Thanks Virgin!

[Bell21]

I've always liked flying with Virgin, even back in the days when it was Virgin Blue, and I still like flying them now - especially as I'm travelling quite a bit domestically and if you book a few weeks out, you can get J seats at same price as flex economy.

Anyway - I've been flying enough domestically to get close to Virgin Plat (I've never been more than Gold with an airline) and was pleasantly surprised this morning when I logged on to my velocity account and they had upgraded me to Plat, even though I was only on 980+ status credits - a nice 'customer service' touch I thought, so I thought I'd give Virgin a 'shout-out' for that.

Admittedly, I have nearly achieved Plat with about 4 months of flying, so possibly that was noticed, although double status credits helped a lot with that too.

I hope VA stays strong financially!

 

[ZigZagWanderer]

Yeah, they did the same to me a few years back, with a free upgrade to Gold when I was sort of close. I guess it's a ploy to keep you pushing for more points, and it worked with me, keeping that Gold for a couple of years.

I then bought lounge access before dropping back down, because it's cheaper when you're a higher status. The sons of bachelors have closed the lounge at my local airport now, so I've dropped that too, now.