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    Cairns to Europe, 3 very different airlines.

    Narita to London Heathrow in upper class was 50000 points each (transferred from my AMEX account). The Virgin Atlantic lounge in Narita was nothing special. I think it was some american airlines lounge. (salted dry bikkies and soft drinks). London lounge made up for it, though.
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    Cairns to Europe, 3 very different airlines.

    Took the family to France recently flying Cairn to Tokyo Narita on Qantas, then Narita to London on Virgin Atlantic, then Ryanair to Marseille. Typical Qantas start, as I couldn’t get more than 2 reward seats in Business class, even after 3 months of trying on the net, so we decided to grab 1...
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    Points to cash - What are they trying to achieve?

    OOPS a mistake: Virgin website price is $16000.00 not the 32k. That takes the calculation from being completely, unbelievably ridiculous to just completely ridiculous
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    Points to cash - What are they trying to achieve?

    Recieved an offer from AMEX last year stating "And the good news is, you currently have 413,234 points, giving you the equivalent of $2644.70 to redeem for whatever reward you have in mind". As tempting as that offer was, I decided to book 2 Virgin Atlantic Sydney to London Rtn Upper class...
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    Virgin Atlantic 20% Bonus available again

    Hi Folks Ist post and also a thank you for the great site. If you are in Brisbane or Cairns you can use your Qantas points to get to Tokyo and fly to London from Tokyo on VA upper class. It seems to work out OK and there were plenty of seats on VA for redemption. I'm doing this in June for 3...
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