redeem points

I have found an answer to this question on the internet, but from a few years ago so would like to know if it's still the case. The partner airline would be Air Canada, Sydney to Vancouver. Using my Velocity points. Partner and her two children. I have to ask rather than try to book, as I...

Hi All, Hope you can help me out here. TLDR: Can I reserve seats after booking a Velocity redemption flight with Etihad to UK? If so, how? Partner & I are intending to travel to the UK this July. I only have enough velocity points to book one of us via Velocity, the other will be booked...

Last month I took a punt on a quick trip to Bali for Easter assuming Indonesia's quarantine requirements would have eased by then. Appears non-quarantine entry will be available soon, good news. Same day I received a Qantas email advising they had cancelled my booking. I assumed JQ had canned...

Reportedly the last day before Bonvoy switches to Dynamic Pricing for hotel redemptions. I personally don't think the 'enhancement' is going to be particularly bad but just in case, I just booked our 2023 holiday hotel in Langkawi for next year. It will be interesting to see what redemptions...

Qantas has released seats on an A330 Points Plane from Sydney to Perth departing at 22:15 next Wednesday (2 March). It arrives in Perth at 00:05 on Thursday 3 March, the day of WA's border reopening. Fares are high but every seat is available to book using Qantas points as a Classic Flight...

Have been looking to book LHR-MAN flights so that I can take brother on Man City stadium tour during future trip. Tried to book Avios flight but kept erroring out when went to pay taxes. Called BA last night who said system down and try later However tried this morning, tried to pay with PayPal...

A very specific question, I know, but you folk are so smart and we'll informed. I'm looking at flights from Sydney to Vancouver on Air Canada using Virgin points. If buying from Air Canada, a child ticket seems to be 75% of the cost of an adult. Is there a difference when using Virgin points...

Qantas is very explicit in saying that higher tier status gets priority when it comes to redemption bookings. As far as I can find, SIA doesn't exactly specify this for their Elite Silver or Gold tiers. Does anyone know for sure? It's redemption waitlists I am talking about, not regular cash...

I am looking to book a multi-city trip with Qantas in July 2022. Itinerary will be 1. Melbourne to Larnaca (Emirates codeshare via Dubai) 2. Larnaca to London (BA to Gatwick) 3. London to Melbourne (Qantas via Singapore) Found the flights at a price I am happy with on Qantas website around...

Hi All, I’m flying to Maldives from Sydney in March. I redeemed points for the flight from Sydney to Singapore, and made a separate redemption booking for the flight from Singapore to Maldives. The flight arrives in a Singapore at 2.15pm and the flight to Male leave Singapore the next day. I...

Has anyone noticed that the taxes & carrier charges on Qantas domestic award bookings are increasing from 1 January 2022 by around $7 per flight? There doesn't seem to be any change to the Qantas-imposed carrier charge. Rather, Qantas is adding a $6.50 "Safety and Security Charge" to all...

Does anyone know if Emirates allows one-way Saver Classic Reward bookings when redeeming Skywards miles for an EK flight in economy or business class? I can't see any specific reference to this in the Skywards T&Cs, the mileage calculator seems to indicate that this is possible, and there is no...

Hi. So, you can probably guess from my question that I'm a newbie. Love reading but sadly not so agile. I'm travelling J on SIA redemption booking. No status with Star Alliance but am Platinum with Velocity. I've attached my Velocity platinum number to the SIA booking. Is my baggage allowance...

I cannot seem to see any redemption of QFF on UL. I have a confirmed ticket that I booked early Nov for travel in Dec 21, and I could see UL redemption then, but QFF is just not listing any UL flights even from CMB. Does anyone know whats happening??

I have a saver J booking ,booked online, for PER to LHR for July 22. Using manage my booking I can find an available date in August 22 and can complete the change up to the very last bit where I accept the conditions, then I get the error "cannot process your request right now. Get in touch...

The OMAAT blog has posted that LifeMiles now has distance-based award charts for awards within Canada or between Canada and the United States. Apparently other award pricing is unaffected and Ben seems to think it's actually a good change...

Velocity international award redemption. Huge anticlimax!!! No business or first class redemptions available on Delta or Hawaiian from USA to Hawaii

It looks like Velocity has made some changes to Etihad carrier charges during the "break". These used to be USD50 per sector in Economy, USD215 per sector in Business or USD300 per sector in First. The charges are now variable based on the distance of the flight: Unfortunately, for the...

Good afternoon all, My parents have enough points to redeem to two tickets for us to go from Australia to Singapore - our family being two adults and two children. How then would you go about purchasing tickets 3 and 4 in cash? I'm assuming you can't buy 2 child tickets on their own as they...

Have been trying to get as good flights as possible for my wife's and my trip to god-daughter's wedding in England in December Had found Y+ through flights SYD-MEL-HKG-CDG on the QF site and bought these Today I found availability for Y+ MEL-HKG and J HKG-MXP. Not wanting to lose them I booked...