Virgin Australia "Milestone Announcement" June 1, 2023

[simmomelb]

So, the date has been scheduled for some big announcements at Virgin Australia for loyal VA passengers

The event will be known as "Milestone Announcement".

Who is excited to see what perks, additions and changes might be announced on the day?

Virgin Australia teases “milestone announcement” for Velocity

Virgin Australia is holding an invitation-only event on June 1 to mark “a new era” for its rewards program.

www.executivetraveller.com

 

[trisreed]

Lifetime Status!

I can only live in hope.

 

[Digicola]

Finally announce benefits on NH!

Are we going to open the « VA is joining xx_ alliance » can?

 

[Gold Member]

I hope whatever this is won’t be delayed and then cancelled like the last PR stunt in Sydney.

 

[roby]

Finally announce benefits on NH!

Are we going to open the « VA is joining xx_ alliance » can?

Joining an alliance would be a VA announcement not a Velocity announcement, wouldn't it? So we can basically rule that out. I just hope they will not move to dynamic award chart nonsense.

 

[aaa99]

Curiously happens to be right after the May transfer bonus period. Now that your points are locked into Velocity, lets do some enhancements (I hope not!)

 

[simmomelb]

I hope whatever this is won’t be delayed and then cancelled like the last PR stunt in Sydney.

Do you mean the hangar event in BNE (for "bring on wonderful/middle seat lottery")?

This one should go ahead as planned

 

[Albert Hoffman]

Massive devaluation packaged as perks.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Will there a simpler and fairer thing as well?
Seeing that the DPS flight has a bad rating on here, and we know that cost cutting will still go on.
Most likely a 2 step forward and one step back.
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Remember when they brought in "lower fares do not count as eligble sectors" which in the end, gave them a gain, at our loss.
If you want to climb the status tree, you will have to give us more.

 

[Denali]

Announce that Hobart will get a lounge... oh, wait, they did that back in.... 2012?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

"We are excited to announce that... ... ...
But we regret to announce that due to rising cost of operating our *********** Frequent Flyer, we have to
a. + point
b. + point
c. + point
and then announce that they will be enacting a small annual fee for operating the account.

 

[Gold Member]

Do you mean the hangar event in BNE (for "bring on wonderful/middle seat lottery")?

This one should go ahead as planned

Yup, that’s the one I was referring to.

I just pray for no QF style “Simpler & Fairer Enhancements”.

 

[RooFlyer]

Announce that Hobart will get a lounge... oh, wait, they did that back in.... 2012?

To be fair, that’s Hobart airport, not VA.

My two bobs worth: adoption of Avios as their FF currency

 

[BrettV]

Massive devaluation packaged as perks.

"enhancements"

 

[Digicola]

Jokes aside, I wonder if on one side it will mean changing the award charts, current status requirements and/or introduction of a WP++ tier (meaning dilution of SG perks even more).

I do hope this is them packaging new partner perks for a big announcement.
Benefits on HA and NH, new perks on QR (seat selection), outstation lounge access on SQ (Silverkris lounge in SIN *gasp*), a new European partner??

Am I getting ahead of myself? Yes. Will this just be an « enhancement »? Probably.

 

[RooFlyer]

I wouldn’t expect anything that would materially impact future cash flow. That would add as some uncertainty to float projections which I don’t think they would want.

 

[justinbrett]

Probably just a logo change again

 

[Human]

Interesting to see that the original Executive Traveller article that mentioned the June 1 event has now been pulled, and is now nowhere to be seen on ET's home page.

 

[simmomelb]

Probably just a logo change again

Definitely not this

Thankfully.

 

[simmomelb]

Interesting to see that the original Executive Traveller article that mentioned the June 1 event has now been pulled, and is now nowhere to be seen on ET's home page.

I think we'll find they jumped ahead of the embargo period as it hasn't been formally announced on the VA newsroom yet.

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