Bits: £200 off a holiday for 10000 Avios, 3000 miles for joining Virgin Flying Club

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• Jonathan says:

  12 Sep12 September 06:31

  Good avois redemption discount, though the T&Cs are a bit ambiguous.

  – Do people interpret this as £750 spend post £200 discount or pre-discount?
  – Is this definitely £750 spend per person?
  I’m reading this as this as a single £200 off booking for 10,000 avois, which makes me think the spend (be it £750 pre or post discount) is probably an absolute rather than per person amount.

• Lumma says:

  12 Sep12 September 07:45

  Just out of interest, how many Virgin miles would I need to be able to purchase something interesting? 3000 avois for free would be brilliant (almost 1 short haul flights worth) but what about with Virgin?

  • Hilly says:

    12 Sep12 September 08:02

    I interpret the terms as 10,000 points max conversion giving £200 off holiday per booking.

    • Hilly says:

      12 Sep12 September 08:03

      … Pre-discount

  • Rob says:

    12 Sep12 September 09:03

    Until the end of September when the services are dropped, a one way with Little Red to Aberdeen or Edinburgh is 3,750 miles. After that, the cheapest ticket is presumably a one way to New York in Economy which would be 17,500.

  • pol says:

    12 Sep12 September 09:09

    10,000 miles for a one glass upgrade to most east coast USA destinations. Remember you can also get 2,000 miles for free at the moment by turning Tesco auto convert on, the miles usually post quickly and you can turn it back off again before you actually have to convert anything (ends 15th September though).
    3,000 gets you £50 off an Economy flight at present too (but you did say interesting not sure that qualifies).

    • pol says:

      12 Sep12 September 09:11

      Sorry, one class not one glass! Also note 10,000 per flight not return.

    • Saif says:

      12 Sep12 September 15:13

      Hi,

      I signed up for auto convert back in August when the bonus came along but I’ve still not got the bonus. When are the points posted? Will I have to contact clubcard?

      • Liz says:

        12 Sep12 September 17:24

        They will post after the 15th Sept deadline – you can then switch back to receive the vouchers afterwards if you want.

        • Saif says:

          12 Sep12 September 20:24

          Ah right,

          Cheers

  • Charlie says:

    12 Sep12 September 14:06

    One good use for such small amounts is in long haul economy flights via their ‘miles plus money’ option. For LHR-JFK, return, 3000 miles will reduce the ticket by approx £50.

    These flights do not earn any miles and so are only good for non-frequent flyers. One to put away in the back pocket, personally I’m creating accounts on behalf of my family members on the off chance we do end up needing this.

• cheekychappie says:

  12 Sep12 September 08:05

  Raffles – I thought you already had the ability to refer new members to VA http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/flying-club/miles-more-friends.html

  Not like you to give up a finder’s fee 🙂

  • Rob says:

    12 Sep12 September 09:00

    I only take the finders fee when it is in the best interests of both parties …

    • cheekychappie says:

      12 Sep12 September 09:23

      There might be a few old frats like me who don’t have any apps on their mobile phones (mine is just for emergencies) – and would welcome the chance to get 3000 miles through the other route

      • cheekychappie says:

        12 Sep12 September 09:25

        delete that, saw the edit

• SirElmo says:

  12 Sep12 September 08:41

  Hello everyone. I would appreciate your advice on this. I am scheduled to fly Virgin Atlantic in Upper Class LHR to HKG in end of September. Return is with Aeroflot. Considering it is only one leg (not a return with Virgin), would I still be eligible for the 10,000 miles through the refer-a-friend scheme? I am yet a Flying Club member. Many thanks.

  • Joe says:

    12 Sep12 September 08:54

    It technically says return but then says the points are added per sector, so you’d likely get half and the next half the next time you flew…

  • Rob says:

    12 Sep12 September 08:58

    The rules are inconsistent. It says that the referrer (not you) gets 5,000 points for each of your first 2 Upper Class segments. For the person referred, it says you get 10,000 points for your first return flight – which implies you must complete a return.

    However, my gut feeling – as I know how they post these points – is that you would get 5,000 points for doing a one way as your first flight.

    You need to decide between definitely getting 3,000 via this link and probably getting 5,000 via the referral route.

  • pol says:

    12 Sep12 September 09:00

    The terms and conditions say this “For every person you refer who joins Flying Club, you will earn Miles on the basis of the cabin in which they complete their first round trip with Virgin Atlantic” for the referrer and ‘For all persons referred who subsequently join Flying Club and travel, they will earn bonus Miles on the basis of the cabin in which they complete their first round trip with Virgin Atlantic,”
    so according to the rules it seems not. However, I have referred people before and got the miles even when they have only booked a one way, as have they, and they always seem to post immediately after the first flight, however you obviously have no comeback if you don’t get them.

• Kathy says:

  12 Sep12 September 09:00

  Oh, typical! Two weeks after I join Flying Club there’s a 3000 point bonus for joining!!

• Ben says:

  12 Sep12 September 09:04

  Do you still earn Avios on the remaining package holiday spend? I have got 10 avios per £1 on my last two Thomson bookings. Losing this would make it much less attractive. Note from terms that 30k avios can be used for £600 discount etc.

  • kirill says:

    13 Sep13 September 11:18

    Minimum spend of £750. Discount will not be doubled up to £400 if using 20,000, or £600 for 30,000 Avios etc.

• robstaaaar says:

  12 Sep12 September 09:06

  Had a heavy night n my head’s still a little thick, but where’s the link to join up with Virgin Flying Club?

  • pol says:

    12 Sep12 September 09:14

    for the 3,000 bonus miles you need to download the Virgin Red app and join through that.

    • Raymond Hennessy says:

      12 Sep12 September 09:35

      Not available on Android 🙁

      • cheekychappie says:

        12 Sep12 September 09:41

        Side load? Or go through Raffles’ link, you’ll still get the 3000 points when you fly plus can start earning points through other means 🙂

        • Alan says:

          12 Sep12 September 09:51

          You can’t sideload an iOS app onto Android 😉 Stupid of VS to limit their platforms like this, but at least we’ve got the Raffles route!

        • Alan says:

          12 Sep12 September 16:37

          Not quite – if you read this and other articles on the topic you’ll see it’s all from a Colombia Uni project called Cider (a variation of the the WINE Linux emulation naming no doubt!), subsequently renamed to Cycada. However development status is marked as unknown and most articles on it either date from August 2014 or rehash the same content/video from that time. Things were quite different for Blackberry where they were actively pushing emulation development to help grow the apps on their platform.

          Regardless in this case Virgin should be developing for at least Android and iOS.

        • cheekychappie says:

          12 Sep12 September 20:16

          You are right

      • Raymond Hennessy says:

        12 Sep12 September 15:39

        OK, borrowed the wifes iPhone and joined up. 3000 points credited immediately . Approx 1250 slots still available at 15.30.

        • Rob says:

          12 Sep12 September 17:34

          I’m amused at how quickly they are going down. It had been up for a while when I saw it and only 150 of the 2,000 had been taken. We seem to have taken around 500 between us today!

    • Jon says:

      12 Sep12 September 10:06

      I’ve already got the Virgin Red App but I can’t seem to find a link to join the Flying Club. Feel like I’m having a blonde moment. Any guidance would be appreciated.

      • Rob says:

        12 Sep12 September 10:40

        It was on the home page yesterday and there were still 1,800 of the 2,000 packages left. Try using the search ‘funnel’ at the top and filtering by travel offers. Cannot check myself as daughter is playing Smurfs games on my iPhone ….

        • Jon says:

          12 Sep12 September 11:02

          Can’t find anything on the Virgin Red App. Might just have to go with a referral. Don’t have any plans to fly Virgin just yet but happy to join with sign on bonus if a referral is the next best thing.

• Kai says:

  12 Sep12 September 09:40

  The numbers you quote are for REFERERs, referees get 2000 miles and 3000 miles only.

  • Kathy says:

    12 Sep12 September 13:50

    It’s weird, I was looking at this just a couple of weeks ago and I could have sworn it was the other way around, that the person being referred got 5000 and the referer 2000. But it does look like it is how you say, now. I wonder if the colleague I referred actually signed up?

    • Kai says:

      12 Sep12 September 16:21

      I specifically looked for the terms around one month ago and I’m sure it was already this way at that time. I referred my Mum this January before her one-way economy flight this January, I got 1000 miles and she got 500.

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