Virgin Australia will finally reinstate lounge access on arrival for Velocity Platinum and Gold members from next Monday, 25 April 2022. Before the pandemic, access to Virgin Australia Lounges after arriving at the destination was an advertised benefit for Velocity Platinum members and Business Class passengers. It was also offered, subject to availability, to Velocity … Continued
Virgin Australia has renewed its focus on attracting business travellers and high-spending corporate flyers with the launch of a new loyalty program for businesses and a new invitation-only “Beyond” status tier. Virgin Australia launches Business Flyer The new Virgin Australia Business Flyer program launched last week, replacing the previous Accelerate loyalty program for small-to-medium businesses. Existing … Continued
Update: In January 2023, Virgin Australia further extended the validity of Future Flight Credits and Travel Bank Credits issued on/before 31 July 2022 until 31 December 2023. These credits can now be redeemed until 31 December 2023, for travel up to the same date. Virgin Australia has extended the validity of many Travel Bank credits … Continued
Velocity Frequent Flyer members have multiple opportunities to earn status credits on the ground this month, with the frequent flyer program running numerous limited-time promotions simultaneously. Velocity status credits count towards your Virgin Australia status tier. They can generally only be earned by flying with Virgin Australia and its partner airlines, or by shopping at … Continued
Virgin Australia is discounting Velocity Reward Seats on all of its flights, with 30% off the Velocity points required when booking by 10am on 13 April 2022. This offer covers Virgin Australia Economy and Business Reward Seats booked using Velocity Frequent Flyer points, for travel between 1 May 2022 and 1 March 2023. You can … Continued
Prior to COVID-19, Virgin Australia offered lounge access for up to an hour after arrival at the destination airport to Business Class passengers and Velocity Platinum members. Arrivals lounge access was also offered, subject to availability, to Velocity Gold and Virgin Australia Lounge members. This simple but useful benefit allows frequent flyers and Business passengers … Continued
Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer members can finally redeem their points to book Singapore Airlines reward seats in Business Class again. From today, Velocity Frequent Flyer has restored access to Business Class redemptions on most Singapore Airlines routes, except to and from Hong Kong or mainland China. Velocity reward seats are available to book on … Continued
In early 2021, I wrote that Qantas in-flight catering was miles ahead of Virgin Australia. But Virgin Australia has massively improved its Business Class offering since then… while also slashing its Business airfares. At a basic level, Qantas and Virgin Australia now provide very similar domestic Business Class products. Both airlines have lounges, the Boeing 737 … Continued
New Zealand will reopen its border to Australian tourists next month, with quarantine-free travel from Australia resuming from 13 April 2022. Following this announcement, Qantas quickly announced an increase to services from Sydney to Auckland from the date of the border reopening. It will also resume daily Brisbane-Auckland, Melbourne-Auckland and Sydney-Christchurch flights from 13 April, … Continued
In 2020, Bain Capital purchased Virgin Australia out of voluntary administration after months of negotiations. The Boston-based US private equity firm now owns almost 95% of Virgin Australia, along with Richard Branson’s Virgin Group which owns around a 5% share. A small stake in the airline was also purchased by the Queensland government. Following the sale to … Continued
Virgin Australia will now give 45-100% more Velocity status credits on all flights taken from October 2021 until June 2022, following a 3-month extension to this promotion which was previously due to expire at the end of March. This offer is available to all Velocity Frequent Flyer members and will even be applied retrospectively to … Continued
Velocity Frequent Flyer members will soon be able to convert their points to Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles again, with Velocity CEO Nick Rohrlach promising to bring the option back within months. The ability to transfer points between the Velocity and KrisFlyer loyalty programs was a hugely popular program feature until it was suspended in April … Continued
