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By booking flights as part of a Virgin Australia Holidays package, you'll earn Velocity status credits based on the class and distance flown - potentially netting you a much higher return.
Jetstar flyers can now earn more Qantas Points and bonus status credits with a Qantas Frequent Flyer Extra subscription, costing $199 per year (in addition to the cost of a Club Jetstar membership).
In episode 22 of the Travel Pointers podcast, Matt Graham and Wilson McTaggart discuss the upcoming changes to American Express Membership Rewards.
Airlines including Qantas and Air New Zealand offer discounted compassionate or bereavement airfares for people who need to travel urgently due to a family member's medical emergency or funeral. But the savings might not be worth it.
To give you an idea of the value of frequent flyer points, here's what you could do with different amounts of Qantas Frequent Flyer points, Virgin Australia Velocity points and Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer miles.
AFF Platinum members can now access new benefits including a complimentary year of LoungePair+ membership, which comes with a free airport lounge pass.
Despite many anecdotal reports, the real-world data tells us that Australians are still flying to the USA. In fact, Australia-USA passenger numbers are up 4% compared to 2024. But that doesn't tell the whole story, and there's one particularly surprising trend.
With Qantas Wine's excellent weekly bonus points deals, you could earn many thousands of Qantas Points by buying a case of quality wine.
Qantas will open a temporary international Business Lounge at Sydney Airport in a former crew briefing room on 8 December 2025, as it finally starts work on the major lounge refurbishment it first announced in 2018.
If you have Citi reward Points earned on an Australian credit card, you'll only be able to transfer them to an international frequent flyer program until 16 November 2025. Citi is removing transfers to Qatar, Cathay, Etihad and Singapore Airlines.
Qantas' current policy for compensating passengers downgraded on Classic Reward bookings is unreasonably poor. The airline finally doing something to fix this.
SeatGuru, once the go-to resource for finding airline seat maps, is officially dead. AeroLOPA is a much better replacement, with highly accurate and up-to-date seat maps for many airlines.