Is Virgin Atlantic planning to move to 1-2-1 seating in Upper Class?

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• Geoff says:

  7 Nov7 November 08:39

  OTT: Could I ask for some advice please? We are flying Lufthansa F to Mumbai on Friday via Frankfurt with a 2.5 hour layover. Should I use the F lounge in pier B (which promises a car ride to pier C for Mumbai) or go through passport control and walk to the F terminal. I hear that they are largely the same, but the lounge in pier B has tarmac views and a Spa.
  Any thoughts and experiences welcome! Thanks in advance

  • Benylin says:

    7 Nov7 November 08:54

    Massage shop

  • Gail says:

    7 Nov7 November 10:03

    Takes so long to walk from one terminal to another in Frankfurt, especially if you have to go through passport control and security twice between flights, it makes the transit hard work if you try to fit in a lounge as well in this amount of time.

• GRIMZ says:

  7 Nov7 November 08:57

  OT – I have a return flight to add into a Lloyds upgrade voucher via Avios.com but I am aware that all my Avios points have to be moved over to BA executive club by the 20th November. Is anyone else in the same situation as me? If they are what do we do to book the return?

  • Tom1 says:

    7 Nov7 November 09:35

    I booked recently on the phone and they moved my points from BAEC to avios instantly for me. Just checked to make sure name and address matched.

    • GRIMZ says:

      7 Nov7 November 12:05

      great thanks

• Nate1309 says:

  7 Nov7 November 08:58

  OT, are people still paying their brighton based bill, with curve, linked to a HH card?

  • Stuart says:

    7 Nov7 November 10:59

    Don’t expect an answer. IF this were still working, those doing it won’t share it with you here, as they are too scared it will get pulled. They will also get offended if anyone else tries to share it with you, and petition Rob to have the comment removed.

    I don’t have HH card, so can’t answer your questions, but your scenario does work with IHG cards.

    I’m sure this comment won’t last long until it is moderated away…

    • Nate1309 says:

      7 Nov7 November 11:09

      Thanks, I did think that. Will risk it and see.

      • Jonathan says:

        7 Nov7 November 12:14

        Is it really worth risking your Curve account for ~1% cash/points return on a credit card bill that you’ve already earned points on? It’s been explained already that this “loophole” is causing Curve significant issues with Visa/MC as it breaches their T&C’s as well as Curve’s. I’m all for maximising returns but when it risks your (& potentially everyone else’s) ability to use a valuable service moving forward then I question the morals & thought processes of those involved.

    • RakishDriver says:

      7 Nov7 November 13:45

      Ah, comment still here I see 😉

      Limited on IHG now to couple hundred a pop.

      • Stuart says:

        7 Nov7 November 14:06

        £250 per day or £500 in a rolling 7 day period.

        Did I mention “no fee” already?

  • Bazza says:

    7 Nov7 November 13:08

    Oh good a OT curve comment, it’s been all of a couple of hours. Yes, you should pay all your Amex bills linked to HH IHG

    • Dave says:

      7 Nov7 November 13:21

      Yep then pay your HH/IHG bill with Amex!

      • Crafty says:

        7 Nov7 November 13:40

        Can’t be done.

      • Stuart says:

        7 Nov7 November 14:18

        *cough* MBNA/VS

• @mkcol says:

  7 Nov7 November 09:14

  Did Air Canada not also have those pretty awful Virgin seats?

  • Rob says:

    7 Nov7 November 11:14

    Now you mention it …

  • Anon says:

    7 Nov7 November 11:32

    I did LHR-YYZ few months ago with Air Canada in J, was much better than the equivalent trip in BA. I think it was the 787 with 1-2-1 layout. Lounge in Toronto is also nice.

• Lev441 says:

  7 Nov7 November 09:33

  OT – Have a £35k invoice I need to pay into an account using BACS. Are there any alternatives to Billhop – I have been given best rate of 1.9% if using a MasterCard or visa. It is for a work related invoice.

  • Tom1 says:

    7 Nov7 November 09:36

    I’ve seen others say call billhop for a better rate

    • Lev441 says:

      7 Nov7 November 09:44

      That was the best rate they said they can give.. it’s usually 2.95%..

• Zed says:

  7 Nov7 November 09:52

  OT, my wife and I have 100,000 Skywards miles each which we build up with Amex cards. I would like to travel in the Singapore Airlines suite. Is there a way I can convert these miles to do so? Perhaps convert into Amex points and then convert to krisflyer miles? Or something else? Thx

  • Rob says:

    7 Nov7 November 11:12

    No. One option is to wait until Emirates starts to release its new F suites for redemptions (currently blocked), the other is to use them for Emirates A380 Business Class which is not a bad experience in itself.

    • Steve says:

      7 Nov7 November 13:04

      Rob, I can usually find availability on F 777 STN-DXB if booking last minute, usually at least one day is open when looking at the next three days.

      • Rob says:

        7 Nov7 November 13:09

        Interesting – I have looked at this for long term availability and there is nothing. This is good because I’ve got a Middle East business trip lined up for January so if I can swap to this at short notice it would be a great result.

      • Steve says:

        7 Nov7 November 14:19

        I was unable to take advantage unfortunately because of work, spent extra on flex tickets for a Friday on a A380 with hope of switiching to 777 if seats opened up. In the end only had the Thursday and Monday show up with availability on the 777. Friday availability appear to be non existent even close to the date Mon-Thu and Sat are best days from the checks I carried out religiously in September. The 777 F cabin had 3 empty suites from what I gathered trying to persuade emirates CS to open two up for us in the afternoon that day and then later checking cash tickets as I boarded at LGW

    • Zed says:

      7 Nov7 November 18:35

      Thanks Rob, I flew Business and First on the A380 with Emirates recently and loved it. So am moving onto Singapore Airlines suite as that looks awesome. I do also have 200k of Virgin Flying Club miles, would that somehow convert into kris flyer miles either via Virgin or by converting into a 3rd party points and then over to kris flyer?

• Lumma says:

  7 Nov7 November 10:05

  Didn’t virgin have 1-2-1 seating using their current seats on their A330 planes that everyone hated?

  • Rob says:

    7 Nov7 November 11:11

    Yes, so they won’t be doing that layout (where feet are not in cubby holes) again.

• Nick says:

  7 Nov7 November 10:48

  Rob, any chances of an urgent article on the Amex Travel £200 off £600 spend promo?

  We are 2 adults, 2 kids. I have this voucher across 6 cards…

  Best way to get a holiday in? (flights, hotel, ideally all-inclusive)

  Any tips/ hints please from anyone?

  • Anna says:

    7 Nov7 November 10:58

    Book the elements separately on as many cards as possible? Plenty of people books flights plus all-inclusive hotels separately, it’s not an issue. You could book the flights as 2 x 2, each for one adult and one child.

    • Nick says:

      7 Nov7 November 14:01

      Thanks. If I do as a single transaction – coming to say £2000 – can I somehow make the payment across 3 cards? perhaps over the phone?

      • RakishDriver says:

        7 Nov7 November 14:14

        I don’t see why not; try it out!

  • Richard says:

    7 Nov7 November 16:18

    I did 7 nights at a hotel over 3 cards (2 x 2 nights and 1 x 3 nights) and emailed the hotel to link them all together. easy.

    • @mkcol says:

      7 Nov7 November 20:24

      Precisely what I did on a previous offer & the hotel was grateful they didn’t have to do a full housekeeping as often as the bookings would have suggested.

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