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Virgin Australia shakes up Velocity reward seats
Oct 17, 2024, 08:55 PMI am wondering how many points would be it be now to get an Adelaide to Singapore return on Singapore Airlines in Economy.I know it's 56,000 currently but what will that be in the future.
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Virgin moves to spend-based Velocity status earning
Oct 17, 2024, 08:53 PMI am not likely to spend more than $1000 a year on flights on VA if that so these changes don't affect me as such but what about the people who fly fortnightly or monthly for work as opposed to leisure.
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Virgin Australia partners with Didi for rewarding rideshare trips
Apr 24, 2024, 09:21 PMA further incentive for me to use Didi even for the shortest trips.I have noticed the airlines have gone from points with limo companies to ride share operators in recent times.
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Singapore Airlines switches Cairns to an Airbus A350
Mar 29, 2024, 07:30 PMI could be wrong here but most of the VA flights have a SQ code on it within Australia.I would be most interested to see how many Adelaide people on the way home opt for the daytime Singapore to Perth flight clear customs and immigration then recheck their luggage for the domestic sector home on ...
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Cathay Pacific’s Australian rebound
Mar 28, 2024, 05:58 AMI would not be too worried if Adelaide did not return.You can currently get way better connections via Melbourne or Sydney using a Qantas domestic service to link to Cathay CX100 OR CX104 and in the other direction CX161,CX101 OR CX105.Maybe the Chinese student market from Mainland China and Hong...
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BONZA gone belly up - Opportunity for REX
May 04, 2024, 05:40 PMtoo big and Australia didn't have the population for more than two or three carriers.
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Qantas A220 - seatback IFE screens or not?
Dec 19, 2023, 08:43 PMIf they can do similar to Virgin offers on the 737's by allowing one to plug a phone into the unit and get their entertainment that way It would well work but one thing that would help is offering up to the minute programming.I flew VA Adelaide to Sydney both ways a year ago and there's only so m...
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MPC - US Entry for Australians
Dec 19, 2023, 08:38 PMwhat about those of us who are required to get the Visa?how does this help us?
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MEL-DRW - Using Embraer's for a 4 hour flight??
Sep 10, 2023, 08:34 AMOriginally Posted by williamjs Yeah, it is pretty funny, they now exclusively use the same on ADL-BNE. Pretty disappointing to go from QF mainline to that. Will take VA every day on that route. Spirit of Sydney. Super disappointing.One has on VA TIME their flights to be on the 737 not the Allianc...
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What are people's observations of loads on flights?
Jun 28, 2023, 06:11 AMthis was a long time ago for me but I remember on Qantas ADL-SYD I had 98 passengers out of 116 on a 737(This was back in the days of the 733/734)and onwards to Bali on a 767 there was 161 out of 229 from memory.I am guessing it was the period before schools were about to come back.of course almo...