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Hi All, I’m flying to Maldives from Sydney in March. I redeemed points for the flight from Sydney to Singapore, and made a separate redemption booking for the flight from Singapore to Maldives. The flight arrives in a Singapore at 2.15pm and the flight to Male leave Singapore the next day. I...

Has anyone noticed that the taxes & carrier charges on Qantas domestic award bookings are increasing from 1 January 2022 by around $7 per flight? There doesn't seem to be any change to the Qantas-imposed carrier charge. Rather, Qantas is adding a $6.50 "Safety and Security Charge" to all...

Does anyone know if Emirates allows one-way Saver Classic Reward bookings when redeeming Skywards miles for an EK flight in economy or business class? I can't see any specific reference to this in the Skywards T&Cs, the mileage calculator seems to indicate that this is possible, and there is no...

Hi. So, you can probably guess from my question that I'm a newbie. Love reading but sadly not so agile. I'm travelling J on SIA redemption booking. No status with Star Alliance but am Platinum with Velocity. I've attached my Velocity platinum number to the SIA booking. Is my baggage allowance...

I cannot seem to see any redemption of QFF on UL. I have a confirmed ticket that I booked early Nov for travel in Dec 21, and I could see UL redemption then, but QFF is just not listing any UL flights even from CMB. Does anyone know whats happening??

I have a saver J booking ,booked online, for PER to LHR for July 22. Using manage my booking I can find an available date in August 22 and can complete the change up to the very last bit where I accept the conditions, then I get the error "cannot process your request right now. Get in touch...

The OMAAT blog has posted that LifeMiles now has distance-based award charts for awards within Canada or between Canada and the United States. Apparently other award pricing is unaffected and Ben seems to think it's actually a good change...

Velocity international award redemption. Huge anticlimax!!! No business or first class redemptions available on Delta or Hawaiian from USA to Hawaii

It looks like Velocity has made some changes to Etihad carrier charges during the "break". These used to be USD50 per sector in Economy, USD215 per sector in Business or USD300 per sector in First. The charges are now variable based on the distance of the flight: Unfortunately, for the...

Good afternoon all, My parents have enough points to redeem to two tickets for us to go from Australia to Singapore - our family being two adults and two children. How then would you go about purchasing tickets 3 and 4 in cash? I'm assuming you can't buy 2 child tickets on their own as they...

Have been trying to get as good flights as possible for my wife's and my trip to god-daughter's wedding in England in December Had found Y+ through flights SYD-MEL-HKG-CDG on the QF site and bought these Today I found availability for Y+ MEL-HKG and J HKG-MXP. Not wanting to lose them I booked...

Hi Everyone, I never thought of accumulating QFF points before, and focusing on Velocity-Krisflyer isntead, thinking its much more doable. Anyway, after reading more about the One World RTW, i started to think that it’s worth a shot :) Been scouring the pages on the main OW RTW thread but...

Apparently there's a Qantas Points Flash sale starting on Friday. I'm fully expecting to be underwhelmed, but you never know - there might be some worthwhile discounts... https://www.qantas.com/au/en/frequent-flyer/member-offers/flash-points-sale.html

Does anyone remember back in June 2019 when Qantas announced you would soon be able to redeem points for Classic Flight Reward seats on Bangkok Airways? I realise that covid has happened in the meantime, but there didn't seem to be any movement on this even before the pandemic. It's still not...

Hi - Not sure if it announced already - but I just logged on and redeemed some ANZ reward points to Velocity points Regards

It seems that qantas have changed their search engine, or am i missing something? When I use to search on qantas i could search for a whole month and search on Business or First for the month. I can't seem to get that option now. The other change is that the points seem to have changed also. It...

I'm trying to book flights from Doha to UK for a relative. I cant get Doha to 'populate' in the FROM section of the booking engine. If I dummy book LGW-DOH return it shows flights but when I try to do the opposite, Doha will not come up. Has anyone else had the same problem? QF Bronze

LoyaltyLobby has published an article which claims British Airways has just increased the number of Avios required to book short-haul awards on partner airlines - British Airways Changes Avios Required For Select Partner Awards Effective Immediately However, when I just did a few quick searches...

I know that many of you are enjoying Matt's AFF on Air podcasts. As you probably know this is a free service available to all our members. But did you know that Matt also conducts regular webinars over at Frequent Flyer Solutions, our sister website. With many domestic travel restrictions in...

Anyone noticed that the points required for Qantas award flights on some routes (e.g. CBR-OOL) are now showing as 30% off in Y on the QF website?