Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[ceetee]

Well, that is just great! I’ve been VA Plat for years and recently this past 12 months moved most of my Dom/Intl flights to Qantas, even before VA made this blunder. Now that I am mm’s from QF Plat all of you Virgin flyers are going to move over to QF also. There goes the priority queue!
I’m being facetious of course, and I agree with many of these posts. VA is only a Dom airline with, as Steph eloquently puts it, a dogs brekkie of Int’l agreements. I hesitate to call them partnerships.
I love the VA staff and Dom experience, but I need to fly Int’l often, so QF has been wonderful.
But for all of you VA flyers contemplating a switch to QF, just stay where you are. It could get better

 

[Steven of Mysore]

Rather than a long Sunday of my disquiet, just a summary. Cannot be bothered with VA status again.

 

[TMP]

Like others, I'll look at QF out of interest now, and will fly if price is right, but JQ is a no no due to all the ancillary charges that end up making it basically the same as VA. Will lose my status, but credit card will keep me in the lounge. Aiming to keep partner at Gold for one more year into 2027 but that will be it for us. At the end of the day, I like VA and will keep a preference for them, but will not chase status.

 

[Jacques Vert]

JQ starter I get pinged at the gate if my carry on is 7.3kg. Not gonna happen on VA.

Overall, the hard and soft product is incrementally different between JQ and VA/QF, as outlined above. Enough to say that JQ starter is a different product to VA lite.

Can't you take 300gm out of your carry-on and put it in your pocket?

 

[ozstamps]

Maybe VA have decided that people like me aren't profitable enough to give perks to. I guess only time will tell if they are correct, but I maintain they are in for a bit of a shock.

The Q3 market share figures will tell us all the story I suspect.

Velocity has become a huge Yawn to mannnnnnnnnny this year.

Big mistake to p!ss off large armies of once loyal Elites in this of all years.

 

[Mattg]

Big mistake to p!ss off large armies of once loyal Elites in this of all years.

We get it. You've made your point loud and clear in this thread, repeatedly.

 

[ozstamps]

Cannot be bothered with VA status again.

We get it.

Many here are hoping Virgin gets it. And fast. Client feedback is golden in such cases. This poll shows 65% of those here will downgrade this year - a total disaster for Virgin if that is even HALF that figure program wide.

Still not too late to fine tune some of these new 'enhancements' to the FF plan and the Lifetime Gold loopy ground rules.

We know you love everything about Virgin, and you also keep telling us repeatedly, but this year not all agree.

ANY loyalty program of any kind on the planet would DIE if they saw these sort of disaster figures after a deliberate program derailing - and 324 votes is a VERY decent cross-section, that is voting here -

 

[RooFlyer]

Many here are hoping Virgin gets it. And fast. Client feedback is golden in such cases. This poll shows 65% of those here will downgrade this year - a total disaster for Virgin if that is program wide.

Haven’t figured out that this was an almost certain outcome of the changes and that VA might have planned it?

I won’t retain VA plat next year, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop flying them.

if you think sitting in a crowded lounge (as VA’s have become) and queueing for a free coffee etc has ever been worth chasing status for, I think you should rethink it.

 

[Mattg]

We know you love everything about Virgin, and you also keep telling us repeatedly, but this year not all agree.

I don't know if you're directing this comment at me, but I don't love everything about Virgin and don't keep telling you that repeatedly. In fact, I think I've made it pretty clear that I think the status changes have led to a lot of disengagement with the Velocity program.

I'm sure that people from Virgin are reading this thread, and are taking the feedback on board. The thing is, if you keep making the same points over and over, it drowns out the feedback from other members who also have opinions (many of which you would likely agree with).

Virgin would be much more likely to act if they get the same feedback from lots of different people, rather than the same points over and over from one person.

 

[MooTime]

I'm no less engaged with the velocity program, collecting points where I can to take my seat in a Q Suite, yes please.

Sure few less VA flights and drop status, but nothing stays the same forever.
It is what it is.