Help...Period between maintain and anniversary date

[blingy90]

Hi all,

Was wanting to double check my understanding regarding requalification....

I am a Gold FF. My maintain date is in September 2014, however with current travel plans will requalify in July 2014.

My understanding is this (and correct me if I am wrong);

• My new maintain date will be September 2015 (even though I have maintained in July 2014)
• Any SCs that I earn between July & my anniversary in 2014 will count towards reaching platinum, they will not count towards maintaining in September 2015
• Once my anniversary date comes around in September 2014, any SCs that I earn after that date will then count towards maintaining in September 2015

Is that all correct? I won't be travelling enough to reach platinum, so if my understanding above correct, if I do earn anything in between my maintain date in July 2014 and anniversary date in September 2014.....it is effectively wasted (unless I pool to someone else)???? Are you able to wait till the new maintain period and submit a retro claim? Will this avoid this wastage?

Thanks all

 

[Intra]

Seems all legit from my understanding too - Don't bother with a Retro claim, if it was anything like my past experience with SC, they only count towards the period when the first were supposed to be credited (i.e. At time for flight/initial crediting, not some months later)
Even if you were to retro claim, how would you be using your Gold Status with its privileges? (Baggage, Seat Selection, Lounge Access, Bonus Points ect. ect.)

 

[moa999]

Correct. Totally wasted SC earn (the points are still valuable) unless VA introduces a Lifetime Status program and back dates (QF did this when it launched)

 

[blingy90]

I thought that re retro claim...... to do that would mean not using my FF number and then would lose benefits.

So effectively, anything I earn between maintaining and my anniversary date, will only count towards reaching platinum? It's not until I reach my anniversary date that SCs I earn will count towards maintaining gold for 2015...correct?

 

[blingy90]

Even though I maintain gold before my anniversary date....my anniversary date will not change...correct???

Anniversary date only changes when you change status level, is that right?

Correct. Totally wasted SC earn (the points are still valuable) unless VA introduces a Lifetime Status program and back dates (QF did this when it launched)

 

[notzac]

Even though I maintain gold before my anniversary date....my anniversary date will not change...correct???

Correct.

Anniversary date only changes when you change status level, is that right?

Anniversary date only changes when you upgrade tiers - when you maintain or downgrade, your anniversary date stays the same.

 

[Intra]

Yes, Yes, Yes & Yes

Best to follow your first idea you had with the SCs between requalifying for Gold & starting the new period by Pooling them off to someone...

 

[Demonoid]

Yes, Yes, Yes & Yes

Best to follow your first idea you had with the SCs between requalifying for Gold & starting the new period by Pooling them off to someone...

So if I am reading this all correctly, for someone like myself, who has no chance of reaching platinum, my best best is to re qualify for gold (i.e. maintain my status) as close as possible to my review date...as any SC earned between re qualifying and the anniversary date, are essentially wasted. OK got it. Thanks - this is good to know. I can thus postpone flights to after my anniversary date to ensure those SC go towards re qualifying for Gold for the next year.

 

[Intra]

So if I am reading this all correctly, for someone like myself, who has no chance of reaching platinum, my best best is to re qualify for gold (i.e. maintain my status) as close as possible to my review date...as any SC earned between re qualifying and the anniversary date, are essentially wasted. OK got it. Thanks - this is good to know. I can thus postpone flights to after my anniversary date to ensure those SC go towards re qualifying for Gold for the next year.

Hope all goes well my friend I'd certainly myself be looking at doing the same, but I know I might JUST be able to achieve Platinum before my SCs start expiring in mass from May

 

[Coops1]

Thanks for this thread, was going to ask a similar question at some stage. Very similar in that I requalify Gold in Feb, with a review in June, but no chance for Plat .

 

[Ausbt]

Virgin should definitely address the lifetime issue, as in my cased once I requalified WP it simply led be to go fly Q until I made SG there. I haven't got a hope of maintaining SG at Q this year so I'm firmly back in the VA world, but still if lifetime status had of been on the cards I would have stayed loyal throughout.

 

[Moopere]

Virgin should definitely address the lifetime issue, as in my cased once I requalified WP it simply led be to go fly Q until I made SG there. I haven't got a hope of maintaining SG at Q this year so I'm firmly back in the VA world, but still if lifetime status had of been on the cards I would have stayed loyal throughout.

Mmm. I've thought about doing this myself, for the same reasons everyone has stated, but, I must not be understanding something. In my mind, once I qual Gold (or plat) but can't reasonably expect to go higher, and even given the 'waste' of SC's after that, if I go QF then I'm bronze and don't get any flight perks whatsoever ... and thats definitely _not_ what I want to be doing while I grind away for some status at QFF.

If I could nab a status match at QF then sure, it makes perfect sense ... rack up some lifetime SC's with QF, still get the perks that status affords and don't waste them at VA in the no-mans land of no further status upgrades.

 

[Ausbt]

Yep I should have clarified I was already SG at Q at the time, thus I received those benefits. Much harder to stomach at NB status.