Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[Mattg]

I asked them if they can extend my membership (renews end of April), because I was re-routed from my original flights on the way back recently, I didn't get the SCs for it. They said they can't do it now or so far from the date and encouraged me to keep flying to try and earn the renewal (fat chance), I will try again after the renewal date to see what happens.

Can you request ORC - assuming it was an involuntary rerouting?

Agree - telling you to keep flying when you should have already earned enough status credits is a bit ridiculous, when what they really should do is just process an original routing credit.

 

[SCM]

Can you request ORC - assuming it was an involuntary rerouting?

Can you explain what that is, and how to request it, please?

 

[kerfuffle]

Can you explain what that is, and how to request it, please?

Original Routing Credit. If you were supposed to get 50 SC for example and your re-routing only got you 35, you ask for the Original Routing Credit of 50 SC

 

[AIRwin]

how to request it, please?

Email [email protected]

 

[SCM]

I got an email back, I hope they understood the situation and didn't take it as a missing points request (since those flights never operated).

Thank you for contacting us about your missing Points with Qatar Airways.

We have raised a claim for your flights:
QR284 Amsterdam - Doha 16 March 2026
QR8401 Doha - Sydney 17 March 2026

It can take up to 72 hours for QR284 and 4-6 weeks for flight QR8401 for your Points to be credited to your account. If your flight is eligible, Points and Status Credits will be added to your account and can be viewed online at any time.

 

[jase05]

Well the time finally arrived and for the first time in what has been an eternity I’m no longer a Plat. Dropped back to Forever Gold and that is fine by me.
Will still continue to fly our 20+ yearly J flights but not worrying about crediting them to VA

 

[MooTime]

Well the time finally arrived and for the first time in what has been an eternity I’m no longer a Plat. Dropped back to Forever Gold and that is fine by me.
Will still continue to fly our 20+ yearly J flights but not worrying about crediting them to VA

So at a guess 20 J flights, think a minimum is ~$10k ($500 per flight) and that's about 833SC, enough to scrape over WP.

$500 an estimate, but anything incorrect in my calcs?

But your main points is not assigning your flights to VA anymore so happy with LTG.

 

[jase05]

So at a guess 20 J flights, think a minimum is ~$10k ($500 per flight) and that's about 833SC, enough to scrape over WP.

$500 an estimate, but anything incorrect in my calcs?

But your main points is not assigning your flights to VA anymore so happy with LTG.

Haven’t even bothered working out what our spend would earn but decided that the benefits of Platinum were just not worth it.
We love flying with VA but not a fan of their FFP

 

[Tomsk85]

Haven’t even bothered working out what our spend would earn but decided that the benefits of Platinum were just not worth it.
We love flying with VA but not a fan of their FFP

I have been staying with VA only because I love SIA and the miles transfer option is still very good value I think despite all the changes in the past.... also VA Platinum gives a lot of luggage on QATAr and SIA so i travel for medical reasons and bring extra bag or two medication

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

Dropping to Gold tomorrow. Booked two return SYD-HBA trips as Lite fares this week for my final free Economy X hurrah, and then that's that.

Looking ahead across ~10-12 domestic trips booked over the next year, 75% of is now on QF. It was 75% in favour of VA last year and on Choice fares, not Lite.

Whatevs, was a good run.

 

[ozstamps]

Like many others posting here, I discovered that chasing status is a total Mug's game, when Virgin kindly decimated the Velocity program, and clearly lost hoards of once rusted on flyers, due to that arrant stupidity.

And saved some of us a fortune as a direct result.

Just saved $8,000 today booking 2 x biz class flights to Europe today, on a non Virgin aligned carrier.

I note the Virgin Australia share price is down 24% in the past 12 months, and Qantas is down only 3.5% the past year, in the same fuel crisis era. Hmmmm. Join up those dots Bain.

Stunning 'Management' decision to actively drive away a % of your base. The No #2 player in town cannot afford to do that - in ANY business.

Still Platinum for another year or so, if I really have to use Virgin, but will use points not money wherever possible, so Bain receive nothing, and book LITE fares if awards do not work, and, enjoy lounge access, row 3, fly ahead, and other bennies.

 

[stu961]

Like many others posting here, I discovered that chasing status is a total Mug's game, when Virgin kindly decimated the Velocity program, and clearly lost hoards of once rusted on flyers, due to that arrant stupidity.

And saved some of us a fortune as a direct result.

Just saved $8,000 today booking 2 x biz class flights to Europe today, on a non Virgin aligned carrier.

I note the Virgin Australia share price is down 24% in the past 12 months, and Qantas is down only 3.5% the past year, in the same fuel crisis era. Hmmmm. Join up those dots Bain.

Stunning 'Management' decision to actively drive away a % of your base. The No #2 player in town cannot afford to do that - in ANY business.

Still Platinum for another year or so, if I really have to use Virgin, but will use points not money wherever possible, so Bain receive nothing, and book LITE fares if awards do not work, and, enjoy lounge access, row 3, fly ahead, and other bennies.

great to hear you have worked out it's expensive to fly out of oz with either of our carriers!!!

 

[Must...Fly!]

MEL lounge and absolute zoo today. Restricted entry, no lounge members, single passes or CC entry permitted, only status pax. Guess there is one reason to spend to maintain Gold?

 

[RooFlyer]

I note the Virgin Australia share price is down 24% in the past 12 months, and Qantas is down only 3.5% the past year, in the same fuel crisis era. Hmmmm. Join up those dots Bain.

ROFL 'join the dots' - Virgin is well hedged against fuel costs, much better than Qantas

How a strategic choice by Qantas on fuel costs has given Virgin a 10 per cent bump on margins

Australia’s flag carrier Qantas has given its competitor Virgin Australia at least a 10 point margin advantage in the domestic market through Qantas’ decision not to hedge the crack spread, the difference between the price of crude oil and the refined product.

Qantas is painfully exposed to the worst fuel price environment in years because it abandoned the sophisticated fuel hedging strategy it pioneered. And Virgin, under the watchful eye of former Qantas treasurer Steve Fouracre, stuck with it.

Refining Margin Hedge (Crack Spreads): Virgin is roughly 71 per cent protected against the refined product crack spread (rising from \(US20toover\)US100 a barrel). Qantas is largely unprotected on this, leaving them exposed to the "worst fuel price environment in years".

You had a crack at Virgin's share price before, and I shot the comment down. So its just rinse, repeat.

Further, Virgin's profit was up last reporting period.

The Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd (ASX: VGN) share price is in focus after the airline reported a 11.7% lift in underlying EBIT for the first half of FY26, with underlying NPAT up 20.7% to $279 million despite ongoing industry cost pressures.

Virgin is not missing your business, at all, and seem to be thriving without it. Like the share price, go figure.

 

[ozstamps]

So you are telling us the clearly terrible ASX Virgin share price figures quoted are false?

'Shot it down' - indeed.

Qantas v/s Virgin share price is a direct comparison, in the exact same environment. Qantas has performed many times better than Virgin, no matter how you many red herrings you obfuscate with.

Hope you did not drink the Kool Aid, sell the house, and invest it in Virgin shares -

52 week range	$2.150 - $3.800

The MARKET has spoken .. you clearly are not listening.

Virgin have decimated their Velocity program and the chickens are slowly but surely coming home to roost as this thread proves. Qantas doing a genuine DSC promo now, is just rubbing salt into the gaping wound.

 

[RooFlyer]

So you are telling us the clearly terrible ASX Virgin share price figures quoted are false?

No, if you can comprehend at all, I'm pointing out to you that the thing you picked out to explain the share price - fuel price:

I note the Virgin Australia share price is down 24% in the past 12 months, and Qantas is down only 3.5% the past year, in the same fuel crisis era. Hmmmm. Join up those dots Bain.

... was totally bogus.

The MARKET has spoken .. you clearly are not listening.

Yes, the market has spoken - delivering VA increased profits. Look at that earlier reply I linked to which looked QF share price performance Vs announcement and you'll see that share prices often bear little relation to current events. Twice you've tried to have a crack at VA over share price and both times you've been hopelessly wrong. Advice is to stop digging.

 

[ozstamps]

I'm writing to the ASX to report your self-styled 'wise' advice, that they have their graphs and data all wrong!

52 week range	$2.150 - $3.800

Virgin have been a disaster 'investment' in a market boom year. All except you can see that apparently.

Those rose coloured glasses must be wonderful toys to own. Do TEMU sell them?

 

[henrus]

Even with the current double SC promo (1 SC per $6) I'm still $4092 away (have 118SCs, need 682SCs) from retaining platinum. The last year my total cost to retain was $3784 and there were even cheaper ways to do it with help to things like the triple SC promos.