Will you still earn/retain Velocity status beyond 2025?

[History]

I've retained silver until December 2nd, 2027.

 

[Steven of Bali]

But was flying via SIN - 20 or so hours vs 14 hours in QF nonstop - plus extra costs with VA codeshares etc, worth the $450 annual lounge pass for VA lounges?

That’s the thing I reckon with chasing VA status… the benefits are so limited it’s hardly worth it?

Better off using Amex Velocity Platinum - velocity lounge access is complimentary. There are so many on the Priority Line these days, who cares.

 

[PERLHR]

Better off using Amex Velocity Platinum - velocity lounge access is complimentary. There are so many on the Priority Line these days, who cares.

I never really understood the value of reducing the status collections in one hand then on the other get the Plat card for a few hundred dollars , gain points and get lounge access. Sometimes I do wonder who makes it all up...and what they get paid! And worse ...who signs it all of.

 

[odysseus]

I never really understood the value of reducing the status collections in one hand then on the other get the Plat card for a few hundred dollars , gain points and get lounge access. Sometimes I do wonder who makes it all up...and what they get paid! And worse ...who signs it all of.

Sadly, all about the money. Cutting their own member numbers was sold as boosting the returns on providing membership, and likely even exclusivity = desirability. But AmerEx is via partnerships, and since an external party is paying, that's just seen as pure revenue, so not something they want to cut, but rather as great and sacred.

Group A is seen as a cost centre, so something that can be managed down, whereas Group B is seen as a revenue source, so to be promoted. And they don't see any inconsistency in that, despite Group A and B sharing the same resource.