Velocity introduces Forever Gold lifetime status tier

[MarthaWolf]

and contrary to some angst earlier.

I have the opposite information, have used pooling (instead of gifting) over years to help family member attain/maintain plat & will miss out on FG because of it. Also with multiple less-than-reassuring reminders in the chat about their “enhancing and changing phase”.

 

[bjbrian]

Called Velocity and spoke with offshore. They told me I'd have the statement within 2-3 business days...it was in my inbox within 30 minutes.
Current total is sub 7K, so Forever Gold isn't going to be a target for the moment.

Same for me. Expected it would be more.

 

[SYD]

I have the opposite information, have used pooling (instead of gifting) over years to help family member attain/maintain plat & will miss out on FG because of it. Also with multiple less-than-reassuring reminders in the chat about their “enhancing and changing phase”.

Did you request an actual listing from VA? If stuff you’ve pooled out are included, then that’s a positive start.

The comment earlier about “angst” was pooled SCs ended up no where. The earlier post indicated that might not be correct.

 

[HeavyElectricity]

I knocked together a little script today for fun to try and summarise where I'm at with Forever Gold (much less than I assumed!).

I was able to scrape my data from 2013, and have a look at how it was classified. Interestingly, some of the older double status credits promos applied as double on the overall value on the actual flight line item, whilst more recent promos have them listed separately and classified as a promotion (rather than a flight).

I also can't see (from the data I was able to get) any obvious way to tell if a pool transfer out was for any particular classification of activity (such as a VA flight vs flybuys).

 

[trisreed]

I knocked together a little script today for fun to try and summarise where I'm at with Forever Gold (much less than I assumed!).

Great work! Looks like we had the same plan (but I imagine your script is written a lot better than mine)! Would love to run your script over my account if you ever wished to share it - namely as I don't trust my own work

 

[MooTime]

Just received email (2nd time) regarding my SC tally. Some 5 weeks after initial email.
I received earlier email of the tally within 24hrs of requesting it, not sure why this one with more detail & different layout took so long or even eventually arrived.

Note it has flights in Nov/Dec 2012 when the start date is 1st Feb 2013 (as stated in my email):

Also not that it matters, but doesn't say who pooled from.

Then for VFF points as WP it states the points twice as WP gets 100% bonus. few other oddities, now to add it all up again later, 99% sure it'll differ from previous received tally.
Roll with the punches.

 

[kpc]

My SC total from 1 Feb 2013 is a miserly 3193....(via chat)

 

[ozstamps]

Same (though I didn’t get an activity statement) despite 12+ years of status - rather than gifting gold, once I maintained plat I always pooled to my partner so apparently all those SCs aren’t counted, although my chat agent reiterated three times that they are still in the “enhancing and changing phase” of their Ts&Cs

In the exact same boat -- for Velocity STILL to be banging on about them still 'fine-tuning' this poorly thought through promo is typical - a month after announcing it.

Seems like they are making it up as they go along.

I am over 12,000 it seems, but not 9000 on Virgin yet, reading their gibberish pooly formatted Virgin Mumbai response eventually received, but gawd knows how many of MY flights pooled to partner to reach her status.

More relevant, expensive EY flights booked direct on EY website as Virgin's was hopeless for some bookings, is annoying. All the flights credited to my Velocity account - many 100s SC each paid biz flight, so WHY make the distinction?

Cost was the same in all cases, either way as I recall - indeed booking with Etihad seemed smarter as IF there was any issue re change dates or flights making booking direct with Etihad was smoothest to sort. . At the time it mattered not. There was hardly a warning note - 'WARNING booking direct with ETIHAD might affect your Forever Gold count'.