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Recently my mother in law passed away and this last week we have been sorting out her estate. My father in law owned a freight forwarding company which my brother in law still runs. Amongst the paper work I found some old Qantas baggage labels (1982) a Qantas restricted articles pamphlet...

I am researching the star alliance RTW fares (not leaving until Feb 2025) and understand if I book in first class and have to do J when first is not available then it is all first class pricing (points) regardless. My question is if anyone has done the first class RTW, had to do some sectors in...

What is the quickest time you have taken to re qualify for VA Platinum. I am sure there are some pretty quick time frames. With the help of family pooling, two J domestic flights MCY-MEL return in double status credits, quite a number of work trips MCY-SYD and MCY-ADL, a few other choice fare...

We have decided to book the scenic eclipse to Antarctica, for a January or February 2025 cruise. We are just waiting on our travel agent to confirm which date. is there any feedback on the eclipse from this group? We also now have the task of getting to Buenos Aires. I have quite a number of...

I have been Velocity platinum for 5 years and my wife is velocity gold (prior to covid extensions) and I pre selected economy X seats for a flight on a flex fare. I just went to check in for that flight and my seats have been bumped back to row 6. Now, not to sound entitled but when I rang the...

It has been a while since we caught up for Sydney trivia. Is anyone interested in an end of year trivia catch up at the Australian Heritage Hotel at The Rocks next Wednesday night (4/12/2019)

Does anyone know if the upgraded MCY airport is going to include a VA lounge?

I am trying to book an Air Canada BNE-YVR flight and need to know if I have got the process correct. 1. I need one way flight, we cruising back to Australia ( 2 pax) 2. I would prefer non stop flight in J 3. Do I transfer VA points to Kris Flyer 4. Do I then book AC flight (being star...

On Thursday we fly on a VA J reward flight Brisbane to Singapore on Singapore Airlines. After a few nights at the Marina Bay Sands we board Voyager of the Seas in a spaciousness balcony room midship. We have submitted a number of upgrade bids for suites but not fussed if they don’t come...

Hi, I am trying to arrange a trip to take my 22 year old son on. I have given him the opportunity to choose a destination (internationally or domestic) but he is so busy at work and just can’t get around to deciding. He is a huge Apple fan and I was thinking of a Silicon Valley tour to some...

I have my own virgin wine account. My email address and residential address linked to my velocity account. I have my own wine preferences in the cellar preferences. My wife has her own virgin wine account which she started when the recent Christmas promotion was on. She did this to link to...

Hi, I have a friend on QF3 today and has just got a change of time notification, being a 3 hour delay out od SYD. I have looked on Flightradar and there is no aircraft registration logged. I don’t know if it is an inbound delay that will cause this because I can’t find the actual aircraft for...

Tomorrow we start a month long adventure starting with BNE-MEL using our $129 virgin Australia credit card redemption flights. Platinum status sees us in economy X and row 3. A late arrival into MEL for our next day VA23flight to LAX. We needed to fly to MEL to secure J award seats. This is...

Hi, I remember some time ago there was some discussion about a store near BNE where the airlines took unclaimed lost and found items. I have searched and cannot find the thread. There was specific talk about Bose headphones and picking up cheap pairs through this shop. Can anyone recall the...

Good afternoon, we are in the planning stage of a Canada and Alaska trip for next year. We are looking at flying from Vancouver to Fairbanks. The most economical flights are with Alaska Airlines routing YVR-SEA-FAI. The connection in SEA is 1 hour. My questions are; Do we clear customs in...

Good evening I want to book 2 qantas J points fares SFO-BNE. I have not flown Qantas in a number of years and am 4500 points short for the 2 x J fares. Any suggestions on how to get a quick fire 5K points. I dont want to sign up for a credit card at this point. I am looking at a wine club...

Good afternoon. I have just booked some VA return flights BNE-LAX, and because of the days we need to travel, we are on VA6 out of LAX, departing at 11:15am, arriving BNE 6:15pm the next day. The timing looks good to me, and it fits into a nice return to work the next day instead of landing at...

We are looking into cruises to Antarctica. Celebrity X do a cruise that doesn't actually have any shore tours or stops in Antarctica and if I am going to do this I want to say I have been and stood on the continent. Scenic do an amazing cruise and the "yacht" has two helicopters and a submarine...

We are cruising on RCI radiance of the seas from white bay on 28/01/2017. I am not too impressed that we were changed from the international terminal at circular quay to white bay, and our itinerary says we are tendered at white bay and not docked, but nevertheless we cruise under the harbor...

After many years of researching flights, status levels, redemption flights, lounge access etc... (Like I know you all do) and having my wife just roll her eyes every time I mention something about flying or points, and how we can best benefit, today she said "when do you need to re qualify for...