As someone who has close to 1 million points earned I am really starting to form the opinion that the whole thing is a scam. Unless I want to waste time every day trying to win the lottery of a business reward seat to L.A or Heathrow the alternative is to spend 1.3 MILLION points for just 1 single business ticket. What a joke.
Its outrageous and I think the whole marketing of the program is false advertising. They advertise x points as being able to fly you to all of these destinations-whilst omitting that they don't release adequate numbers of seats. They might as well promote you can fly to Paris for 50 points, so long as they offer a single seat for this rate in their opinion they aren't misleading the public?
Over the years I have been mindful to fly with Virgin as much as possible, earning status and points, but for what? In the end all it really gives me is a priority queue....leading to a 18 year old who is in a bad mood and takes her frustration out on me by claiming my family of 3 cant sit together in a domestic business class section of 8 available seats!!! Toping that off with ever diminishing service levels from the cabin crew who play hide and seek I wish I had just stuck with Qantas.
Reviews on the Velocity program are damming-it appears I'm not alone
Velocity Frequent Flyer Reviews - ProductReview.com.au
Time to burn these useless points and move on.
Its outrageous and I think the whole marketing of the program is false advertising. They advertise x points as being able to fly you to all of these destinations-whilst omitting that they don't release adequate numbers of seats. They might as well promote you can fly to Paris for 50 points, so long as they offer a single seat for this rate in their opinion they aren't misleading the public?
Over the years I have been mindful to fly with Virgin as much as possible, earning status and points, but for what? In the end all it really gives me is a priority queue....leading to a 18 year old who is in a bad mood and takes her frustration out on me by claiming my family of 3 cant sit together in a domestic business class section of 8 available seats!!! Toping that off with ever diminishing service levels from the cabin crew who play hide and seek I wish I had just stuck with Qantas.
Reviews on the Velocity program are damming-it appears I'm not alone
Velocity Frequent Flyer Reviews - ProductReview.com.au
Time to burn these useless points and move on.
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