Come back at 11am for full details of Air France and KLM redemptions using Virgin Atlantic miles

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• New Card says:

  13 Feb13 February 09:00

  Are any of the fun Asian destinations actually available via the Virgin site? It doesn’t seem to recognise Male, Osaka, Taipei…?

  • New Card says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:00

    Or Bali…

• Yorkieflyer says:

  13 Feb13 February 09:12

  Dashed European johnnies, why does everything happen at 12 CET ?

• jc says:

  13 Feb13 February 09:29

  Have they? Everything in that article has been public for months – the new part today is the burn details, which they haven’t included.

  • TeesTraveller says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:38

    My mistake, I am more focused on whether to move to Virgin from KLM/AF..

    I was trying to work out if it is worth crediting to Virgin based on my last year’s KLM activity. Problem is that I had short haul segments in fare classes X, U, E, F and P which are not shown on the tables.

• Anna says:

  13 Feb13 February 09:29

  OT – (I think) MAN-LHR-NQY in September would be £450 return in CE and I think would give me 160 tier points plus constitute the 4 legs I’d need to travel to qualify for status. Have I got that right and is it a good deal?

  • Grant says:

    13 Feb13 February 10:18

    Bronze requires 300 TPs and 2 legs; Silver is 600 TPs and 4 legs; Gold is 1,500 TPs and 4 legs.

    What is your current status and where are you trying to get to?

    Check the TP Run thread on FT for views on value and cheap runs.

    • The Original David says:

      13 Feb13 February 10:41

      Unless you’re really short of options, £450 for 160TPs is terrible value, I’d say. Especially if you have until September. CE to any of HEL, SOF, OTP, CTA, ATH, IST and the like is surely to come up in a sale before Sep for less than £450.

      • Anna says:

        13 Feb13 February 10:56

        Ok thanks, I have never done a tier point run so interested in the different options. I don’t want to have to go too far and there needs to be a convenient connection with MAN.

        • Harry T says:

          13 Feb13 February 11:47

          Aim for £2/TP. You can do even better – see the recent Helsinki prices.

        • AJA says:

          13 Feb13 February 12:35

          Anna ,
          Have a look at the ba-tier-point-runs-2019-master-thread over on FlyerTalk for some inspiration.Plenty of advice and examples of what you can do for very little spend. Also take a look at the find-me-good-british-airways-fare-ticket-clinic-beta-draft-ba-fares-only thread. The fare you found is not bad but I think you can do better but of course if you just want to visit New Quay then I’d say go for it. Also have you tried doing a BA Holidays booking for that route? You might be able to book a hotel into the bargain for not much more.

        • Jill (Kinkell) says:

          13 Feb13 February 15:56

          I did a TP run to Helsinki from Inverness [240TPs] but flight times necessitated a stop in London and a night in HEL. I left OH at home and thoroughly enjoyed my wee trip and sightseeing.This helped the TP pot to Gold,and worth doing for us. (I’ll never reach the dizzy TP Gold heights again!)The flights were sub £350 and my Hilton in HEL was in a sale and really nice.
          Enjoy your trip

• James says:

  13 Feb13 February 09:36

  Still no dice on BRS-AMS, cash or mileage, various dates via the Virgin Atlantic site.
  Am I making a schoolboy mistake somewhere?

  • New Card says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:43

    I don’t think all routes are loaded. I guess that’s the same situation we currently have with Delta where some routes are searchable online via the VS website and others aren’t.

  • LewisB says:

    13 Feb13 February 09:46

    You need to enter BRS as normal then for location click on full airport, selection all destinations then select AMS.

• James says:

  13 Feb13 February 10:43

  Having a quick look: it is not going to make BA quiver. Apart from direct flights from the regions to AMS or CDG, everything else Europe wise is more expensive than BA, apart from a small field of countries. VS miles will be useful for NCL to CDG or AMS in biz for me, and that’s about it. Further afield, I’d rather change at LHR than CDG or AMS.

• Eli says:

  13 Feb13 February 10:47

  Is a domestic air France the same as European?
  Would a connection in Paris give me twice the amount of European flight earnings?

• James says:

  13 Feb13 February 10:48

  Any idea if you can retrospectively claim miles of historical travel on a Delta coded Air France flight to Flying Club or is it just future travel from today?

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