Bits: Virgin Atlantic sale launches today, double Avios with Charles Tyrwhitt, miles with Airbnb

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• Gareth says:

  14 Dec14 December 06:30

  Do we think that’s the end of the reward seat sales then, there hasn’t been one since the new reward seat pricing structure

  • Graham Walsh says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:36

    I certainly think so, such a shame, I’d book something next year to use up my 2 x PE upgrade vouchers.

    BTW dates for the sale are here, no Easter or 1/2 term!

    • Graham Walsh says:

      14 Dec14 December 09:36

      https://www.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/flight-deals/travel-dates.html#accordParent1

• Sussex bantam says:

  14 Dec14 December 07:09

  That CT sends me to a front page saying ‘special offer for white company customers’. Is it the correct one ??

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 08:15

    It should say ‘exec17’ at the end of the URL.

• Kip says:

  14 Dec14 December 08:58

  Anyone know if you can use the VS Amex voucher with a sale fare?

  • Graham Walsh says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:32

    Don’t see why not, just need to make sure there is availability.

  • Charlie says:

    14 Dec14 December 09:54

    Is this the voucher that upgrades an Economy redemption to Premium Economy, after spending £10,000 on the MBNA Virgn Amex? I’m pretty sure this is only for redemption bookings only using miles, not cash bookings.

    It can be used on redemption bookings during a sale, i.e. lower cost in miles.

    • Graham Walsh says:

      14 Dec14 December 10:01

      Yes correct, that voucher. Good to know re cash bookings. I did use it last year in a redemption sale.

• Mark Smith says:

  14 Dec14 December 09:46

  O/T has anyone else seen their shop small saving disappear from their AMEX card? I saved it a few weeks ago and have used it 3/4 times so far but it has gone from my saved deals and isn’t available in the list of available savings/deals.

  • Rob says:

    14 Dec14 December 10:20

    +1 me too but it is still triggering the £5 credit when used.

  • Tom says:

    14 Dec14 December 13:33

    Yep, went from both of my cards. Spoke to an agent there who confirmed that it was still live, though I have; t had any emailed re triggering the offer when I bought some dog food the other day.

    • the real harry1 says:

      14 Dec14 December 15:27

      I used my BP £5 & that disappeared as well – usually says redeemed

      no £5 yet, either

      • Tom says:

        14 Dec14 December 17:41

        Have now had more visits to places listed on SS that don’t actually take amex than do.
        Annoyingly these are places that I genuinely only went to because of the SS and wouldn’t have gone otherwise.
        Will keep protesting to amex but their stock answer so far is “sorry not sorry”.

• Richard Cooper says:

  14 Dec14 December 09:59

  I’ve not been able to use my Virgin Atlantic MBNA Amex PE upgrade vouchers on our flights yet. Each time I call to use them I am told they have to be used on PE seats available for miles bookings and I can’t find any! Trying to use them on May 2018 Cancun-LGW flights. So at the moment I have used miles to get two return economy flights with the hope that PE miles seats come up later. A bit disappointed as I had assumed they would be easier to use than this….ie. if PE was available then they could be used. Anyone else had problems using the PE upgrade vouchers?

  • Graham Walsh says:

    14 Dec14 December 10:07

    I must have been luck to use this earlier this year over Easter to the US. Booked last September. Be good if there was a simple site showing the availability rather than searching all the time. Is VS on Expert Flyer?

    • Aneesh says:

      14 Dec14 December 10:51

      Yep, they are.

      • Graham Walsh says:

        14 Dec14 December 12:36

        Thanks. What are the chances of Expert Flyer being binned just like My Flights?

  • TravellingJake says:

    14 Dec14 December 17:55

    That’s a real shame.

    I was lucky to be able to use my voucher twice and didnt struggle for availability either time. Had to cancel my original booking to SFO as our travel plans changed. VS also very kindly extended the validity of the voucher so that we could rebook to DEL.

    Did have to be fairly flexible with the travel dates to get seat availability but that wasnt an issue for us as we dont have kids and can travel when its cheapest.

    • TravellingJake says:

      14 Dec14 December 17:56

      P.s. anyone else underwhelmed by the VS sale fares? Nothing standout that I’ve seen so far.

      • Billy says:

        15 Dec15 December 02:36

        Upper Class, London to East Coast USA is valid for ONE WEEK in 2018. Pathetic.

• meta says:

  14 Dec14 December 11:08

  O/T: Anyone knows how long before Miles&More credit card miles are transferred over after statement?

• RTS says:

  14 Dec14 December 11:18

  OT: BREAKING NEWS! I referred myself using my Plat to Nectar. I got the referral points 😀

  • Matt says:

    14 Dec14 December 11:58

    Very interesting. Straight forward application, no trying to hide what you were doing?

    Would be interested to hear if anyone else has done that successfully or unsuccessfully.

    • RTS says:

      14 Dec14 December 14:58

      Straight forward application. No funny business. No where in T&Cs suggests you cannot refer yourself. 🙂

  • Peter K says:

    14 Dec14 December 12:04

    That’s cool. I cancelled my Platinum last night or might have given this a go. You win some…

  • Cate says:

    14 Dec14 December 18:11

    Interesting news indeed. We don’t really want to wait six months for applying for a BA card and If we could self refer we could take these cards out now. If this works then we’ll be holding on to our amex longer.

    • Genghis says:

      14 Dec14 December 19:44

      Having done my modelling, it will result in me keeping the cards slightly longer to earn more points at a “price” / “cost” (ie the delta in fees and the lowered churn rate) I’m happy with

• the real harry1 says:

  14 Dec14 December 11:35

  google Lufthansa abandons plans to buy Air Berlin’s Niki – to get behind the FT paywall

  so Niki is going bust & the German govt will write off part of its loan – IAG dropped out early on

  • the real harry1 says:

    14 Dec14 December 15:48

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/niki-airline-ceases-trading/

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