Go Platinum or pool my points to my partner?

[wallacej]

Not that I'm aware of.

I have post ATA experience of guesting non-flying guests and I think the official line is "as long as a boarding pass is held by someone in the group for a flight that day".

I am WP, and my wife who is not had a BP for a flight that day, I was not travelling. I was able to take her to priority check in, into the lounge, with me, then through security. The reverse also happened where she was allowed into the lounge with me on a day I was travelling and she was not. Virgin.

 

[bullerdude]

There was a 'glitch in the matrix' during August 2012 where the T&Cs were updated in such a way that companion gold did indeed only require 500 SCs to be earned after qualifying for platinum. Virgin honoured their 'mistake T&Cs' and I was able to appoint appoint a companion platinum during this period. bullerdude might have appointed his companion gold at the same time.

T&Cs were quickly tightened up to make it clear that you had to requalify as platinum (after initially qualifying), then earn another 500 SCs before you could appoint a companion.

Actually, mine was appointed around September - after the T+C's were tightened up again.