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For anyone interested, LATAM is matching both QF and VA elites in AU, up to Black status. https://latam.statusmatch.com

Did you all bookmark my post from 9 months ago? https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/131298-flight-row-fuels-qatar-airways-virgin-australia-rumours What repercussions might transpire in AUS after QR was denied access to increase available seats?

Pre-dinner drinks here from 6pm: Gravy Baby Changkat · 27, Changkat Bukit Bintang, Bukit Bintang, 50200 Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Then we'll walk up to jalan alor st around 7pm-7:30pm Best to meet at the first location as it's easier to locate everyone.

For those in KL on Saturday night. KL dinner/drinks - June 10th, from ~7pm: Vote for which option you prefer (A or B), and we'll go with group consensus: Proposing two options for the fly-ins, either: A) Jalan Alor street (cheap/hawker style/local food) B) Changkat Bukit Bintang...

The big problem with Qantas is their benchmark of success is Virgin. Nobody is pushing them to be better. Outside of Australia, Qantas is a nothing-burger brand. Internationally, nobody gives two hoots about QF, and travellers definitely wouldn't pay any kind of premium to fly them. I think...

Hyatt House, MK?

Is anyone hanging out in KL the day prior?

Because there are more inactive/non-Plat qualifiers who have LTG, than there are LTG who qualify for Plat. It's a numbers game. There is more upside in QF making the change than in not (plus there's a nice media tone to adding legit new features). The adverse selection group is now smaller...

I wouldn't call getting a status credit headstart each year a perk. It should be there, but QF decided not to do it (to be fair - they probably didn't consider it at the time as nobody in the loyalty team would have personally had the experience of being lifetime status, and there were very few...

^^ This is the only logic that holds any weight from Qantas's perspective of not wanting to change it. That, perhaps there are large numbers of folks who are lifetime gold/plat who continue to spend and fly, and the airline wouldn't want to jeopardize the spending of these folks. This might...

Over the two decades or so that I've been on frequent flyer forums, the topic of lifetime status regularly pops up. Aside from lifetime Platinum, Qantas's lifetime status offering has never changed. This is despite the airline growing, shrinking, changing routes, making loads of changes to the...

Elite status drives the endowment effect in our minds. It's a proven behavioural economical psychology effect. Here's a new interesting article how status (matches) drive at least 1 person insane (in a good way) Done Right, Airline Elite Status Makes People Insane Both Qantas and Virgin's...

Malaysia Airlines is not obligated to have a fully-functional search feature for all oneworld airlines because of their small size. As such, you'll find that searching for award flights using their website on partners doesn't show much and you need to call. To find availability on oneworld...

Here I am advocating for swinging points to Enrich for better availability... Yesterday I was searching for any award space to get into SYD next week and found that Malaysia Airlines is giving more award inventory to Qantas than their own Enrich members. Same day. Same flight.

Another option is to move a few Amex points into Enrich and book using those miles. Unlimited availability in all fare classes, whereas QF will only have access to X/U. ASEAN flights using Enrich miles can be worth it even with dynamic redemption as the rate is not static like other airlines.

It was under $4000 a few months back

It's all ex-TAP folks running Etihad now. Don't expect things to get better....

Why are all EK's latest partners in Star Alliance? Weird huh!

How long til MH and CX move to Avios? Qatar Government owns 9.99% of Cathay Pacific (increased since 2017) https://www.qatarairways.com/en/press-releases/2017/nov/qatar-airways-announces-its-acquisition-of-9-61--of-cathay-pacif.html Malaysia Airlines and Qatar announce highly strategic...

The value in VA is Velocity. Velocity -> move to -> Avios -> The increase in valuation of IAG Loyalty by having Avios in Australia may be enough to fund the transaction to purchase the airline. Side benefit of hurting Virgin Red's plan to have a global Virgin currency, which helps IAG (who...