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Except choice is always just a bit over lite, choose that you get the normal status credit and seat allocation. Your call whether that’s worth 40 bucks. And in fact under the old system you’d get 5SC for this 600 spend. Now you get 25 even with lite. Sounds like for this specific case there’s...

Was open yesterday around 6PM when I was in the lounge. They even made an announcement about opening it up and people should go there if there’s no space in the main lounge.

Alan Joyce used to spruik Qantas was 11 weeks from bankruptcy. He was the CEO, was there any truth to what he said? Absolutely not as Joe Aston demonstrated in his book. I think everyone here is mature enough to use their logic and reason and not blindly trust whatever the CEO of a company has...

Surely that makes the extra 12,000 spend on top of plat worth it!

You might be disappointed to hear there’s no difference at all. There’s not many old 738 in circulation now and most have the refreshed interior which has the same seat as the MAX.

Have seen this creep up specifically when it’s between a city pair where you can book a cash fare on a VA codeshare. Have not seen this problem when it’s not a destination VA also sells cash ticket to. It seems like VA when selling codeshare on partner has rules on which flight can connect to...

I actually don’t mind that at all. I travel through SYD T2 weekly and always arrive on the train. The premium entry is of no value to me really because the escalator up drops me straight onto the entrance to the security lines and for the time I travel (5-6 PM) there’s barely any wait in the...

Did this earlier this year with a VA rewards redemption on SQ. Was very straight forward. Called up once the we got the passport issued paid a small fee (was some weird amount like 37.4 AUD presumably airport taxes) and a ticket for the infant is issued to the existing booking reference. The lap...

No, for instance I spot checked dates in Feb 26. Previously even spot checking exact at 330 days when I couldn’t sleep after a big arvo coffee wouldn’t return any results, plus the overnight disappearance on seats from dates far and near suggest it’s not just a change in redemption pattern but...

Seems like that is indeed the case. Since a few days ago based on seats.aero you can now find J rewards availability on SYD/MEL to SIN and back. Below is the chart for MEL-SIN as an example, and spot checked a few dates on VA's website I can confirm the result as well. PER remains completely...

If there’s available J seat unsold before departure what’s the order in which they are allocated? Presumably they’d first go towards cash bid first, but what about points upgrade? Does that sit in a separate bucket to the reward seat which the platinum upgrade also draw from?

Think you are right. Definitely does not seem like VA ever releases J rewards seat on the AM Australia departures (which is the one I booked). You can usually find 1x on the PM one though. I was able to confirm the 2x upgrades on the way back on the overnight flight which is excellent. I only...

You’d expect the announcement would come at the same times as the administrator announcing the purchase and formally start applying to the courts and creditor voting etc.

Keen to hear whether VA ends up releasing more before departure for you

hey AFF brain trust, looking at a trip to Bali for 2 next year and it looks like for the dates that work for me I can only secure 1x upgrade now based on business rewards availability on the way back so I’m considering to just lock this in now. Just wondering if the seats for remain unsold...

Wait really? So an increase of 6 seat on a flight - a 3.5% increase in pax number is “considerable”? I also don’t think it’s a big deal with the economy X reduction. Even when I do fly ahead at the airport last minute, I usually have no issue getting myself an economy X seat on the exit row.

Late aug early sept it seems like. Not in front of a computer so can’t screenshot but the stats chart from seats.aero clearly shows an overnight disappearance on those routes.

This coincides with SQ pulling all J rewards inventory from MEL/SYD on Velocity. Really limits the option in where you can go with velocity points out of Australia.

Or priority access to business reward seat so I can stop fighting with mileage brokers and their bots and actually able to redeem my points for business class travel. That cost velocity 0 dollars to provide and is already what Qantas does.

I have indeed noticed the reduced J rewards close to departure out of Australia for both NH and UA. Availability used to be plenty once you are a 1-2 weeks out from departure but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.