Two month trial of Platinum Plus

[ferntree]

Got email from Virgin today welcoming me to a two month trial membership of Platinum Plus. Anybody else? Must admit there really does seem to be little benefit other than an ego boost but I'll keep an open mind ...

 

[kevrosmith]

Yes, I've received the email too. Woot! Quite unexpected, but certainly nice. I have a couple trips planned in the next few months.

I've been booking a lot of J fares lately for the (much fewer) times I fly these days, so even Economy X benefits has been less useful as Platinum member, and I haven't been able to use the Upgrade vouchers for a couple years now.

I got to Partner Platinum last year, and am still waiting to assign that benefit to my wife (who dropped to Gold), but now I have the P+ Partner Platinum benefit to assign too.

Shame they can't bring a Lounge back to my home port of CNS. It would be nice if they could give an F&B voucher at non-lounge ports for J and high Status members in lieu of the lounge.

 

[ferntree]

Shame they can't bring a Lounge back to my home port of CNS. It would be nice if they could give an F&B voucher at non-lounge ports for J and high Status members in lieu of the lounge.

That is the one thing I still miss since switching from Qantas to Virgin post covid: no Virgin lounge at Hobart airport, and in the general departure lounge it's survival of the fittest!

 

[aus_flyer]

A lot of fanfare. Not much else.

 

[kallinch]

So from a friend. This is test launch to iron out process and technical issue before 1st Oct real launch. It’s a smaller group of 500 eligible accounts.

For those who have it now - I’d encourage you to give strong feedback about this new tier ….especially about the “value” of it if any compared to Plat.

Apparently this tier has been in works since VA 1.0 and originally Plat and Plat plus had plans for it own seperate lounge network like QF domestic J lounges.

 

[aus_flyer]

So from a friend. This is test launch to iron out process and technical issue before 1st Oct real launch. It’s a smaller group of 500 eligible accounts.

For those who have it now - I’d encourage you to give strong feedback about this new tier ….especially about the “value” of it if any compared to Plat.

Apparently this tier has been in works since VA 1.0 and originally Plat and Plat plus had plans for it own seperate lounge network like QF domestic J lounges.

I don’t see any justification for it being double the requirement of Platinum. For what? Not much

 

[kallinch]

I don’t see any justification for it being double the requirement of Platinum. For what? Not much

Exactly….

 

[kallinch]

This looks like a nice new perk….or a very lucky technical error (not me just noticed on VFF Facebook group). Posted 3 days ago.

 

[aus_flyer]

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This looks like a nice new perk….or a very lucky technical error (not me just noticed on VFF Facebook group). Posted 3 days ago.

I think a lucky error

 

[kallinch]

I think a lucky error

Reading comments of post sounds like a pattern of errors…

- some plat plus not earning correct points for VA flight
- some able to access Beyond lounge with plat plus card

 

[aus_flyer]

Reading comments of post sounds like a pattern of errors…

- some plat plus not earning correct points for VA flight
- some able to access Beyond lounge with plat plus card

Where’s this from? Nobody has a Platinum Plus physical card yet.