Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points - Half price sale!

fifitrix123

The free flight deal finished yesterday and I am still trying to get my flights out of them and am being pushed from pillar to post! Lloyds keep telling me to contact air miles and they tell me to contact lloyds so maybe another con? I am going to cut my card up anyway :mad:

edda

When making comparisons on credit cards, it's worth noting that there are 2 Virgin/MBNA cards.

The black one has an annual fee and rewards are greater. The white one has no annual fee.

The spending levels referred to in earlier posts are, I think, only applicable to the black card. (Perhaps someone could confirm this)?

dinesh17

fifi, ive just used the LTSB airmiles one and had a great hol in Barcelona! You need to spend on the Amex card (only £10) within a month of getting it. They should also have sent you an Airmiles welcome pack with your membership no. You can use this to log in to the website and book a flight. You will have a 'voucher' in your account which you use to pay for the flight. The only caveat is that you also need to buy one night's hotel stay through them at the same time.

If you need any more help let me know and I'll try to help. Worth calling Airmiles and aksing if you have an accoutn with them - i presume they can search via name/postcode. As long as they can find you and you have the vouchers in your account you are good to go )

_Andy_

fifitrix123 wrote: »

The free flight deal finished yesterday and I am still trying to get my flights out of them and am being pushed from pillar to post! Lloyds keep telling me to contact air miles and they tell me to contact lloyds so maybe another con? I am going to cut my card up anyway :mad:

This thread is specifically about Virgin Flying Club miles, not the Airmiles scheme.

_Andy_

edda wrote: »

When making comparisons on credit cards, it's worth noting that there are 2 Virgin/MBNA cards.

The black one has an annual fee and rewards are greater. The white one has no annual fee.

The spending levels referred to in earlier posts are, I think, only applicable to the black card. (Perhaps someone could confirm this)?

That's correct, hence me putting

"(above assumes using the Black Card i.e. the one with the annual fee)"

RachVG

Hi,

I'm looking to go to San Diego in late July. At the moment flights are just under £700 and as it's the first week of the school holidays I'm not expecting that to go down.

I'm only a few thousand miles short of 25,000 and would be interested in using them on this deal - paying £100 for some miles plus the £233 to go to LA (where I could stay overnight and then get the train to San Diego the next day for pennies compared to the £400 difference in flying to San Diego at full price).

However what I don't want to do is pay £100 for some miles to take me up to the 25,000 and then there not be any availability on the dates I'm interested in. Is there any kind soul on here with enough miles who could do a dummy booking for me to see if it's possible? The Virgin website obviously won't let me look as I currently don't have enough miles.

It would be LHR - LAX on July 19th (any time) flying back either evening of the 25th or 26th.

_Andy_

RachVG wrote: »

However what I don't want to do is pay £100 for some miles to take me up to the 25,000 and then there not be any availability on the dates I'm interested in. Is there any kind soul on here with enough miles who could do a dummy booking for me to see if it's possible? The Virgin website obviously won't let me look as I currently don't have enough miles.

It would be LHR - LAX on July 19th (any time) flying back either evening of the 25th or 26th.

Rach - checked for you and no availability showing.
Some usually opens up nearer the time (maybe 7-10 days before) but I wouldn't hold my breath given the time of year.
Incidentally you can search for reward flights even if you haven't got sufficient balance.

HTH

RachVG

Thanks for checking anyway - much better than wasting the money topping the miles up! I'll probably fly to San Diego instead as I originally planned - flying to LA and getting the train is only a cheaper option if I can get a reward flight and I obviously don't want to wait til July to book on the offchance!

And, you can do that? It wouldn't let me when I tried earlier so I assumed it wasn't possible - thanks for the info, I'll have another look in future!

johnedwards3005

Nobody has mentioned that (in my opinion) the very best value Virgin Atlantic flight redemption is straight Upper Class (NOT upgrading). OK, it takes 100,000 miles return (each!) for most destinations and the taxes etc are higher (although there are occasional reductions) but you're getting many £000 in 'value'.
However, the number of seats released for this is very limited (at least until near the flight), so for popular dates/destinations you really do need to get online EXACTLY 11 months before you want to fly. You can buy the limo service for (I think) 5k miles (per journey) too - and (usefully) they can come from your partner's mileage balance - which can't otherwise be combined with yours. Unfortunately I haven't found it possible to use the upgrade/companion vouchers with this method - very frustrtating!
Clearly, to accumulate these mileages you either need to be a big VA flyer - or a big spender, preferably on the black card. It helps to have a lot of patience - and enjoy delayed gratification too!

windswept

You can get 5000 VFC miles for getting a Virgin money/Friends Provident life policy at starting at £5 per month, you only need to hold the policy for 3 months to get the miles - so you can have 5k miles per person for only £15 each - seeing as £30 only normally buys you 1k miles, it's worth the effort.
I've done it for me and hubby, I'll probably keep the insurance as it's £30000 of cover for a fiver a month .
You need to go through the VA website / flying club section / partners then click on Virgin money to access the deal, don't go straight through Virgin money.

What with that and getting 10,000 extra Tesco clubcard points for buying 2 halfprice sofas and a mattress from tesco direct ( total spend £830) I'm on a roll this month:T.