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The Offer
- Virgin Atlantic is offering a 50% rebate on all award flights or upgrades to the US or Caribbean.
- Must book by November 7, 2022
- Flights must depart by March 25, 2023
- Must link your Virgin Flying Club account with a Virgin Red account
The Fine Print
- To be eligible for this offer, members must book a new flight through virginatlantic.com or Virgin Atlantic contact centre.​
- You must be a resident of the United Kingdom or the United States and a member of Virgin Red and Virgin Atlantic Flying Club and have linked your accounts before booking. Virgin Points will be credited to your Virgin Red account.​
- 50% points back is applicable on all new bookings made for Reward flights and points upgrades on the following Virgin Atlantic routes:​
- UK members: US and Caribbean routes to/from the UK​
- US members: UK routes to and from the US ​
- Valid for new ticketed flight reward seats and upgrades for travel booked using Virgin Points between: 00:01 28-Oct-22 and 23:59 07-Nov-22 AND travelled prior to: 23:59 on 25th-Mar-23 .​
- Valid on Virgin Atlantic marketed and operated flights only (flight number starts with VS). Partner airline and codeshare flights are not eligible.  ​
- Points plus Money redemptions are excluded.
- Not valid on Gold Reward Seats (reward seats booked with double points).​
- Upgrade Rewards and Companion Rewards, including those earned on Virgin Atlantic Credit Cards, are eligible for this offer.​
- 50% of the Virgin Points redeemed will be returned to the original lead booking member for all reward seats on that booking. Points will be credited to the member’s Virgin Red account within 28 days after the original final flight within the booking has completed. ​
- Standard Tier Points will be awarded.​
- For any queries about your Virgin Points award, please email the Virgin Red Rewards Genies (contact centre team) directly using [email protected]​
- Reward flights are subject to availability. ​
- Full taxes, fees and carrier-imposed surcharges apply and vary according to choice of cabin, departure airport, destination and date(s) of travel. The 50% back offer only applies to points, not any cash element (taxes, fees and carrier-imposed surcharges) of the flight price. ​
- This offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other Virgin Atlantic promotional offer .​
- The earning and redemption of Virgin Points are subject to the standard Flying Cub Terms & Conditions and the Virgin Red Programme Terms and Conditions (which are subject to change from time to time).​
- All travel is subject to Virgin Atlantic’s Conditions of Carriage (which are subject to change from time to time).​
- These Terms & Conditions are subject to English Law and the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
Our Verdict
This is a rebate, not a discount so you need the full value in points to book. Looks like points will be returned within 28 days of completing the flight. Chase has a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic &Â Capital One is offering a 30% transfer bonus to Virgin Red currently as well. One of the main issues with transatlantic flights with Virgin Atlantic are the carrier imposed fees and this rebate doesn’t help with that.
Would this work for flights originating from Asia with a stopover in LHR and then concluding in the US?
Terms show this: “US members: UK routes to and from the US. ” Would the 50% rebate apply on ANA redemptions through VA website using VA miles?: e.g., SFO NRT
Please read what you wrote.
The confusion steps from the fact that this limitation is only mentioned in the fine print and not highlighted very well, even though it is a very important consideration.
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If I booked award tickets for my family together, will 50% rebate be applied to all tickets?
So for american members, this only works for trips to UK? Am I understanding the fine print correctly?
How to get rid of the insanely high YQ for LHR?
To be clear other than the APD when you depart from the UK, the fees has nothing to do with LHR and everything to do with BA and VS. Both of the carriers also hit ex-US hard for YQ so booking two one ways will allow your UK to US journey to price a little less than a roundtrip from the US.
Can I upgrade a flight I already have booked (JFK-LHR) with points and qualify for the 50% rebate? I only see an option to pay with $$$ in the upgrade area for now.
Award availability in J is rare amongst SkyTeam members – Virgin Atlantic was just inducted into the alliance a couple of months ago. So anyone looking to take advantage of this rebate offer while flying J maybe disappointed.
They have been offering Delta flights for a long time, but according to Skyteam’s website, they’re joining in 2023. I believe Delta owns a good chunk of Virgin Atlantic, and their websites are very similar. You’re right that it’s hard to find award flights on Delta, but if you do find them, they’re an excellent value since there’s no fuel surcharge. That said, I suspect this deal is only for VA flights.
“Partner airline and codeshare flights are not eligible.” This rules out any Skyteam availability in any class of service you may stumble upon.
What is Virgin Red?
Are the points rebated to the virgin red as opposed to the virgin atlantic account? Any downside of that (assuming true)?
Quoted from this post:
“Points will be credited to the member’s Virgin Red account within 28 days after the original final flight within the booking has completed.”
They’re interchangeable points. No downside.
Points seem to be earn and burn across both accounts, so don’t think there’s any downside
I highly suspect Virgin Red is VS’s (and all hotel/air chains) drastic devaluation coming. Radisson just launched it, Aer Club has it, etc. It’s “Pay-With-Points” where you can pay all or part in points. The trouble? the points become worth half as much. Radisson dropped from .5cpp to .25cpp, AerClub dropped from 1.2cpp to .6cpp. There’s a reason for “Virgin Red”.