Win 1 million Virgin Red points

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• Rob says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:19

  Yes it has. It was actually extended in the first week of January but I didn’t bother to write about it. I might dig it out again now there is some hope of travel.

• Liz says:

  23 Feb23 February 09:57

  I did a transaction via the app with M&S last week to try and trigger the 500 bonus. I can’t see anywhere on the app that lets me see if this transaction has tracked.

  • BrianNn says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:08

    Hi Liz. Go to ‘activity’ in the Red app. If it has tracked it will be there. I can see my Just Eat transaction pending.

    • Liz says:

      23 Feb23 February 10:13

      All I can see is my credit card spend dated 11/2. I am now annoyed as it doesn’t look like it tracked even though I def did the transaction via the app.

      • Andrew says:

        23 Feb23 February 13:14

        Did the link take you to the M&S website or the M&S app.

        A few of these sites warn something along the lines of “Transaction’s completed on the retailer’s app will not track”.

        • Liz says:

          23 Feb23 February 13:31

          No it opens up the M&S website.

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    23 Feb23 February 12:02

    Same here for an eBay txn – no mention at all

    • BJ says:

      23 Feb23 February 14:15

      Exactly the same boat as Liz here, no mention in my activity either. I am also missing 1000 points for clubcard autoconvert, only got 1000 but I don’t want to rock the boat as I didn’t have any clubcard points to convert.

    • Anttelli says:

      23 Feb23 February 19:40

      I used EBay on Friday and the pending points were showing today.

• Ianmac says:

  23 Feb23 February 11:38

  I won 1,000 miles bringing my total to 6,000 miles.
  Then tried to transfer / convert 6,000 miles to 1,500 ALL points
  Pressed CONFIRM on transfer screen
  Pressed CONFIRM on pop-up dialogue box
  then pop-up error dialogue box with “73 ”
  Retried several times – same problem ???????

  • Ianmac says:

    23 Feb23 February 11:41

    ah, just spotted Rob’s article text
    “Once you credit a Star Alliance flight segment to your account, these can be transferred to Accor Live Limitless at 4:1 ”
    oh well, I guess that;s what error message # 73 is supposed to say …

    • xcalx says:

      23 Feb23 February 13:16

      Some of us managed to get the transfers to Accor prior to the November 25th HfP article highlighting the over generous offer. I still had 19 accounts to do.

      My redemptions

      22/11/2020

      Accor

      Conversion to ALL – Accor Reward Points

      -4,000

      Redeemed miles

      • Rob says:

        23 Feb23 February 14:09

        I got my 4,000 out but I can’t move the 2,000 I now have.

• David says:

  23 Feb23 February 11:49

  Wish Aegean would extended status again.
  Haven’t managed to travel yet but still have it running out very soon.

• ChrisA says:

  23 Feb23 February 15:46

  HfP summer party in Crete?

• Premier01 says:

  23 Feb23 February 17:52

  There was an article on Business Traveller the other day quoting LoganAirs CEO saying thay he believes the days of long business travel trips for consultants, IT, Finance and Insurance are gone thanks to the pandemic, replaced instead with online working.

  Yet hotel companies continue to announce new properties, some of which are clearly designed for busienss travel.

  As someone grounded for a few months on local work before the pandemic, I was looking forward to starting consultancy freelance work involving regular travel. Not only do I find it more conducive to meet face to face, I enjoy being able to get out and about.

  No one has a crystal ball and I accept things will change for sure, but what peoples thoughts on how business travel will pan out?

  Sure there are business owners or those in decision making roles for large companies on here who are having to look at this now that could share theire views?

  • Chrisasaurus says:

    23 Feb23 February 18:29

    If any of our competitors are putting salespeople in the field again, which they will, then so would we regardless of our preference but realistically, everyone wants to be in person anyway.

  • memesweeper says:

    23 Feb23 February 21:08

    I’m self employed and expect to be on client sites again — not everyday , but every week or two post pandemic. Some of that’s commutable but some overnight too.

  • mr_jetlag says:

    23 Feb23 February 22:58

    I think business travel will return but will look a little different post COVID, less people able/willing to jump on planes for daytrips when quarantine and covid passports (or whatever) add so much friction. Longer trips with multiple meetings over a week or two could be the norm for a while.

• babyg says:

  23 Feb23 February 18:33

  Hmmm tried to sign up the family to virgin red, but its R18…

• Secret Squirrel says:

  24 Feb24 February 11:19

  The VA Red app 500 points offer on first purchase. I click on the red button in the app stating get points but it just takes me to an article about how the offer works and not to anywhere I can click to earn points?

  • Rob says:

    24 Feb24 February 11:59

    You just need to do a transaction, eg click to eBay from the ‘earn’ page under the eBay box. When the points arrive, it triggers the extra 500.

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