Maybe I was being naïve...

[mella2007]

Do you get the same grace with earning SC? If you were close, say 20 or 30 points off retention, would you back to having to earn 500 SCs?

You will ALWAYS have to maintain earning status credits. There has been the odd case in the past 18 months when people have been comped another year at their status level...but yes every year you have to meet the minimum requirements of not only the status credits but also the amount of sectors flown with a VA flight number.

 

[totd]

You will ALWAYS have to maintain earning status credits. There has been the odd case in the past 18 months when people have been comped another year at their status level...but yes every year you have to meet the minimum requirements of not only the status credits but also the amount of sectors flown with a VA flight number.

Thanks for the response, but that was not quite what I meant. What I was getting at was getting a few days leeway if you're close to earning enough to maintain. For example, lets say I have 390 SCs and my requal date is March 1... Would I be deemed to have Requalified if took 60 SCs worth of flights in March (ie. enought to get my status credit balance over the magic 400, but a little late). In this example I'm assuming no credits are expiring at the same time, which would, of course, increase the number of credits required.

 

[medhead]

In general no, you need to make it by your date. Sometimes other things can happen.

 

[Gremlin]

Thanks for the response, but that was not quite what I meant. What I was getting at was getting a few days leeway if you're close to earning enough to maintain. For example, lets say I have 390 SCs and my requal date is March 1... Would I be deemed to have Requalified if took 60 SCs worth of flights in March (ie. enought to get my status credit balance over the magic 400, but a little late). In this example I'm assuming no credits are expiring at the same time, which would, of course, increase the number of credits required.

my understanding is no, but the rolling status credits thingy means you are still only 50 SCs off qualifying (again) as Gold.

 

[simongr]

*Puts nerd hat on*

If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was Boromir who uttered such a similar phrase... :mrgreen:

You are not mistaken:

 

[maninblack]

As Gandalf would say "One does not simply 'book' a rewards flight."

Maybe I was naive to think I could use my Velocity points for an overseas holiday flight in June/July this year?

I went onto the Virgin website to look for flights, two destinations I had in mind were
1) Hawaii
2) Barcelona, Spain

With Honolulu it says, cannot book this online. (Even though Hawaiian Airlines are one of their partners?)
With Barcelona, all the flights appear to run through Abu Dhabi , of which there are NO rewards seats available? (even as far back as May?)


What the heck... when/how am I supposed to be able to get a rewards flight??

It would be better if the system would filter out all the unavailable flight days, otherwise I have to page through each day individually.

any advice ?

Virgin only gets a very small allocation of seats under the codeshare arrangement with HA so I wonder how tiny their allocation is for rewards tickets?

 

[totd]

You are not mistaken

the shire to mordor - Google Maps

 

[eckorock]

 

[eckorock]

yeah you're right it was Boromir