Virgin status earn on Qatar

[VPS]

I have an I class flight on Qatar from LHR to DOH to ADL coming up shortly.

I have dropped from Gold to Silver on Qatar and this won't be quite enough to get me back to Gold.

I have just realised that I will drop from Silver on Virgin today.

I can find the points earn on the flights for Virgin but can't work out how to find the SC credit earn to see whether it's worth crediting to VA so I could possibly get back to Silver (which I know isn't much but it does get a couple of lounge passes a year)

The other alternative is to credit them to BA for more Avios. I'm LTG with QF and don't want to credit anything to them if possible (not that I can)

Any assistance appreciated.

 

[markis10]

See Frequent Flyer - Velocity | The loyalty program of Virgin Australia

 

[VPS]

See Frequent Flyer - Velocity | The loyalty program of Virgin Australia

Thanks

 

[cqtiger]

So much confusion on whether to book through virgin or Qatar,
On virgin there is one business fare whereas Qatar there are 3-4 fare types with variations in seat selection lounge access etc
Then of course the flight from Doha to europe is QATAR plane.
Does anyone have any concrete info on this?

 

[moa999]

Need to consider your own circumstance and the new requirement for 50% of your SCs to be earned by yourself on VA coded or operated flights.

 

[BrianQQ]

So much confusion on whether to book through virgin or Qatar,
On virgin there is one business fare whereas Qatar there are 3-4 fare types with variations in seat selection lounge access etc
Then of course the flight from Doha to europe is QATAR plane.
Does anyone have any concrete info on this?

• Booking on Virgin Australia, with a Velocity Frequent Flyer number attached:
  • You'll earn 160SC one way to Doha, then depending on where you are going in Europe, the SC for the other segment is dependent on the amount of miles you travel. See here.
  • You'll get lounge access to all Qatar lounges and partner lounges on a Business Fare, including the ones listed here at Australian port of arrival.
  • You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
  • You only get seat selection for the flight leaving Australia to Doha. Seat selection fees applies to the Doha-Europe segment.

• Booking on Qatar Airways, with a Privilege Club number attached:
  • You'll earn the following QPoints to Doha one way (then QPoints range from how many miles you travel, see here) based on the fare class you book in:
    • Lite (P): 35
    • Classic (R): 58
    • Comfort (D, I): 88
    • Elite (C, J): 96
  • You'll get lounge access to all Qatar lounges and partner lounges on a Business fares that are Comfort and above.
    • Business Lite customers can choose to pay a fee to access a lounge, or can use their Privilege Club status to access.
    • At Australian ports of entry, if you are booked on a Qatar Airways flight on behalf of Virgin Australia (QR codeshares), you will not have access to all Qantas lounges as per Oneworld policy. Follow the link here to see which lounges you can gain access to.
  • You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
  • You will only get seat selection if you book in Comfort or Elite. Seat selection is available for a fee on Lite and Classic.
    • Seat selection is complimentary on Lite or Classic if you have Privilege Club Gold or Platinum status.

Keep in mind that you will not receive QPoints if you choose to book on Virgin Australia using your Privilege Club number.

 

[cqtiger]

Thanks hopefully that will get me to gold on velocity or family pool to Platinum.

 

[Happy Dude]

Awesome info @BrianQQ. Bookmarked!!

Just need same for SQ and make into a sticky

 

[Thibault]

As a QR silver member, you also have lounge access if you fly on a QR marketed/operated flight, priority check-in and boarding.

In BNE, it’s the AIRNZ lounge, silver lounge in Doha which is just a very small cafeteria.

 

[BrianQQ]

Awesome info @BrianQQ. Bookmarked!!

Just need same for SQ and make into a sticky

Will just post it here for whatever you need to do with it:

Assuming that a person is booking in a Business fare

Booking on Virgin Australia with a Velocity Frequent Flyer attached:
Assuming that SQ operated flight is with a VA number (codeshare).

• Status Credit earning in J at the following rates to Singapore one-way, you can find status credit earnings for other codeshare routes (calculate the distance via miles) here:
  • Flown on or prior to 30th Sept 2025: 120SC
  • Flown on or after 1st Oct 2025: 100SC
• You'll get lounge access at all Singapore Airline operated and 3rd party lounges.
  • At Australian ports of entry, this is the SilverKris lounge in SYD, MEL, PER and BNE. For ADL flights, it's the Plaza Premium lounge.
• You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
• Seat selection is included. In order to seat select, manage your PNR on Virgin's website to grab Singapore Airline's PNR, then manage your PNR on SQ's website to seat select.
• You will not have Wi-Fi access automatically. Wi-Fi is available for all KrisFlyer members. There is a way to input both your KrisFlyer and VA numbers so that you can earn with Virgin Australia, see here for more details.

Booking on Virgin Australia with a KrisFlyer number attached:
Assuming that SQ operated flight is with a VA number (codeshare).

• You will not earn Elite Miles.
• You'll get lounge access at all Singapore Airline operated and 3rd party lounges.
  • At Australian ports of entry, this is the SilverKris lounge in SYD, MEL, PER and BNE. For ADL flights, it's the Plaza Premium lounge.
• You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
• Seat selection is included. In order to seat select, manage your PNR on Virgin's website to grab Singapore Airline's PNR, then manage your PNR on SQ's website to seat select.
• You will have Wi-Fi access.

Booking on Singapore Airlines with a Velocity Frequent Flyer attached:
Assuming that SQ operated flight is with a SQ number.

• Status Credit earning in J at the following rates to Singapore one-way, you can find status credit earnings for other codeshare routes (calculate the distance via miles) here:
  • You'll earn 120SCs from SYD-SIN.
• You'll get lounge access at all Singapore Airline operated and 3rd party lounges.
  • At Australian ports of entry, this is the SilverKris lounge in SYD, MEL, PER and BNE. For ADL flights, it's the Plaza Premium lounge.
• You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
• Seat selection is included.
• You will not have Wi-Fi access automatically. Wi-Fi is available for all KrisFlyer members. There is a way to input both your KrisFlyer and VA numbers so that you can earn with Virgin Australia, see here for more details.
• You can attach your Velocity FF membership with your KrisFlyer membership and earn Velocity points as well as work your way to PPS value. See here for more details.

Booking on Singapore Airlines with a KrisFlyer number attached:
Assuming that SQ operated flight is with a SQ number.

• You will earn Elite Miles to Singapore at the following rates, you can find status credit earnings for other SQ routes here:
  • Business Lite and Standard (D, U): 4890 miles
  • Business Flexi (J, Z, C): 5868 miles
• You'll get lounge access at all Singapore Airline operated and 3rd party lounges.
  • At Australian ports of entry, this is the SilverKris lounge in SYD, MEL, PER and BNE. For ADL flights, it's the Plaza Premium lounge.
• You get priority baggage and check-in benefits at the airport.
• Seat selection is included.
• You will have Wi-Fi access

Keep in mind to maintain status with Virgin Australia from the 1st of October 2025, at least 50% of your flights have to be with a VA code.

Eligible Sectors will no longer be used. Instead, to upgrade or maintain to Silver, Gold, and Platinum Status, 50% of your Status Credits balance must be earned on Virgin Australia marketed and or operated flights flown by you.

This means that when you fly on a flight with a VA flight number (e.g., VA 800 Sydney to Melbourne - operated by Virgin Australia, or VA 8507 Brisbane to San Fransisco - operated by United Airlines), or when you fly on a Virgin Australia flight with an Airline Partner flight number (e.g., SQ 6435 Canberra to Brisbane - operated by Virgin Australia), the Status Credits you earn will contribute to this 50% Status Credit eligibility requirement.

 

[serfty]

Keep in mind to maintain status with Virgin Australia from the 1st of October 2025, at least 50% of your flights have to be with a VA code.

That's 50% of your SC earn have to be VA Marketed or operated... with a VA code, not flights.

 

[Simsy85]

That's 50% of your SC earn have to be with a VA code, not flights.

This is the bit I don't quite understand.

If I book a flight, CBR-LHR next year, and provide my VA number, will this meet this criteria?

 

[pauldab]

This is the bit I don't quite understand.

If I book a flight, CBR-LHR next year, and provide my VA number, will this meet this criteria?

You need to be booked flights using a VA number, not QR



VA Marketed is when you have a VA operated and numbered or codeshare flight operated by a partner with a VA number.
They also include flights with other carrier flight numbers, but operated by VA.


All 3 legs have VA numbers so all qualify as VA flights even though using QR metal.

Buying tickets on the same route but with QR flight numbers for their legs do not qualify as the 50% VA flights for status accural.

Using a similar search on Qatar's site I get:


The flights MEL >> LHR on QR metal are not codeshare with VA, so adding your VA FF number only qualifies you to status earn which will not be considered in the 50%.

You do get VA status as part of the 50% for the first flight on this itinerary as it's QR codeshare on VA metal.

 

[Berrocca]

I booked SYD - DOH - LIS return and the SYD to DOH legs were marked as VA1 and VA2. These status credits do not count as part of the Virgin earnt status credits though. It would have renewed my Gold status automatically but no such luck.

 

[pauldab]

I booked SYD - DOH - LIS return and the SYD to DOH legs were marked as VA1 and VA2. These status credits do not count as part of the Virgin earnt status credits though. It would have renewed my Gold status automatically but no such luck.

That makes no sense unless you didn't buy the flight with a VA number on the reservation - or are they expecting you to buy through VA and not an OTA.

 

[Berrocca]

That makes no sense unless you didn't buy the flight with a VA number on the reservation - or are they expecting you to buy through VA and not an OTA.

I think they expect us to buy through Virgin Australia, which is not possible since they for some reason don't offer the option of flying to Lisbon on their website.

Just to clarify, the original booking showed a QR flight number for all legs but the boarding pass specifically showed VA flight numbers for the SYD - DOH legs. As after 4 or so weeks I hadn't received the status credits nor points for the the SYD - DOH legs, I placed a request for missing points. My e-ticket number had to be provided and the flight number (which I put as the VA number) and I had points and status credits applied to my account but not off my 50% velocity required status credits..... I hope that all makes sense!

 

[Simsy85]

Thank you - that does great assist.

Frustrating, I can see the QR leg from CBR-MEL-DOH-LHR - all on QR metal (777-300ER) but we can't book the CBR-MEL-DOH leg on VA - it pushes you to a VA 737 flight.

Back to the drawing board.

 

[serfty]

That's 50% of your SC earn have to be with a VA code, not flights.

Yes, this was relaxed ever so slightly. Flights operated by VA now are included in that 50%.

i.e. VA marketed and/or VA operated.

Post in thread 'Major changes to Velocity Frequent Flyer announced 17/10/24'

Jun 4, 2025

Velocity is making a slight change to the VA flight requirement that comes into effect on 1 October 2025.

From this date, you need to earn at least 50% of your status credits from VA flights that you've personally flown in order to attain or retain status. Previously, Virgin said that only VA marketed and operated flights will count. However, they now say that VA marketed or operated flights will count. In practice, this now means Virgin Australia flights booked through partner airlines will count towards the 50% requirement.

This change also applies to the Forever Gold requirement...

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