Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[straitman]

Fixed it for you:

*Excludes Lite fares, where you get 1 SC per $24
** VA Flight code, not necessarily VA flight
*** Excludes partner airlines, refer to separate tables
**** Make sure you keep a spreadsheet with your expected earnings, because the system won't tell you how many SC a segment will earn after you've booked it.

Lite fares have always had a lower earn rate I believe.

Yes, but as odysseus said - instead of (on 1st Jan) being able to go I've got X flights from A to B this year, I always book Choice fares, so I will earn Y Sc's (and need Z more to make Gold, or whatever), it's impossible to plan ahead because you have absolutely no idea what the fare will be for any of those flights until you go to book them, and hence no idea how many SC's you'll earn until that point.....

I would suggest, as above, that you are in the minority with this approach.

I believe most people (myself included) have random flights throughout the year and only ever knew their SC earn from making a booking. I have always had a spreadsheet to tally my SC earnings.

... and you could be earning more SC than previous.

 

[odysseus]

Lite fares have always had a lower earn rate I believe.

Sure... but that's because each booking category had a different earn rate as part of the encouragement to upgrade.

Now it's based on $ you have spent that Virgin receive. Except when it's not - in the case of lite, which just has some arbitrary devaluation of the $ spent. So they've taken away the carrots and just left the stick.