The Frequent Flyer Gazette
Monday, 8 April 2019
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| New Oneworld Award Availability Tool |
| Japan Airlines has added a handy feature for finding Oneworld award availability to its website. The JAL website now displays award availability for all 13 Oneworld member airlines, including Qantas and Cathay Pacific. And you can now search for availability across all Oneworld airlines in a single search. Previously, it was only possible to search for award availability on one airline at a time. |
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| How to Earn SkyTeam Status in Australia |
| Many Australians have status with Qantas or Virgin Australia. But very few Australians are even members of a SkyTeam frequent flyer program - let alone have SkyTeam status. The good news is that earning SkyTeam status is not that difficult. And holding SkyTeam Elite Plus status can be very handy if you ever fly with SkyTeam airlines such as Delta, Garuda Indonesia, Vietnam Airlines, China Airlines, China Eastern, Korean Air or Air France/KLM. Once more... |
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| Bankwest Devalues Qantas MasterCards |
| Bankwest will next month reduce the overall amount of Qantas points that can be earned on its Bankwest Qantas MasterCard credit cards. The devaluation will take effect from 22 May 2019 and impacts the Bankwest Qantas Classic MasterCard, Bankwest Qantas Platinum MasterCard and Bankwest Qantas World MasterCard. Bankwest is making changes to the number of Qantas points earned for every dollar spent on each card. However, more... |
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Upcoming Webinar:
SkyTeam for Australians |
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LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER!
7 of 19 SkyTeam airlines fly to Australia. There is even a dedicated SkyTeam Lounge at Sydney Airport. Yet, the SkyTeam alliance is totally overlooked by Australians.
Don't be deterred... this is precisely the reason that SkyTeam frequent flyer programs can work to your advantage! If you've ever tried to redeem Qantas points for international flights out of Australia, you've probably come across the lack of award availability. But you'll have a far greater choice of flights with SkyTeam airlines.
New to the SkyTeam alliance? No worries - earning status is not too difficult either! In fact, you can even get a free status match if you already hold status with a non-SkyTeam airline. It is also possible to earn SkyTeam miles in Australia (including from credit card spend) and SkyTeam airlines have their own redemption sweet spots.
The upcoming Frequent Flyer Solutions webinar will show you exactly how you can benefit from the SkyTeam alliance. Be sure to join Matt at 8pm (AEST) on Wednesday, 10 April 2019 to learn more!
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| Westpac Ends Velocity Auto-Redemption |
| Westpac's Altitude Rewards program will no longer offer Velocity auto-redemption from 15 April 2019. This is bad news for Altitude Rewards members, as Velocity auto-redemption is currently the only way to transfer Altitude points to Virgin Australia's Velocity Frequent Flyer program at a 2:1 rate. With auto-redemptions being discontinued, transfers from Altitude to Velocity will only more... |
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| Double Qantas Points Promotion |
| You can now earn double Qantas Frequent Flyer points on all new Qantas and Emirates codeshare flight bookings made by midnight on Monday, 8 April 2019. The promotion covers flights taken between 11 April 2019 and 29 February 2020. To participate in this offer, you'll need to first register on the Qantas website. Qantas marketed flights operated by either Qantas or Emirates are more... |
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