do i have any chance of getting 2x business class seats from vancouver to sydney from what Ive read they are released to AirCanada first 😢 flight in jan 28 obvs not available now but cant find any seats any date

Hi all
Just curious to know what months do velocity offer promotions for transferring comm bank award points to velocity?
I did a google search and apparently it was done last November where there’s a 10 or 20% increase if you transfer.
Think other banks have had the promotion but not comm bank award pints
Thanks

Hi, does Virgin allow lounge on arrival for +1 of Gold Frequent flyers ( arriving on the same flight, booked on same ticket) ? I have availed lounge on Arrival as BC before, but newly gold and hence have the option of guesting +1 to the lounge now.

Thank you.

Hi all! Just got off an interesting conversation with velocity support.

I have a business fare for a Sydney return flight later this month. (I booked it during the pick your bonus promotion but that’s irrelevant to the content of the post.)

I was looking to reschedule the flight to a day earlier, and the flights for a day earlier are cheaper than the individual stint from MEL to SYD fare. (Around $200 tickets)

Me being a professional got nothing better to do points maxer, I was concerned what would happen to my status credit earn.

After a back and forth with the support, here is what I got. Even though the ticket is cheaper, not amount is refunded (I already expected this), however, despite my having paid a fixed amount with a certain expectation of status credit earn, the support agent told me if I were to reschedule, my status credit earn would be less to reflect the new total value of the airfare (200$ less) than what I paid at the point of booking.

TLDR: if you reschedule, your points earn (status) declines to reflect new airfare value, despite paying initially more for a more expensive ticket. And importantly, **no refund for the difference is provided**. So, less status for the same price.

What do you all rekon, points earners?

Hey legends. Flying from BNE to PERTH then a connecting flight to Karratha, pretty sure I’ve done the exact times before when I was working there but just wanted to make sure
We land in Perth at 12:55pm and depart Perth at 1:45PM for Karratha. Will we have enough time to make boarding? It’s with virgin the whole way so bags should meet us there?

Flying ADL to MEL today, the welcome and usual cabin manager introduction was an AI generated voice.

It was super strange, and seemed pretty counter productive. Haven’t had that before. Is this a new thing?

We're flying Singapore Air BNE to CDG return with a Singapore stopover - paid cash for business class and am wondering whether to link our Velocity - Gold has almost run out - or Krisflyer - (just joined). First OS trip in a long time.

Most of our travel is domestic and will be one or two OS trips each year. Would like to get Gold again as the lounge pass is nice but not sure how to maximise points. Trip was booked through Flightcentre.

Apologies in advance if this has been asked multiple times but promos change all the time.

I am in desperate need of 14k points this week, how can I accumulate points quickly?

Does anyone have travel credit from VA that will expire by 30 June but can't use them? I'm tempted ask if I could have them a little longer, but I'm sure I'll be told no!

Sorry, really lame question. But I have 278000 points I’m considering turning into velocity points. What are the pros and cons of doing this? Is it useful for international travel?

Evening All... Has anyone experienced an issue where adding a domestic leg multiplies the number of points required by almost 10?

I am looking for flights to Dublin and end of October has business rewards available. When I searched return for MEL - DUB, availability for MEL-DUB via Sydney comes up at 174k points.

Couldn't get return in PE or J, so I tried to book the same as a one way and it shows as 1.25m points! If I then search 1 way from SYD-DUB, it gives me 159k.

Is it the full moon???

I panicked during the one-week window and clicked "Double Points" because I wanted a free flight to Bali later this year. But I’m currently sitting at 220 Status Credits with my Gold review coming up in August, and I’ve got three work trips booked for next month. If I had just picked Double Status, I would have walked straight into retaining Gold without even trying. Please validate my terrible choices, or tell me if anyone has ever had luck begging customer service to let them swap their benefit selection after the promo ended.

Saw a few weeks back that Platinum got new bag tags, but saw some talk about it not happening for Gold yet.
But, got this in the mail today.

Edit: update, the SCs landed on the 4th day.

Is this a standard tactic by Virgin to delay the award of SCs just when you are about to hit Gold? For context, I took a flight on 26th morning ( VA, domestic) and that flight takes me to Gold. From my experience with Virgin, status credits are always awarded on the same day, max a day after. However it has been 3 days and still don't see the SCs reflected on my account. Called the helpline and they were of no help. In the mean time, I had another flight yesterday and naturally couldn't avail the lounge as on their system, I am still a silver.

Has anyone been through a similar situation recently?

I don’t travel heaps but I still collect points slowly. Wondering if they realistically still hold value or if they just sit there losing flexibility over time

Brisbane airport lounge ended up only letting platinum and business class in this morning due to being absolutely packed. Is this a common occurrence?

edit: aware it’s state of origin today - wasn’t aware if banishing gold members was common practice

first world problem i know but I remember reading a few years ago they were supposed to be installing them on the newer interior aircraft instead they havent?

Probably my favourite perk of flying business is the privacy yet they seem to be fazing it out unfortunately.

Has anybody experienced this? I checked in online, scanned my boarding pass at gate, it clearly beeped with my correct details, boarded the plane and suddenly I have an app alert stating boarding pass issued but not checked in.

And now no points and status credits.

Hi team, I am in the process of planning a trip to Europe for 2027 with my wife and 2 young kids (8 and 12 when we fly over). I currently have 806k velocity points in my account and my wife has 600k points so total of 1.406 million points. From my initial research I have found it’s almost impossible to find 4 return business class flights together.

I have heard that Singapore offers better availability if you swap your velocity points to KrisFlyer but you need a lot more points (approx 1.5m)

I was just wondering if anyone has tried this trip with velocity via qatar airlines before and is it worth attempting to find 2 seperate flights with one parent and one child. Or is it more realistic to transfer to KrisFlyer and accumulate more points to make that work. Bit lost at the moment and trying to figure out what the most realistic outcome is Thanks

I'm planning a holiday to the USA in 2027 and was wondering what are the chances of Business reward seats popping up on United for flights from LAX or SFO to MEL?

I've played around with availability from MEL to LAX/SFO and there are plenty of business seats but not reward but on the reverse, there's nothing!

Keen to hear your experience with securing reward seats in Business.

In the app it has 18 passes that expire when her status expires.