AFF Community Round-Up |
Happy New Year! |
We hope you had an enjoyable break over Christmas and New Year, and welcome to the first Frequent Flyer Gazette for 2020. This year, you'll continue to receive the latest frequent flyer news & deals in your inbox each Monday & Friday morning. |
Virgin Australia Increasing Carrier Charges on Wednesday |
As a quick reminder, Virgin Australia will increase the carrier charges payable when redeeming Velocity points for Virgin Australia reward flights from Wednesday, 8 January. This only applies to new bookings made from this date, so you still have two days to redeem your Velocity points at the old rates! Read more about these changes... |
Featured AFF Member Trip Reports |
New Years in Vanwatoo |
Trip report by bpeteb | Ever since we visited Vanuatu for a day nearly seven years ago, bigAl has been wanting to return. We both had to take leave between Christmas and New Year so decided it was time to go back. We'd seen a LE deal for Hidden Cove Retreat (on Espirito Santo) but dallied too long and the dates after Christmas were gone before I pressed book. We went round and round and eventually booked the place we'd first looked at in Port Vila. read more... |
Ohhhh, Canadaaaaa |
Trip report by Katie | Our intrepid little fam bam are heading off on an adventure tomorrow - to Canada. Our first family trip there, and first time in Canada for Mr Katie and Miss 13 (I've had two brief conference trips to YVR and YUL). Our inspiration was it's somewhere new, and a friend of mine has been inviting me/us to visit the log cabin that he and his wife built on a lake west of Sudbury. read more... |
AFF Member Profile |
This week, we interviewed AFF member Irishbazz from Perth. Irishbazz joined Australian Frequent Flyer in 2016 and has so far made 261 posts.
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Q: Most recent trip? |
A: ORK-AMS-HKG-PER last Monday the 30th of December, with Aer Lingus and Cathay Pacific.
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Q: What's still on your bucket list? |
A: Maldives. It's paradise and hopefully heading there later this year.
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Q: What's one thing you would never travel overseas without? |
A: Apart from all the obvious ones, three things: A Champagne stopper, mini pepper grinder, mini salt mill.
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Q: What's one piece of advice you would give to a new AFF member? |
A: Figure out where you want to travel and point alliance(s) that will get you there, and be disciplined in your use of credit card spend.
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Q: Favourite thread on AFF? |
A: Singapore Airlines Tips, Trips and Tales - so much useful info contained within.
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