Making the most of 150k velocity points?

[mella2007]

With international rewards that are not showing up when you do a search, if you call the rewards desk, they often have availability if you think there's nothing available and will tell you how many points are required (it varies for routes and dates) This has happened to me on two occasions previously with Singapore and Virgin Atlantic Codeshares. I normally find Etihad availability all the time.

There are a couple of things to point out here...

The flights to London that you are seeing 'with Virgin' are actually Etihad flights... You will see a Virgin flight number, however you'll notice there is an indicator that they are operated by Etihad.

In terms of finding out the number of points required, you can look at the redemption section where you enter the two cities and it gives you an indicative amount - you'll find that on almost all routes it is usually either Virgin OR a partner airline that fly that route, and therefore the points you are seeing will be for partner airlines on many routes...

 

[Mal]

There is also a bug with ethiad bookings (I think) where no availability is shown on the tabs but
There is availability. Scroll down.

As commented I dont think the ethiad rewards are bad at all....

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