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Hi All, travelling with Vietnam Airlines MEL - SGN - HND in April. Carrier has cancelled the return leg from HND to SGN. Was departing 3:30pm, rebooked on 9:30am flight. Do we have any rights, due to the change we have to change our itinerary significantly. We were returning from Sendai via...

Hi All, Hope you can advise, it's been so long since I've flown that I've forgotten most of the tricks and tips I picked up from you lot! Partner and I are off to the UK in mid July. Booked MEL to LHR using velocity points for Etihad operated flights EY416 & EY19. Virgin issued ticket...

Hi All, Hope you can help me out here. TLDR: Can I reserve seats after booking a Velocity redemption flight with Etihad to UK? If so, how? Partner & I are intending to travel to the UK this July. I only have enough velocity points to book one of us via Velocity, the other will be booked...

Hi All, Tomorrow I'm flying on Air New Zealand Works ticket MEL to AKL and I'm Velocity Gold status. Can I still gain access to their lounge? not sure what/when it all stops with the break up. If I can't, where would you recommend I hang out? Any info greatly appreciated. Cheers, Steve.

Hi All, Hope you can help. Travelling in January on a Virgin Australia "The Business" / Virgin Atlantic "Upper Class" combo to the UK. I've got a 6 hour stop over in HKG and I'm wondering what lounges I can access. MEL to HKG is Virgin Australia and HKG to LHR is Virgin Atlantic I think that...

Hi All, Recently booked the Better Half a return business class flight JFK to LHR using points on the Velocity site. DL 4058 JFK to DTW - operated by Endeavour Air DL 18 DTW to LHR DL 59 LHR to BOS DL 3307 BOS to JFK - operated by Endeavour Air She only has base Velocity membership. I just...

Hi All, Found an awesomely priced flight Business Class flight from Virgin MEL - LHR on Google Flights, but when I go through the booking process and enter CC details I keep getting "flight is no longer available". Even when I search again the flights come up. Is this often the case with...

Hi all, Arranging trip for the better half and concerned about giving her and her 75 year old Aunt enough time to make their next connection. Arriving on QF95 which around 19:00 on Wednesday evening to Terminal B (which is TBIT I think) They then need flights to GSP (Greenville-Spartanburg)...

Hi All, Hope you can can assist with the following. Better Half will be escorting her 75 year old Aunt to the USA in early September (dates tbc) Aunts final destination is Greenville (GSP) in South Carolina. The flights need to be business class. I've got about 200k velocity points at the...

Hi All, I've read here about other members getting their current status extended for the following twelve months when they haven't managed to get the required number of status points by their review period. My status review date is mid September and I know with my current planned flights (not...

Hi all, Better half flew from MEL to BNE today, when she got to the accommodation she noticed that the lock on her checked luggage had been removed and all the exterior pockets had been opened. All that appears to be missing is some earplugs. She called Virgin but they had no interest in...

Hi All, Sorry, probably wrong forum. Currently in Manila and my return flight (CX934) tonight to Melbourne via HK was premium economy, but I have just received an email saying that the class is no longer available and I will now be in economy. I've called the Philippines contact number and...

Hi all, Work have finally booked my return business class flight to the UK with Royal Brunei. MEL > BWN> DBX > LHR I haven't traveled with this carrier before and I was trying to find information about the lounges that they use. I emailed them late last week and also on facebook but have had...

Hi All, Booking flight from MEL to London for work, business class. If I book though Malaysia or Webjet can I still get the Qantas status credits and miles - from the Qantas website it looks like I do, but suspect that this is if booked on Qantas. Currently Red on Qantas and no membership on...

Hi All, Leaving LAX to melbs tonight and have made it to platinum status, yay! Just wondering if there are any benefits the new status gives me at LAX? Unfortunately our fares were not fully flexible, so I don't think I can use the complementary upgrades. Cheers, Steve

Hi all, I decided to treat myself and use some points to upgrade my seat. The only option available was waitlist, so I selected that and logged off the site. About 10 mins later I received an email saying my flight was eligible for the Upgrademe bid option. Is this just a...

Hi All, Off to the USA in August, can anyone recommend a good sim card for a Galaxy Note 4? I'm looking for one with a good amount of data. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Cheers, Steve.

Hi All, My better half and I are travelling to the USA this August. We booked on economy saver, is there any way to get upgrades (we have about 65k of points). I am a velocity gold member and the better half has red status. Should I be arranging family pooling? Is there anything I loose by...

Hey All, I have a RTW trip coming up in Feb/Mar and was wondering if you think it's worth joining. I have Qantas FF membership, but low points and only bronze status. EDIT I've been doing some more digging and was wondering about a few of the pay lounges instead, I think that this would be...