Get 502 Virgin Flying Club miles for £1.50

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• Cheshire Pete says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:30

  And for those of us in Manchester. Go to Stockport for £2.50 or 10p more with a Virgin day return @ £2.60. With a railcard £1.65 or still £1.65 for the day return! I guess if your just after the points though just buy the Edinburgh ticket as a burn.

• James67 says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:31

  The tickets on EDB-HYM or vice versa are anytime singles on any operator so to be on the safe side I reserved a seat on a VTEC service. It state I would earn 2 FC miles so hopefully the 500 are fine too. I also have no problem actually using the ticket.

  • John says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:48

    Who on earth actually travels EDB-HYM by train (if not connecting to another service)?

    Nobody ever checks tickets for the 4 min journey, but those buying the £1.50 ticket should remember they can’t use it unless they have the correct railcard

    • James67 says:

      9 Jul9 July 11:40

      Very few I imagine but I need to be down at Haymarket and subsequently the Balmoral anyway so I thought I might as well pick up the ticket and use it. I’ve not been in Haymarket since the refurb either so will get a lookat that too.

      • Alan says:

        10 Jul10 July 17:17

        They’ve done a really nice job with it as a station 🙂

• HayMow says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:42

  If you don’t have a Virgin Flying Club account, is it worth opening one and earning points in promos like this, even if you’re unlikely to fly with them for the foreseeable future? ie. are there other ways to benefit from the points such as by transfers or conversions, and if so, from what minimum points level? thx

  • mark2 says:

    9 Jul9 July 07:08

    You can convert in 10,000 batches to IHG 1:1 or Hilton with 50% bonus.
    You can convert Tesco ClubCard points to Virgin at 2.5 with occasional bonuses.
    If you take auto convert to Virgin off your Tesco account before the quarter end 23rd July? and put it back soon after you will probably get 1,000 points; this has worked the last four quarters.
    I am sure that there are other wrinkles for serious Virgin collectors.

    • mark2 says:

      9 Jul9 July 07:14

      actually 21st July

  • Genghis says:

    9 Jul9 July 07:44

    I’m not a serious Virgin collector but started putting a bit of effort into collecting a few months ago. Got the virgin credit card and the ISA, the wine and the occasional small promo such as this.

    I have recently taken out the IHG credit card. I plan to transfer Tesco points to virgin and then onto IHG (and this added to IHG card spend and using exiting virgin miles) will be enough to get me IHG spire elite (need 75k IHG points and then get a bonus of 25k points).

  • Egg says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:19

    better to collect avios if anything. much wider network for flights.

    • mark2 says:

      9 Jul9 July 08:55

      Unless, like me, you have already booked the flights using Avios and now need hotel points.

  • John says:

    9 Jul9 July 09:51

    500 Virgin miles are sort of useless if you don’t generally collect them, because the most useful things to do tend to be in multiples of 1000.

• Nick M says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:48

  I assume you will still earn the points if you don’t manage to pick the tickets up from the station?

  • James says:

    9 Jul9 July 10:23

    Ah, what a quaint idea, bless

    • harry says:

      9 Jul9 July 10:31

      I picked mine up just in case

• Andi says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:56

  Does 500 points post for each purchase? I don’t see the email from Virgin nor see details of 500 points on any websites

  • TimS says:

    9 Jul9 July 07:57

    Bonus Points are only for the first purchase in the promo period.

• Andi says:

  9 Jul9 July 06:57

  And assume purchase on the app is ok too?

  • Andi says:

    9 Jul9 July 07:03

    And do you need to actually pick up the ticket?

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jul9 July 07:45

      No mention of it but I did to be on safe side. You can collect from any station with a fast ticket machine

    • Cheshire Pete says:

      9 Jul9 July 08:07

      You also choose print at home or mobi ticket.

• Boi says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:15

  I have just realised I may have booked the wrong tickets. I have used east coast before….
  I bought the hay market one on west coast website. Would this count?

  • Genghis says:

    9 Jul9 July 08:29

    Me too – maybe. I booked the 10.51 Edinburgh – Haymarket on the west coast site. It’s advertised as ‘Virgin trains’ as the TOC which to me means west coast. Does anyone have any further evidence of the actual TOC for this service?

    • Genghis says:

      9 Jul9 July 08:57

      Raffles – after a bit more research, the 10.51 service from Edinburgh is a West Coast service (used National Rail to find out). It starts in Edinburgh and runs to Euston.

      • Boi says:

        9 Jul9 July 09:28

        Shu! That’s a relief…. I booked 3 separate tickets on 3 accounts. I collected the tickets in Leeds. I have a feeling this train will have loads of empty paid seats between wavely and hay market

        • John says:

          9 Jul9 July 09:53

          It runs every 2 hours so you can book 6:52, 8:51, 12:51, 14:51 and 16:52 too. (Later departures would arrive in Euston past midnight)

      • Colin JE says:

        9 Jul9 July 11:02

        I booked the EDI-HYM service on East Coast. Cost £2.30 (no railcard). Although the website says this service goes to Euston, there is a change involved. If I’m right, it switches on to West Coast at Crewe. I think all trains from Edinburgh Waverley are East Coast services. Happy to be corrected if anyone knows better, so I can book again on West Coast Virgin!

        • Colin JE says:

          9 Jul9 July 11:20

          Nope, seems I was talking rubbish. The Virgin West Coast site shows this as a West Coast service. Looks like I’ll have to spend ANOTHER £2.30 booking on West Coast coast site. Bugger.

        • John says:

          9 Jul9 July 17:52

          It’s slightly tricky as both “Coasts” serve Haymarket.

          West Coast services run Euston-Glasgow via Crewe every 30 mins, but around 6 trains per day turn northeast at Carstairs Junction towards Haymarket and Edinburgh.

          However, the trains from Preston and further north (i.e. the Glasgow and Edinburgh trains) go by a longer route via Birmingham towards London. So it’s faster to change at Crewe for other (West Coast) services from Liverpool that avoid Birmingham and go via Rugby, which is what you found.

          East Coast services typically run Kings Cross-Edinburgh via Newcastle, but 1-2 trains per day continue to Glasgow and 2 or so continue to Aberdeen and Inverness.

        • harry says:

          9 Jul9 July 21:45

          Good to know.

    • Richard says:

      9 Jul9 July 09:15

      I was on this very train on Monday, and can confirm it is definitely West Coast – so needs to be booked on plain “Virgin Trains”, not “Virgin Trains East Coast”.

    • James67 says:

      9 Jul9 July 11:46

      Yes, it’s west coast…a long haul to EUS via evevery place including Birmingham. The 10.50 in oppoite direction is EC from Aberdeen to KGX..

• Concerto says:

  9 Jul9 July 08:47

  You’ve got to have a Virgin trains account to make this work, right? I don’t have one, nor a railcard, but I will create one for this. Not living in the UK these days though, so I’m not sure how much I’ll use it. Do these tickets actually have to be physically picked up? Or do they work as electronic tickets that you print?

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