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Just received an email from Krisflyer with a range of bonuses to celebrate 10 million members. Most notably, there's a 20% bonus on transfers from Krisflyer to Velocity until 31 March so you get 3871 points rather than 3226 points if you convert. Transfer bonuses also on Accor and Bonvoy...

Point Hacks has more details up. Revamped Velocity's first move: a new points table - Point Hacks Key details are that the points needed for domestic economy awards are being split into three tiers (one higher and one lower than current amounts - e.g. MEL-SYD awards will be 6200, 7800 and 9900...

I couldn't see a thread on the various Velocity bonus point offers that pop up from time to time on the Velocity app. There is a standard offer of 250 Velocity points for the first transaction after when you link your Velocity and 7-Eleven accounts. See here. For May 2023, there is an offer of...

TL;DR: LAX-PPT-NOU in J on TN and SB on the 787 and A330neo with NOU-SYD in Y on QF for $3.2k one way. So I've managed to get myself an award flight from SYD-SFO on Boxing Day for a cruise leaving Fort Lauderdale on 27 December. The issue with award travel is that it's one way, so I am left...

https://www1.citibank.com.au/personal-loans/citi-ready-credit-velocity $500 balance transfer required; $199 establishment fee. 4.9% APR. Presumably stacks with the personal loan offer as it's a different lending product. (Alas, I'm not eligible as I fixed $60k at 2.9% using Ready Credit with...

I have a holiday in Europe booked for October. Wanted to fly J but didn't want to stump up $8K+ for the privilege (or pay for J on the day flight to SE Asia). Turkish Airlines is doing mixed class flights bookable through their website www.turkishairlines.com. Prices start from about $4.1k...

It wasn’t supposed to be this expensive… or this cheap… When I started planning the junket… errr… study tour to Italy to complete my law degree in November last year, I imagined I’d do what I’d always do: find the cheapest fare possible and put up with the intense discomfort that long haul...

For the brave and hardy souls among the AFF crowd, I was looking through the list of business class fares to Europe on Directflights and saw Garuda was doing MEL-AMS, SYD-AMS and PER-AMS fares in J for very reasonable prices. Maximum stay away appears to be a month.