Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen some great promotions being run by Virgin Australia, and it appears that they’ll continue. Virgin recently bought back the Velocity program at the cost of $623 million and with this brings a lot of opportunities for the program to grow, expand and continue to be valuable to customers. […]
Ridesharing services are an extremely vital part of the travel world now, and that is continuing to grow with companies sprouting up every few months. In Australia, we have three leading players – Uber, Ola and Didi. Uber is arguably the most significant ridesharing service as it’s been the front runner for a long time. […]
Virgin Australia first started its Hong Kong services back in July of 2017. This new route would be their first route into Asia besides Denpasar, and their A330 fleet would operate it. Competition between airlines on the Australia – Hong Kong route is extremely fierce with the likes of Cathay and Qantas operating flights per […]
Since 2017, Virgin Australia has given Velocity members the ability to buy points. The airline introduced their points booster as a way for guests to quickly attain points which is extremely helpful when you’re short for a redemption and have no other way to get points. The points booster program works in conjunction with Points.com, […]
Virgin Austalia has recently announced a new fare brand that will be exclusively for their long-haul routes. The airline has not only done this to add greater options for passengers, but it’s also a way that they can better match their parter Delta who offers the same thing very much in terms of fares. As […]
Mr Karl Schuster has played a vital part in the success of the Velocity program over the past few years. To be more precise, Mr Shucster has worked at Virgin Australia for nearly five years, and within that time he’s introduced a lot of changes and additions to the program, and most importantly, it’s grown […]
Hong Kong is a fantastic city to visit and one of my favourites I’ve seen so far. While I’m sure most all of you would have seen the protests and destructive scenes in the media, the city is still safe to visit and I can personally back that up as I visited during the peak […]
If you have social media or even watch TV, you would have definitely seen the utter devastation and destruction in our beautiful country that seems not to want to end. For the past few months, firefighters have been doing an incredible job trying to restrict these bushfires, but they continue to keep growing and cause […]
On November 14th of this year, Virgin Australia officially unveiled plans for their upcoming service connecting Brisbane to Tokyo at a press conference held here in Brisbane. The airline currently already operates two Hong Kong services, one from Sydney and one from Melbourne. Still, this new service will ultimately end the Melbourne service as the […]
Who doesn’t like having a nice relaxing glass of wine but also being able to earn points for doing so? Well, this promotion is going to be very good for those who do, and it’s actually a fantastic time that it’s become available as Christmas and even New Years is really only around the corner. […]
It’s that time of the year, time to think about airline status for next year and also trying to requalify for the status you wish to hold. This year has been quite a slow year for double status credits promotions but finally — some great news for travellers using the Velocity program. Virgin Australia is […]
Virgin Australia has today announced quite a number of substantial changes which covers both international and domestic services. As you may have seen, Virgin will soon be starting services to Tokyo in partnership with their codeshare partner ANA who already services two cities in Australia – Sydney & Perth. Virgin has operated services to Hong […]