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    Qatar Airways status match to Virgin Australia

    Mine too! Happy days, now need borders to open!
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    Qatar Airways status match to Virgin Australia

    In my case, submitted 19 May afternoon (photo of card and pdf prints of velocity page and velocity transaction history), generic email 1 June (didn't ask for new docs), still waiting for anything further.
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    Qatar Airways status match to Virgin Australia

    I sent it on Tuesday, have received nothing back thus far.
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    Qatar Airways status match to Virgin Australia

    Does QF allow you to draw status benefits from another program while accruing points+SCs with QFF? e.g., could someone wanting to gain QF status use the QR match to immediately gain lounge access, better seat selections, etc.?
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/andrew-forrest-joins-20-bidders-circling-virgin-australia-20200430-p54omy.html 20 suitors.
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    Might be delivered by TNT, try the code there.
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    If RBA changes were enough for Amex to halve the value of their points, what might QFF do in response to COVID-19? You'd want to book some future travel at today's rates, surely...
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/the-virgin-brides-fee-fest-time-in-the-virgin-australia-showroom/
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/bidders-line-up-as-virgin-clears-the-debt-20200421-p54lv1.html
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    shop.velocityfrequentflyer.com now redirects to experience.velocityfrequentflyer.com
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-18/virgin-offered-$200m-coronavirus-lifeline-from-qld-government/12160946 ABC article mentions various conditions:
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/actu-says-government-faces-800m-bill-for-virgin-workers-20200417-p54kp8.html Hadn't seen this angle, govt apparently on the hook for quite a bit if it all falls through.
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    Tracking codes for products fulfilled by Harvey Norman appear to be trackable with TNT (at least mine was).
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    Is it Time to transfer/withdraw points from Velocity?

    Actually earlier this week there were 0 spirits left. This morning there was only one gin (Four Pillars), now that's gone and there's 3 others. So stock levels are not strictly decreasing, some items are being replenished.
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    Also an email from Velocity this morning: Not sure what that means in practice.
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    Refund of Points and TravelBank

    As an update to my situation, the aforementioned email was 21 March for HND flight in May, points returned 7 Apr, refund appeared on my amex maybe a day or so later (but dated 7 Apr too). For a separate domestic booking (a paid one) for which I requested a travel bank using the online form on...
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    Virgin stopped transfer of points to Krisflyer [resumed]

    Maybe alexy23 was saying 280k Velocity = ~180k Krisflyer (1.55 exchange rate) = not enough for a return to Europe.
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    Better stop posting the same thing over and over and over, we've all heard you every time anyone posts "SQ". Starting to look like a bot with that 3 minute turnaround.
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.michaelwest.com.au/virgin-australia-buy-the-business-dont-bail-out-the-shareholders/ Another take:
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    Virgin Australia Financially Secure? [Now in Voluntary Administration]

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-02/coronavirus-airline-bailout-virgin-qantas-failure/12110064 Another take (or rather various takes from various commentators). The US comparisons are interesting.
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