Virgin Australia Pick Your Bonus Promo - Double Points or Status Credits - Ends 13 June 2025

[Steven of Mysore]

What. A mess, went to sign up for my family neither my Velociity Nbr worked as did my password. Have had the same ones since I joined last century.

I had that occur all last week. Drove me nuts. Couldn't get in at all.

 

[DazMel]

In 2011 I used status match from MH GOLD to VA GOLD withinn 3 months I hit Pt on VA and have maintained Pt since. I'm retired now and have to pay for my own tix, so I guess this is my last year at Pt and I'll just buy Lite fares as I drop to Forever GOLD

It's annoying that as in retirement I plan long haul o/s travel, only flights on VA metal are counted. Oh well at least I got to enjoy the "golden years" on the wide-body A330 and B777

 

[ozstamps]

Many of the comments here are very interesting and accord with my own thinking. I used to chase VA SCs and Velocity points as a solid source of redemption. Since the program ‘upgrade’, flights are as expensive (or more so) in points as QF but with less availability. So I’ve switched over my credit card spending from Velocity points to QFF which, for all its faults, has more many options on more routes.

I think Velocity has really lost its competitive edge with these changes

Velocity have totally blown it this year. As the current AFF Editor's newsletter points out, the clicks and posts on this thread is at YAWN level compared to usual DSC offers. In general, no-one is especially interested in flying more, with the new oppressive program changes.

A verified 30% LESS engagement re a major promo offer, is a TOTAL DISASTER for any airline, no matter how the Virgin Groupies here may try and spin it. That is apples against apples, and is a massive disengagement. Only 4 pages of posts in total.

The number #2 player, aggressively driving once VERY loyal passengers to the Qantas Group, is as smart a move as the 'New Coke' brainfart.

Sadly (for the investors), the IPO will take place before the inevitable disastrous Q2 revenue bookings will be publicly reported.

The primary objective for any airline is to INCREASE bookings, and INCREASE the spending engagement of their Frequent Flyer members. They have done neither.


'The numbers don’t lie

Obviously, only Virgin Australia knows how the current promotion is performing – in terms of actual revenue and flight bookings – compared to its previous ones.

But we do have access to some other data that may be of interest. One interesting point is that the number of clicks on last week’s Frequent Flyer Gazette article about Velocity’s new double status credit offer was 30% lower than the clicks on our article about Velocity’s last bonus status credit offer before it announced the program overhaul in 2024.

In fact, our internal statistics show that more people who read last Thursday’s Frequent Flyer Gazette were interested to read about Emirates’ fifth-freedom routes than Velocity’s double status credit offer.

Emirates fifth-freedom routes are apparently more interesting to AFF readers than earning double status credits with Virgin Australia.

Here’s one more stat that might be interesting: Our story about Qantas’ latest double status credits offer in March got three times more clicks than last week’s article about the new Velocity promo.

Matt Graham'

 

[MooTime]

Every VA DSC offer i'd drop a thou+ on a trip to see mates,family or take our family for a cheeky hol.

Not a single booking except cancelling a single VA flight I had as a Flexi & rebooked so that'll count as fake revenue towards this offer as just a travel credit from existing flight.

 

[straitman]

I have a weird issue - I got the offer for DSC on the app - clicked on it, asked me to login, so I did - once logged in, I can't seem to choose double points of double status - can't click, can't confirm selection. Same issue on desktop, on both Safari and Chrome. So I can't choose? Or have I chosen and it's blocking me? I haven't received a confirmation email.

I found that the place to click was actually further down the page and not particularly obvious.