Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[MEL_Traveller]

True, pay for eco X gets a few handy perks in priority check-in, which heaps better than the standard check-in.
Plus the seat, well row 3 on the revamped design stinks.

Agree much cheaper than the $5k required for gold, which excludes eco X anyway.
Even paying $65 for lounge access for the cough food beats the $5k or fork out the $65 on an upgrade me bid or touch more.

Pfft… they wanted $58 for eco X SYD-MEL the other day. It would have been cheaper to bid for upgrade

 

[MooTime]

Pfft… they wanted $58 for eco X SYD-MEL the other day. It would have been cheaper to bid for upgrade

Pfft.....Yeah bid fails and you get nothing. Up the back with the whatever's.
Not sure how many empty J seats on the mel syd route available for upgrades.

$58 bit steep for short trip, but often eco X has discounts offered.

 

[Brian G]

fair enough, but are you cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Did you call to request VA platinum status even though you hadn’t earned it and they said no? You won’t get that with Qantas either.

you have lifetime Qantas gold, so unless you are wanting to get platinum, if it was me, I wouldn’t pay more for Qantas on the basis of not being able to in platinum with Virgin

And I note you said much the

fair enough, but are you cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Did you call to request VA platinum status even though you hadn’t earned it and they said no? You won’t get that with Qantas either.

you have lifetime Qantas gold, so unless you are wanting to get platinum, if it was me, I wouldn’t pay more for Qantas on the basis of not being able to in platinum with Virgin

And I note you said much the same thing last November.

fair enough, but are you cutting off your nose to spite your face?

Did you call to request VA platinum status even though you hadn’t earned it and they said no? You won’t get that with Qantas either.

you have lifetime Qantas gold, so unless you are wanting to get platinum, if it was me, I wouldn’t pay more for Qantas on the basis of not being able to in platinum with Virgin

And I note you said much the same thing last November.

No ,we are not cutting off our nose to spite our face. I am not going to waste my time with your response other than to say the following. We have simply made an informed decision after backing Virgin for many years and that decision is to walk away from Virgin.

 

[RooFlyer]

We have simply made an informed decision after backing Virgin for many years and that decision is to walk away from Virgin.

I think we’ve all said something like that at some stage.

Thread 'What is the statute of limitations on “never again”?'
What is the statute of limitations on “never again”?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Pfft.....Yeah bid fails and you get nothing. Up the back with the whatever's.
Not sure how many empty J seats on the mel syd route available for upgrades.

$58 bit steep for short trip, but often eco X has discounts offered.

Today’s flight was 3/8 and either a fly forward or upgradee taking the 4th seat. So I suspect eco X would have been questionable value on my flight if someone had paid for it.

I get that you could of course end up with nothing… but $58 for a couple inches extra legroom is steep!