Virgin Australia Business Flyer Status Match

Businessman in Virgin Australia Lounge
Virgin Australia wants to attract more customers travelling for business. Photo: Virgin Australia.

Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering a free status match to new Virgin Australia Business Flyer members who currently hold the equivalent of Silver or higher status with a competing frequent flyer program.

This promotion is one of a range of benefits available to businesses that join Virgin Australia Business Flyer between 16 January and 31 March 2023.

Launched in April 2022, Virgin Australia Business Flyer is that airline’s answer to Qantas Business Rewards. It offers Velocity points, discounts and additional benefits to small and medium businesses when their employees fly.

How the status match works

To be eligible for this Velocity status match, you would need to be an employee or contractor of a business that joins Virgin Australia Business Flyer between 16 January and 31 March 2023. You would also need to have existing status with another airline such as Qantas.

Status with other airlines also qualifies, but Virgin won’t give a status match to frequent flyers of its own partner airlines such as Singapore Airlines, Qatar Airways, United or Etihad.

Velocity Platinum status
You or an employee could get Velocity Platinum status for 12 months with this status match offer. Photo: Virgin Australia.

After joining Virgin Australia Business Flyer for free, you can apply for your status match by sending an email to [email protected] from the email address linked to your Business Flyer account by 31 March 2023. In your email, include:

  • The name of the person requesting a status match
  • Their Velocity membership number
  • The business name and ABN
  • A photo of the applicant’s membership card with the other airline which clearly shows their name, status and expiry date

It may take up to 4 weeks to process your application. Once approved, you or your employee will receive Velocity Silver, Gold or Platinum status for 12 months.

See the Virgin Australia website for full instructions and T&Cs.

This status match promotion is separate to Virgin Australia Business Flyer’s ongoing offer of two Pilot Gold memberships for businesses that spend at least $2,000 within 3 months of joining.

To join Virgin Australia Business Flyer, your business would need an active ABN or ACN, an Australian business address and to spend less than $300,000 per year on Virgin Australia flights. Superannuation funds, travel agencies or any other business that resells travel is not eligible to join.

Other benefits for new Virgin Australia Business Flyer members

As a special promotion, businesses that sign up for Virgin Australia Business Flyer by 31 March 2023 can also receive:

  • 2,500 bonus Velocity points
  • Double Velocity points on their first flight
  • Plus, if spending $5,000 or more on eligible flights within 90 days of joining, 50,000 Velocity points.

Recent program improvements

Like Qantas Business Rewards, the Virgin Australia Business Flyer program has three membership tiers based on the business’ annual spend with the airline.

Virgin recently added several new benefits including lounge passes, bonus Velocity points and complimentary Business Class upgrades for members that reach the higher tiers.

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Currently no business seats on planes Perth to Darwin and Perth to Adelaide. Planes don't have them. NO Virgin Lounge in Darwin either.
When will this change. I don't want to cram in economy especially not with the covid plague in crowds. Who knows who I will be sitting shoulder to shoulder with.

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Who knows who I will be sitting shoulder to shoulder with.

I didn't know Business Class comes COVID free.

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I didn't know Business Class comes COVID free.

Maybe not
but you are not sitting so close to the passenger/stranger in the next seat. The renewed aircon comes from the front and you only share the toilet with max 8 people and the crew, providing the flight attendants keep the economy passengers from removing the cable across the aisle and sneaking in to use the loo.

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Business might even be worse

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I received a gratis $50 voucher into my VA BF travel bank (seperate to my personal travel bank) but I don’t seem to be able to access it. My dashboard shows a $50 balance but my BF login details don’t work on the ”corporate” travel bank. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

If I just use my VFF details, it just shows I have $0 balance there (as expected).

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New rewards for tier 2 and 3 members of Virgin Australia Business Flyer, as per an email I received today:

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I joined VABF in Sept last year, but did nothing with it until this new year when I remembered to put my ABN into my bookings. Finally got around to seeing how the thing worked and realised I should have been making bookings through the business portal.

Called the business line - no probs; send an email with the flights in question so they can check ACN recorded and, by the way, you can do a retro claim for flights where no ABN attached to booking.

Sent an email with all the PNRs (booked on Virgin with ACN plus those prior booked with no ACN) and asked how to proceed.

Got a reply within an hour!! Addressed my query directly and clearly - how to make a retro claim and that the Virgin site bookings with ACN are definitely in the system.

How often does that happen? A quick reply that actually answers the question!

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Offering a status match for new members and 150k Velocity points if spend is $10k in first 90 days or 50k points with $5k spent in 90 days

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I joined VABF in Sept last year, but did nothing with it until this new year when I remembered to put my ABN into my bookings. Finally got around to seeing how the thing worked and realised I should have been making bookings through the business portal.

Called the business line - no probs; send an email with the flights in question so they can check ACN recorded and, by the way, you can do a retro claim for flights where no ABN attached to booking.

Sent an email with all the PNRs (booked on Virgin with ACN plus those prior booked with no ACN) and asked how to proceed.

Got a reply within an hour!! Addressed my query directly and clearly - how to make a retro claim and that the Virgin site bookings with ACN are definitely in the system.

How often does that happen? A quick reply that actually answers the question!

Thanks for the heads up. I just registered for the Business Flyer, but flew back from Melbourne on Virgin on Sunday. I'll see how I go getting it counted, although it was before I registered for the scheme.

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Thanks for the heads up. I just registered for the Business Flyer, but flew back from Melbourne on Virgin on Sunday. I'll see how I go getting it counted, although it was before I registered for the scheme.

As a follow up to joining the Business Flyer scheme, I also applied for a status match - I'm VA Gold but that expires at end Feb, and I would have dropped down to VA Silver. I'm currently Qantas WP, so I applied for the status match on Wed morning and got a response just after noon that day, confirming the status match was approved. So, VA Plat until Feb next year - I'm very happy with that.

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