Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[ceetee]

Well, that is just great! I’ve been VA Plat for years and recently this past 12 months moved most of my Dom/Intl flights to Qantas, even before VA made this blunder. Now that I am mm’s from QF Plat all of you Virgin flyers are going to move over to QF also. There goes the priority queue!
I’m being facetious of course, and I agree with many of these posts. VA is only a Dom airline with, as Steph eloquently puts it, a dogs brekkie of Int’l agreements. I hesitate to call them partnerships.
I love the VA staff and Dom experience, but I need to fly Int’l often, so QF has been wonderful.
But for all of you VA flyers contemplating a switch to QF, just stay where you are. It could get better

 

[Steven of Mysore]

Rather than a long Sunday of my disquiet, just a summary. Cannot be bothered with VA status again.

 

[TMP]

Like others, I'll look at QF out of interest now, and will fly if price is right, but JQ is a no no due to all the ancillary charges that end up making it basically the same as VA. Will lose my status, but credit card will keep me in the lounge. Aiming to keep partner at Gold for one more year into 2027 but that will be it for us. At the end of the day, I like VA and will keep a preference for them, but will not chase status.

 

[Jacques Vert]

JQ starter I get pinged at the gate if my carry on is 7.3kg. Not gonna happen on VA.

Overall, the hard and soft product is incrementally different between JQ and VA/QF, as outlined above. Enough to say that JQ starter is a different product to VA lite.

Can't you take 300gm out of your carry-on and put it in your pocket?