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At MEL at the moment (evening of Friday 19/07), and there seems to be a systems outage preventing access to all check in and boarding operations. Flights are being called one by one for manually processed boarding, with associated delays. Edit: glad I'm in the lounge!

Received a letter from Crown offering a promotion on stays at Crown Promenade and Crown Metropol in Melbourne for Signature Club members. Offer rates are: Metropol - $199 (Fri), $119 (Mon-Thur) Promenade - $169 (Fri), $99 (Mon-Thur) Just basic rooms, but for these hotels it's a pretty...

Some colleagues of mine had an interesting experience at MEL today. As they were waiting to board a VA flight for CBR (I got stuck with taking care of our Melbourne gig), they were paged and told to report that baggage claim as there was an issue with one of their bags. So when they got...

I'm travelling to MEL-LAX in August with VA, and then onwards to DCA via SLC with DL. They're booked on separate itineraries, the VA leg with VA and the DL with DL (jumped on a cheap fare for my international flights before I knew what I was doing in the States). Does anyone know if, when I...

Hi all! I've booked a BNE-MEL J award flight as a bit of a surprise for my sister's birthday. She's living in QLD for uni, and has had a bit of a dodgy run lately with JQ and VA, so I figured I'd use up the points I'd never use myself (they're from credit cards but all of my work flights are...

Hi all! Like many others before me, I'm a long time lurker and first time poster. Currently NB/NR on QFF and Velocity, but a project I'm working on this year means I'm finally going to be flying enough to make status a real possibility. So I figured it was about time I came out of the...