Very interesting proposal with lounge access. I assume that even kids would count as guests of the primary cardholder (so the cardholder and a child couldn't enter)? Also noting the T&Cs of the Virgin lounge on arrival policy specifically excludes: "Eligible Partner Credit Card Holders"

Is family pooling status no longer counting towards your total?Because that's totally me and it's going to be incredibly hard to maintain Gold from here on.

I have a dog, and love to travel with my dog (all my dogs have flown many times). But I don't see a need to put them in the cabin, only a need to reverse the absolutely asinine rules they put in place during the pandemic for pets travelling in a hold. Both majors have mandated booking even d...

It's even more compelling an offer when you add in family pooling. Can get one adult to platinum or two to gold (by switching the beneficiary family member) quite easily. I just hope they've done their sums right and this works for them financially with reasonable load factors.

I love my dogs and have flown them in the hold dozens of times but...yeah...no thanks. A much simpler solution would be to allow us to check their crates in as excess baggage at the terminal itself, rather than have to go through middleman freight companies that charge a 300% markup just to ...