Final Black Friday post: Virgin Upper Class flights to Boston for just £925

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• Robert says:

  29 Nov29 November 15:08

  Has anyone travelled the new upper class and able to confirm if the view of the window is now obliterated?

  • Harry says:

    30 Nov30 November 14:08

    I flew on a Airbus A350 G-VPOP from JFK to LHR yesterday. All I can say the new Upper Class is absolutely fantastic.
    I used to fly BA all the time but having discovered this fantastic product its good bye BA.
    On the IFE you also get a tail camera where you can watch your aircraft flying.
    As for the seats they are second to none.
    You will not be disappointed. Try it for yourself.

• LewisB says:

  29 Nov29 November 15:10

  Can you go via AMS on a KL codeshare? Or is it just Paris for AF?

  • Rob says:

    29 Nov29 November 15:40

    In theory yes under the JV rules – I didn’t see it on my test though but I also didn’t check numerous dates.

  • ChrisC says:

    29 Nov29 November 22:33

    one one of the days I searched the only via AMS route that was offered was KL to AMS then DL to BOS was on the outbound. Returns were all to LON

    I was also getting the new LGW to BOS and JFK flights too

• AR says:

  29 Nov29 November 16:00

  Great sale, but super restricted dates — can only travel on Thursdays and Mondays in the last week of February and all of March.

  • babyg says:

    29 Nov29 November 16:34

    ah, thats why i couldnt find anything.. thanks AR

    • AR says:

      29 Nov29 November 17:32

      Oh, but actually – looks like only the *outbound* is constrained. I just booked an LHR-BOS RT with outbound 19/3 and return in August. I’ll then nest an ex-US round trip once I firm up those plans, possibly with the daytime flight from BOS or JFK in Y…

  • ChrisC says:

    29 Nov29 November 22:30

    priced a thursday to wedneday and got a £1000 fare so a queston of just doing the searches

    deffo need an ourbound on a monday or thursday to get the cheapest fares though.

• Jonathan says:

  29 Nov29 November 20:05

  I would use my Virgin Atlantic Credit card for booking flights with them, but my credit limit is measly £500! My Amex card has a limit that’s over 10x that amount.

  So it’s hard to use their own cards to make flight bookings with!

  • jc says:

    29 Nov29 November 21:09

    Have you asked for a limit increase (once you’ve had the card for 6 months). Their limits definitely go to at least £24,000 for some.

    • Harry T says:

      29 Nov29 November 21:30

      They gave me 1500£, so I feel your pain. Waiting for the six months to be up.

      • LewisB says:

        29 Nov29 November 21:50

        I got £2100 on acceptance and after six months the max I could increase it too was £4200. At that point I had put £24k or so through the card.

        • Harry T says:

          29 Nov29 November 23:50

          Just kept paying it off? I’d consider doing it if it wasn’t such a faff to use the app etc.

        • LewisB says:

          30 Nov30 November 10:21

          @HarryT once I had hit 1k ish I was paying it off straight away and would repeat this. App is naff and is consistently down but still manageable. Much easier now with my higher limit.

• Bob says:

  29 Nov29 November 20:34

  It looks like Virgin Group does not want anymore to sell 31% of Virgin atlantic to Air France.

  And AF seems keen not to buy it. Delta seems also fine with that.

  Does it mean Flying Club will have restricted access to AF and KLM redemption flights?

  • Shoestring says:

    29 Nov29 November 20:38

    https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/services/transport-logistique/l-entree-d-air-france-klm-dans-le-capital-de-virgin-atlantic-pourrait-capoter-834354.html

  • Shoestring says:

    29 Nov29 November 20:43

    good question! article I mention above says: En revanche, le partenariat commercial passé entre Air France-KLM, Virgin Atlantic et Delta sur l’axe transatlantique, qui devrait débuter en janvier, n’est quant à lui pas remis en cause. (Google Translate: On the other hand, the commercial partnership between Air France-KLM, Virgin Atlantic and Delta on the transatlantic route, which should begin in January, is not in question.)

    But you’d have thought commercial partnerships are easy enough to arrange without equity changing hands. Does it take more to get into the closest of shared loyalty prog relationships? I’m sure the UK press will jump on this and there should be more out soon.

    • RussellH says:

      30 Nov30 November 10:50

      That is not really how I read the article (though I have not read all of it – my French is OK, but not so good for plowing through the financial press!)

      Sub-headline: “Virgin Group ne souhaite plus vendre” ie Virgin does not want to see any more. Further down is the comment that the money could be better spent on new aircraft.

      And the surprise comment that apparently Branson and Delta are eye-to-eye on this…

      • Peter K says:

        30 Nov30 November 14:13

        View it in Chrome and have it auto-translate. It reads surprisingly well.

        • RussellH says:

          30 Nov30 November 15:14

          1. On my own hardware I try to avoid anything to do with Google, as far as possible. I do use Chrome regularly, for the best part of one day a week, and I dislike it.

          2. I have seen far too many utterly laughable and/or incomprehensible machine translations to have any faith in anything that Google Translate might produce.

      • southlondonphil says:

        1 Dec1 December 09:59

        My schoolboy French says that “Virgin Group ne souhaite plus vendre” translates as “Virgin Group no longer wishes to sell”

        Short version:-

        Delta told AF/KLM that Virgin Group no longer wished to sell, believing that the new JV is sufficient. Delta seemingly agrees (despite having pushed AF/KLM for years to buy into VS), and AF/KLM are yet to decide whether to go ahead with the equity investment (which they’re contractually entitled to do) or spend the money elsewhere, e.g. fleet renewals.

    • Pierre says:

      30 Nov30 November 17:52

      Frenchman here.
      A quick summary of the article, there are 2 aspects of the Virgin/AFKL marriage.
      The first one is the transatlantic JV, which is maintained.
      The second one is the sale of the 31% stake in Virgin’s capital. It’s this part that’s questioned now.

• Harry says:

  29 Nov29 November 20:44

  o/t

  I just cancelled a BA economy flight with part pay with Avios within 24 hours of booking. I get a full refund to the card and the Avios?

• Macca says:

  29 Nov29 November 23:10

  Still some good prices out there.

  Go to the Black Fridays deals page. Scroll way down to the bottom where the deals start to list upper class prices. Click on the deal for LHR to BOS and it’ll show you flight prices in March for 7 days. Somewhere in the top left you can change the view to calendar mode and then scroll through the months to see more availability. You don’t need to go for 7 days, if you find a cheap Thursday and Monday you can then use these specific dates in the flight finder to get that price.

  • Macca says:

    30 Nov30 November 00:00

    Slight correction. Go to the Black Friday deals page, then the East Coast deals link, and then you can scroll all the way down to the LHR>BOS Upper Class link.

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