yeah, sure you can get on the aircraft with 20,000+ velocity points each way - seriously that is a whole lot of travel to get those points. This scheme is a scam in my book. I wanted to go to Canberra for example the other day from melbourne, one way 22,500 points + $40 taxes or $109 on the net for any old bugger. It is seriously difficult to see the benifit of this program