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    Virgin Australia introduces baggage tracking (selected routes)

    This was live last month. It was active for a flight I took from SYD-BNE (but not BNE-SYD the week before). What was interesting is that the VA app, live tracker, airport FIDS and FlightRadar24 all had different departure times for my delayed flight.
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    Credit Card Offers Refreshed Amex Velocity Platinum Card: 60,000 bonus Velocity Points (expires 21/1/25)

    I got an email from Amex about the changes 3 weeks ago. 1732832952 Effective 6 November, but you have to enrol for the VA lounge access, make a purchase and wait for your benefits to update.
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    Credit Card Offers Refreshed Amex Velocity Platinum Card: 60,000 bonus Velocity Points (expires 21/1/25)

    Visited the BNE lounge this morning with a guest. The lounge manager said she knew of the new Amex benefit but hadn’t seen anyone use it yet, and she wasn’t sure how to give me entry. But one of her colleagues knew, and they let me and my guest in (not sure if a guest pass was used or not, I...
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    Credit Card Offers Refreshed Amex Velocity Platinum Card: 60,000 bonus Velocity Points (expires 21/1/25)

    Enrolled for lounge access and made a purchase on Thursday, checked Velocity account today (Saturday) and it’s activated. Which is great as I’m flying tomorrow. I hope access is easy as the website says I just need to provide my VFF number but I need the Amex card for my guest. What’s the bet...
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    Qantas Launching MEL - HNL from May 2025

    JQ currently operate BNE-ICN 3x per week and SYD-ICN 4x per week, going to daily.
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    Platinum caught out with VA baggage ex CBR

    Bags can be a max of 32kg.
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    Qantas Launching MEL - HNL from May 2025

    Current A330's are allocated daily to SINx2, HKG and NRT and DEL 3x pw (but similar days to HNL). I'd say most likely an A332 coming from PER or SYD.
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    Qantas Launching MEL - HNL from May 2025

    Perhaps, JQ used to fly the route and they have been expanding in BNE. I thought this could be where the BNE-BKK aircraft is coming from but that will most likely be the MEL-BKK aircraft.
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    Virgin Australia to Reconfigure 737 Fleet - Spend $110M

    If a divider goes in there that legroom will be tight!
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    Jetstar Asia launches Broome to Singapore flights

    Is the Singapore government funding it?
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    QF New Zealand aircraft use

    They do. They also do AKL-SYD-AKL-JFK.
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    What is Virgin Australia's flagship route?

    According to "flightfrom.com" MEL has 17 VA routes and BNE has 25. SYD has 15.
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    Tokyo Haneda slot - how will Virgin Operate it?

    QR have some ex-VA aircraft that still have The Business.
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    Tokyo Haneda slot - how will Virgin Operate it?

    Gives them 7 months to find some widebodies to start BNE-HND.
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    Virgin Australia Business Class - Meals, Menus & Service

    This looks like the perfect breakfast to me, but did it not taste nice? 1721353804 Are those new, larger glasses or is it just the angle of the photo?
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    Jetstar launching Brisbane-Bangkok route

    That's disappointing.
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    Jetstar launching Brisbane-Bangkok route

    Just hope they keep PTV screens in both classes.
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    Up to 35,000 Velocity points for switching to AGL Energy

    Well 64 days post sign-up and two escalations later (one each with AGL and Velocity) my 20,000 points have been credited! I also received another "Welcome to AGL" email and then my bill from last month was sent through, so I'm guessing they did some kind of hard reset on my account to get the...
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    Plane headphone etiquette: Should you remove headphones whenever you interact with cabin crew?

    Interesting to hear the perspective of an FA on this topic, especially in J. I'd prefer/expect an FA to tap me on the shoulder or interrupt me and offer the water, wine or whatever. Otherwise I'd get off the flight wondering why I was ignored the whole time.
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    Article: Emirates fifth-freedom routes

    EK recently launched their newest Fifth Freedom route, MIA-BOG and before that it was SIN-PNH.
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