Updated June, 2026 by Drew That family holiday to Fiji is finally within reach, but your partner is 5,000 points short. As our family’s unofficial ‘points banker’, this is a problem I solve all the time — and the Qantas…
I spend a lot on foreign transactions. More than most — travel four or five times a year, ski seasons where I help cover the family, cruises, subscriptions billed in USD, flights booked direct with overseas airlines. I’ve always had…
Planning a family ski trip but your Velocity points are spread across multiple accounts? For Australian frequent flyers, Velocity Family Pooling is one of two ways to combine points — the other being Family Points Transfers. Most people don’t realise…
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Most guides to getting to Sydney Airport by public transport start and end at the train. Pay the station levy, change at Central or Wolli Creek, arrive having spent $20 on the privilege. There is a cheaper, more direct option…
Heathrow is one of those airports you either know well or find completely bewildering. For Australians, it’s almost unavoidable — it sits on virtually every routing to Europe, and if you’re flying British Airways, Qantas codeshares, or most Middle Eastern…
I lived in Melbourne for two years. Flew Qantas and Virgin back to Sydney more times than I can count, and travelled internationally out of Tullamarine regularly. If you’ve flown both Sydney and Melbourne, you already know the big difference:…
We booked a $400 AUD return to Singapore on Scoot. No lounge access, no free food, no frills. But we had a 9:45am departure from Terminal 1 and two hours to fill. When I reached out to the LoungePair team…
The outbound TR11 was a clean run. Hand luggage only, Scoot to Gate, row 40, no dramas. The return had more wrinkles. Nothing went seriously wrong. But there were speed bumps — some self-inflicted, some structural to flying out of…
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