Air New Zealand’s Airpoints Status Hold programme can help new parents with Gold or Elite staus keep their tier benefits for an extra 24 months.
Both parents get this benefit if they hold status in their own right.
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Qantas Frequent Flyer’s Status Hold programme can freeze the elite status of new parents at the same level for up to 18 months.
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Velocity Frequent Flyer offers new parents an up to six-month pause on their elite status when welcoming a new addition to their family. It’s worth taking up if you have Velocity Silver status or above.
Point Hacks founder Keith took advantage of this benefit twice in five years for his two children. It helped him maintain his Velocity Gold status during periods of travel downtime.
Qantas also has a similar programme.
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Velocity Frequent Flyer has an excellent and very useful Family Points Pooling feature. It can offer huge benefits to couples and families trying to build their Velocity Points and Status Credits balances.
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Qantas don’t allow household accounts, or pooling like Virgin and Air New Zealand, but they do offer the ability to transfer points to another nominated family member. If you have at least 5,000 points in a family member’s account, they can be combined with another eligible family member’s account to stop them going to waste. Continue reading…
The Doha-based oneworld carrier Qatar Airways is offering a promotion to travellers in Auckland, Perth and Adelaide, in which a family of up to four people with two adults and two children aged 11 years or younger will pay for the just adult fares. Continue reading…
This was the first flight in our big trip for 2016.
After what felt like a month or so of prep for getting our house ready, packing and generally moving four people and their stuff (and ski gear) for 7 weeks travelling, boy was I glad to sit down on this flight and get going.
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The Sheraton Villas in Fiji are in the Starwood complex on Denarau, between the main Sheraton Hotel and The Westin.
In this review I’ll cover off why we chose the Sheraton Villas, how I booked them using American Express Membership Rewards and Starwood Preferred Guest points, and my thoughts on the Villas and the pools and other facilities available to guests. In short, I was pleased we stayed in a Villa for the space on offer – as a whole, the stay was good, but not great – here’s why. Continue reading…
Earlier this year my family decided to spend around 10 days in Fiji – with the majority of the break booked using points. We flew over in Fiji Airways Business Class, stayed at the Sheraton Villas on Denarau for the first half of the break, and the InterContinental Fiji for the second.
For this trip our little group is two adults, a 3 year old and 9 month old – meaning I only had to find 2 or 3 seats using points, as Abby, our 9 month old, can travel as an infant. I really tried to book everything using points, so read on for how we managed to bring in a pretty deluxe holiday for not so deluxe money, and for my thoughts on Fiji Airways A330 Business Class. Continue reading…
