Scarlett
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I’ve sat on my hands for a couple of days before posting this, because I did want to see if it was more than just me, but no other posts… interesting.
VA have offered me a targeted status challenge to regain WP. I was plat until some point early last year and have dropped to SG now. Have bounced around between those two levels for probably the last ten years, usually based on whether I’d taken a J long haul trip on a VA partner or some other international airline that credited elsewhere. An email appeared out of the blue; I had not requested it.
My challenge is to book and fly 200 SC worth of VA marketed & operated flights in the next four months and jump directly back up. That seems like quite a good deal as this closed thread from 2019 indicates a VA status challenge appears to be a rare beast. VA Status Match/ Challenge
Now, other key points to note here. I currently have zero VA sectors flown; need 4 to requal SG and 8 if I was looking to get back to WP. The challenge makes no mention of needing sectors, just the 200 SC. However, I and my family have 9 VA sectors booked and paid for around Xmas / NY, so they already know I’m going to reach that number before my requal. They can probably also see that with family pooling we’ll get pretty close to 1000 SCs anyway. So maybe VFF have worked out that I’ll likely qualify for a WP upgrade in the future and are attempting to get me to spend more now in the short term.
Has anyone else been a recipient of such VFF graciousness?
More details to come… (about action I’ve taken, and additional thoughts). Probably when I get some time tomorrow.
VA have offered me a targeted status challenge to regain WP. I was plat until some point early last year and have dropped to SG now. Have bounced around between those two levels for probably the last ten years, usually based on whether I’d taken a J long haul trip on a VA partner or some other international airline that credited elsewhere. An email appeared out of the blue; I had not requested it.
My challenge is to book and fly 200 SC worth of VA marketed & operated flights in the next four months and jump directly back up. That seems like quite a good deal as this closed thread from 2019 indicates a VA status challenge appears to be a rare beast. VA Status Match/ Challenge
Now, other key points to note here. I currently have zero VA sectors flown; need 4 to requal SG and 8 if I was looking to get back to WP. The challenge makes no mention of needing sectors, just the 200 SC. However, I and my family have 9 VA sectors booked and paid for around Xmas / NY, so they already know I’m going to reach that number before my requal. They can probably also see that with family pooling we’ll get pretty close to 1000 SCs anyway. So maybe VFF have worked out that I’ll likely qualify for a WP upgrade in the future and are attempting to get me to spend more now in the short term.
Has anyone else been a recipient of such VFF graciousness?
More details to come… (about action I’ve taken, and additional thoughts). Probably when I get some time tomorrow.