How to book cheap Virgin Atlantic tickets from Dublin

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• Kevin says:

  19 Oct19 October 06:21

  It is also worth considering Cork and Shannon when searching for these flight offers. Last summer we did Cork/Manchester/Orlando for just over £600 per person in Premium Economy.

• Matt says:

  19 Oct19 October 06:42

  Same to be said for PE? No issue with upgrading Expedia tickets with miles?

  • Smid says:

    19 Oct19 October 07:12

    Virgin upgradable tickets tend to be a higher price, so assume nothing as to being able to quickly upgrade a PE ticket.

    When you want to upgrade a VS ticket, you tend to pay a price like the next class up (ie: a PE price for a Economy ticket), then upgrade from that to Upper. It kind of is a similar miles and money price as a BA WT+ ticket plus to Club WAS, but it’s far less spontaneous…

  • Max says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:58

    If wishing to upgrade a VS Economt ticket the minimum seat bucket is M. Anything less that that is not upgradable. I suspect cheap tickets from third parties will be a lower bucket than M.

• Saif says:

  19 Oct19 October 07:15

  So does this mean I can buy a premium economy ticket from Expedia and then upgrade it to upper class for just 10000 miles each way on the Virgin website?

  • Max says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:59

    No see above. The lowest priced PE bucket seats are not upgradable.

• Ron says:

  19 Oct19 October 07:24

  Do they check your luggage all the way from DUB to the US when the ticket is mix of BA flight and VS flight?

  • Jason says:

    19 Oct19 October 07:59

    Yes

    • PGW says:

      19 Oct19 October 08:33

      It would actually suit me if I could collect my bags in MAN on the return (for what might be obvious reasons!). Possible?

      • Andi says:

        1 Nov1 November 20:50

        …so just to confirm, the DUB to NYC via whereever is a through ticket [is that the right terminology?] so if the first leg is delayed and you miss your connection the company[s] are obliged to get you on the next flight they have in the same class?

        and whats the latest thinking on the rtn leg coming into one london airport and leaving from another to DUB and you ‘somehow’ not making that last leg…? will they charge you if you only do this once?

        • Rob says:

          1 Nov1 November 21:23

          Yes and no, very unlikely they would charge you as a one off.

          BA IS charging travel agents who issue tickets to customers where the last leg is dropped. They do this because they can – it is far easier to bill a travel agent (and deduct the money from their next commission payment) than sue a private individual. The agent is then expected to make a counter claim against the individual.

          Book direct with BA and your odds are better.

        • Andi says:

          2 Nov2 November 17:07

          Thanks HFP

          also, getting to DUB in time could be tricky, what if flight is delayed? that could ruin whole trip…

          also looking at Open Jaw as wife needs to go to Nice after so DUB – NYC – NICE could be possible… Wednesday to Saturday is much more expensive than Wednesday to Sunday. is the Saturday night stay thong still in force? i thought that had been dropped?

        • Rob says:

          2 Nov2 November 17:10

          No, Sat night rule still in play on long haul

• Louise says:

  19 Oct19 October 07:27

  I booked DUB-LGW-LAS return for next Easter flying upper for £1130 🙂

• Pol says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:19

  A couple of points. Upgrading tickets bought through an online travel agent can be difficult, as with all airlines and that’s assuming that there’s space to upgrade into after you’ve purchased your ticket. You can however book an ex Dublin itinerary direct with Virgin by calling flying club. Not all agents are clued up on how to do this so if you get a dud one hang up and call again later. It’s a good idea to have checked the price and exact flights on matrix first so you’re armed with the exact flight numbers. If you do it this way, assuming reward seats are available, you can upgrade at the same time as booking.
  It’s also worth noting that, unlike BA, you can upgrade an economy ticket to Upper using miles, no need to buy premium. (Costs double the upgrade miles as premium to upper). Just make sure you buy an upgradable fare, m is the cheapest economy fare and s is the cheapest premium fare from Virgin that allow upgrades.

  • Liz says:

    19 Oct19 October 09:09

    Pol – you see to be the expert in all things Virgin. We have just over 100K Virgin miles and an upgrade voucher for PE will be available at the anniversary of our credit card in May. How easy is it to book return reward flights on one ticket. Do you have to wait for the return flight to become available and chance losing the outbound flight or can you book the outbound flight first then phone back 2/3 weeks later and get the return flight added to your ticket and the taxes be adjusted. Thanks.

    • Pol says:

      19 Oct19 October 12:41

      Technically you’re not supposed to be able to book a one way and add a return later, you would have to book as two one ways, which is more expensive. However, myself and several other flyertalk posters have had success by phoning Virgin when booking the first flight and asking if you can add a return later at the gbp price.

• JR says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:27

  Just to confirm can tickets booked on Expedia etc be upgraded? (assuming booked into the correct class/code)

  • Saif says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:31

    Seems like it, yes. It says so on the Virgin Atlantic website but it must be a certain class. Also worth mentioning, when upgrading to upper class, the chauffeur drop off isn’t included in the upgrade so if you want this it’ll cost another 17500 miles!

  • Rob says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:33

    Not sure – do not necessarily assume it is possible. Issue is that the agent ‘controls’ the booking so the airline cannot necessarily make changes. For years BA did not allow miles upgrades on agent tickets – this only changed in 2013.

• David says:

  19 Oct19 October 08:28

  Booked one of these to fly next month. BA club Dublin to LHR and virgin upper LHR to LAX was £1100. Only problem is who do I claim the miles with. The BA segment has a virgin and BA flight number.

  • Pol says:

    19 Oct19 October 08:33

    You’ll get Avios for the ba segment and flying club miles for the vs segment.

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