Question regarding re-qualifying and status..

[justcallmeryan]

Hi everyone, I am fairly new to this whole status thing and have a question regarding re-qualifying.

I am currently 20 SC's away from re-qualifying for VA Platinum and my review date is not until 26 December this year. I have a SYD-MEL return in a couple of weeks that will nicely get me the 20 I need to re-qualify. My questions are:

1. Does my review date change to the re-qualify date or does it stay on 26 December (my original Platinum qualifying date)?
2. To re-qualify for another year, I need to have 800 SC's in the 12 months leading up to review date. So if the review date stays at 26 December, does that mean any SC's I accumulate between re-qualify date (will be 28 May) and 26 December aren't worth anything?
3. Ultimately I would like to know if I should spread my travel out to some other airlines between 28 May and 26 December as perhaps those SC's are not terribly useful?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Cheers.

 

[bullerdude]

Hi everyone, I am fairly new to this whole status thing and have a question regarding re-qualifying.

I am currently 20 SC's away from re-qualifying for VA Platinum and my review date is not until 26 December this year. I have a SYD-MEL return in a couple of weeks that will nicely get me the 20 I need to re-qualify. My questions are:

1. Does my review date change to the re-qualify date or does it stay on 26 December (my original Platinum qualifying date)?
2. To re-qualify for another year, I need to have 800 SC's in the 12 months leading up to review date. So if the review date stays at 26 December, does that mean any SC's I accumulate between re-qualify date (will be 28 May) and 26 December aren't worth anything?
3. Ultimately I would like to know if I should spread my travel out to some other airlines between 28 May and 26 December as perhaps those SC's are not terribly useful?

1. No. Your review date will be 26 December.
2. In general Yes. Any additional status credits will not count to your next renewal, however they will count to Partner Gold/Plat if that's of interest too you.
3. Up to you - I see this as a personal choice.

 

[Jama]

The more you earn the less its worth. The more loyal you are....

Once you re-qualify, all SC's up until your review date are thrown away, unless as pointed out, you happen to earn enough extra to give a gold or platinum companion membership. So make sure you achieve at least 500 extra. several hundred is a lot to waste. If you earn significant SC's, as I just discovered, you can only nominate once, in case you have visions of covering your whole family. So all the extra will be wasted. You can also redirect the SC's with pooling but pointless if your family don't do enough segments anyway.

Best advise is either, as soon as you re-qualify start flying with someone else and see if you can get some status that might be useful. Or so you can enjoy some of your status benefits on all flights, buy the absolute cheapest fares at all times and re-qualify as close to review date as possible with the least overrun possible. Might take a little planning though.

 

[justcallmeryan]

The more you earn the less its worth. The more loyal you are....

Once you re-qualify, all SC's up until your review date are thrown away, unless as pointed out, you happen to earn enough extra to give a gold or platinum companion membership. So make sure you achieve at least 500 extra. several hundred is a lot to waste. If you earn significant SC's, as I just discovered, you can only nominate once, in case you have visions of covering your whole family. So all the extra will be wasted. You can also redirect the SC's with pooling but pointless if your family don't do enough segments anyway.

Hmmm this is a bizarre situation and to be honest kind of annoying! I have a fair bit of SC heavy travel (SYD - NYC return in August, a couple of SYD - PER, a SYD - BME and then SYD - CPT 4 days before my review date), all to happen before 26 December which is when I am due to be reviewed. I do have a +1 who has no status but only ever travels with me and as such status not so valuable...

mmmmmmm

 

[medhead]

Partner status will give them extra points.

 

[Jama]

And if you get them to platinum 4 upgrades

 

[Deleted member 29185]

And extra checked luggage allowance.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Ultimately I would like to know if I should spread my travel out to some other airlines between 28 May and 26 December as perhaps those SC's are not terribly useful?

The main benefit of having status is to receive all the niceties whilst flying. If you move your travel to another airline, unless you already have status on that airline, you'll miss out on the benefits of status until you reach their requirements. Perhaps looking at a VA partner airline may retain some benefits whilst earning new status, but to what end? As others have said, personal choice but +1 status may be more beneficial.