News Qantas and Uber Announce Partnership to Earn Points Today Qantas has announced a new partnership with ride-sharing company Uber. From November 3rd you will be able to earn Qantas points on certain Uber trips. As an avid Uber user, this is an interesting development. The slight catch is that you can only earn Qantas points for Uber trips
Tips Using PayPal to Avoid AMEX Fees When Paying Bills People often ask me how I manage to earn so many miles & points and there is no quick and easy answer to that question. It is really about taking every opportunity to maximise the system to your advantage. One of the many things I do to maximise my ability to
Tips Everything You Need to Know About Cancelling Award Bookings Airfares are cheap these days. You can often pick up discount economy tickets for a steal, the downside is that all these cheap airfares are completely non-refundable. As a result, most people have become accustomed to the mentality that you don't want to book airline tickets unless you are 100%
News Velocity Now Has Digital Cards for Apple Wallet and Android Pay Virgin quietly launch a small new feature at some point this month by adding the ability to download and store a copy of your Velocity card within both Apple Wallet and Android Pay. Whilst gimmicky, this is a neat feature especially if you are a fan of Apple Wallet and
Tips Get Velocity Gold Status Faster With Family Pooling It is no secret that I am a big fan of Virgin Australia's Velocity frequent flyer program. Whilst Virgin is not a member of any airline alliance they have some great partners with plenty of opportunities for good miles & points redemption. One of the great features that Velocity offers that
News Qantas Unveils it's Brand New Boeing 787 Qantas marketing has been going into overdrive yesterday and today as they unveil their new Boeing 787 making its way home to Australia. They are hosting a Facebook live event to track the flight home! The latest addition to the Qantas fleet, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has been called "Great
News Lifemiles Are Running a 3 Day Promotion Lifemiles only just finished running their last campaign for miles purchases at the end of September, but they are back again with a small sale for points purchased from the 18th-20th of October. Whilst this promotion isn't quite as good as the recent September promotion it could be beneficial if
USA-2017 Review: Virgin 777 'The Business' LAX-SYD After an amazing two weeks in the US, it was time to head home, whilst we were not traveling in First Class, I was really looking forward to this flight as Virgin Business class has some fantastic reviews.
Tips How To Get a Free 'Upgrade' to EconomyX on Virgin Domestic Flights Back in March 2017, Virgin Australia introduced a new premium offering called EconomyX, which basically provides some additional leg room and a way to upsell what was previously the bulkhead and exit rows on the domestic fleet. The domestic 777 fleet has 30 EconomyX seats available (2 rows over the
News Lifemiles September 2x1+30% Promotion Lifemiles are at it again with a pretty decent promotion on buying miles for the month of September. Lifemiles is one of my favourite programs, whilst it has some quirks that frustrate many people, I have managed to successfully book several cheap Star Alliance premium cabin fares using the program.
USA-2017 Review: Emirates Business / First Lounge LAX Virgin Australia doesn't currently have a lounge at Los Angles airport despite running several flights in and out to Australia. What is fascinating is that Virgin have now partnered with both Etihad and Emirates to use their lounges in TBIT
News Alaska Mileage Plan Offering Targeted Bonuses Up To 50% On Purchased Miles Alaska Airlines frequent flyer program Alaska Mileage plan is once again offering a targeted bonus on miles purchases of up to 50%. These bonuses are tiered and you need to buy between 40,000 - 60,000 miles to receive the maximum bonus no matter what your mystery bonus is.
News Qantas & Samsung are at it again! The Qantas and Samsung partnership seems to be stronger than ever. I recently wrote about Samsung offering 20,000 points if you purchase a Samsung S8 from authorised dealers. Well the latest promotion is on Samsung's top of the line QLED TV's. Samsung and Qantas are offering a massive 100,
USA-2017 Review: Encore Las Vegas We had 4 nights in Las Vegas and as I had posted about previously, I booked Encore which is part of the Wynn Hotel. I got a reasonable deal and could book it through Virgin Holiday’s so scored quite a few bonus points as well.
USA-2017 Travel: Braving The Summer Heat in Death Valley When we were planning this trip, our original plan was to drive the coast road between San Francisco and Los Angles, mainly due to travelling in early August and being worried about the heat.
Travel Travel: Exploring Yosemite National Park & Lone Pine As I mentioned in my previous post about Half Dome Village, Yosemite National park is simply breath taking. The scenery is just surreal, with lush green forests set to a backdrop of sheer granite cliffs, it is certainly not like anything I have seen in Australia before.
News Bonus 20,000 Qantas Points if You Buy a Samsung S8 Qantas and Samsung are currently running a great promotion that will net you 20,000 points if you buy a Samsung S8 or S8+ device. I always keep an eye out for these sorts of promotions as they can be a great opportunity to get large amounts of free miles
USA-2017 Review: Half Dome Village Yosemite National Park Being located directly in Yosemite valley Half Dome village is a great location to base yourself from. The campground has 403 canvas pre-fabricated tents that have a mix of a double bed or bunks. The tents are quite basic and contain a Bed, Chair, Safe and a small rack for storage.
News Virgin Australia Have Announced Full WiFi Rollout Both Qantas and Virgin have been trailing WiFi on a small number of domestic planes for almost 6 months now. I was fortunate enough to get to try out Virgin's wifi service on a domestic flight from Brisbane to Syndey and was very impressed with the speed and useability. Well,
Travel Travel: San Francisco to Yosemite San Francisco is an amazing city, in a lot of ways it reminds me of Sydney. I have visited a few times over the years and was looking forward to visiting again.
News Awesome PR Stunt by Boeing Yesterday Boeing were conducting a test flight of a 787 Dreamliner out of seatle to test a new Rolls Royce engine and someone had the brilliant idea to fly the plane in one giant 787 shapped flight path over America. Per FlightRadar24 [https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n7874/#e54ad6b]
USA-2017 Review: JetBlue Mint New York to San Francisco Due to the fact that I couldn't redeem Velocity points on Etihad for Syndey to San Francisco as it exceeded 15,000 miles we had to reposition from New York back west to San Francisco. I decided this would be a great opportunity to review JetBlue Mint.
USA-2017 Review: Etihad Apartments Abu Dhabi to New York One flight down and one more to go, can't say I am usually this excited for a 14-hour plane ride, but Apartments is just fantastic. Flying from Abu Dhabi to the United States is interesting in that Abu Dhabi airport has a US Customs Pre-Clearance facility, so you actually clear
United to Stop Selling International First Class from May 2108 I mentioned in my post about Why I Don't Horde Frequent Flyer Miles that First Class travel is slowly being phased out. In fact, someone sent me an article just the other day about this very thing. Well, we have known for awhile that United Airlines would be phasing out
USA-2017 Review: Abu Dahbi Etihad Flagship First Class Lounge Etihad opened their flagship First Class Lounge in Terminal 3 last year in August. The lounge took many years to build and includes a dedicated Spa and Salon for first class passengers. The entrance to the lounge is directly after you exit security, once you enter you head up a
