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AirNZ offers Star Alliance Gold status match

Sep 14, 2018, 09:36 AM

I am VA Gold and got approved same day - however that was a week ago, before this was widely reported on in AU. I suspect they probably just now have a large backlog to work through.
AirNZ offers Star Alliance Gold status match

Sep 11, 2018, 02:52 PM

I applied on 07/09 and was approved same day. Email says status is good until 10/03/2019
AirNZ offers Star Alliance Gold status match

Sep 11, 2018, 12:54 PM

I applied a few days ago and was approved and activated in about 5 hours (from VA gold). Will be great later in the year when the VA-NZ alliance ends as I do a number of NZ trips each year and prefer to fly NZ. The short haul RU's are a nice bonus too - and will take you from economy to business ...
Virgin brings back daily MEL-HKG flights

Jul 02, 2018, 10:13 PM

What's the deal with lounge access at HKG if you're continuing on to Europe on Virgin Atlantic? Doesn't look like VS have a lounge option for Velocity members, by VA do on the return leg?
Jaguar's 2018 XF Sportbrake station wagon

Mar 19, 2018, 03:30 PM

Can we at least have these syndicated type posts translated into local metrics like prices in AUD and speeds in KPH?

Does Jetstar deserve the title of World's Worst Airline?

Apr 28, 2017, 04:13 PM

Has been quite a few months now since I have flown JQ, but used to do so quite a bit domestically and to NZ. Only ever had a couple of delays, the worst being 3 hours after a plane went tech.Now I have dropped from QF Gold to Silver I am less inclined to fly them (and QF for that matter) as havin...
Upgrade Me Bid Minimums

Apr 08, 2017, 02:19 PM

Can't comment on long haul, but I often put in the minimum bid for domestic routes and have about a 60% success rate of them going through, even with peak hour flights.