How may points and Status Credits?n

[scwappy]

Can anyone tell me how many velocity points and status credits I will earn traveling from SYD to AKL one way on NZ metal on a works deluxe fare?

 

[thewinchester]

1345 miles is the one way distance which means 1345pts and and 30sc if treated as Full Y, or as Y+ then 2017pts and 45sc.

My best guess based on what I can find is this is likely full Y.

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[Stuser]

1345 miles is the one way distance which means 1345pts and and 30sc if treated as Full Y, or as Y+ then 2017pts and 45sc.

My best guess based on what I can find is this is likely full Y.

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I'm not so sure of this. I've searched the Air New Zealand website high and low for some kind of clarity on this, and all I can find is that Works and Works Plus can be booked into many fare buckets. My personal suspicion is that if you make the fare flexible, then it gets the higher Y or B class and then you earn the 30 status credits, otherwise it's just treated as discount economy, or a saver fare, and you only get 15 status credits.

But I don't know this. Has anybody flown on Air New Zealand with their Velocity membership; if so what status credits did you get?

 

[greenfish]

It is a lottery as you won't know your booking class until you've paid for the fare. Better to book the DJ codeshare "Flexi" - at least that way you'll definitely get the 30SCs.

Some good Flexi fares here:

Velocity Exclusive Offer | Velocity Frequent Flyer

 

[Stuser]

it is a lottery as you won't know your booking class until you've paid for the fare. Better to book the dj codeshare "flexi" - at least that way you'll definitely get the 30scs.

Some good flexi fares here:

velocity exclusive offer | velocity frequent flyer

thanks! :d

 

[Stuser]

It is a lottery as you won't know your booking class until you've paid for the fare. Better to book the DJ codeshare "Flexi" - at least that way you'll definitely get the 30SCs.

Some good Flexi fares here:

Velocity Exclusive Offer | Velocity Frequent Flyer

sadly though when I called Virgin Guest Contact Centre number on that page, the rep knew nothing about the sale fares, nor how to find the days that I could get the advertised prices.... a bit of a fail in my view....

 

[greenfish]

That's annoying. Since I bookmarked it, the "book" icons have been removed from the page. It looks like they've pulled the offer.

There was very good availability on the non codeshare flights. Sorry to get your hopes up.

 

[mr_osborne]

I just answered the same/similar question here:
http://www.australianfrequentflyer....-ideas-take-advantage-34086-3.html#post510785
(Also some more info in a second post)

Just some info for people re Air NZ, I Had to deal with this issue earlier, the thread can be found at :http://www.australianfrequentflyer.c...ses-32836.html (Air NZ Booking Classes?).

Basically, to sum it up, there is no correlation between works/works deluxe and booking class. My understanding of the system, is they have a base fare, seat. The price level that is set at relates to the booking class (lower price, lower class). I have tried to summarise the basic idea in the table below:

[TABLE="class: cms_table_grid, align: left"]
[TR]
[TD][/TD]
[TD]Seat[/TD]
[TD]Seat + Bag[/TD]
[TD]Works[/TD]
[TD]Works Deluxe[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Basic[/TD]
[TD]X[/TD]
[TD]X+20[/TD]
[TD]X+50[/TD]
[TD]X+150[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Flexible[/TD]
[TD]Y[/TD]
[TD]Y+20[/TD]
[TD]Y+50[/TD]
[TD]Y+150[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]









Note: when you select a fare, there is a check box option to make it a flexi fare, also as I'm from NZ, I think/work in NZ dollars, it may be slightly different in Australia, but the same concept should apply

So what I'm trying to show, is the Basic fare/Fare class is the same for each fare, therefore the points earn is the same. Because of this, I think that it will often be better to book cheaper fares through the Velocity website as the cheapest fares booked through Air NZ earn 0.25 points per mile, whereas DJ would class these as saver fares, and they would earn at 0.5.

I'd previously done this table, just to give you an idea,

[TABLE="class: cms_table_cms_table, width: 615"]
[TR]
[TD]Discount Economy (L, G, S, K, P, F)[/TD]
[TD]

0.25 Velocity Points​

[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Discount Economy (V, W, T)[/TD]
[TD]

0.5 Velocity Points​

[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Discount Economy (Q, H, M)[/TD]
[TD]

0.75 Velocity Points
​

[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Economy (Y, B)[/TD]
[TD]

1 Velocity Point
​

[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD] Business Class (C, D, J, Z)[/TD]
[TD]

2 Velocity Points
​

[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]







Based on Air NZ info:
K, X, G, L, T, W, V = Smart saver
Q, H, M, B, Y, D, C = Flexi

As you can see, you could book a flexi , it could be in Q,H or M class, and virgin would only give you Discount economy SC (Status Earn Fare Class| Velocity Frequent Flyer)