For all intense and purposes Virgin Australia's Velocity Platinum and Gold are treated "Generally" as Star Alliance Gold on United flights. Few things:1) Was it a Domestic, Caribbean, Central America and or Canada flight booking on United (not connected to an international booking)? If so, ge...

Sorry to hear of your loss. Unfortunately, if it's a personal lifetime membership it's not transferable. Look at terms 5.7 and 5.8 in the Qantas Clubs T&C's: “5.7 Membership will terminate automatically on the death of a Member. Qantas will terminate the Member's account on receipt of noti...

I was caught in the Sabre (the booking system that backs Virgin Australia’s network) outage by Virgin Australia a few years ago. A colleague in my office was also impacted yesterday and said that it was pretty much the same prosses as before (i.e. very little communication), with no real ...

Just stepped off a Virgin Australia Flight today, Wi-Fi is turned off for inflight internet but is turned on for inflight entertainment via the Virgin Australia Entertainment app. Qantas does have inflight Wi-Fi internet (on selected aircraft), but last week it was terribly slow speed (260kbps) a...

There is still: SAS's Euro Bonus for Star Alliance, Lifetime Gold (Star Alliance Gold) is available after 10 consecutive years of membership at Gold or higher level (Gold has a 45,000 base points requirement per year). For Sky Team you have both Air France/KLM’s Flying Blue who offer Lifeti...