A few months ago, Virgin Australia announced that they will launch services to Hong Kong. In 2016, the carrier also announced plans to partner with the HNA group. This meant the Virgin Australia group and HNA Aviation would have a greater reach into Asia and Australia. HNA Aviation is the largest private group of airlines in Asia, […]
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In December of last year, Virgin Australia and Air Canada announced a partnership. In this partnership, the airlines said that they would codeshare on some services, receive reciprocal frequent flyer benefits and make international connections easier both in Australia and the United States and Canada. As the partnership was announced in 2016 and it’s now almost […]
Airlines Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic currently have some amazing around the world deals originating from Australia. The itinerary starts in major Australian cities to Melbourne, you’ll then fly to Hong Kong. Onwards to London, then to Los Angeles and finally back to Brisbane. What is the cost? For Business Class, it will cost $3999 […]
If you read the blog regularly you should know by now that I don’t tend to travel the most direct way. As an example, here’s how I got from Washington to Brisbane with 7 stops. Most of the time when I do long routing it’s either trying a new product or I just love flying a certain […]
Virgin Australia and Air Canada has today announced plans to begin codeshare services from early 2017. The partnership means guests will be able to arrive into the USA or Australia and connect onto an Air Canada or Virgin Australia flight seamlessly. Per Virgin Australia, “We are enhancing our services from Australia to Los Angeles by offering […]
Virgin Australia has very recently ended their partnership with hotel booking website ”Agoda”. The airline has instead switched to their own booking service ”Virgin Holidays”. Here is the link to the booking website. When booking through Virgin Holidays you’ll get the same benefits as you would previously when booking through Agoda. Here are the benefits: Search for hotels […]
For a few weeks now Flybuys and Velocity have been running a promo for a 15% bonus on points when transferring. I decided I may as well transfer them over and get some value out of them rather than leave them with Flybuys. This post will explain how to transfer your Flybuys to Velocity points. […]
About 2 months ago I received an email from the king of miles Randy Petersen inviting me to attend ‘BACON’ for those that don’t know it’s a gathering of bloggers mostly from BoardingArea and some other various blogs. As soon as I saw the email I knew I would definitely love to attend. As I […]
Virgin Australia has today announced it will resume its Sydney to Abu Dhabi flights from September 1. Virgin stopped these flights at the end of last year due to getting their 777 fleet reconfigured with their new business class suites. They originally only flew the Sydney – Los Angeles flights but have now put the […]