Virgin Australia and Velocity Frequent Flyer are launching a status offensive with a mega-sized triple Status Credits offer. There’s a limited booking and travel window, but if everything aligns for you, then a huge haul of Status Credits is yours for the taking, making it so much easier to enjoy thee perks of Gold and Platinum status.
Virgin Australia Triple Status Credits
| Expiry: Book by 29 May 2024 |
Important: Travel by 31 July 2024 to receive triple Status Credits on eligible bookings.
Activate the offer and book an eligible Virgin Australia flight (operated by VA and with a VA flight number) before 29 May 2024 for travel by 31 July 2024. All eligible bookings will earn triple Status Credits.
Status Credits are the key to building up to elite perks with Velocity Silver, Gold and Platinum status. Gold membership is the sweet spot, offering lounge access, priority processing, extra baggage and more. Usually, you need 500 Status Credits and four eligible flights to unlock Gold from scratch.
Under this offer, you’ll get there three times as fast! If you registered for the ‘Discover Gold’ promotion previously, the triple Status Credits should count towards your challenge goal.
See the T&Cs:
*To be eligible for the Triple Status Credits offer (Offer) you must (1) activate this Offer via the activation link, via the Velocity Frequent Flyer app or via www.velocityfrequentflyer.com within the member dashboard under ‘Activated Offers’ between 12.01am AEST 27 May 2024 and 11.59pm AEST 29 May 2024 inclusive (Promotion Period); (2) after offer activation, book and ticket an Eligible Flight during the Promotion Period and enter a valid Velocity membership number at the time of booking; and (3) complete travel on the Eligible Flight booked during the Promotion Period. An Eligible Flight is any Domestic, Trans-Tasman or International Short Haul Virgin Australia marketed and operated flight for travel between 27 May 2024 and 31 July 2024 (inclusive) that normally earns Status Credits. For more information on Status Credits, click here. Tickets purchased on codeshare services marketed or operated by partner airlines or Virgin Australia operated flights combined in the same booking as a partner or non-partner operated flight are not eligible for this Offer. The promotion is for new Eligible Flights booked and ticketed during the Promotion Period, and changes to existing bookings made prior to the Promotion Period are not eligible. Status Credits cannot be earned on Velocity Reward Seat bookings. Bonus Status Credits will be applied to the originally purchased fare class. Any upgrades (other than when you paid the full commercial fare) will not attract bonus Status Credits as a result of this offer. Eligible Flights that satisfy the above eligibility criteria are eligible to earn 200% more Status Credits than the Status Credits that would normally be earned for that flight and fare class. There is no limit on the amount of times this offer can be redeemed. Where multiple guests are listed on the same booking, only those guests who satisfy the above eligibility criteria are eligible for this offer. You should allow up to 4 weeks after satisfying the above eligibility criteria for the bonus Status Credits to be allocated. Velocity membership and Status Credit earn are subject to the Member Terms and Conditions, as amended from time to time.
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“You should allow up to 4 weeks after satisfying the above eligibility criteria for the bonus Status Credits to be allocated.”
Does this mean that bonus SC are added 4 weeks after my flight, or 4 weeks after the end of the promotional period?
We booked flights in December 2023 for next week… so we will get the bonus SCs?
I could not find this in the terms..
Yeah BH, I did call the call centre, but the operator just seemed to read the T&C’s about the offer to me; they didn’t seem to be intimately across the ins and outs of the offer. They said that the offer should apply, but only based on reading the T&C’s that are available online about the offer.
So – I’ve booked – if I remember, will come back here to update to confirm I did get the double SC 🙂
Cheers.
Earn 60+ status credits and get bonus 100SC.
Any idea if this new offer will essentially give me
60SC+100SC as part of the previous offer as well as another 60+100 for this double SC offer? Or do you think it willonly be double SC on the original SC earnt of 60SC? so therefore
60SC+60SC+100SC
In circumstances where I activated the offer after booking but before travel, will I still get the double SCs?
Thanks
Wondering if booking flex for a date, and then changing it would still qualify for the double?
I booked a flight a couple of weeks ago, for end of February.
Cheers,
Mick.
As you observe many members have a reset date at end February (mine is in just 11 days).
As you also observe (extracting the published) terms, bonus status credits can take 4 weeks to post.
That means that those bonus credits could credit AFTER the review date of members.
IIRC there can be a grace period before status steps down…?