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The flight was absolutely empty, GRU-CPT in August 2024. I showed up at check-in and was the only passenger. Luckily I had my yellow fever vaccination proof or they would not have let me board. I had nearly paid for an extra legroom seat, but due to velocity and the booking not being direct...

The cards work, and I have not received any emails from the banks, or notices when I logged into both banking apps remotely with fingerprint and lodged disputes.

Well if my dramas trying to complete a simple hotel booking to take advantage of the offer the Qantas themselves advertised to customers was not enough of an ordeal already, then listen to this for the cherry on top. I am already in the city of Belo Horizonte staying at the Airbnb before my...

Ok I have just called qantas travel multiple times and it has been a nightmare. I might lodge an official complaint. All over Skype as I am overseas. 1st call - explain my cards all give me error codes. Give last few digits, confirm some details, put on hold. Disconnected by Qantas. 2nd call...

I have now tried using Anydesk to portal into my dad's desktop PC sitting in Melbourne, using his Chrome browser and then trying my credit card and it failed AGAIN. also tried my mum's credit card. Failed again. That triggered a Qantas email to me "unusual account activity" (was it you) I now...

I have tried now, hitting "pay now" over 20x times using 5 different credit and debit cards, amex, visa, MC and I cannot get their stupid website to process the booking. I've tried VPN (I'm overseas), I've run out of ideas. Via website, via the app.... it never works! Why is it this hard? This...

I needed some points to redeem biz flight (I have everything tied up in Velocity and it was 100k KF points via SIN or 55k QF points direct) and so I thought I'd try to play this game. Using @DejaBrew FAMILY20 code, it brought the "Outstanding" quality red dozen down to $575.90 and between the...

I am slamming my head into the same problem right now. Similar error messages to you, cannot even search for the flights that are showing up in Google Flights. I also tried to book Gol flights using AAmiles in the AA redemption engine and it offers me flights I want (BOG-xEZE-CNF) and...

Thanks @Mattg for your articles. I read your fantastic articles. There is some potential to still use SQ Advantage for my travel plans but the limited amount of stopovers really kills it for me. In 2023 I stopped in Japan, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, Turkey, Bangkok which allowed side trips -...

OMG I'm devastated it's gone, I just got caught up now 😭 I did one in 2023 and planned to do one in 2025. I finally have heaps of velocity points to convert...... More than enough for the former 280k requirement. To be honest, the hoops required to find the availability while using tools to...

If this is available anytime I want it, 216k + $600 is a good enough deal for a direct flight without having the hassle of flying long distances in economy (I can't afford paid biz) to get to Sth America . I'm taking a China Southern dreamliner from MEL-xCAN-FCO in a few months and dreading the...

I'm not a newbie but I have a question that belongs on this thread. I have been collecting Velocity points for a few years now, since it is harder (now impossible) to get KF miles at 2:1 and with Velocity bonuses, better to let the points live in my account instead of expiring in Krisflyer. So...

I was able to book through the call centre, GRU-CPT for only 29,000 miles + $17 in economy. There was no biz option on the date I needed. Using miles for economy usually don't provide good value, but the price for the cash fare is $1,272 so I did quite well.... and of course my options are...

So what is going on with Virgin? I applied in Nov for this promotion, and never received the 30k bonus. Trying to work through this with the filipino staff is a real struggle. Currently it's an escalated case and I was told to wait 7 days.... but maybe I never actually received the email...

Thanks for your review. This review and a couple of videos on YouTube convinced me to spend the extra $200 for Row 1 doing the reverse trip, BOG-CNF. What also helped me decide was that while I was thinking about the seats, I opened another window to look at other options to get anywhere near...

I was just doing more research and found a plugin from Chrome called "Legroom for Google Flights". This shows you seat pitch without having to press the drop-down arrow for each individual flight! It does interfere with my "Tile tabs" mode when viewing two tabs side by side in Vivaldi. I...

Cebu has a FAQ page: Booking a Flight Our seats range from 16.7 inches to 17.3 inches. Guests of size or guests who need space for their standard-sized hand carry bag are requested to book two (2) seats for a more comfortable flight. Although in saying that, I guess you would have to pay for...

Just have to pop back in because I'm also looking at a holiday in May, and found a Cebu Pacific flight direct MEL-MNL for only $199, which is incredible. They only make like $33 before govt taxes and surcharges. The reason is that they fly this A330-900 which fits as many seats as an A380...

Very nicely written article, which I'm sure I will refer to multiple times over the next few years. I did a RTW in Business using 280k KF last year which spoilt me but this year I'm putting together a RTW with a mish-mash of paid economy and reward Premium/Biz. Most of my travel in the last...

It's really disconcerting that I don't get any emails like that. I had to call Velocity to confirm it's all on track but there is no box to tick in the dashboard....