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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    Tourism interest as well. For example, currently only HNA flies to Cairns directly from Shenzhen, China. Not one of the Chinese big three (airchina, china eastern, china southern) flies directly to CNS. Most of the bundled Chinese tour groups start at Cairns then travel down the coast to...
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    Have you called VA and get a SQ booking reference code ? It will be a different one compared to your VA booking code. After that you can use SQ booking code to log into SQ website to select seats and meals etc. But it doesn't matter if you want to cancel it now, just need to call/message VA and...
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    I just used facebook messenger and they replied pretty quickly. They say it is up to 21 days for points to be back in this time. Fingers crossed indeed !
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    I requested the cancellation and they cancelled it but no points back to velocity yet. I will transfer to KF, but first need the points back to velocity.
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    just got a SQ redemption cancelled. how long will the points be back into my account normally ? It’s not instant that’s for sure.
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    Cancelling [VA fare rules & COVID-19 uncertainty]

    VA and all AU carriers should consider relaxing domestic policies as well just like the US big 3. Work/convention/conference/events related air travels virtually stopped. Schools are being shut down so no parents would risk putting their kids on a place and there goes your big family leisure...
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    Transferring to SQ seems the only way out, plus you will get better award availability if booked with krisflyer points. I think cancelling VA award bookings will give you full points and cash refund and only incur $60 cancellation fee. Did you have any partner award bookings at the time and...
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    +1, I have SQ J award bookings in Nov to the UK plus 5 digit points balance in velocity account. Does anyone have the same problem when Ansett collapsed ?
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    Qantas - what will Coronavirus mean in the medium term?

    in the same article, there is a quote from the chairman of Centre for Asia-Pacific Aviation Peter Harbison: “what i am hearing is that the best positioned airline in Asia has 30 days of cash left.” I wonder which airline that is ? CX, SQ, KE ...
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    Have you had to change/cancel travel due to COVID-19 (involuntarily or voluntarily)?

    From my university email: “On Friday, the Vice-Chancellor directed that all planned international travel is now suspended, and that domestic flights are restricted to critical air travel only. This is in direct response to the University's travel insurer informing the University that COVID-19 is...
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    Cancelling [VA fare rules & COVID-19 uncertainty]

    Given the US airlines are relaxing the refund and change rules for any future bookings this month to ease uncertainty and doubt among flyers. Australian carriers should do the same if they want to increase their cash flow because we want to travel but we don't want to lock ourselves into fares...
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/asia/japan well, the gov just upgraded travel advice to Japan and South Korea to yellow, “exercise a high degree of caution”. If their cases continue to grow, VA might kiss goodbye to Tokyo.
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    VA withdraws all services from Hong Kong

    When VA started advertising Aus to Hongkong economy light return fares for $450 last month, you know something is not right. The forward bookings must be miserable. And now VA is entering a price war with QF for Tokyo pushing price down to $650 return, and the leisure travellers are tempted...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19) Respiratory illness - Effect on Travel

    Hello. Profiles of deceased patients in the early course of the epidemic were collected by hospitals and released to the pubic from by the state media and social platforms. I read some of them. Almost all of the deceased patients are senior or elderly (>60 years old) and with multiple...
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