bookwithmatrix.com - possibly the ultimate status run companion

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

Hopefully a few will find this a quite handy website. I'm focusing on VA but can't see why this isn't applicable to QF as well.

Been trying to work out how to get 80 SCs to keep the Gold status bump I got with the Coles MC deal.

I couldn't work out any way to get the Virgin Australia website to give me anything like a decent SC run.

Amex travel was a bit more helpful in that at least you could see booking class codes a bit easier, though it was a bit annoying in that it only showed the first flight was say elevate but the second flight could be a getaway class.

Did a bit of googling and started to play around with itamatrix though I knew you couldn't make a booking from it.

Stumbled across this blog post

A New Way To Book Flights Directly From ITA Matrix - The Frequent Miler

So the cheapest Elevate fare class for Virgin is Q

Since I'll be in Melbourne I'd like a cheap MEL <OOL> SYD flight with both as Q fare class - yeah I want those SCs at the least cost possible without taking up too much of my time.

So this is what I entered into ita matrix



the 3.10PM flight works out quite well for me


now all you need to do is copy everything from itinerary down to Total Airfare & Taxes

now you go to www.bookwithmatrix.com and paste that into section near the top of the screen.



I'm assuming you'd pay your credit cards forex fee but I'm surprised that it's showing the price is about $22 cheaper than what the itamnatrix website showed.

I've not actually gone through and made a booking as yet as I'm still working out travel dates with my move to Melbourne for work.

This can certainly save you a lot of time in searching for a decent status run.

 

[Gold Member]

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Hopefully a few will find this a quite handy website. I'm focusing on VA but can't see why this isn't applicable to QF as well.

Been trying to work out how to get 80 SCs to keep the Gold status bump I got with the Coles MC deal.

I couldn't work out any way to get the Virgin Australia website to give me anything like a decent SC run.

Amex travel was a bit more helpful in that at least you could see booking class codes a bit easier, though it was a bit annoying in that it only showed the first flight was say elevate but the second flight could be a getaway class.

Did a bit of googling and started to play around with itamatrix though I knew you couldn't make a booking from it.

Stumbled across this blog post

A New Way To Book Flights Directly From ITA Matrix - The Frequent Miler

So the cheapest Elevate fare class for Virgin is Q

Since I'll be in Melbourne I'd like a cheap MEL <OOL> SYD flight with both as Q fare class - yeah I want those SCs at the least cost possible without taking up too much of my time.

So this is what I entered into ita matrix

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the 3.10PM flight works out quite well for me

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now all you need to do is copy everything from itinerary down to Total Airfare & Taxes

now you go to www.bookwithmatrix.com and paste that into section near the top of the screen.

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I'm assuming you'd pay your credit cards forex fee but I'm surprised that it's showing the price is about $22 cheaper than what the itamnatrix website showed.

I've not actually gone through and made a booking as yet as I'm still working out travel dates with my move to Melbourne for work.

This can certainly save you a lot of time in searching for a decent status run.

I've long been a fan of Matrix and bookwithmatrix for AA status runs crediting back to QF. Glad to see others getting some use for Virgin fares.

Have you you checked out UnaMatrixZero? I hear its full of phantom availability.

 

[samh004]

I also have Elevate Gold but not sure there’s a need to keep it. I somehow earned 3SC from Flybuys last month though, leaving me 77 short by December. I may have a look at options, but my loyalty lies elsewhere.

 

[Jeffrey O'Neill]

I also have Elevate Gold but not sure there’s a need to keep it. I somehow earned 3SC from Flybuys last month though, leaving me 77 short by December. I may have a look at options, but my loyalty lies elsewhere.

I'm expecting to have a trip back to SYD every second onth at least, so a year of virgin lougne access + a few extra miles will do nicely

 

[handy72]

Good post, but I can actually get the same results from the VA site using GPR69 as a promo code - in fact 8c cheaper ;-). I tried 11th November as 28th October seemed to be sold out for Elevate on the OOL-SYD leg. This would earn 35 SC's
Incidentally, flying MEL to OOL via SYD would only be $173.00 (30 SC's) presumably as it's sold as a valid connecting route - Freedom fare for this is only $257.60 giving 50 SC's.
I booked this as part of my first ever upcoming Status run on 15th October - MEL-SYD-OOL VA Freedom (to keep Velocity Plat) then OOL-SYD-MEL J on QF, booked during Double SC promo (to keep QF Gold)

 

[serfty]

I have successfully used steppo's plug in script for Greasemonkey or tampermonkey.

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