Hong Kong Airlines - Virgin Australia Partnership

[Lucass]

Can VA frequent flyers book on Hong Kong airlines new Sydney-Hong Kong flights. I'm confused about VA and HX partnership, are they actually partners?

 

[AIRwin]

Some info on the individual partner pages on the Velocity website:

Hong Kong Airlines

Earn Points with Hong Kong Airlines when you travel in an eligible fare class with a HX flight number and operated by Hong Kong Airlines or Virgin Australia. You can also earn Status Credits and redeem Reward Seat. Learn more now.

www.velocityfrequentflyer.com

 

[Saab34]

One airline that I didn’t expect to make it this far after the pandemic. Hopefully they can grow the Aussie schedule a bit.

 

[ben95]

One airline that I didn’t expect to make it this far after the pandemic.

HX seems to have carved out a decent gap in the market being the “Value Carrier” in HK. There’s plans to take 3 787-8 from HU and resume flights to North America from Hong Kong.

Now that begs the question - would velocity reopen redemption with HNA group? China is a market where velocity redemption is weak (have to go via SQ and limited in terms of cities that you can reach). QF members can redeem MU+CX which makes it far stronger than velocity.