Virgin Flying Club Air Miles?

[AngelaB]

Can anyone please explain how the VA Flying Club Air Miles work?I have just had a quote from them and with it i would get 9500 air miles. What exactly does this equate to ....i have read the info on their site, but i still dont really understand.[:I]

[Ray&Sarah]

When you have enough air miles you will be able to get a free flight. or upgrade to a higher class. For example for 20,000 air miles you can upgrade an economy seat to a premium economy seat. If you fly with a certain airline regularly it is worth having their card to collect the air miles.[msnsmile2]

[brizzle]

Or you can do Miles + Money.
This tends to save 40% on fares so the lady told me when I rang.

You can get two return economy flights for £511 including all tax etc + 4000 virgin air miles.

Brizzle

[LesleyB]

To claim a free Orlando flight with Virgin you need 40,000 miles which we are doing this time after using the 20,000 points given for a 24 hour delay last year together with points earned to date. The card is well worth using if you fly regularly and points only expire if you you do not fly with them for more than 3 years.

Stuart

[andrewmckay5]

Hi Angela,
as an aside here's a related topic I mentioned on a previous thread which you may find interesting.
We recently ordered a new car from Virgin Cars. £2500-00 cheaper than the dealer + by using our Virgin credit card we got 70,000 air miles and a free companion flight ticket.
As Ray and Sarah said, well worth getting the credit card as the miles can mount up especially when my wife visits the Millenium Mall in Orlando[msnscared]
andrew

[Matt]

If you don't fly that regularly, you can still use miles on european routes with BMI.

I think the lowest is 12500 for an Amsterdam, Dublin, Paris or UK domestic, and then 18000 will get you further afield IE Italy, Spain.

Of course you earn miles on more than just flights. Virgin Wines, Virgin Credit Card, BMI Flights along with selected other airlines, hotels, car rental.

They all add up. I think at the moment I'm on 312000 and have a gold card[clap][clap] Lots of free flights in the coming years for me

Matt

[chris]

The best deal with virgin is to buy a 'companion ticket'. For 20 000 miles you can buy a ticket for a friend so long as you are travelling too and they just pay the taxes. You cant buy the cheapest economy ticket but we have just booked for next August and paid £750 for most of the tickets, £850 for Paul's and then Peter going as his 'companion' for 20000 miles plus £54 taxes so saved ourselves £600!
For the following August we will have built up enough miles for 2 of us to take companions.

[Ray&Sarah]

Thats interesting Chris will have to look into that.

Matt, wow thats alot of points.[msnoo]

[andrewmckay5]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chris
The best deal with virgin is to buy a 'companion ticket'. For 20 000 miles you can buy a ticket for a friend so long as you are travelling too and they just pay the taxes. You cant buy the cheapest economy ticket but we have just booked for next August and paid £750 for most of the tickets, £850 for Paul's and then Peter going as his 'companion' for 20000 miles plus £54 taxes so saved ourselves £600!
For the following August we will have built up enough miles for 2 of us to take companions.
[/quote]

A friend has just used 30,000 points to get a premium economy ticket to Orlando next May; worked out £512 each which they were more than pleased with having just paid £500 for an economy ticket in September.
andrew

[wrpac00]

We have just done the same. Using 30,000 miles we are both flying in Premium Economy for £1244, my ticket was £74.20. We are flying 25th July.

One thing I was not aware of though was that only certain seats (i.e. price) can be upgraded using airmiles.