Welcome to another year of Velocity Platinum membership

[awilcockson]

Dear Mr Wilcockson, In appreciation of your loyalty and in recognition of being so close to maintaining your Status, we would like to reward you with Velocity Platinum membership.

For what it's worth, I earned 400 SCs this year ...

 

[simongr]

I got the email dropping me back to gold.

 

[oz_mark]

For what it's worth, I earned 400 SCs this year ...

Close enough

 

[samh004]

Congrats!

Wonder if they'll renew my Silver membership, I guess I'm closer than you to requal, only 185SC away, much closer than ~400


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[onezero]

Wow congrats! They really want to hang on to the QF status pax don't they!

 

[jdlover23]

I got this email too - but completed the challenge presented to me last month to retain WP - kind of pisses me off to be honest

 

[samh004]

I got this email too - but completed the challenge presented to me last month to retain WP - kind of pisses me off to be honest

That you didn't need to complete the challenge, or their systems are so cough they didn't realise and sent you the email anyway, or that other members are getting a second year free?


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[jdlover23]

All of the above - but more so as I completed my challenge that if they were ever going to offer another year gratis, that this year will count as the freebie!

 

[Pushka]

Ooh, they retained husbands Gold too! Fantastic. Thanks for posting, he was "under review" and had not achieved the required status points to retain it!

 

[jmphoto]

Hmm, interesting. I finished on 400 too. Didn't bother with the challenge as don't see a huge difference between SG and WP. But more than happy to keep it for another year. Overall was pretty happy with the service by DJ for 2012.

 

[jazza1971]

Got comp'd as well, which is great cause although I didnt get the required SCs I've been doing all my flying on DJ...so thanks very much!

 

[Aussie_flyer]

oh goodness, this is going to really really annoy lots of people here.

 

[TonyHancock]

I'm still being assessed, clearly I'm not worthy!!!! :shock: Apparently they have found out who I am.

 

[samh004]

This is almost turning out like that ill-fated email many years ago when everyone was upgraded to Gold... despite not really doing anything to earn it


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[Mogul]

Things like this are really starting to piss me off with VA. I earnt 400SC's last year to retain Gold, why wasn't I upgraded to Platinum VA !!!!

If VA keep this up it will be over to the dark side for me, all I have to do then is get status matched in their next round and take a J flight or two and bingo Platinum. Why would you bother flying VA in order to EARN the required SC's when they just give away status.

 

[jmphoto]

To be fair, from its inception through to Status Match I believe I'd racked up 20SC with DJ. I then added 400SC in the past twelve months, so it's obvious that the Status Match worked for them, even if it was just for my business. I don't know if I'll get the WP retain with 400, and I certainly don't expect it, but let's face it, there is a serious battle on at the moment between DJ and QF on the domestic network, and people working in loyalty have clearly decided that some people are worth keeping sweet, even if they didn't hit 800SC.

 

[Mogul]

To be fair, from its inception through to Status Match I believe I'd racked up 20SC with DJ. I then added 400SC in the past twelve months, so it's obvious that the Status Match worked for them, even if it was just for my business. I don't know if I'll get the WP retain with 400, and I certainly don't expect it, but let's face it, there is a serious battle on at the moment between DJ and QF on the domestic network, and people working in loyalty have clearly decided that some people are worth keeping sweet, even if they didn't hit 800SC.

Why is one person on 400 SC's worth more than someone else on 400 SC's considering both of them earn't them by flying ?

Obviously the status match didn't work for them as they would have liked, otherwise freebies wouldn't be given out left right and centre to status matched pax.

 

[jmphoto]

Why is one person on 400 SC's worth more than someone else on 400 SC's considering both of them earn't them by flying ?

I can only assume a bunch of marketing experts, economists, accountants and analysts have the answer. I don't.

 

[Mogul]

VA seem to have forgotten the old saying "it's cheaper to keep an existing client than to attract a new one"

 

[awilcockson]

Why is one person on 400 SC's worth more than someone else on 400 SC's considering both of them earn't them by flying ?

If one of them is a QF P1, and the other a QF SG, then it's pretty obvious which one has more potential to bring business over to Virgin.