Gold with Red partner

[sogg]

Hi guys,
Been lurking around the forum for a month or so, learned a lot about frequent flyer programs and how to get the most out of them. But I have a question that I have not been able to find the answer to.

I have worked out that on my upcoming honeymoon to the US I will reach Gold status, (I'm pooling my finance's account to mine). Now I'm just wanting to know how easy going virgin are when travelling with a partner who is not at equal status. Eg. Can they also use priority boarding/check in if we are traveling together?

Also, once you hit the 500sc required to turn gold, does every sec after that count towards renewal straight away?

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[flyingfan]

Virgin have said as long as you stay together you can use the perks of the higher status such as priority checkin and boarding.

 

[samas]

Also, once you hit the 500sc required to turn gold, does every sec after that count towards renewal straight away?
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That's correct. The day you hit 500sc becomes your anniversary date, and you will have 12 months to earn 400 new status credits to maintain

 

[sogg]

That's correct. The day you hit 500sc becomes your anniversary date, and you will have 12 months to earn 400 new status credits to maintain

Thanks, what about if I earn an additional 500sc after turning gold? Do you turn plat or is that an extra 1000sc?

 

[kiwi1972]

G'day,
yeah up too 1000 points to go to platinum. I have found all family on my bookings get the same treatment as me. I have reached platinum and gone another 500 sc over so my wife is now a gold flyer. Not far off getting her to platinum now too.

 

[ywwol]

That's correct. The day you hit 500sc becomes your anniversary date, and you will have 12 months to earn 400 new status credits to maintain

There's usually a lag of 1-2 days. That day where your status is reviewed in the anniversary date. Any flights between the day of 500sc and that review date won't count towards maintain for next year.

 

[sogg]

There's usually a lag of 1-2 days. That day where your status is reviewed in the anniversary date. Any flights between the day of 500sc and that review date won't count towards maintain for next year.

So your saying that if I reach 500sc and have my Lax-mel trip 1 or 2 days later. They won't count towards anything?

 

[ywwol]

It will count towards qualifying for platinum, but maybe not requalification for gold.

 

[pshepvic]

There's usually a lag of 1-2 days. That day where your status is reviewed in the anniversary date. Any flights between the day of 500sc and that review date won't count towards maintain for next year.

Whilst there is a lag, a call to Velocity call centre will ensure they do count this towards requalification. They should be able to do a manual adjustment - they did for me back when Platinum was first introduced, as this is exactly what happened to me in my first year. I can't believe 1.5 years on and the problem still exists...

 

[smatho10]

Are you traveling within US? Because you will still have your silver velocity card. We had the same experience (Silver & Red) traveling around the US on delta. We didn't take the chance of no lounge access due to velocity taking a couple of days to tick over. So we bought the 30 day lounge pass... Which great for yourself and your fiance.

 

[dave303]

When we travel at work there's usually a few gold card holders and a bunch of us regular plebs (for now... )
we've priority checked in and boarded 2 extras regularly and 3 on occasion.. the big thing on check-in seems to be they have to be on the same reservation. As for priority boarding, they don't seem to care too much, but we make a point of walking in together. priority boarding doesn't really bother me so much though.

hope that helps!

 

[bullerdude]

As I Plat I have used priority checkin for myself and several mates (all no-status) spread accross multiple reservations - was very pleased

 

[WLG]

Hi guys,
Been lurking around the forum for a month or so, learned a lot about frequent flyer programs and how to get the most out of them. But I have a question that I have not been able to find the answer to.

I have worked out that on my upcoming honeymoon to the US I will reach Gold status, (I'm pooling my finance's account to mine). Now I'm just wanting to know how easy going virgin are when travelling with a partner who is not at equal status. Eg. Can they also use priority boarding/check in if we are traveling together?

Also, once you hit the 500sc required to turn gold, does every sec after that count towards renewal straight away?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Welcome to the forums!

I've never had a problem when travelling with Mrs WLG (VA Red), which generally involves lounge access/checking in at the respective lounge and priority boarding. Generally she'll be treated as well as I am on board too, so newspapers, water bottles, IFE, drinks, snacks etc. FWIW we are almost always on the same booking.

 

[dandandan]

Try weeks, unless you call them and say you want to use the platinum complimentary upgrades when booking flexi flights and they will request it be put through asap. I don't know why it takes so long, I suppose that is why they give the one month grace period on card expiry but the way my recent review date was going that was going to pass anyway.

There's usually a lag of 1-2 days. That day where your status is reviewed in the anniversary date. Any flights between the day of 500sc and that review date won't count towards maintain for next year.