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  1. billmurray

    Booking a flight for an unborn baby

    To bump this thread again, we are looking to book with Signapore via Virgin for SYD - SIN - FRA. Has anyone had experience with Singapore about adding an infant on after the booking? Looking to book with trip this week with new bub expected in ~8wks time.
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    Advice for Italy/Switzerland Trip - destinations and reward bookings (3 adults)

    Hi All, Wanting to tap into the collective hive mind for any general tips and advice for a trip we are aiming to book for around mid/end September (NSW school holidays) to October. Trip Ideas Passengers; 4 adutls, 1 child, 1 infant. However, we will be split into two groups when...
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    Does anyone have any idea what QF780 is doing tonight?

    It seems the aircraft got even further in QLD before turning around. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/qf780#34013057 Original arrival of 11:55pm was instead 2:08am... Also interesting altiude change to 41,000ft as soon as they hit NSW?
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    Does anyone have any idea what QF780 is doing tonight?

    It's the only logical explanation.
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    Last Minute Sydney->LAX Upgrade + Noob Questions

    You didn't buy a toaster or something with those points did you...?
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    New Offer 30k Points or 200 status credits with CC Sign-Up

    Its been reported on OzB that Virgin doesnt specifiy the 12months in their T&Cs, and others have recieved the bonus point after only closing their Virgin CC and only waiting 3 or 6 months before applying again for the promo.
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    New Offer 30k Points or 200 status credits with CC Sign-Up

    Does anyone know if you can use this offer multiple times? I should be able to hit the spend criteria by end of this month for the first card that ive been approved for. This then then gives me another month to apply for an additional card before the promo ends.
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    Booking more than two reward seats with Qatar

    Im looking to redeem 3 seats in J, not fussed departure port, SYD, MEL or BNE (avoiding SYD cause of the old product on the A380) to DOH, and then redeem onwards to get us into Europe somewhere. Ive played around on Virgin to book 2x seats and availability does come up to DOH. Im planning to...
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    New Offer 30k Points or 200 status credits with CC Sign-Up

    Posted over in OzB. I applied for the Westpac Altitude Platinum Card - took five minutes for the application and approved straightaway. They then sent an information pack via email and I could set up a digital card on my phone immediately, whilst waiting for the physical card to arrive in...
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    Velocity 20% bonus points on transfers offer - November 2023 to January 2024

    My bonus points just landed too, I didn't receive a single acknowledgement or auto generated email from virgin the entire campaign. Manually transfer from 1x ST GEORGE and 2x AMEX
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    Velocity 20% bonus points on transfers offer - November 2023 to January 2024

    I manually made 3 transfers during the promo period, 1 from ST GEORGE (~600k points) and 2 from AMEX (2000 points). No email confimration or anything like some others have received above. They do have until Feb i believe to issue the bonus points?
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    I'm travelling from SYD - SIN - KIX departing on 24th Jan. I land 12am in SIN and then depart 2pm that same day. I have a mate in Singapore that i intend to stay at his that morning, and then get up at like 7/8am and do a quick tour around Singapore. What would the process be to leave and come...
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    who takes out travel insurance for trans Tasman or domestic travel

    I've never even considered taking out TI for domestic trips. All my expenses are through various credits cards which in turn offer their own form of insurance anyway.
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    Velocity 20% bonus points on transfers offer - November 2023 to January 2024

    I think the consensus is that an auto or manual transfer of points for the three consecutive months means you'll only receive the bonus points in February
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    Velocity 20% bonus points on transfers offer - November 2023 to January 2024

    This is interesting, ive been holding onto the St George Amplify after the devaluation and sitting on a number of points (the birthday10% bonus landed recently) - so now i want to close it ASAP. Enabling auto-transfer is the quickest way to transfer the entire balance for the 20% immediately to...
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    Velocity Hawaiian Airlines Redemption

    Im trying to redeem flights around the x-mas break using VFF points. Using the AA website, there are no direct flights with H.A departing SYD or BNE around 20-24th December. There are quite a few QANTAS codeshare/operated though. I was able to find a HA flight dept AKL which is an option, but...
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    Velocity Double Status Credits July/August 2023

    I need 175 SC to obtain Platinum. Ive never done a status run so pending the cost, im considering if its worth it. Anyony have a suggestion for the cheapest status run to hit this? Dept from SYD
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    St George Rewards Signature KrisFlyer Devaluation

    With the STG & AMEX changes, it seems i will have to pivot away from SQ, and towards VA/QR/BA. Im thinking i will retain my AMEX Explorer for the future 2:1 AVIOS transfer, with the focus on booking all internation flights with QA (only once or twice a year). My new VISA card would be the...
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