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Virgin Australia opens new 'boutique' airport lounge at Wellington
Apr 17, 2019, 03:14 PMJust 2 flights a day..... we just gave up on using VA to Wello, and coming out is at 6am !! Hopefully the lounge means they will fix the frequencies.
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Air New Zealand's new business class seat launches late 2019
Mar 29, 2019, 04:46 PMHaving flown Virgin Atlantic recently, and Air NZ reasonably often, I don't mind this seat.
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Qantas says Project Sunrise will redefine business class first class
Feb 24, 2019, 03:39 PMBig hubs are for cut price tickets - direct routes with premium prices is now a thing. QF will use the A380 through Singapore and LA, priced like everyone else, with the new fleet increasing ROI via higher fares.
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Singapore Airlines increases KrisFlyer redemption rates
Jan 04, 2019, 04:47 PMNow the only program we use for biz class redemptions. VA and QF are (almost) impossible.
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JetBlue eyes London flights with longe-range Airbus jets
Sep 08, 2018, 03:00 AMIt is a very good J product.
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Emirates A380 First Class - Just upgrades or actual bookings?
Aug 03, 2018, 02:48 PMYesterday we returned from Christchurch to Sydney in F, purchased as a QF ticket so we got 240 SC round trip. Great food, wine and champagne and we <HAD> to have a shower too! Service was clunky, things forgotten, never used our names. But the best F we've been in.
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Business class upgrade across all flights?
May 28, 2018, 06:38 PMGood luck upgrading Australia to LAX - best I see, there are very, very few of these, even a year out.
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Upgrades to Virgin Catering?
Oct 11, 2017, 02:26 PMReturning from Melb on Saturday 1pm, we had a fresh celery dip with some kind of cracker. I was ready to pay $5 for cheese and crackers and this was more than equal. So it looks like some things are changing!
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SYD/LAX reward space
Sep 26, 2017, 12:22 PMTry from Melbourne and Brisbane, then book a domestic flight separate. There are more seats open from those ports than from Sydney. But good luck - I gave up on this several years ago!
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Why are there no daytime US-Australia flights?
Sep 26, 2017, 12:20 PMI desperately wanted to connect with the one VA daytime flight on Saturday from LAX, but could not get a reliable connection from Chicago. The only option was one 6am flight on Spirit, which has an abysmal on time record so it probably would have failed for me. UA and QF had morning departures fr...