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https://www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorized/man-panic-spends-velocity-points-on-fancy-juicer-amid-virgin-flight-suspension-chaos/

Ahhh dammit they were dated 31/3 and I set up pooling to my wife last week so they have gone to my account not hers :(

Same. Nothing yet and I had 10 coming my way. Well, with the reasonable likelihood of Virgin and Velocity vanishing by August, status will be irrelevant.

Maybe unrelated but I noticed no Coles-earned SCs have yet hit my VFF account for March, whereas my Feb ones arrived on Mar 1. Not that it matters if Virgin folds, but combined with the stop on KF transfers and gift card redemptions, is this a bad sign?

I'm signing, but also saw NSW Premier say that travel restrictions and social distancing may be required to be in force till the vaccine is distributed... which could be over a year away 😦

Yeah, more and more likely that by August we may be holding worthless membership cards for a non-existent airline.

Not charter flights. See attachment, commerically available to book on VA website. https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/coronavirus-australia-qantas-and-virgin-australia-add-flights-for-stranded-aussies/news-story/8d16f2c5a3419425dafaf9097d033ecb Stranded Australians will be able to...

Flights to LA, Hong Kong, Auckland are back on with government assistance to get more people home. https://www.smh.com.au/national/mercy-flights-thousands-of-stranded-australians-to-fly-home-20200403-p54gy4.html

No, transferred all points to KF and redeemed through them, and have an SQ-issued ticket. The flights weren't available through VFF redemption.

Yeah I used up all my points to book a dream trip to Iceland on SQ in Sept... only 50% confident it'll happen though :( But all that Status etc, gorne. 1585525156 Because for most people, they had status, FF points, etc, and then within a couple of weeks (it seemed), the airline was gone and...

I'm already planning for Ansett Part II and all my Velocity status/perks/points/etc to be worthless by the new financial year, back to generic middle-seat economy queuing and flying.

I cashed in every VFF point I had to KF back in Oct, and got us a trip to Iceland in SQ J at the end of this Sept. This is a big deal to us. My understanding is that if Covid19 prevents this trip from happening, we can reschedule the trip (maybe to early 2021) or have the KF points re-credited...

I don't think status is that important right now. After all, in the next 6-9 months: - Virgin could cease to exist - Your business and/or your job could cease to exist - Travel as we knew it last year may not exist again till mid-late 2021 - 50 other situations that you can't imagine right now...

Am I the only one remembering the days of leased vehicles doing hours of laps of Canberra to nudge their km up over 15,000 for the year to get the FBT break? Seems crazy.

Same for early July... Tas have closed borders today, so hoping this blows over by June.

Not neccessarily, many Aus call centres have had remote access for years where agents can log in from home or other places and take calls and access systems work seamlessly. Most 3rd world centres can't do this. Mind you neither can some Aussie places thanks to the clusterfuck of an NBN we...

Sending call centres offshore to save money has really worked out well, huh?

SYD tonight was slow cooked beef brisket on soft white rolls.... really good!

Ahhhhhhhh brilliant, that's what I wanted to know. Thankyou! I have measured my bag and its within the carryon size/weight limits on the VA website.

It's an ATR both ways SYD-TMW I'm not buying new luggage for this. I'm hoping that the fact that I travel in uniform may mean that I'm not treated like cough after the recent emergencies.