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Who knows?I thought family pooling counted towards the non-VA count of up to 3000SCs.
It's so damn confusing
Who knows?I thought family pooling counted towards the non-VA count of up to 3000SCs.
I wonder if this is the short term issue.''Upgrade to Gold. For life.
To qualify for Forever Gold, your balance (calculated from 1 February 2013 onwards) must reach a total of 12,000 Status Credits, with a minimum of 9,000 Status Credits earned on eligible Virgin Australia marketed flights, flown by you*.''
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Yeah I think they add to the overall total of the person who received them, but not that person's "personal travel on VA" component, obviously.I thought family pooling counted towards the non-VA count of up to 3000SCs.
Yet VA say they can only effectively track Status Credits from 1 February 2013 due to a system change?? Sounds like a convenient excuse.....I requested my history back in March.
It has every flight I have credited to the program since 2006.
It is when they changed from Navitaire to Sabre, but I am not sure of the link to the Status Credit count.Yet VA say they can only effectively track Status Credits from 1 February 2013 due to a system change?? Sounds like a convenient excuse.....
I wonder if this is the short term issue.
I don't think a total of 12,000 status credits is a bad thing.
However maybe the minimum should be 6,000 VA SC for when it launches. Then after it launches put the minimum up to 9,000. This way it solves the historical issue.
Though I suspect the bean counters have worked overtime on this.
Telling someone with 30,000 SC with 'only 8000' on Virgin, that they are not 'loyal' is insane. And quite insulting. And WILL lose them even more once loyal flyers.
If you want to fly on another airline, then that's not loyalty.
I have 20,000+ Scs on VA.So that is not 'loyalty' to Virgin in your view? Interesting thought process.
Flying on Virgin PARTNER airlines is actually loyalty to their program, and partners. This is actually why savvy airlines have long haul partners.
Very simple to say, but pity VA didn't tell us what these new rules would be several years ago. “New” SC's aren't quite the same as “old” ones, in terms of their cost. Those that achieved the majority of them in the past are at a slight advantage, I think.If you don't have the numbers then fly more.
Because the strategy isn't about lifetime Gold, it's about Platinum Plus.Very simple to say, but pity VA didn't tell us what these new rules would be several years ago. “New” SC's aren't quite the same as “old” ones, in terms of their cost. Those that achieved the majority of them in the past are at a slight advantage, I think.
Personally I just write it off to the new reality, and will spend little with VA in the future. I don't particularly want nor need VA LTG, as I have UA lifetime Plat, which provides many of the benefits of VA Gold. However, as someone with little skin in the game, I fail to see how all these changes to Velocity will actually bring in more revenue to VA, and isn't that what they think it’s all about.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
$15k to attain platinum+Because the strategy isn't about lifetime Gold, it's about Platinum Plus.
Having to have at least 2000 SCs of which 1500 are on VA metal.
That's a minimum of $15,000 spend per year under the new SC rules on VA metal, where as previously you could Platinum with essentially just 8 flights on VA, which could be had for as little as $640 or less, if you were flying on a partner airlines and pushing to VA.
And let's be clear, Lifetime Gold doesn't mean much these days when you are aiming for Plat+ year on year.