Velocity redemptions on Etihad - how far toward the US West Coast can you get?

[theevilmuppet]

Hi all,

It's fairly trivial to get from most cities in Australia to JFK on EY using Velocity points, however going further seems to be difficult.

Ideally I'd like to get to LAX or SFO, but it seems that this is either impossible on a single award fare or the Virgin search facility is a bit NQR - can anyone confirm which?

Thanks to all who reply!

 

[williamsf1]

Hi all,

It's fairly trivial to get from most cities in Australia to JFK on EY using Velocity points, however going further seems to be difficult.

Ideally I'd like to get to LAX or SFO, but it seems that this is either impossible on a single award fare or the Virgin search facility is a bit NQR - can anyone confirm which?

Thanks to all who reply!

The max milage is 15000 appears MEL AUH LAX is 15623 so would need to be 2 tickets

 

[theevilmuppet]

The max milage is 15000 appears MEL AUH LAX is 15623 so would need to be 2 tickets

True, however PER AUH LAX is 13763.