Award Availability is a popular topic at the Australian Frequent Flyer. The ongoing challenge is to find an award ticket on the flight you want and when you want it.
Our overview shows the most useful websites, tools and apps for frequent flyers in 2025, including Flighty, Seats.aero, AeroLOPA and more.
Velocity Frequent Flyer applies "carrier charges" when redeeming points for Reward Seats on airlines including Virgin Australia, Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways. We've put together a full list of the amounts.
In episode 6 of the Travel Pointers podcast, Matt Graham and new co-host Wilson McTaggart discuss the recent changes announced to Qantas Frequent Flyer and their experiences flying with Qatar Airways, including the unique ways they each booked their tickets.
Qantas Frequent Flyer has an availability problem. The recent program changes including Classic Reward price hikes, the introduction of Classic Plus and expanded partner airline rewards try to fix this. But they might not be enough.
You can now redeem Velocity points to book Virgin Australia flights to and from Doha, and there are up to 4 Business Reward Seats available per flight.
Qantas is relaunching non-stop seasonal flights from Sydney to Sapporo in 2025, just in time for the Christmas holidays and Japanese ski season.
Qantas Frequent Flyer has expanded Classic Plus Rewards onto domestic routes, after launching them on international flights earlier this year.
Virgin Australia has fixed a bug that resulted in many non-stop United Airlines flights being unavailable to book with Velocity Points.
Virgin Australia flyers can redeem Velocity Frequent Flyer points on United Airlines, but there's no reward seat availability on any non-stop trans-Atlantic route.
Fiji Airways is launching flights to its sixth Australian city, with direct flights between Nadi and Cairns commencing on 10 April 2025.
Qantas award flights are once again available to book on the Alaska Airlines website after mysteriously disappearing three weeks ago.
Not a single Qantas reward seat has been available to book through Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan for more than two weeks.