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Big changes coming to Virgin’s Singapore Airlines partnership
Nov 05, 2024, 01:38 PMThanks to Joe Aston's new book, the prospect of a Labour Government knocking back Qatar or the collaboration between QR and VA is very, very slim. VA Management could hardly be accused of bombarding any substantive changes over the last 2 years. Virgin's biggest risk isn't the ACCC or...
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Big changes coming to Virgin’s Singapore Airlines partnership
Nov 05, 2024, 01:17 PM" Velocity enjoys preferred access to business class awards on SQ . . . "Honestly bcworld, whilst not for one minute wishing to appear argumentative with you, that has not been my experience thus far. Notwithstanding the 'exchange rate' variance when converting VFF points into KrisFlyer Mil...
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Qatar Airways targets more Australian flights by June 2025
Nov 04, 2024, 09:53 AMWhilst obviously this alliance is still a W-I-P until the ACCC gives its blessing and splashes the 'Holy Water' on the deal, one of the first things I'll need to see is exactly how a hitherto loyal VFF member with, say, a million VFF points, can secure reward flight seats on QR with minimal fuss ...
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UK lifts business class APD ‘flight tax’ to $500
Nov 01, 2024, 11:32 AMSo the APD from LHR to IST will be GBP 28.00 but from LHR to DOH it will be GBP 216.00. Interesting.
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Qatar Airways targets more Australian flights by June 2025
Oct 31, 2024, 08:06 AMAs long as the QR A350 has a bar, I'm fine with that.
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Exit row eligibility
Aug 27, 2024, 06:09 PMOriginally Posted by Caversham04 I have recently flown ADL-PER-ADL and on both flights, the same elderly gentleman was in the exit row seats. He was highly obese and very slow-moving (almost shuffling along; pretty much everyone overtook him easily on the aerobridge and he leant on most of the ro...
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Virgin Community - Focus Group Invitation
Aug 26, 2024, 11:12 AMJust received my first invitation by Virgin to attend an in-person focus group meeting next month. Sadly, I'm unable to attend - and there's nothing I can do to avoid that conflict as I'll be overseas that week. But I felt that Virgin deserves a bit of a 'shout out', credit or recognition here ...
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Earliest Check in - Sydney international for QF11 (A380)
Aug 08, 2024, 09:15 AMOriginally Posted by LoveToFly Originally Posted by Serg If you connected from Melbourne then go to First Class check-in lounge in Melbourne and check MEL-SYD as well as SYD-LAX. So you will have your boarding pass on hands and can go inside as soon as you transferred from domestic to internation...
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Does VA take its most frequent fliers for granted?
Jul 04, 2024, 12:47 PMOriginally Posted by Benmccartney This airline has gone to absolute hell. The crazy thing is there no news articles talking about this. Platinum barely means anything anymore. Especially when it comes to customer service. Velocity redemption is a disgrace. Especially if you want to book business ...
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Velocity Rewards - Time to Make Some Changes
Apr 22, 2024, 01:42 PMVery good idea, and not at all hard to do. C'mon VA, get it done!