Level up to Platinum

[777]

This is mischevious and high risk but it's so crazy it might work.

Assuming you need your SCs not hers

1. Keep the pooling.
2. Remove the Velocity details from your significant other's booking so there is no FF details attached.
3. Arrive in South Africa and tick over to platinum.
4. Once plat put in a retro claim for the flight and wait a couple of months for the points and SCs to come through.
5. Don't blame me if it doesn't work

It *should allow* you to earn plat with your 60sc. Then be reasonably sure the remaining SCs for your partner and for the return leg are applied to your renewal year.

If it doesn't work, see point 5

 

[djchuckles]

Yeah I thought about that

JHB flight isn't for a couple of months so may actually be able to get myself to the 1,000 before then - which would be awesome as the 2 flights with pooling to JHB and back would get me 560 (its 140 each not 160 as I mistakenly wrote before) which will be 2/3rds of the way to Platinum requal in a single trip!

Thanks everyone for all the advice and suggestions

 

[drewbles]

If requal is on a rolling year, then the system is broken. I re-qualified months ago, and i'm still showing a SC balance over over 1100 for the year with a re-assessement date in August.

I never was a fan of rolling years, but it is what it is (but it doesn't appear to be that; yet).

 

[Deleted member 29185]

If requal is on a rolling year, then the system is broken. I re-qualified months ago, and i'm still showing a SC balance over over 1100 for the year with a re-assessement date in August.

I never was a fan of rolling years, but it is what it is (but it doesn't appear to be that; yet).

Once you're at plat, the rolling year doesn't do too much as your review date stays fixed. It's climbing to platinum (or gold for that matter) that the rolling year and altered review date can be useful tools.

 

[oz_mark]

If requal is on a rolling year, then the system is broken. I re-qualified months ago, and i'm still showing a SC balance over over 1100 for the year with a re-assessement date in August.

Requalification is not on a rolling year. Only the initial qualifications are.

 

[drewbles]

Requalification is not on a rolling year. Only the initial qualifications are.

That's what I figured (rendering an earlier post inaccurate).

Thanks for that

 

[djchuckles]

Apologies to resurrect this post but situation has changed slightly and I miscalculated some of the points

Let's assume my SC year starts 16-Nov-2011

Up until September 15th I will have 880 SC's in the 12 month period

On Sept 17th we fly leg 1 of our trip - both of us from Sydney to Singapore - this will provide 60 SC's each (both pooled to mine) which will get me to the 1,000.

On Sept 18th we both fly Singapore to Johannesburg - which will provide 80 SC's each

Then on return we do the opposite with flights dated 29th and 30th September.

So strictly speaking if Plat upgrade happened automatically and based on activity date (flight dates), the first 120 SC's would make me Platinum, and then the remaining 440 would count to my new year.

Now based on the time it takes for partner flights to credit - plus the likelihood of the flights from 17th and 18th crediting at the same time (despite recording different activity dates) - what's the chance of me pushing for Velocity to recognise the 440 SC's earned from 18th through to 30th as being part of the new membership year - thus getting me over halfway to requal (and getting me pretty close to partner gold)?

 

[dandandan]

Try ringing early on the 18th and see if they can manually credit the points to get you to Platinum, just explain and they should be wiling to help. If you are lucky they may even tick over from the 17th overnight.

Apologies to resurrect this post but situation has changed slightly and I miscalculated some of the points

Let's assume my SC year starts 16-Nov-2011

Up until September 15th I will have 880 SC's in the 12 month period

On Sept 17th we fly leg 1 of our trip - both of us from Sydney to Singapore - this will provide 60 SC's each (both pooled to mine) which will get me to the 1,000.

On Sept 18th we both fly Singapore to Johannesburg - which will provide 80 SC's each

Then on return we do the opposite with flights dated 29th and 30th September.

So strictly speaking if Plat upgrade happened automatically and based on activity date (flight dates), the first 120 SC's would make me Platinum, and then the remaining 440 would count to my new year.

Now based on the time it takes for partner flights to credit - plus the likelihood of the flights from 17th and 18th crediting at the same time (despite recording different activity dates) - what's the chance of me pushing for Velocity to recognise the 440 SC's earned from 18th through to 30th as being part of the new membership year - thus getting me over halfway to requal (and getting me pretty close to partner gold)?

 

[pshepvic]

Try ringing early on the 18th and see if they can manually credit the points to get you to Platinum, just explain and they should be wiling to help. If you are lucky they may even tick over from the 17th overnight.

Unfortunately they always take at least 2 days to credit, even for domestic. They credit at approx 10am each day, and always 2 or more days later. This means the flights on the 18th will credit later as well, but the problem is the status upgrade happens overnight on the day the flight credits, but as flights are backdated this means the subsequent flights will credit to the previous membership year. You then need to call them once they have credited and they will do a manual adjustment to credit to the next membership year.


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[dandandan]

That is how it will be if you do not ring either a few hours after your flight or the next morning. I rang and was able to get it pushed through in same type of situation. I would try this before trying the below as I have first hand experience of this working.

Unfortunately they always take at least 2 days to credit, even for domestic. They credit at approx 10am each day, and always 2 or more days later. This means the flights on the 18th will credit later as well, but the problem is the status upgrade happens overnight on the day the flight credits, but as flights are backdated this means the subsequent flights will credit to the previous membership year. You then need to call them once they have credited and they will do a manual adjustment to credit to the next membership year.


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[djchuckles]

Will try calling - but my worry is because it's a partner flight (Singapore) that may not be quite as easy