Save 25% on Virgin Atlantic Premium Economy tickets when two or more travel

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• Greenpen says:

  28 Jan28 January 08:33

  LH business fares with the big discounts are in P booking category. Points may be limited and will not credit to some *A partners. I got caught by this when booking a very cheap flight from HEL to DXB. If I had flown TK at a slightly less convenient time but a few pounds cheaper then I would have received points into my A3 account!

  • John says:

    28 Jan28 January 10:05

    Yes, this is common knowledge for A3 users… HFP doesn’t cover it much or at all. Be wary of booking SAS months ahead hoping you will get 100% miles

• A says:

  28 Jan28 January 09:24

  And still no kews re QR sale?

• ankomonkey says:

  28 Jan28 January 09:25

  OT as Bits: My Creation Marriott credit card points from my January statement still haven’t hit my Marriott Rewards account. I’ve just called Creation and they said the issue is with Marriott as they’re “changing their rewards system” – presumably as part of the Bonvoy migration – and that there is currently no estimated date for a fix. The Creation guy told me it was a known issue affecting all Creation Marriott card holders, so presumably I’m not the only HfP reader experiencing this.

  I hope to complain to Marriott and receive some additional points as compensation 😉

  • TGLoyalty says:

    28 Jan28 January 09:31

    Here’s the thing I wouldn’t trust creation either lots of the Marriott IT work happened last and I’ve not heard any Amex point issues yet this month.

    There have been a couple instances where IHG points haven’t posted on time and I’m sure it’s becuase creation sent the notice to IHG late.

    I’d probably give it a few more days to see if there are more reports elsewhere and chase creation again.

    • RussellH says:

      28 Jan28 January 11:26

      This Marriott issue is the only time I have found Creation to be involved in a problem. By contrast I can quote some good service on ny Creation IHG card. I recently stayed, advance purchase rate, at a Holiday Inn that, for reasons best known to itself, does not produce the words “Holiday Inn” on its credit card system. (It prints instead the name of the company that used to own the hotel, but sold it it in 2016, and this is also the name that appears on card statements.)
      I sent Creation a secure message about this, hoping to avoid a fight over the double points. They e-mailed back to say that a note had been put on the account to say that this transaction was an IHG one.
      This worked. Double points credited automatically.
      Personally, I suspect Marriott. Perhaps they have ‘forgotten’ that they have a MasterCard in the UK and someone in their IT Dept has blocked off the channel.

  • RussellH says:

    28 Jan28 January 09:56

    +1

    I have not (yet) been in touch with Creation over this, as the card statement always states 6 to 8 weeks, even if, in practice, it has just been a couple of days normally.

• Sam says:

  28 Jan28 January 10:05

  OT – Sorry I know this is asked fairly regularly but can’t remember answers.

  How long roughly should I expect to wait for offers to appear on a new amex? It’s only a nectar amex, so not expecting much anyway, but we’re in between gold cards and there’s nothing useful on my BA. Would like some half decent offers while we’re doing a lot of new baby spending.

  • John says:

    28 Jan28 January 10:09

    Usually around 2 weeks for me once I start using the card

    • EwanG says:

      28 Jan28 January 10:40

      @Sam – don’t get your hopes up, in my experience the number and relevance of offers on the Nectar card are very poor compared to Gold or Plat. I’ve had my Nectar card for 2 months and in that time there have been about 8 offers, the only decent one the Amex Travel one (£50 off £200). On my Plat there are currently >30 offers, hopefully some good new ones arriving in Feb as lots expiring this week.

  • RussellH says:

    28 Jan28 January 10:19

    It was more like 2 months for me with my Gold Amex, started last August. About a month with my over-the-weekend-cancelled SPG Amex.

• John says:

  28 Jan28 January 10:33

  1 Yes
  2 No in theory but yes in practice
  3 Don’t think it makes much difference as you’ll still have the Plat CB open. Any more info would require Amex underwriters to break NDA. But just in case you get declined for the gold, would you want to continue having the BAPP or would you cancel regardless?
  4 Don’t do it if you want a mortgage in the next 18-24 months otherwise banks don’t really care IME

  • Darren says:

    28 Jan28 January 17:06

    @Justin, the first rule of self referral club….

• nick says:

  28 Jan28 January 11:24

  OT:

  Anyway to still sign up for the old cruve black card for £50 (and getting the free tumi wallet)?

  • Rob says:

    28 Jan28 January 11:26

    No

• JPa says:

  28 Jan28 January 11:31

  Persuade someone else with an amazon account to let you link your card to there account to place an order. Then delete the card afterwards. It needs to have been open for a few months.

• TripRep says:

  28 Jan28 January 11:51

  Any clues on when the VS 30% sale goes live?

  • Rob says:

    28 Jan28 January 12:20

    They told me today and I was expecting it at midnight but ….

    • TripRep says:

      28 Jan28 January 12:21

      Seems to be very exclusive heads up, nothing out there yet, maybe tomorrow

      • Rob says:

        28 Jan28 January 12:53

        The problem is that this came via Virgin’s marketing agency, not Virgin directly, and so you have another party in the middle with additional ability to mess things up.

    • Mark says:

      28 Jan28 January 13:09

      Seems to be 25% off Premium class

      • TripRep says:

        28 Jan28 January 13:22

        Mark got a link advertising that?

      • Mark says:

        28 Jan28 January 13:27

        TripRep…The VA home page is advertising “Extra savings when you book 2 or more people in premium”. I think the 25% off may apply to the current sale though, apologies.

        I’ve checked for the route I want and I’m seeing no change in prices. Not sure how widespread the “extra savings” are.

        • Rob says:

          28 Jan28 January 14:16

          Thanks. If it is Premium then I was misinformed by Virgin.

      • TripRep says:

        28 Jan28 January 17:56

        and MAN-MCO aint on the list.. hmmmph

        maybe they might do something later this week, although I imagine folks that have already booked might get annoyed…

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