Lounge, Points, Reviews / 04.09.2019

Entry to the Cathay Pacific Lounge Melbourne The Cathay Pacific Lounge Melbourne international airport is available to business, first and premium frequent flyers of any Oneworld airline flight departing Melbourne. This includes Qantas, Cathay, Qatar, etc. To access the lounge you need to follow the signs down the escalators towards the lounges, go past the Qantas lounge, and around to the left. I visited this lounge before a recent flight to Hong Kong - you can read that review here. The Cathay Lounge Space It's a small lounge, in the basement level of...

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About Points, Flights, Points, Reviews, Using Points / 04.09.2019

A recent holiday in the US ended with 5 fantastic nights in Miami. I checked the Qantas website each day for about 4 weeks to keep an eye on award flights, and finally decided to connect through Dallas on to Sydney. Business class on American Airlines 772 to Dallas, then first class on the Qantas A380. It did seem a bit luxurious using so many points on first class, but you need to fly first class at some stage, and I'm not a fan of the Qantas A380...

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About Points, Flights, Points, Using Points / 03.09.2019

A recent holiday in the US ended with 5 fantastic nights in Miami. I checked the Qantas website each day for about 4 weeks to keep an eye on award flights, and finally decided to connect through Dallas on to Sydney. Business class on American Airlines 772 to Dallas, then first class on the Qantas A380. It did seem a bit luxurious using so many points on first class, but you need to fly first class at some stage, and I'm not a fan of the Qantas A380...

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About Points, Flights, Points, Reviews, Using Points / 01.09.2019

Delta 717 first class is a narrow seat with limited food options. It's easy for Australians flying in the US to get excited when noticing they're booked in first class with Delta. The truth is that Delta doesn't use the term 'business class' at all. Delta's premium cabin on larger international aircraft is Delta One, which is their all-aisle access & flat bed offering. On their smaller aircraft, the only premium cabin is first class (which is what we in Australia would refer to as business class). Delta 717 First...

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Earning Points, Flights, Points, Reviews / 18.08.2019

A bit of a treat to have a mini business suite on a 90 minute flight. Qantas operates both it's standard B737 between Sydney and Melbourne, as well as its more premium A330-200. On a recent trip to Boston, I booked a 7:35am Cathay flight using Asia Miles from Melbourne - so needed to get myself to Melbourne the evening before. Table cloths and a plated meal were served with delicious wines, on this short 90 minute flight to Melbourne. Sounds impressive - but the meal was a let down. Booking It...

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Earning Points, Flights, Points, Reviews / 16.06.2019

Virgin Australia business class on their B737 is a great way to get to New Zealand. Check-in was expectedly uneventful, with the Virgin Australia business class counters checking in guests for this flight to Auckland only. No other Virgin Australia flights were departing anywhere near he 3:40pm departure. Booking This particular trip was a work trip to Auckland, so was booked through our corporate travel supplier. What I didn't realise, when I sent my dates and times to them, was that the business saver fare would have only been $10 more...

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Earning Points, Flights, Points, Reviews / 22.04.2019

Great to have an overnight option to Singapore - even with the stop in Canberra. Getting award flights over Easter means you need to be super organised. I started looking in July at where we could go using Velocity points for the following April easter, and found return flights to Koh Samui on Singapore Airlines business class. Booking When my partner and I are travelling together, we use points for one and pay for one. Which effectively means we get half price business class flights. In July last year we started...

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Earning Points, Flights, Points, Reviews / 21.04.2019

SilkAir business class is just Singapore Airlines domestic business (if they did it). This flight from Singapore to Koh Samui was technically the 3rd leg of our journey from Sydney. We had taken the overnight flight from Sydney which has a brief stop in Canberra and a 3 hour layover at Changi. So I was definitely ready to just get to the island. I have read reviews saying that SilkAir was fine, just not as polished as Singapore Airlines. The reality is, of course that's correct. They're smaller planes, shorter...

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Earning Points, Points / 27.03.2019

Savvy online shoppers would have heard of CashRewards by now. It's a shopping portal website, where you earn cash back on your purchases from brands like David Jones, Appliances Online, Priceline, and even Woolworths. Each store has a different cashback percentage, ranging from 1% to 7% and more. CashRewards is a similar concept to the Qantas Online Mall and the Velocity eStore - except you're earning actual cash back, as opposed to frequent flyer points. So if you're interested in both, which is better for you? I've done the sums, comparing...

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About Points, Flights, Points, Reviews, Using Points / 31.10.2018

Either this flight was flawless, or my expectations were low? Having never flown them before, my expectations of Malaysia Airlines business class were solely based on their reputation over the last few years. And quite simply, I was actually very impressed. My flight from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney was originally in one of their A330-300 aircraft. But then about 4 months prior to the flight, I received a seat change notification from them. Feeling a little annoyed that they the nerve to move me, I logged in to my flight...

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