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  1. HeavyElectricity

    No Business Velocity Reward seats on some domestic flights

    Yep and there are only 8 seats in the cabin, therefore none have been sold as yet.
  2. HeavyElectricity

    No Business Velocity Reward seats on some domestic flights

    When searching for business reward seats to use my complementary platinum upgrade, I was surprised to see that some flights don't appear to have any business reward seats available. Maybe I'm misremembering, but it seemed that until now, nearly all flights had 1 or 2 seats available on them...
  3. HeavyElectricity

    Article: The problems with Virgin Australia codeshare bookings

    Remember when Bain said VA would become tech based/run, self service, and the separate apps (Virgin/Velocity) merged with added functionality? Whilst there has been minor improvements to some things like rebooking on cancelled flights, and luggage tag viewing, pretty much nothing else seems to...
  4. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia flights to Doha

    "Seamless experience"
  5. HeavyElectricity

    QR business/1st reward availability post-July

    VA have stated that unless swapped out due to problems, all their Doha flights will have QSuites.
  6. HeavyElectricity

    Have Velocity's reward charts become overly complicated?

    They asked their customers, and it's what they wanted... /s
  7. HeavyElectricity

    Fraud on Velocity Frequent Flyer accounts

    This is all very wrong information and isn't how passkeys work. Please don't spread around FUD.
  8. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    Had a fantastic CM and flight VA684 PER-MEL on Thursday - felt very well looked after, and couldn't have been better IMHO! Food was tasty as well! Only minor downside was older (non Boeing sky interior) aircraft with no power or internet. On the plus side (and more than balances that out)...
  9. HeavyElectricity

    Qatar Airways to acquire 25% of Virgin Australia

    Reward bookings are never issued under codeshare anyway, they're always issued under the operating airlines flight code, so I don't see why people are reading removing codeshare as removing reward seats?
  10. HeavyElectricity

    Velocity introduces Forever Gold lifetime status tier

    I knocked together a little script today for fun to try and summarise where I'm at with Forever Gold (much less than I assumed!). I was able to scrape my data from 2013, and have a look at how it was classified. Interestingly, some of the older double status credits promos applied as double on...
  11. HeavyElectricity

    Fraud on Velocity Frequent Flyer accounts

    Not necessarily the case here, but in my experience a low minimum password length is often a sign that the password is not being hashed and stored securely. There should be no technical reason to limit the password length this low (other than ridiculously long passwords that could stress a...
  12. HeavyElectricity

    Missing Velocity Points?

    I'm not so sure that's 100% true (but maybe I'm mistaken)... I think a family transfer may not count as "activity" for the receiver, so maybe their own points could have expired, whilst the points transferred from a family member are left behind?
  13. HeavyElectricity

    Yet another question about Velocity status credits and Review Date

    Think about it in two different ways: For obtaining/upgrading a status on any given date: Count all status credits and VA sectors flight segments within the last year. For maintaining current status: Count status credits and VA sectors since obtaining the status (and before the review date)...
  14. HeavyElectricity

    Medibank Pet Insurance

    Petbarn, Pet Circle, and PETstock are velocity e-store partners.
  15. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    VA1373 LST-MEL, with fabulous and friendly service from Kaytlin, depite the short flight time and additional pressure of some turbulent weather: Really liked this chicken, salsa, pita meal!
  16. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    Snap - but VA691 MEL-PER the day after: One strange thing - apparently the pantry wasn't available on this flight, and the FA could only offer a serve of cheese and crackers later in the flight instead.
  17. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia to Reconfigure 737 Fleet - Spend $110M

    The seats were pretty comfy, as far as economy seats go, IMHO.
  18. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia to Reconfigure 737 Fleet - Spend $110M

    Something interesting I noticed - row 2 business class seats don't have the literature pocket high up on the back like those in Row 1. Hopefully this means the future divider will extend down a bit further than the headrests. Additionally it looks like the middle seats in Row 3 don't have any...
  19. HeavyElectricity

    Virgin Australia to Reconfigure 737 Fleet - Spend $110M

    Wifi / entertainment still broken as of this morning (just boarded PER-MEL) - an announcement was made to download things before cabin door has closed. Also heard the cabin crew mentioning there is less room to stand in row 1 now apparently!
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