Velocity Pilot Gold - 80 SC achieved (in 3 weeks) - What happens for remaining 2 months?

[Mishka]

I got on to the VA Velocity Gold Pilot program through work in July. I am flying interstate for work every week and achieve the required 80 SC's last week. My review is not until October 26th 2019. By my calculations, I will accumulate another 300-350 SC's by the review date. I want to know what happens to those credits after the review? I noticed that the 75 credits I had before starting my Pilot (accumulated during the past 12 months) all disappeared and I was reset back to zero in that 'review'. I am worried the same will happen to the much larger number of credits I'm going to accumulate in the next few months. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[CPMaverick]

Your SC will not go away in October 2019. However, by the time of your review date in October 2020, they will have expired as they only last 12 months.

So, they won't help you achieve Gold re-qualification, but they can help you achieve Platinum.

 

[Mishka]

Thanks, CP.

Good to know that I can use the points I accumulate during the rest of the Pilot phase toward achieving Platinum. The interstate assignment I'm on will run for at least a year and at my travel rate, I estimate, I will accumulate about 150 SCs per month. At that rate, I should achieve Platinum by about Feb-Mar 2020.

But I'm still confused about how the difference in achieving the next level vs maintaining current level works. So if after October I am accumulating 150 per month does that go to achieving platinum or to maintaining Gold (or to both simultaneously)?

 

[CPMaverick]

SC only last 12 months, and for status purposes, there are only two things that matter:
- the SC you have on your review date
- you reach the SC required for the next tier

If you aren't moving up a tier, once your reach the requalification SC then essentially your SC are wasted (the only carrot VA has for plats is the opportunity to gift Gold and Platinum at higher SC).

If you reach the SC for the next tier, in your case Platinum, then you become platinum and your get a NEW review date... 12 months from the day you reach Platinum.

So, in your case, when you hit 1000 SC, you'll get a new review date and the SC after that will be checked 12 months later to determine your status.

 

[Vic]

Velocity maintain 2 status credit totals. One for the current year, and one for the last 12 months. Every time there is a review your current total will reset to zero. So the extra status credits you get until the end of pilot gold will not count towards requalifying gold after the review.
You have to get the requalification amount within the 12 months following a review.
The rolling 12 month total is used to determine moving up a level, so the status you get until the end of pilot gold will count towards attaining platinum. Once you get platinum, new review date current total resets to zero.

So anything you earn after a review date will count towards both moving up and retaining simultaneously.