You are welcome and apologies for the delay in my response to this post. I'm between countries and haven't had time to sit down to type in my response
Good on ya
so is mine. Although sometimes I do travel domestically for work meetings, all of my international travel so far has been personal.
In fact, I'm right now in India on personal work and I can smell the aroma of freshly made filter coffee that my mum's kindly making for me
I see. It is always helpful to know the differences between Sale, Saver and Flex fare (these are the categories that QF uses). Virgin uses something slightly different (Getaway, Elevate, Freedom, Business Saver, Business) to categorize fares into classes.
You can know more about which classes fall under which categories in this page :
Status Earn Fare Class| Velocity Frequent Flyer
It's not a pretty page, but gives the information that is helpful
To see how many SC you'd earn, you first need to know the distance in miles between origin and destination.
You can visit this page to to calculate the distance :
https://www.velocityfrequentflyer.com/content/Earn/Airlines/mileage-calculator/
and then the number of SC's you'd earn from the tables on this page :
Earn Points with Virgin Australia and Partners, also earn status credit when travelling with eligible fare types. Offering include trans tasman flights, short haul and long haul flights and international long haul flights
experience.velocityfrequentflyer.com
Nice work accumulating 375K points in 10 months
and good luck with your quest for Gold
I can understand your desire here. However, I have not done a RTW booking on Virgin so far. I'd guess that it's not that different from booking a RTW from OW/QF. To that effect, I can tell you that ;
1. Try and fly out of a less famous city - this is called "positioning". You fly from your home city to another city that isn't that busy in terms of finding award seats. As an example, if you're planning to do a reward booking to Europe, it helps to have the reward booking originating from Asia (Jakarta or Manila) as some cities in Asia have cheaper redemption options
2. Try and be as flexible as you can - this will help you sneak in a segment/city to your plan. You may consider doing a segment on road/rail/cruise. Gives you an opportunity to experience a the city on an alternate mode of transport to flying. Someone I know, chose to try the Euro Rail on their trip to Europe. Saved them some $$ and also got to spend some quality time
As always, the community here at AFF is vibrant and buzzing with knowledge and suggestions. Keep posting your questions and someone will help you with their thoughts
