An extensive partnership with Virgin Australia, including earning and redeeming Velocity points, means United Airlines is extremely useful to Australians looking to travel to and within the USA. As a member of the Star Alliance, you can also use United Mileage Plus points to travel on all Star Alliance airlines.
See below for articles exploring United Airlines and MileagePlus.
United Airlines has just dropped a lot of Business Class award availability on its routes from Australia and New Zealand to the United States. These Polaris Business seats are available to book as reward seats using Velocity points.
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United Airlines is massively increasing service to Australia and NZ with increased frequencies and three new routes starting from October 2023, including Brisbane-Los Angeles.
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At the start of 2020, Qantas was selling around 34,000 weekly seats between Australia and five destinations in the continental United States. It’s now operating just over 13,000 weekly seats
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If you’ve tried to use Qantas points or redeem Velocity points for Business Class seats to the United States lately, you’ve probably noticed that there isn’t much reward seat availability
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Buying United miles during a promotion can be a clever way to save money on future Star Alliance Business and First class flights, as the cost of the miles is
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