Virgin Aust Holidays Double Status Credit offer

[The Flying Brick]

Received by email this morning (but buried in the fine print) for bookings made until 26 July for travel from 25 Aug 26 until 22 June 2027

Well worth booking for the old Status Credit earnings table - even better when it is double.
And especially good for overnight business trips when I need to stay at a hotel anyway.

Virgin Australia Holidays Double Status Credits Offer
During the promotional period of 12:01am AEST 20 July 2026 until 11:59pm AEST 27 July 2026 (“Offer Period”), Velocity members will earn double Status Credits on the Virgin Australia Domestic and/or Virgin Australia International short-haul and/or Trans-Tasman flight components of an eligible Virgin Australia Holidays booking made with Hopper at https://www.virginaustralia.com/au-en/holidays, for travel between 25 August 2026 and 22 June 2027 (“Offer”). This is in addition to the standard base Status Credits earn on the fare type originally booked (i.e. Lite, Choice or Business) and the number of miles flown as part of the Virgin Australia Domestic and/or Virgin Australia International short-haul and/or Trans-Tasman flight forming part of the eligible booking.
Status Credits earned from Virgin Australia Domestic and/or Virgin Australia International short-haul and/or Trans-Tasman flights, including the double Status Credits under this Offer, are typically allocated within 2-3 days of completed travel, but timing may vary. All Velocity Members named on an eligible booking may be eligible to earn Status Credits for the booking, including the bonus Status Credits under this Offer, if they have submitted their valid Velocity Member number at the time of booking, or by contacting Virgin Australia prior to check-in. Status Credits are not awarded on any cancelled or un-flown bookings.
Virgin Australia Holiday packages booked via https://www.virginaustralia.com/au-en/holidays are provided by Hopper and all bookings made through this platform are subject to the Virgin Australia Holidays terms and conditions.
Velocity Frequent Flyer may vary or end this offer at any time.
Velocity membership Velocity membership Terms and Conditions apply.

 

[Happy Dude]

Nice.

Stack with the current Amex offer ($200 statement credit for $2k spend).

For clarity here are the Virgin Australia Holidays terms and conditions relating to SC earn:

 

[trblvb]

Thanks OP, but, I need 337 Status Credits (at least 200 from VA marketed and/or operated flights) by 7 Aug 2026 to keep Gold. Is this possible?

 

[WilsonM]

There's no way this is back. My god. This is the 4th time VA have offered bonus status credits this year, 5th time they've offered bonus status credits.

We might as well call DSC the new norm and just hang around for triple.

 

[SeaWolf]

I always have trouble with Virgin Australia holidays. It'll be fine until I get to selecting the return flight and then usually I'll just be presented with a single option, even on MEL-SYD. That flight always seems to be first thing in the morning and that doesn't work for me.
I haven't find a way to get it to work properly yet. I'm guessing it's some issue/limitation of Hopper.

 

[kerfuffle]

Thanks OP, but, I need 337 Status Credits (at least 200 from VA marketed and/or operated flights) by 7 Aug 2026 to keep Gold. Is this possible?

No, especially when you've only racked up 63 SC in 11 months.

It'll be fine until I get to selecting the return flight and then usually I'll just be presented with a single option, even on MEL-SYD. That flight always seems to be first thing in the morning and that doesn't work for me.

Can't say I've had this issue; was able to select my preferred 5 p.m. flights for the two Virgin Australia Holidays trips I booked from SYD to BNE and MEL during the last DSC promo in March

 

[The Flying Brick]

No, especially when you've only racked up 63 SC in 11 months.


Can't say I've had this issue; was able to select my preferred 5 p.m. flights for the two Virgin Australia Holidays trips I booked from SYD to BNE and MEL during the last DSC promo in March

This issue I often find is that there seems to be some sort of limitation on connecting flights.

If I try to book CNS-BNE-MEL-BNE-CNS then it (most times) only shows this option for the outbound OR the inbound, but not both.

If I select a direct flight outbound then I can select a connecting flight for the return or vice versa.

I did manage just once to book connecting flights both ways during the last VA Holidays DSC promo.
Flying in J that added 480 SC’s to my account for the one trip but even the direct flight is worth 160 SC each way with this promo.