

Thanks Albatross... thats great ..that is exactly what I wanted to know! How long do you get to call before the offer lapses?

Back booking flights again after paying a huge amount of tax. If I book a waitlisted bus saver flight does it give you the option to confirm or does it just go straight to booked???? I need to combined this with another star alliance carrier with heaps of availability on Expertflyer. So I...

I think I will fly j with SAA. I will do a trip report on return. Will see how I go booking. Plenty of availability on expertflyer. Only issue will be having to pay to fly Perth to Hobart. Will see work on that next.

Thinking of flying J with my family of four back from an African trip. I need to fly Dar es Salaam to Melb. I can get 4 J with points Dar to Perth with SAA then I will go virgin to Melbourne at my cost. Or I can fly Dar to Dubai cattle class then Singapore J to Melbourne on points. Any...

I am trying to get some virgin domestic flighs with the small amount of Krisflyer points that my kids and wife have that are about to expire. They have about 15500 each - enough for a one way flight such as Hobart to Adelaide - 11000 points required. I have heaps of points that I am using on...

We can fly Singapore airlines to Mumbai business class. However we need to travel onward to ebb Uganda via either ethiopian airlines or Kenyan airlines or Egyptian airlines. They are all star alliance carriers. What's the best way to ensure that our bags get all the way through? Is that...

I can book part of my trip online - mel to bom or dxb or a few other hubs and get j savers. However I want to travel further via another Star Alliance carrier - need to get to EBB (entebbe uganda). Should I book the j savers online and either buy the rest with the other carrier or try to book...

I am happy to do paid routes. What are the chances of getting 4 Business savers on the same flight to Dubai? I can easily get 2 - 3 or 4 pax goes to waitlist. How long do you need to wait normally to find out? I am entirely flexible.

I am waiting for award seats to become available for Dec 13/Jan14 . We are a family of four and I have a heap of KRISFLYER points. I am hoping to try to fly us to holiday in Africa- We need to get Melbourne to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia (ADD) then ADD to Entebbe (EBB) in Uganda then to return...

Fantastic! Both great - especially Aeroplan - found award flights for what i need. So how does one go about booking these flights with Krisflyer points???

Hi, I currently have about 500,000 points to use by Dec 2013 when they start expiring. I will have up to another 100,000 points by March. I have been trying to plan a trip for my family of four where we can use these. It seems nearly impossible to work out. My probblem is working out seats...

I am still no further ahead trying sort out flights. Want to fly Melb to Quito equator to see the country and galapogos then some internal flights to Peru ...ground to Bolivia ..fly la Paz to Santiago then down to Patagonia and onto brazil to return home via rio. i would be happy even sorting...

would round the world or round the pacific be possible?

Any ideas on how to get to South America on points - I have a stack of them and want to go from melbourne to Equador, Peru and Chile. Singapore's website is a pain in the butt to find anything sensible on. My entry point is flexible - Santiago, or Quito, or even Buenos Aires. I want to...

Noticed that Amex and heaps of other cards have a 25 percent bonus on redemption of velocity points. Does anyone know if this applies to the CBA Gold Mastercard points?

Anytime out there? I can only hear the crickets and my own voice. Lol. All jokes aside I hope to hear from some of the experts here soon.

I am booking flights Melbourne to Damascus and Cairo to Melbourne for my family of four over the December/January period. We will likely fly with Emirates. I am wondering which will give the best flight miles - open a Skywards account and use them with Emirates or use our velocity membership...

Thanks for the help. That all gives me some food for thought. The December period seems cough for rewards seats. Might try and accumulate more points and buy the fares to the Middle East and use all points for a trip to Kathmandu next year.