Velocity has announced its latest transfer bonus to run during the month of May:
Transfer your reward points from… hotel partners by 31 May 2019, and see what Points can make possible. Continue reading…
The SkyBus-Velocity Frequent Flyer partnership allows you to earn Velocity Points on about half of SkyBus services, including those in Auckland. Continue reading…
Australia’s second-largest carrier has always lagged behind Qantas in lounge access options (and still does) but they are slowly and surely closing the gap.
In this guide, I run through the lounges in each city, what to expect when you use a lounge, and a quick look at the Virgin Australia paid lounge program and the one credit card that offers Virgin Australia lounge access as an (unofficial) perk. Continue reading…
This promotion will earn you double the regular Velocity Status Credits earn rate on Virgin Australia flights but make sure you register for the promotion before making your booking.
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This guide outlines some of the best redemption options when using Virgin Australia Velocity points from New Zealand. Continue reading…
The American Express Platinum Charge is the big card of the Amex NZ stable, and comes with a chunky annual fee of $1250. However there is a huge array of included benefits, which if maximised the value should easily help justify the annual cost. Continue reading…
It has been a few big weeks for Velocity, devaluing its transfer rate to KrisFlyer (bad news) and strengthening its international lounge network (good news). Let’s throw another piece of (bad) news in there: they are increasing the cash component of a lot of award bookings. Continue reading…
Velocity Frequent Flyer’s Velocity eStore is one of the handiest sites out there for increasing your Velocity Points balance.
They have a wide range of partner online retailers, and if you have plans to shop online for gifts for family and friends, then figuring out what you can earn in return either by using the Velocity eStore or as cashback through CashRewards is worth a couple of minutes of your time.
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The ability to transfer points from Virgin Australia’s Velocity program to Singapore Airlines’ KrisFlyer has been available since November 2014, and it is one of the only frequent flyer program partnerships in the world which allow you to transfer your points between programs (British Airways and Iberia also allow you to transfer between each other). Continue reading…
