empiretraveller
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Hi Everyone,
I'm new to the Forum (well posting anyways) and had originally thought to place this in the Flight Assistance section but seems I can't until I've made a couple of posts and get a bit more active here. So instead of getting anyone to do all the leg work for me I'm just hoping I could have some general advice and assistance to help me do this myself.
On the 7th of April I want to head to Hangzhou from Brisbane or Sydney (I'm on the Sunshine Coast) with the Star Alliance network. Reason being is I have not built up any status yet on OneWorld. I'm Silver with Virgin and have lounge access and only 50 Status Credits from Gold. I have access to about 500k velocity points from my business that have built up in our Amex Gold Business card.
I can see that flights through the Virgin site are operated through Singapore Airlines.
My questions are:
I apologise that there is a lot here and if someone is willing to help it would be appreciated. I am also very willing to pay for time and assistance should I need more help.
I'm new to the Forum (well posting anyways) and had originally thought to place this in the Flight Assistance section but seems I can't until I've made a couple of posts and get a bit more active here. So instead of getting anyone to do all the leg work for me I'm just hoping I could have some general advice and assistance to help me do this myself.
On the 7th of April I want to head to Hangzhou from Brisbane or Sydney (I'm on the Sunshine Coast) with the Star Alliance network. Reason being is I have not built up any status yet on OneWorld. I'm Silver with Virgin and have lounge access and only 50 Status Credits from Gold. I have access to about 500k velocity points from my business that have built up in our Amex Gold Business card.
I can see that flights through the Virgin site are operated through Singapore Airlines.
My questions are:
- Seeing as I have built up most of my Virgin status with domestic flights, should I use this as an opportunity to start working on Qantas and just deal with economy for now? My review is up on May 15th and I just don't think I'll get Platinum this year. Maybe during the next 12 months as I'll now be doing a whole lot more international trips.
- Some of the flights are overnight and I have trouble sleeping on planes and would like to fly those times in business, can I book a premium or flexi flight and use my points for the upgrade as opposed to bidding as I'd like to guarantee being on business. I know I can book a flight and then use points to upgrade later but experience has shown me I can't always do that as there's no availability. Is there a way to know beforehand?
- If instead I connect my Velocity and Krisflyer accounts should I do the booking on Singapore Airlines and transfer over to them some points from Velocity and do an upgrade there?
I apologise that there is a lot here and if someone is willing to help it would be appreciated. I am also very willing to pay for time and assistance should I need more help.