Save £29 on Virgin Atlantic Economy Classic and Economy Delight flights

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• Heathrow Flyer says:

  27 Feb27 February 11:02

  Just went to cancel an AMS – LHR RFS flight. It was showing full refund of my Avios, but keeping the £17.50 pp fee.

  I thought only 50p was kept nowadays?

  • roberto says:

    27 Feb27 February 11:12

    I cancelled four RFS flights yesterday and each was at the 50p rate.

  • Rob says:

    27 Feb27 February 12:00

    You presumably booked it before the 50p trial came in.

    • AlexT says:

      27 Feb27 February 14:36

      Yeah – any flight booked before the reservation system change would abide by the old rules. Entire cash amount paid if forfeit.

• Grant says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:24

  Massively late to the party, but are Morrisons generally cooperative 😉 when topping up Monese?

  • mark2 says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:14

    Do they do PayPoint then? If so I have missed out big time!

    • BJ says:

      27 Feb27 February 13:28

      No Morrisons showing up on the paypoint finder for me.

      • The Urbanite says:

        27 Feb27 February 20:58

        Have to look a bit harder to find Morrisons with Paypoint. It’s too easy to use the Paypoint tool.

    • Grant says:

      27 Feb27 February 13:41

      There is one showing for me but I think it might be a mis-label on the PayPoint website having looked around on Street View. Excitement over.

  • Secret Squirrel says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:45

    You need to find a friendly co-op.

    • Grant says:

      27 Feb27 February 13:48

      I have several, but they don’t have a save 10% on purchases over £20 offer on my Amex cards 😉

    • memesweeper says:

      27 Feb27 February 19:34

      Or Londis. In fact, just try you most local paypoint first, I’ve never found one that said no!

      • Graeme says:

        27 Feb27 February 21:51

        I haven’t found one that said no – but I haven’t found one that works, either!

• Harry T says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:30

  OT:
  BA is doing a luxury sale. Nothing massively exciting but there are fares for First returns to the US for just under 2k.

  • BJ says:

    27 Feb27 February 12:41

    Qatar too, £1750 exUK.

  • Andrew (@andrewseftel) says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:22

    US East coast in CW below £1,200 is pretty keen I’d say.

• BJ says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:48

  OT: Breaking news – governments decision on Heathrow 3rd runway unlawful. I guess BoJo will need to plan another day trip to some Stan or other.
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-51658693

  • Mr. AC says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:17

    Sad from a climate change perspective. All else being equal, having just one active runway for landing means that there are constantly aircraft in holding patterns burning fuel above London needlessly. Build the runway and then just don’t approve extra slots if you care about carbon. Our better yet, just set up a carbon tax…

    • Doug M says:

      27 Feb27 February 14:27

      So true, but you know once built they’d just expand the number of slots and it wouldn’t reduce stacking of aircraft.

      • Bagoly says:

        27 Feb27 February 22:55

        The formal plan proposed increasing the number of slots by slightly MORE than 50%.
        I don’t see how that would reduce the congestion problem.
        I can only think that they needed the increase to be that big to make the Excel model show positive net value?

  • Kai says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:08

    Infrastructure is impossible in this country to move forward.

  • Andy says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:30

    Reading the Heathrow response, it seems the appeal can be overturned quite readily.

    • memesweeper says:

      27 Feb27 February 19:36

      Can — if the government wants. Which it doesn’t.

      3rd runway died when Boris got into number 10. He was waiting for the courts to do his job for him.

• Chris H says:

  27 Feb27 February 12:50

  OT: We are flying tomorrow, Avios redemption in Premium Economy using 2-4-1 voucher, to Maldives. Today I cannot see any seats available on the flight to buy or choose. Should I be concerned? Have they overbooked or will it open up tonight at T-24?

  • Rob says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:05

    Peak season, not hugely surprising that it is full. You only need to hope that they don’t overbook, since in general people who book Maldives do turn up!

    • Doug M says:

      27 Feb27 February 14:29

      In fairness their overselling algorithm does take account of destination I believe. They know which flights typically have no shows and which don’t.

  • BJ says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:14

    You’ll probably find you have seats allocated when you go back T-24. But looks like you may be stuck with what they you. I believe BA actually allocates us seats at time of booking even though we cannot see them. This is because although my partner is usually only blue or bronze he almost always ends up with seat 2A on a 3 class 772 if it is free at time of booking. There is no way he would get that seat by T-7/24 unless it was preallocated or he paid for it. It also suggests that elite status alone is not the primary factor in determining seat allocation.

    • Anna says:

      27 Feb27 February 17:17

      +1 – I often see CW showing as full a couple of days before check in then at T-24 find that we have actually been allocated seats. Just once our teenager was seated in a different row to us but a nice lady agreed to swap, not that it would have been a disaster if she hadn’t.

  • Chris H says:

    27 Feb27 February 19:26

    Good news – we have been allocated a pair of bulkhead seats at the front of the WTP cabin! Glad I didn’t pay over £100 for a pair of inferior seats now…

• Grant says:

  27 Feb27 February 13:35

  OT – Monese gift card promo is back. FEB10 gets you £100 card for £90.

  • BJ says:

    27 Feb27 February 13:43

    Thanks but for the first time I’ll pass.

    • Grant says:

      27 Feb27 February 13:44

      Yes, it’s a bit meh this time around.

      • Sussex Bantam says:

        27 Feb27 February 14:09

        Thanks – its 10% off my amazon shopping meh or not !

        • Peter K says:

          27 Feb27 February 14:16

          Agreed. It’s getting worse with every iteration. It’ll reach the point soon where it’ll be a £100 gift card and you have to pay £105 to get it!

  • mark2 says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:03

    Rather overshadowed if you have 10% back at Morrison’s plus 8 Virgin Miles per £.

    • Grant says:

      27 Feb27 February 14:14

      Exactly, and you can buy substantially more than £100 worth

    • Benilyn says:

      27 Feb27 February 15:35

      Good that you can do it whilst sitting on your bottom vs going to Morissons.

      • BJ says:

        27 Feb27 February 16:35

        You can do that at Morrisons too, you just wait in the car and send your OH in!

    • The Urbanite says:

      27 Feb27 February 20:50

      Better still with 20% back at Morrisons – some are missing a trick spending there with Amex!

  • Craig says:

    27 Feb27 February 14:06

    Ta.

• Axel says:

  27 Feb27 February 13:50

  Redeemed thanks. 27th of the month seems to be regular now.

• Justin says:

  27 Feb27 February 13:59

  I booked some hotels on Sunday, and they didn’t go through until this morning. No notification about redeeming the offer though.

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