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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    I can't say from my personal experience as I have only been to Hilton Sydney as either Blue or Diamond member But when I was there recently as a Diamond member and had a gold member in front I think they were offered an upgrade fee to have full cooked breakfast otherwise it would be just the...
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    Virgin Australia Delays/Cancellations

    Am onboard VA559 Scheduled 1315 Syd per service Originally flight time advised as 4hr 50m but about 1330 advised by captain “technical glitch” discovered means a new flight plane required to be filed. About 1400 advised by captain still waiting on fuel truck to top us up with more fuel for...
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Stayed: 21 May to 23 May Property: Hilton Sydney Status: Diamond Room Booked: Superior King Rate : $261.26 Member travel and save Received: Executive Room Coffee Tax: $5 After my first stay in >10 years the previous weekend, coming back for a second weekend in a row I already had front desk and...
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Stayed: Sunday night 15/5 Property: Hilton Sydney Status: Diamond Room Booked: Corner King Rate : $268.86 Member travel and save Received: City Suite (I think this is 5 categories up on what I had booked) Coffee Tax: $5 First time at this property in over 10 years. Last time I was Honors...
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    Enhanced GHA DISCOVERY program, coming early Dec 2021

    I got D$50 as well. When I saw the promo that there were going to be 20,111 winners across the four prize value denominations I was pretty confident I would get a prize. I did make a quite cheap booking in January at Pan Pacific Perth - but it didn't register as a stay in my account and the...
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    Priority Screening

    Yep - all signage relating to the former priority has been removed at T1D. Whilst there is still the glass wall separating the former priority lane There are now 4 security checkpoints, 3 are the new 3D next generation where you leave everything inside your bags. Upon passing through Friday...
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Property: Parmelia Hilton Perth Status: Diamond Room booked: Queen Guest Room Rate: $165 Honors Travel and Save Received: King Executive before arrival but at reception check-in change to Queen Deluxe Date: 13/2/22 - 15/2/22 Just posting this back-dated stay. I keep forgetting about this...
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Property: Hilton Adelaide Status: Diamond Room booked: Queen Guest Room Rate: $227.05 Honors Travel and Save Received: King Executive Date: 23/4/22 (1 night) Room upgrade visible for digital check-in on the morning of arrival. Got ping ~9am that my room was ready so ended up arriving at 10am...
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    How do Hilton treat you as an Elite?

    Property: Parmelia Hilton Perth Status: Diamond Room booked: Queen Hilton Guest Room Rate: $160.54 Honors Travel and Save Received: King Executive This was for check-in on Easter Monday booked a few months ago before any certainty of border reopening. Previously they have only had the...
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    Priority Screening

    ADL premium lane is still missing and back to the old days of being the crew only lane (from being there 2 weeks ago) PER lanes have had a bit of a reconfiguration and appears premium lane missing now also. (from being there about 6 weeks ago) - I will have a better look again when I am back...
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    Will Virgin's Premium Lounge Entries open back up at some point?

    I was travelling with my laptop, iPad and a portable usb-c monitor (which looks like an oversized tablet) - despite my temptation to leave the portable monitor in my bag to see what happened and then say to security "my laptop and iPad are already out my bag - do you need monitors taken out as...
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    Article: Virgin Business Class Better Value than Qantas in 2022?

    I just did a random date and found PER-TSV (via SYD) on Sept 7 for $697.80 - exactly the same price as a flex!
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    Article: Virgin Business Class Better Value than Qantas in 2022?

    Can Confirm the Cairns <> Perth J for $409 is not a joke. Has been that low for quite some time. I booked during last years DSC promo for travel in October 2021 but ended up postponing to June 2022. Just in the last few weeks the direct flight had been axed through to end of June so I now...
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    Virgin adds/increases Cairns, Darwin, Townsville routes.

    Just had my PER-CNS-PER in June changed to PER-BNE-CNS-BNE-PER Not too phased - I'm booked in J in the DSC promo! ExpertFlyer shows just a Monday and Wednesday service from 27th June - be interesting to see if that ever gets off the ground or also withdrawn.
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    Platinum upgrades on Choice and Elevate Fares - now to June 2022

    I've had a lot of Choice fare bookings up to 30th April with the flexible flying policy that ends on that date. After April I only have a couple of J fares which have full refund flexibility, as Choice fares go back to $80 fees for change/cancel.
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    Further Status Extension to 28 Feb 2023

    Has anyone else noticed that any Platinum business upgrades due to expire on 1st April 2022 have now been wiped at the same time as the 4 new ones credited for expiry 1st March 2023?
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    Booked Ret Business but return flight changed to Fokker 100 (no Business)

    if you check back closer to travel you may end up finding equipment changes again in the future so might have the option to get back to a 737 again in the future.
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    Enhanced GHA DISCOVERY program, coming early Dec 2021

    I was a black member and had 4 black rewards so have been bumped across to Titanium now as well till 12/22 with $800 discovery dollars. I had previously used platinum local experiences for chauffeur transfers Pan Pacific Beijing and used black for a gourmet picnic hamper Pan Pacific Perth and...
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    How to book Velocity Amex free flight?

    Compflight.virginaustralia.com Portal is showing search results again but says it's a GO FARE without baggage at the confirmation page. GO fares are long GONE Called the VA direct 1300 number again from previous post. Explained the issue said I was happy to press the book button and give it...
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    How to book Velocity Amex free flight?

    I just tried looking on compflight.virginaustralia.com too and no results anywhere. Checking the T&Cs https://www.americanexpress.com/content/dam/amex/au/pdfs/credit-cards/pds_velocityplatinum.pdf 7. Each flight must be a non-stop Virgin Australia operated flight, booked in Economy fare...
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