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Flybuys - Free Virgin Australia Lounge Access Plus Velocity Points Bonus

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Watch your points fly with your 15% BONUS
Here's an amazing points and travel offer from flybuys and Velocity.
Link your accounts and get 15% bonus Velocity Points simply by activating to automatically transfer all your flybuys points to Velocity in May and June 2017.*
Plus, you'll get an exclusive invite to Velocity Explore Gold with three months FREE Virgin Australia Lounge access.^
Hurry! You'll need to make sure you have linked your flybuys and Velocity accounts, and activated this offer by 9 May to participate.

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Terms below:

Things you need to know:

Once linked and activated, all your flybuys points will be automatically transferred to Velocity at the end of May and June 2017. Transfers will be completed within 5 business days after the end of each month.*

From 15 May to 30 June 2017, the annual transfer limit of 138,000 flybuys points will not apply. At the end of the promotional period the transfer limit of 138,000 will be reinstated.*

Once your offer is activated (you must also have linked your flybuys account to Velocity), you’ll receive an invitation from us before the end of May 2017 to apply for complimentary Velocity Explore Gold including access to the Virgin Australia Lounge.^

To be eligible for this automatic transfer offer, linked members will need to have a minimum of 2,000 flybuys points in their flybuys account. The minimum points transferrable is 2,000, and then in increments of 200.*

Your 15% bonus Velocity Points will be applied at the time you transfer.*

From 1 July 2017, you will need to visit flybuys.com.au/transfer to transfer your flybuys points to Velocity Points, as usual practice.

(Condition 1) Gold benefits not included in three month Explore Gold membership include Guaranteed Economy Reward Seats for annual trip to any Australian destination, Membership pause for Parental Leave, complimentary membership with our car hire and hotel partners.

(Condition 2) Membership and entry to the Virgin Australia Lounge is subject to the Virgin Australia Lounge Terms and Conditions available at virginaustralia.com/lounge https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/experience/at-the-airp….

(Condition 3) Available at selected ports https://www.virginaustralia.com/au/en/information/priority-b…

(Condition 4) 75% Points bonus is also applicable with Virgin Samoa, Hertz, Europcar, Thrifty, Cover-More Travel Insurance, Airport Parking, Brunel Limousines, Virgin Australia Holidays and Cruisepilot.

(Condition 5) To be eligible you need to be a member of both flybuys and Velocity Frequent Flyer and be personally sent this offer.

(Condition 6) Full Gold membership benefits can be found at velocityfrequentflyer.com/content/Status/GoldStatus/

(Condition 7) Find out more about the Status Credit requirements for Velocity membership levels.

(Condition 8) At the completion of your Explore Gold membership, to maintain Gold status you must comply with the reduced requirements of earning 80 Status Credits and fly at least one Eligible Sector. An Eligible Sector means a flight journey, from an origin to a destination, that has been flown; purchased using cash or an Accepted Payment Card; that has not been purchased in whole or in part using Velocity Points; or that has not been booked as a Reward Seat; where Virgin Australia is the marketing carrier (this means that the flight number stats with a VA prefix).

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  • Whats the advantage of Velocity Points over Flybuys Points? noobs question.

    • +1

      You can redeem Velocity points for reward seats, upgrades, etc with Virgin Australia and partner airlines. Flybuys points can't directly do that.

      • Cheaper Dom flights

        • Cheaper international business class flights!

  • +2

    just received this and activated, pretty happy as i missed the last trial gold offer. 15 percent transfer bonus for may and june too so not too shabby

    • Do you see it as activated in your Flybuys account? I activated it a week ago, but it's coming up as expired in my list of links…would be really peeved if I miss out because of a glitch in their system…

      • +1

        It had showed up as activated but it has disappeared since the cutoff date…. Hopefully there are no issues. I have tried received the official explore gold offer but it did say it would be sent before the end of May so im hoping to get it toward the end.

      • I received the invitation for trial gold the other day so should be all good.

  • just be weary that as far as I understand during May and June, they will clean out your entire Flybuys balance to transfer to Velocity points with a 15% bonus. The 138k annual limit will be lifted during this promotional period

  • great timing. Got a flight with V Australia on June 9 :)

  • What are your Flybuys points balances approximately?

  • BAAAH! My partner got the offer but not me?! He is the supplementary card holder on my flybuys but somehow always seems to get the good offers.. he's already a virgin lounge member. Why does my flybuys love him more?!

    • If you (they) qualify for gold (by getting the 80SC required during the explore gold 90 days) then Virgin/Velocity will give you a pro-rata refund of the lounge fee!

  • +5

    Great, more people in the lounge who aren't high value customers.

    • +2
    • Mate, you took the words right out of my mouth!

    • Yeah, like people who drink beer instead of wine, and people who wear shirts with collar.

      • They got better collection beer than wine, and most CEO wear t-shirts these days ;)

        • Yeah many CEOs these days are fashion victims. So horrible that they don't look the part these days. I'm looking at you Aussie "rich" people!

          And no champagne? Just some second rate Australian wines and sparkling. At least there are European beers to wash away the horrible food they serve.

    • +2

      you being an ozbargainer commenting about high value customer…lol
      you will throw away the loyalty for virgin if qantas gives you better deal…isnt what ozbargainers are proud off??

    • Mate, you seem like the type that if you looked at me up and down for bein in your precious lounge, I'd take the thong off my foot and slap you with it, but it'd probably be my last good pair of havi's I picked up cheap in Bali along with my singlets, and I wouldn't want to draw attention to all the ciggies I'm trying to get through duty-free, so I'd just throw you a greaso instead.

  • Missed out, any way to get "targeted" for this offer!? :)

  • I didn't get the 'targeted' offer, maybe because I didn't have the 'receive offers' checkbox ticked in communication preferences section of their website. But the transfer points+15% is open to all Velocity members via VA website.

    Can you transfer just some? Or is it all or nothing?

  • -1

    Now we just need a way to get 80 SC on the cheap.

    • buy your groceries at coles, petrol at shell, booze at liquor land/first choice, nick nacks at kmart etc etc and you can easy grab 10 status credits a month just through normal shopping, there is 30. Then you can probably find a standard return fair somewhere for the rest of the SC.

      • Wonder if the 80 counts stuff from Family Pooling.

        • pretty sure it does. Also a good point if it is available to you.

        • +1

          @ingster: The last time I looked at this it specifically excluded Family Pooling as a way to get credits. This may have changed since then but until you look at the fine print I wouldn't rely on this. Once you had qualified (through the 80 SC earn) then in other respects using Family Pooling worked perfectly. Just not to qualify from my understanding..

        • @jason andrade: are you saying that you can't get SC through family pooling ? if so that's incorrect as that's how we got gold the first time :)
          but maybe I mis understood your statement so in this case disregard my comment :)

        • @Gooddeal21:

          I am indeed saying that at the time I qualified (I used this method) it wasn't possible to do it using family pooling. However it may have changed since then (and perhaps you can use FP now).

      • But

        Use your linked flybuys card when you shop at Coles, Coles Online, Liquorland or First Choice Liquor and **earn 1 Status Credit for every $100 spent, up to 10 per month.***

        (Condition 8) At the completion of your Explore Gold membership, to maintain Gold status you must comply with the reduced requirements of earning 80 Status Credits and fly at least one Eligible Sector.

  • Does anyone know whether I would be allowed to go back to collecting flybuys if I change my mind down the track (once I use my lounge pass!)

  • great. more people in the already overcrowded lounge.

    • It's not very crowded outside peak times. I used to fly BNE-CBR-BNE a fair bit and the VA Canberra lounge was practically empty around lunchtime..

      Brisbane and Sydney always seemed full. Melbourne is also fairly empty outside peak hours (particularly if you were willing to sit a bit further down..

  • so you if link your accounts without this email you won't get the free gold?

    damn..

  • +1

    Got invite last night. :)

    Check your emails - you only have a couple of days to activate the gold membership.

  • Does anyone know how long it will take to get the gold membership? We are going away in June and really hoping to get it before then!

  • Damn…invitation email had gone into spam folder and only found it now :(

    Link had to be clicked before 11:59 PM on Sunday 21 May 2017 :(

    • Same. The irony of it is I missed it because I was overseas (and flying Virgin to get there…)

  • Just got upgraded last night, have until 25 Aug to earn 80 SC.

    • Sure it's 3 months to earn the SC? According to the Ts and Cs, it's a flat 30 September deadline for all…

      • I got upgraded today 7/6/17. My Velocity account says I have until 7/9/17 to earn 80 SC and 1 flight sector to retain Gold.

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