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A redemption-heavy week with one clear theme: where your points actually buy seats is shifting. Aeroplan announced a long-haul award-chart hike landing June 1, while Qatar Airways quietly started letting Qantas and Velocity members into Business Class award seats it had been sitt...

A noisy week for the airlines: Qantas and Virgin both surprised the market with Double Status Credits offers running in parallel — first time I can remember that happening in 2026. Velocity also kicked off a multi-month transfer bonus that pairs neatly with most major Aussie rewa...

A loud start to May. Westpac launched a chunky 200,000-point promo on its Altitude Rewards Black card, NAB quietly switched off one of its more useful transfer partners, and the Velocity buy-points sale closed out the week. Here's what mattered for points-watchers between Apr 27 ...

A quieter news week than the RBA-driven chaos of earlier this month, but two stories matter a lot if you're sitting on a points balance: Velocity is doing its biggest buy-points sale of the year, and the Westpac Altitude Qantas Black 90k offer is back for existing Westpac custome...

A transition week. The Amex Platinum 220k bonus went away, Westpac telegraphed the next big-four fee hike, and a couple of award-redemption stories worth knowing. The big Velocity buy-points sale is also days away — here's what dropped between April 13 and 19. Westpac Confirms Cr...

Quieter week after the RBA earthquake, but the fallout is already showing up. NAB hiked card fees, the churning community is soul-searching, and the biggest Amex Platinum offer in recent memory expires tomorrow. Here's what happened. NAB Hikes Annual Fees on Low Rate and Low Fee ...

Big week for Australian credit card news. The RBA dropped its conclusions paper on interchange reform, Amex is trimming lounge perks, NAB is cutting a transfer partner, and Westpac is tweaking fees. Here's everything you need to know. RBA Bans Card Surcharges, Slashes Interchange...

I've been churning credit cards in Australia for years. This is how it actually works, what to watch out for, and how I use this site to keep track of it all. What is credit card churning? Churning is signing up for credit cards to collect the signup bonus, then cancelling and mo...

Some of the best credit card offers are only available to existing customers of a bank. In this post, I'll explain what existing customer offers are and how you can access them. What Is an Existing Customer Offer? An existing customer offer is a credit card promotion that's only ...

Most credit card sign-up bonuses require you to spend a minimum amount within the first 3 months. A typical offer might require $3,000 in 90 days to unlock 100,000 bonus points. The key is to hit this target with spending you'd do anyway—not to buy things you don't need. Here are...