Actually, my understanding was that those tables only applied if you were booking the flight with Etihad (EY flight code) and crediting the points back to velocity. If the flight was a VA code then the VA rates would apply regardless of whose metal you were on. Happy to be wrong, but t would be nice to know either way.
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true. I realised I misread the original post. my bad.