What Virgin Atlantic flights are scheduled for the next few months?

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• Ed says:

  22 Jun22 June 14:28

  Is this the first time that the Caribbean sees a Virgin sreamliner (787)?

• Umba says:

  22 Jun22 June 15:10

  Is anyone able to shed any light on Virgin Atlantic’s Flexible No Change Fees policy when it comes to reward bookings? Specifically have had a LHR – LAX outbound moved by a day which I assume counts as a cancellation. Anyone know if there needs to be Flying Club reward availability if trying to rebook?

  I see the following statement on the website: Customers with tickets issued: On any date Originally due to travel: 12 Jun 2020 – 30 Sep 2020 Can rebook between: 12 Jun 2020 – 30 Nov 2020 Potential differences in fare: Any potential differences in fare will be waived if you choose to travel on the same route and in the same cabin. If you choose to change your origin or destination airports, potential differences in fare may apply (but change fees will be waived)

  • Mike says:

    22 Jun22 June 16:21

    In the early days of COVID rescheduled VS reward bookings could be moved onto flights that did not have reward availability, if the flight wasn’t crazy busy.

    I haven’t tried recently but there is still likely to be some flexibility. At worst you can always cancel and get your miles and taxes/fees back (the latter will take a few months…)

    • Umba says:

      22 Jun22 June 16:45

      Thanks for sharing your experiences of this Mike. As you say, worst case is miles and fees back. 🙂

      • Northern Lad says:

        22 Jun22 June 17:29

        I spoke to Virgin on Friday.
        Extremely helpful and knowledgeable individual.

        Basically, as of Friday, you can move your reward flight providing ANY availability until 30th Nov. After this date, there needs to be reward availability.

        As of Friday the flights were still scheduled (MAN – MCO early August) but no longer reading this article.

        Flights changed to Easter next year. No fees (actually £4.99 refund and 10K miles per person. Ticketed within 24 hours.

        It was same route and cabin.

        • Umba says:

          22 Jun22 June 21:22

          Many thanks.

  • memesweeper says:

    22 Jun22 June 17:17

    ‘Anyone know if there needs to be Flying Club reward availability if trying to rebook?’

    Regardless of their policy the regulations require them to rebook you on a flight of your convenience if they cancel. If the outcome you want is rebooking on another flight, insist on that.

    • Umba says:

      22 Jun22 June 21:22

      Many thanks.

• Gumshoe says:

  22 Jun22 June 15:21

  The loss of pretty much the entire summer holiday season to MCO is a huge blow for VS.

  That’s a lot of bitterly disappointed families who put their faith in VS when it said it would be flying again on July 20 but who now won’t be going to Disney and now face a seemingly indefinite wait for a refund.

  VS was at best reckless and at worst negligent to put a date on flights restarting when it’s completely beyond its control – unless it genuinely had information that MCO would reopen to UK flights and the Presidential proclamation would be lifted, and went public with the July 20 date in good faith.

  • Rhys says:

    23 Jun23 June 08:09

    Bigger problem is not Virgin not flying to Orlando, but the US not letting anyone in! The ball was very much NOT in Virgin’s court

    • Paul says:

      23 Jun23 June 12:20

      And given the current outbreak in FL, Why would UK (and EU) open up to the US?

• Chris Godwin says:

  22 Jun22 June 15:36

  Disgusted in Virgin, they made us pay for our holiday to Cuba for September a week ago, to find that it has now been removed from itinary.

  Come on virgin! Your not telling me that you didn’t know hat you were cancelling all holidays to Cuba a week ago

  • memesweeper says:

    22 Jun22 June 17:20

    You will be promptly refunded.

    To be fair to them, internally, I’ms sure they hadn’t decided to cancel Havana at the point they took your money. It’s more expense and hassle for them to cancel a flight with more bookings than fewer bookings.

    • SammyJ says:

      23 Jun23 June 07:52

      Exactly the opposite to being promptly refunded – they’re now quoting 4 months for a refund, and that’s exactly why I think they’re doing this, to keep the cash flow coming. People still haven’t had their refunds from March cancellations.

      • memesweeper says:

        23 Jun23 June 08:01

        For a Virgin holiday? I’d expect an immediate refund or they will loose their licence. Flight only, yes, there are long delays. Last time I checked you couldn’t even buy flight only to Havana.

• Graeme says:

  22 Jun22 June 16:06

  I have large stash of miles and an upgrade voucher. MAN-MCO one way on my dates is 12,500 plus £177 economy or 22,500 plus £330 premium. My question is if I use the voucher for E to PE do I pay the E taxes or PE taxes?? And yes, who knows if VS will still exist next April! Thanks in advance.

  • James says:

    22 Jun22 June 23:40

    You pay PE taxes, that’s pretty obvious

• Luckyjim says:

  22 Jun22 June 17:20

  I got two email from Virgin. The first, over the weekend, cheekily tried to claim that there had been a scheduled change for my upcoming flight. The second email, an hour or so ago, correctly explained that my flight had been cancelled and I have been re-booked onto a later flight. I wonder if they got some grief for trying to pass it off a schedule change initially? In any case, I phoned up and cancelled. Lets see how long the refund takes.

• Andrea says:

  22 Jun22 June 17:22

  Can you point me to the press release that this information comes from please as we are trying to get some information about our holiday booked for the 21st July. Thank you

  • Rob says:

    22 Jun22 June 17:38

    A quick Google for ‘Virgin Atlantic press releases’ (ahem!) brings up https://corporate.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/media/press-releases/returnn-to-flying.html

• thehornets says:

  22 Jun22 June 19:35

  My flights are cancelled as the outbound is delayed by two days. The email doesn’t actually use the word cancelled though.

  Virgin appear keen to keep my booking as an open ticket reusable up to September 2022, but I can see no benefit of doing so as I would still need to pay any fare difference.

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