Virgin Altantic Credit Card

Shadow2198

Sorry, wasn’t sure whether to post this in Credit Cards or Holidays!

I was just wondering if many people have had any experience with the Virgin Atlantic Amex Credit Card and getting rewards from it?

I basically want to know how I can maximise the rewards I get with my flying club account. I may be missing a trick here but it seems that you pay double to achieve the relevant rewards

e.g. I have spent enough to obtain a free companion flight. A return flight for a random date from London to LA is about £750 per adult (cheapest economy). But if I want to redeem this free companion flight then I have to buy a different class of economy ticket (fully flexible economy) which costs about £1400. On top of that I’d still have to pay taxes for the companion.

It’s a similar story with upgrades it seems.

Has anyone found a way to effectively make these rewards work in their favour since I’m trying to utilise a mixture of points and rewards for a family of 4

cse

I've got one of these, in my experience the 'miles plus money' fares tend to work out better value than buying a ticket outright

Also as a general note, make sure to use the online shopping partner links as much as possible to maximise the miles you earn, they do something like 4 miles for every £ spent at lastminute.com which has earned me a bundle over the last year