Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers The Admirals Club lounge at Reagan National Airport in Washington DC. Photo: American Airlines. Airport lounge access works a bit differently in the USA. This sometimes has its downsides. For example, a domestic First Class ticket on a US airline doesn’t usually include lounge access. And the major US airlines don’t provide lounge access to their own frequent flyers when travelling on a domestic ticket. (Delta doesn’t even give lounge access to its frequent flyers with a long-haul interna ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers AirAsia X Premium Flatbed on the Airbus A330-300. Photo: AirAsia. AirAsia X has two rows of “Premium Flatbed” seats on its Airbus A330s. These seats offer a lot more space than AirAsia’s Economy seats – but what do you actually get? The AirAsia X Premium Flatbed seat When you book a Premium Flatbed seat with AirAsia X, the main thing you’re paying for is the extra comfort. These seats are fairly wide, with lots of legroom, and recline to become angle-flat beds. When fully reclined, the be ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers The new Oneworld Lounge at Seoul Incheon Airport. Photo: Oneworld. When you have status with one Oneworld airline, you’ll get to enjoy reciprocal benefits with all of the other Oneworld alliance airlines. For example, Qantas Gold frequent flyers enjoy lounge access, priority boarding and lots more benefits when flying with all 13 Oneworld airlines, thanks to reciprocal Oneworld Sapphire recognition. Qantas Platinum members get recognised as Oneworld Emerald flyers, giving even more allian ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Air New Zealand is changing up its trans-Tasman fare inclusions. Photo: Matt Graham. Air New Zealand will stop selling Seat+Bag fares and add more inclusions to its seat-only tickets on Trans-Tasman and Pacific Island routes. The Kiwi flag carrier will retain the foundations of its “Seats to Suit” model on international short-haul services, where customers have a choice of fare categories with different inclusions. But following this change, the cheapest fares will soon have more inclusio ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Velocity Frequent Flyer now partners with DiDi. Photo: Virgin Australia. Virgin Australia’s frequent flyer program has launched a new partnership with rideshare app DiDi. From today, Velocity Frequent Flyer members can earn points on every DiDi ride in Australia. For a limited time, you can also get a bonus 1,000 Velocity Points just for linking your DiDi and Velocity accounts. It comes two weeks after Velocity’s former rideshare partner Ola abruptly shut down its Australian operations. V ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers A Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330. Photo: Jeffry Surianto. Based out of Kuala Lumpur, Oneworld’s Malaysia Airlines offers an extensive network throughout Asia. They also offer flights from multiple ports in Australia, as well as a single route to Europe (London Heathrow). Malaysia Airlines offers Business Class seating on every mainline flight. This varies between recliner seats on its numerous Boeing 737s, to international-standard lie-flat seating on Airbus A330s and A350s. On all flights ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers A Turkish Airlines Boeing 787. Image: Turkish Airlines. You may already know that Finnair and Lufthansa offer interesting round-the-world tickets from Australia. But did you know that Turkish Airlines, which recently launched flights to Melbourne, also offers some great value round-the-world (RTW) airfares in Economy and Business Class? Based in Istanbul, Turkish Airlines is a member of Star Alliance. With a Turkish round-the-world ticket, you can fly from Australia to almost anywhere in ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Qantas and Optus launched a partnership for the second time in 2021. Photo: Qantas. Optus and Qantas Frequent Flyer have quietly ended their points-earning partnership. Since last Friday, 12 April 2024, the telco no longer offers new plans with Qantas points. Existing Optus customers on a Qantas SIM Only Plan can continue to earn points until 11 April 2025. Qantas appears to have given notice of the change on its website around the end of March. As of now, the Optus partnership page on th ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Qantas Frequent Flyer has introduced a new type of flight reward. What does this mean for the loyalty program and its members? Photo: Matt Graham. Last week, Qantas unveiled the biggest change to its frequent flyer program since 2019 with the introduction of Classic Plus Flight Rewards. Unlike traditional Classic Flight Rewards, which cost a fixed number of points, Qantas prices Classic Plus rewards dynamically. In general, Classic Plus rewards will be more expensive than Classic Rewards ..read more

Australian Frequent Flyer Australian Frequent Flyer - Tips, Tricks and Chat for Australian Frequent Flyers Photo: Qantas. Qantas will raise many of its service fees next week, with prices for seat selection, excess baggage and Qantas Club membership all going up. Qantas will also start charging to select a seat in the front row of Economy Class on Boeing 737 services. The price increases will all take effect from Thursday, 18 April 2024. Here’s what you need to know… Qantas seat selection fee increases From 18 April 2024, Qantas is increasing the cost of extra legroom seats. Here are the old v ..read more