Virgin Atlantic launches a codeshare deal on IndiGo flights in India

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• Alex says:

  2 Sep2 September 05:19

  Correction. ‘ British Airways flies to five Indian cities whilst Virgin Atlantic flies to two, from both London and Manchester.’

  VS planned to fly from MAN to BOM and DEL pre-Covid, but pretty sure it never materialised, so they only fly from LHR.

  • Rhys says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:59

    I think you may be right. Weirdly, they DO seem to fly to Islamabad from Manchester.

• Rui N. says:

  2 Sep2 September 06:09

  Wasn’t it 1 nectar for £4 for the non-Sainsbury spending before?

  • Jonathan says:

    2 Sep2 September 06:32

    That’s the Amex Nectar card, different card to this one

    • Jonathan says:

      2 Sep2 September 06:38

      My mistake, I thought you said Sainsbury’s retailers, but still no, the earning rate outside Sainsbury’s and their other retailers hasn’t changed, it’s still not worth going anywhere near this card though as Rob explained above (apart from for subs

      • Mikeact says:

        2 Sep2 September 08:42

        Re Sainsbury
        ‘Don’t forget you’ll collect another 1 Nectar point for every £1 spent if you scan your Nectar card or app at Sainsbury’s, Argos and other Nectar partners.’
        So, 3 points per £2.

        • Rob says:

          2 Sep2 September 09:11

          Those are your standard points which you get regardless of payment method.

• KP says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:01

  Never understood how Virgin couldn’t make the Indian network work pre-pandemic. Its baffling.

  • Dev says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:10

    They used to have 1 daily to both Delhi and Mumbai at one stage.

    (But were competing with 2x BA, 2x 9W and 2x AI daily,, and the myriad of 1 stop options to just BOM)

    • KP says:

      2 Sep2 September 08:06

      I think their real competition was BA an 9W. However the advantage Jet was onwards connections to tier 2 and 3 cities in India which BA and VS cant offer.

  • Carlos says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:44

    For the Pakistan destinations Virgin have huge leverage since direct PIA flights stopped. Can only see that increasing in demand

  • Lady London says:

    3 Sep3 September 00:19

    Well…how else is the UK going to expand trade now, since Brexit? Asia has to be key. And India first. I am sure Manchester to Islamabad is very profitable for Virgin.

    Plus there was the major Indian airline collapse a couple of years ago, was it Jet? And Air India doing badly, troubled with extra local overheads? , unable to compete

  • Panda Mick says:

    4 Sep4 September 00:47

    Jet airlines going bust probably made a big dent in their plans.

• Freddy5 says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:19

  ‘Apart from the sign-up bonus of 8,000 Nectar points, there is now no reason – at all – to get this card.’

  Surely the call to action would be: get the card immediately/ meet spend requirement before it’s too late?

  • Rob says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:27

    The bonus isn’t going away and has been higher than this.

• topcat says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:51

  Talking of spend requirements – wrt Barclaycard £3000 to get the points – Barclaycard has very magnanimously given me a permanent £200 credit limit, so at least they won’t be closing down my a/c before I bank the Avios.

  Rather tricky to demonstrate your income when you are retired and in charge of your own pension payments (ie personal pension with AJB), indeed: I’m minimising income tax by not paying myself much/ living off savings.

  I uploaded loads of stuff to no avail until yesterday. They just were not interested in proof of family wealth.

  Anyway: it’s perfectly possible to use the automatic low initial £200 credit limit to hit £3000 spend requirement before you get ‘expired’ 6 weeks after joining: just spend your £200 eg council tax/ energy bill, then pay it off by debit card (or I guess BACS) on a daily or every 2nd day basis, it resets your credit limit so you can typically spend £600-£800 weekly.

  • Carlos says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:42

    BACS would be faster but check their clearing times. Spend £1k for 3 months and thats only 5 top-ups

  • AJA says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:10

    Your pathetically low credit limit is the biggest reason I don’t want to give up my Hilton Barclaycard. Plus the 6 month gap without a B/card to get the SUB means BC might use the gap to give me a similarly rubbish limit. Just don’t want to risk it.

  • sam says:

    2 Sep2 September 15:00

    i had same problem and went to the financial ombubsman who seems to have ruled in my favour. meanwhile i applied for my wife with similar info and she got 20K limit! she does not have sig income other than mine.

    • Lady London says:

      3 Sep3 September 00:26

      @sam can you tell us more about the FOS decision and what has beem the result?

      Would there be any chance of you posting about your result in the Barclaycard section o the forum? as people tend to look there every day

• mark2 says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:52

  I was a big fan of the Four Tops in my youth and saw them live about 1970.
  I assume that the name is now used by their grandchildren since at least two of them, and probably all, have died! The same will be true of the Temptations.

  • SAS says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:07

    Yes, i think the temptations have had like 40 members now but do still claim its the original manager!

• memesweeper says:

  2 Sep2 September 08:30

  Swedish House Mafia the same price as national treasure Robbie? His star must be slipping…

  • Rob says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:12

    I thought that – probably some youngster at Marriott who puts him into the heritage bracket!

• David says:

  2 Sep2 September 08:33

  Virgin has flown to Delhi since 2000, sometime before 2020! Mumbai has also featured on the network several times, but again was being flown daily pre-pandemic from LHR

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