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Does anyone have any experience flying DL16 SYD-LAX in coach as a VA Gold or Platinum since Delta changed the lounge access rules on 1 May 2014? Delta's own elites and Skyteam Elite Plusses no longer get status-based access to third party lounges (including the Koru Club) when flying on...

The Gate Pass information is now posted on the Opal web site. Your guess was right. The daily cap and travel rewards don't apply to the gate pass. $12.60 will be deducted from your Opal account on top of the fare you owe (which may be zero if you've reached the reward or daily cap). There is no...

Re: LAX Loft Virgin Australia VA8 I flew Delta through LAX the other day. The VA shuttle bus was still operating from gate 52 or wherever it's always been, and still left every half hour on the half hour according to the Sky Club attendants. As I was on the Delta flight, I didn't experience...

Yes, excellent result. For reference, when my partner and I first set up family pooling, I misunderstood how it worked and the flights credited to me instead of to her. This was xx_-LAX-SYD, so a lot of status credits. I called Velocity customer service (or maybe emailed; can't remember) and...

Glad to hear that, but the last bit is not quite right. Sky Priority has nothing to do with lounge access; in fact, the vast majority of passengers with "Sky Priority" on their Delta boarding passes are not eligible for lounge access, and lounge access is unrelated to Sky Priority. Delta Gold...

Does a new member joining *A have to be unanimously approved by the current *A members? Because it's hard for me to see United approving VA's entry into *A, given that 82% of VA's own metal long haul capacity (14/17 weekly flights) is part of a joint venture (with Delta) which competes directly...

For frequent flyer earning, yes, it's the marketed flight number that matters. However, for baggage, the relevant minimum allowance is what your ticket says. (This is regulated in the US.) The ticketed allowance will normally be set by the marketing carrier of your first long haul segment and it...

Note that AA Gold (oneworld Ruby) is substantially more difficult to obtain that DL Silver (SkyTeam Elite), since DL gives away medallion qualifying miles like candy. For example, you can earn 30,000 MQMs (25k needed for Silver) from credit card spend without stepping foot on a Delta plane; not...

Delta's excess (ie more than 2 or more than 50 lbs) baggage fees are here. Quick summary: USD200 per bag for the third and beyond from Australia to the US. Overweight (51-70 lbs) is USD75 per bag, and 71-100 lbs is USD200 per bag for Australia. Are you booked directly through Delta or with a VA...

But SQ and VA have a joint venture in which they coordinate schedules, sales, and marketing. I don't know the details of it, but I would assume that any decision to fly VA metal to SIN would be a decision VA made jointly with SQ and that the schedule would be coordinated with SQ's schedule. This...

And you can't use any Delta Sky Club membership to access a lounge at the SYD international terminal, even when flying on Delta metal. So OP would be paying $90 for club access at LAX and DTW in each direction. $22.50/entry. May or may not be worth it; probably not quite for me. If you have a...

VA now has a note on their fees section which I don't remember from before: What a load of cr*p. I assume this is to tell the ACCC where to shove it? VA, if the booking and service fee isn't just about your costs of accepting a credit card, why don't you charge it when we don't use a credit...

Both the original and flown booking class. When you purchase economy comfort on DL, the booking class doesn't change, as economy comfort is not a separate cabin; it's just a paid-for seat assignment in coach. Similarly, if you purchase an exit row seat on VA, your booking class doesn't change.

Well, Delta's (famously awful) web site allows you to select seats on VA metal flights, but I wouldn't be confident that they'll stick. When I had DL6798 (operated by VA, VA2 LAX-SYD) booked in deep discount coach, Delta's web site let me choose a seat in business class. The assignment stuck for...

I find DL's 777 coach seats to be more comfortably padded than VA's 777 seats, which I think are quite hard and uncomfortable. DL's in flight entertainment also has a much larger and better movie selection. As a DL elite, I can select an exit row seat at booking; certainly worth trying that in a...

Expanding: it departs T5 every half hour on the half hour. Because it has to take a very long route (via the AA hangers well west of TBIT), the shuttle took about 15-20 minutes the one time I've taken it. So don't wait until the last minute; the shuttle avoids security and is more predictable...

Yes, my partner had a similar issue. (Gold-qualifying flight [on Delta] didn't post, and 40 old status credits expired 3 days after the qualifying flight; we had to make a retroactive claim after the old credits expired. Two calls to Velocity didn't sort it out. We then asked for a supervisor...

Does presenting oneself as a (complimentary) VA lounge member help? Delta agents are much more used to granting access to lounge members (including partner lounge members from Alaska Airlines) on domestic itineraries than based on status for domestic itineraries, since VA elites are the only...

VA6551 is DL17, operated by Delta. You can look it up in Virgin Australia's timetable. That means it departs from Delta's terminal 5 at LAX and you will have access to the Delta Sky Club. The VA-operated LAX-SYD flight is VA2.

That's why I specified after your visit to the US. US Sky Clubs can issue a non-temporary card. The "temporary card" refered to a printout from a web site (which I used successfully to access VA/then DJ lounges before this rule change). Delta (as is typical for them) provides conflicting...