Virgin Australia Lounge Access for FlyPelican Passengers

Virgin Australia Lounge, Canberra. Photo: Virgin Australia.

FlyPelican passengers departing from Sydney or Canberra on selected fare types can now enjoy access to the Virgin Australia Lounge ahead of their flight.

From this week, FlyPelican passengers booked on a Pelican Corporate or Pelican Flexible fare receive lounge access, where available, as an inclusion with their ticket. This is available regardless of your Velocity Frequent Flyer tier status or Virgin Australia Lounge membership.

This inclusion is advertised when you book a flight on FlyPelican’s website.

FlyPelican SYD-NTL fares — FlyPelican offers five fare types, with lounge access available on the most expensive two.

However, lounge access is not offered to FlyPelican customers booked on a cheaper Pelican Saver, Pelican Flyer or $72 within 72 hours ticket – even if you would otherwise get Virgin lounge access through your Velocity membership.

FlyPelican is a regional airline based in Newcastle. It flies a small fleet of Jetstream 32 aircraft, mostly to destinations within NSW and the ACT. The carrier also offers service from Newcastle to Sunshine Coast Airport.

FlyPelican Jetstream 32 Flight Review (Newcastle-Dubbo) — FlyPelican Jetstream 32 at Newcastle Airport. Photo: Matt Graham.

Lounge access would be available with a Pelican Corporate or Flexible ticket when flying from Canberra to Newcastle, Port Macquarie and Ballina, or from Sydney to Mudgee, Newcastle, Taree and Cobar. Virgin lounge access is not available on arrival when flying in the opposite direction.

FlyPelican customers can also earn Velocity points when flying with the airline, with the earn rate based on the fare type purchased. But FlyPelican is not a full-fledged Velocity partner airline as Velocity status benefits don’t apply, no status credits are earned and – as cool as that would be – there is no possibility to redeem Velocity points for FlyPelican flights.

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a antycbr Dec 13, 2021 #1

Would be nice and give people more options if they do a codeshare...

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H HS-TQE Dec 13, 2021 #2

And watch REX go off with their whinges against VA if they are able to pull of a codeshare with Pelican and a wetlease with Link.. 🤣

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henrus Dec 13, 2021 #3

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Seems the website already reflects this. From first glance it seems that FlyPelican is paying VA a very discounted rate and that's why it's included in those fares but at the same time if a VA Gold/Plat was accessing it'd be up to VA to "cover the costs". (although that'd be minimal so it'd be beneficial to both fly pelican and VA to offer it).

Mattg Dec 13, 2021 #4

Looks to me like Velocity status plays no role in this?

A good initiative for FlyPelican and realistically, only a few passengers per flight are likely to be on an eligible ticket so it won't lead to overcrowding in Virgin's SYD & CBR lounges.

j jase05 Dec 13, 2021 #5

Looks to me like Velocity status plays no role in this?

A good initiative for FlyPelican and realistically, only a few passengers per flight are likely to be on an eligible ticket so it won't lead to overcrowding in Virgin's SYD & CBR lounges.

Correct, status plays no role unfortunately.

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