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    Virgin Money Flyer 60,000/High Flyer 120,000, $129 flight voucher, annual fee $64/289

    Just reached end of Month 1, not sure if it it calendar month or from date of joining because they are fairly similar dates. The 40,000k has already been transferred to my velocity account as well as the points i earnt on spend. i am now just waiting on the statement to see which of my...
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    Virgin Money Flyer 60,000/High Flyer 120,000, $129 flight voucher, annual fee $64/289

    Yep that is the sort of stuff i was after.. good to know the Westfield Eftpos cards work. I have spent over the 3k this month in eligible spend so i threw in a few curveballs to test it out -Red Energy -a friend sending a request for money via paypal - Plan on give it a go purchasing a preloaded...
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    Virgin Money Flyer 60,000/High Flyer 120,000, $129 flight voucher, annual fee $64/289

    Great effort earning points on every transaction! Would you mind sharing some of the places you spent in which you thought maybe they were not eligible or are listed as not eligible but they ended up earning points? e.g Any utility bills, phone bills, private health cover, school fees, foxtel...
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    Virgin Money Flyer 60,000/High Flyer 120,000, $129 flight voucher, annual fee $64/289

    Applied on the 28th, finally received card today, let the spending begin, and time to test various spending methods to see if they count in the first month, at least then for month 2/3 i know what to keep using it on or not
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    VA Partner Updates (July 10th 2017)

    the addition of being able to redeem award flights on Singapore Airlines Prem Economy could potentially be great news depending the difference in points needed to redeem though VA vs SIA Kind of answered my own question Melbourne to Singapore VA : 50,500 + applicable taxes SIA : 45,000 KF/...
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    can anyone confirm what the meal service would be on the MEL >PER 9.15am departure? would it be the breakfast menu? or the lunch menu?
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    MEL > PER business upgrade leg preference

    Thanks for the tips everyone, i think ill stick to the MEL > PER leg, she will have lounge access already for the return leg so plenty of time to relax and she is already in economy x . @Denali, yes agree if the plane was changed then that would be pretty disappointing, hopefully that doesnt...
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    MEL > PER business upgrade leg preference

    Hi all, wife is off for a work trip to Perth and was thinking of surprising her and taking a chance by making an upgrademe bid upto business class. quick question though, if you had a choice of going business , would you upgrade the 9.30am MEL > PER flight or the return red-eye flight? I...
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    ANZ Rewards Travel Adventure now 60,000 velocity points; 1 domestic return flights

    Re: ANZ Rewards Travel Adventure now 60,000 velocity points; 1 domestic return flight I called the number in the email which was the rewards number I think. They then put me through to banking solutions or soemthing along those lines where they treated it as a customer complaint so they could...
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    ANZ Rewards Travel Adventure now 60,000 velocity points; 1 domestic return flights

    Re: ANZ Rewards Travel Adventure now 60,000 velocity points; 1 domestic return flight My 60k finally posted. I got the same email as nickomac above and had to call up to get the number added. They posted a week after i called.
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    NAB Velocity Rewards Premium (75,000 Velocity points $150 annual fee/$1500 spend)

    For those that are interested, i called to close this card after having it 11 months after just recently signing up to the ANZ Adventure card. They first offered to waive the annual fee for another year, after i declined and thanked them for the offer they then offered to waive the annual fee...
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Good points, maybe ill give it ago a lot closer to the date. from the discussions being had in the thread i got the impression when they called up, they pretty much pushed it through
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    SQ Tips, Trips and Tales

    Since booking 2 x Suites earlier in the year, i have tried this method for our SIN > MEL SQ 217 early October without any response from SIA. The flight has 1 reward seat available but obviously need 2. any other tips to see if they can push through the WL for the extra seat? Each time i call...
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    Join Velocity Frequent Flyer for 1k Bonus Points

    Might as well join the party and share my link First 20 new members to join and earn 40 velocity points by April 30 via the link will earn 1,000 velocity points, I will also be awarded with 1,000 points...
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    New Velocity Cards

    Platinum Status, Submitted a request for new card online and received the new version of the card today. Not a big deal but didn't realise as someone else has mentioned that you can call up for new luggage tags also. Might attempt that at some stage
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    Booking direct with Air NZ

    Assuming since your gold you already know about eligible sectors and SC points You will earn Status Points, however booking direct through Air NZ will not get you Eligible Sectors towards status if that makes sense. i.e You need to fly 8 eligible sectors to reach platinum from gold + 800 SC...
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    Reward Flight - route and date changes - help/advice

    Hi all, So its our 10 year wedding anniversary next year and we got lucky and was able to book Suites A380, London to Melbourne next September with a stopover in Singapore. All was going according to plan until the FIA decided in their wisdom to adjust the date for the Formula 1 race there and...
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    Etihad chauffeur

    Just wondering how early they pick up prior to flight time? We are flying out of Melbourne on a 22.10pm flight to LHR via ABU what time would they generally organise for pick up? Incidentally we are probably 45min drive to the airport.
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    HHonors Gold/Diamond for Velocity Gold/Plat

    Perfect, might as well hold off for a bit longer then. thanks for the info
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    HHonors Gold/Diamond for Velocity Gold/Plat

    Amazingly i have just triggered Platinum and was looking at joining HH. Reading the last 10 or so pages slightly confused at to the best time to join and get the extended period? If i join today the way i understood all the posts i would get the remainder of this year, all of next year, and up...
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