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yeah back at the start of the year it was regular checking for a good 2 weeks, and i was checking basically a 3 week range of dates (had to be there for a wedding, but whether we stayed on after or got there earlier we didn't care) there's definitely tickets available, but they're hard to find...

'grats! the best part about platinum is you can take a year "off" and automatically keep gold status the following year :D the real tangible benefits start at gold (imho) with lounge access, priority checkin & extra luggage, taking 2 extra peeps into the domestic lounges makes for a fun start to...

some annecdotal evidence - i tried to book 2x J redemption MEL-LAX / LAX-MEL for september a number of months back and found *nothing* at all, ended up booking MEL-SIN-LAX and JFK-FRA-SIN-MEL instead - i cancelled these later due to changes in plans, but i rebooked a single J MEL-LAX last night...

my wife and i travel a lot around March / September timeslots when it's off-peak and love it for exactly that reason, we visited Venice in March, a time period when there were no cruise ships and the whole city was lovely and quiet - we got lucky with clear weather, it was cold but nothing a...

the only J reward flights i've ever booked have been ~11 months out as i figured i wanted them locked in well in advance, i have seen that they sometimes just appear a couple of months out but unfortunately i really want them locked in before that point. might lock those flights in via SIN...

has anyone had a positive experience trying to book reward J on UA from Aus? i've been peering through the schedules quite a bit recently from MEL-LAX and there seems to be plenty of economy reward tickets but not a single business reward. have just looked at the UA site and there seems to be...

I had VA reward seats booked on SQ flights in July, i got all my points refunded a week or so ago, so i can confirm the refunds are happening. there was a few weeks though where I could see the flights were cancelled but no refund in sight, i'd even called up to ask about it but was told that...

i know right, amateurs! :D 8 years with this company and I've still managed to avoid getting a corporate card... the same people who think i'm crazy for wanting to use my own amex for business purposes are the same people who freak out and go "how can you possibly afford that!?" when i tell...

I have a similar contact in MEL called Maddy (0433 532 937) - very similar story to Jimmy, he owns 2 (maybe 3 now?) cars and if his team are busy then they'll refer it onwards to someone else from the same group. there's actually a whatsapp group with about 80 silver service members in it and...

i did the maths on that and was going to come up short unfortunately, lost just a little too much in the transfer but otherwise yeah I agree that the KF booking system seemed a heap better for availability and options and ease of use. i think i had ~670k in total, flights booked via VA direct...

i suspect whatever they use as a search engine internally actually displays the SQ numbers as well as the VA numbers which is how they seem to be able to book things that us mere mortals can't. you might find that the ones on the krisflyer site actually show up on the VA site if you search for...

Hi all, thought I'd post a bunch of info while it's fresh in my mind, I'm a new member here but feel like I've been around for years and hopefully it's helpful info to someone in my position who's looking for confirmation that you can infact book reward flights from AU to EU~! (excuse the lack...

i did my first 'status run' this year to get some sectors to keep VA gold which my wife & i turned into a weekend on the goldcoast to catch up with some friends, i'm not sure i could stomach flying "there & back" just to collect the points though. FWIW, my status came a few years ago thanks to a...

Through Velocity sorry, I've got enough points to book at what the values should be through the VA website (eg: 155k per person per direction) but not enough to transfer to Krisflyer then buy through the SG website. i can find MEL-MUC one-way easily enough but every search i've tried for...

I'm playing the same waiting game right now, was hoping to find this information - thanks! i seem to have no problems finding MEL-MUC but MUC-MEL with SG just doesn't seem to exist on it's own,. ill give the CC a shot once the dates open up :)

this is hopefully our first trip where it's not a maximum of 4 nights in 1 spot at a time so looking to set up more of a 'home base' for a week at a time in a few different spots and avoid too much transit (potentially we will both be working remotely 3-4 hours each day) we should be there this...

thanks for the recommendations, currently in the early stages of planning a trip to Lisbon next year, hoping to finally cash in my stash of VA points and spend a month in Europe. i was looking at 7 or 8 nights in Lisbon, would anyone recommend splitting that up and staying somewhere else like...