Virgin Atlantic launches Delhi flights from Manchester Airport

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• TedL says:

  26 Feb26 February 10:02

  OT, Does anyone know how the BA Reward seat release at T-355 is handled over the 29th Feb?

  • ChrisC says:

    26 Feb26 February 11:38

    exactly the same as any other day of the year

    • TedL says:

      26 Feb26 February 12:43

      But wont that make subsequent releases after the 28th February 2021 a day early i.e. T-354? Or is my logic skewed?

      • Bagoly says:

        27 Feb27 February 22:43

        I think your logic has a skewed frame.
        T-355 is continuous.
        That does mean that seats for 2020/12/31 became available on 2020/01/11.
        While those for 2019/12/31 became available on 2019/01/10.

        After all, if you book a 14 day holiday which covers a leap day you don’t get an extra day! 🙁

• Barbs says:

  26 Feb26 February 10:56

  OT – I added a Amex Gold card supplementary card holder to my Platinum account, how do they get their 2 Lounge passes? Is it emailed to them, or in their online account?

  • Peter K says:

    26 Feb26 February 11:04

    They don’t get any.
    The main cardholder on a PRG card gets 2 lounge passes.
    The main cardholder plus first PLATINUM supplementary on a platinum card get a priority pass. The gold supplementaries on platinum don’t get anything for lounge access.

    • Harry T says:

      26 Feb26 February 12:04

      Like Peter said, the platinum supp green and gold cards are not the same as the separate products. They confer no benefits aside from travel insurance.

• Shoestring says:

  26 Feb26 February 11:12

  £2400 lighter but that’s cheap diesel/ Amazon for a year

  10% Amex
  1% MR points
  0.5% More points (with the promise of another 0.5% when I spend the money on diesel)
  8% Virgin miles

  121p/ litre —> 96.8p/ litre

  • Lev441 says:

    26 Feb26 February 11:46

    Did you do it all in one go Harry? Was it all on the new giftcards? What was the maximum you could put on one card?

    • Lev441 says:

      26 Feb26 February 11:47

      Could also couple it up with the 5/10p off a litre offers too which brings it down even more…

  • Mj says:

    26 Feb26 February 12:01

    We’ve got £750 so far, tempted get a few more later before the Virgin miles offer ends.

  • Top Boy says:

    26 Feb26 February 13:44

    Posed down thread, but how did you manage to top up £2k?

    • Shoestring says:

      26 Feb26 February 16:40

      not an issue for me at the kiosk

      £2000 in one go on the 8x £250 giftcards, spat out 8 receipts so should be fine

      • Secret Squirrel says:

        26 Feb26 February 17:06

        Shoestring is the real “Top Boy” 😁

• Chris says:

  26 Feb26 February 11:16

  Fiji Airways; does anyone know if/ when they are awarding BA tier points / avios on FJ issued tickets yet? OneworldConnect remains a headache to understand… Nothing recent I can find on either airlines website; and Oneworld’s makes FJ almost impossible to find

• Munch says:

  26 Feb26 February 12:22

  OT Looks like I’ll requalify for Virgin Silver before the end of March (my current anniversary date) . Do i need the full 1000 tier points after March to achieve Gold or the difference of 600 Tier points.

  • Rhys says:

    26 Feb26 February 12:30

    As long as they’re within your membership year it’s cumulative, like with BA 🙂

    • Munch says:

      26 Feb26 February 14:25

      Rhys – sorry still confused. Trying to work out my Tier point strategy. I’m currently silver until March 31st. I have 100 tier points balance from a flight last August.
      If I don’t re-qualify before the end of March do the 100 points stay in my account until August so for example if I completed a tier point run in July I would lose my current status from Apr to Jul and then re-gain silver by completing a 300 tier point run using the carry over balance of the 100 tier points?
      Or does my balance reset to zero after the 31st Match.

      • Rhys says:

        26 Feb26 February 14:40

        Your tier points reset on your membership anniversary, not a year after you earn them. You retain your status for a year following the year you earned it 🙂 ie. you would keep it until March 2021

• Frankie says:

  26 Feb26 February 12:23

  Rhys, you’ll have just missed Sydney’s Mardi Gras which is this weekend.

• Curve Me Up Scotty says:

  26 Feb26 February 12:49

  O/T: New to curving – Do ISA Top Ups typically attract a specific ‘MCC’? Do they generally use cash/wire transfer codes? Or Financial Services 6012 etc…?
  (Specific interest in virgin ISA and interactive investor ISA, but general experiences welcomed!)

  • EwanG says:

    26 Feb26 February 13:41

    Last year I was unable to pay funds into ii using Curve linked to my IHG card but I did have success with it linked to my Virgin card. Went through as a purchase.
    In the past month I tried a small transaction to credit my account for fees, again with Curve and Virgin but it didn’t work, but Monese was fine.

    • Benilyn says:

      26 Feb26 February 14:21

      IHG did not work for me on ii.

    • The Urbanite says:

      27 Feb27 February 02:22

      Creation restrict the amount you can spend at 6012 merchants.

• Andrew says:

  26 Feb26 February 13:09

  Bits £100 free when opening a Virgin Current and savings account.

  “£100 top up, just for you
  You’re already part of the Virgin family. However, if you open a new Virgin Money Current Account, log in to our brand new app and add at least £1,000 to the linked Savings Account by 31 March 2020, we’ll add £100 to your linked Savings Account to say thanks.”

  • Keith says:

    26 Feb26 February 13:12

    Targeted in an email or on a website?

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