I used to hang out here a lot....Velocity's 20th birthday

[crazydave98]

Interesting to see Velocity make a post about its 20th birthday. Seems like only yesterday I used to inhabit AFF and pioneered airline social media. How times change!
Still Crazy After All These Years (with apologies to Paul Simon)

 

[oz_mark]

Hey crazy Dave. Long time no see. Good to see you're still around

 

[lovestotravel]

9 years goes way too fast

 

[QF WP]

Ah those were the days @crazydave98 . Still fondly remember Peta ringing me up to get Brett Godfrey out of the office from time to time; then organising the focus group of Australian Frequent Flyer members (all QFF Platinums) to meet with you and Brett to tell you what they gave us (benefits) to help you design the Velocity program.

20 years on, where does the time go . We should re-create the meeting group

@IainF , @NM , Dave Noble - who else was in the focus group?

 

[NM]

Yep, @QF WP I remember that focus group session well. Welcome back @crazydave98 and do hang around. I am sure AFF is a better place with you here amongst us.

 

[QF WP]

Your post on LinkedIn.



and then mine:



If you need a +1 to any VA parties…I’m available

 

[kpc]

Yeah but now Virgin (aka Bain) have trashed their frequent flyer program by moving towards a spend based status tier system....a lot of people like myself have become increasingly disengaged with the Velocity program. I have gone from Velocity Platinum---> Gold--> Silver-->Forever Red!

 

[serfty]

Yeah but now Virgin (aka Bain) have trashed their frequent flyer program by moving towards a spend based status tier system....a lot of people like myself have become increasingly disengaged with the Velocity program. I have gone from Velocity Platinum---> Gold--> Silver-->Forever Red!

Criteria for the original Velocity status was based on spend - so they are reverting ... although with much tougher criteria than back then.

 

[Happy Dude]

Yeah but now Virgin (aka Bain) have trashed their frequent flyer program by moving towards a spend based status tier system....a lot of people like myself have become increasingly disengaged with the Velocity program. I have gone from Velocity Platinum---> Gold--> Silver-->Forever Red!

I'd suggest the disengagement is more instant than increasing following the recent change. That's clear from the sheer volume - in terms of noise and number - of objections and disapprovals here of the new spend-based system. But it's too soon to know the full effect. If you've dropped that far already you've gradually distanced yourself from VA but not because of the new VFF system.

I'm sure we'd all love to get any insights from @crazydave98 regarding Velocity's reaction to AFF members posts in response to the program changes.