Virgin's Velocity revamp step 1

Step 1 of the long awaited and anticipated revamp of the Virgin Australia Velocity rewards program has begun, with Virgin Australia announcing changes to the way frequent fliers earn status credits.

Fliers now only need to earn 250 credits to qualify for Silver level and 200 to maintain it, in the new rolling 365 day period.  For Gold Level membership fliers need 500 credits to qualify and 400 to maintain.

The most significant change is that Virgin Australia now uses a rolling 365 day window for calculating how many status credits its Velocity members have, rather than expiring them in bulk on a fixed date every 12 months as Qantas does (and Virgin Blue used to do).

Read more about the first step in the revamp from either the virginaustralia.com release HERE or from Dan Warne of Australian Business Traveller HERE