Lack of reward seats after changes

[SupBush]

Looking at Brisbane to Sydney, used to be a considerable number of 7,800 flights almost every day. Now they are all 21,700 points with every few days few 7am flights for 7,800. I can see Virgin changes are a big "fck you" to everyone who has put up with their awful company for all these years. This is from someone who has been in their top .1% of ff since 2015

 

[MELso]

When are you wanting to fly? In the next few weeks? During school holidays? In peak hours?

Looking on a random midweek date in mid-August, there are tons of 6200 point awards available, and even the remaining flights are 7800 points...

 

[Steven of Mysore]

I agree, saw lots of flights for my needs, including to Bali.

 

[CaptJCool]

the "bank" always wins!

 

[drron]

And 3 months ago I started looking at BNE-DPS awards for March 2024. Those that showed up were well over 100K points. I wasn’t dreaming so I ended up getting revenue tickets as VA was even cheaper than JQ and Malindo or Garuda in J.

So their scheme worked.

 

[SupBush]

I used to be able to grab tickets almost every day, hell I bought them for next day on rewards.

 

[MELso]

We’re slap bang in the middle of QLD school holidays and then we head into NSW school holidays, so totally unsurprising that there’s little award availability for the next few weeks…

 

[stm1sydney]

Give us a few example dates for which you are looking.

 

[antycbr]

Airlines are best thought of as cryptocurrency operations with incidental transportation services.

 

[Catweazle]

Yep, same here. It's great if you want to fly across the country to, say, KNX for which I've seen reward seats in the region of 20k - 30k. Not so great if you're wanting to do a cheaper local hop, however. Shame - because sometimes those little local MEL - SYD or MEL - ADL are totally useful.

 

[stm1sydney]

Give us a few example dates for which you are looking.

So the OP never responded. I had a quick look at a random date in late July for SYD/BNE, and there were plenty of 7,800 tickets available through the day:

 

[Catweazle]

Had to help my mother book a last minute next day flight to ADL - one reward seat was available in J and, although no reward seats as such in Y, there was one of those 37k rewards (or something to that effect) in Y. And that was for flying ex-MEL on a Friday morning, so not bad, but I'm guessing this wouldn't be the case every week. Must have been rather quiet last week!