How do flights with Virgin Points work?

[Philondon]

Are there only a small number of points seats on each plane like with Avios?

If I select LHR to LAX on 31st May the latest return date with points is 8th June. But I want to return on 13th June. After 8th June it says “not offered”. Confused!

[ChrisC]

No VS does not guarentee seats on every flight. Nor does it make those that it does offer available as soon as cash bookings open up so it’s very much a case of watchjing and waiting and pouncing.

[memesweeper]

Philondon wrote:

Are there only a small number of points seats on each plane like with Avios?

If I select LHR to LAX on 31st May the latest return date with points is 8th June. But I want to return on 13th June. After 8th June it says “not offered”. Confused!

There are potentially zero seats on each plane. Virgin have offered very few redemption seats in Upper Class recently. The best way to search is Seat Spy (or a similar tool) not the Virgin website. The Virgin website doesn’t allow you to freely scroll through dates unfortunately, unless there is some availability within a few days of your search date. Some seats are released at short notice — with just a few days or weeks to go.

[Rob]

There are real issues with premium cabin availability on Virgin at the moment. SeatSpy can show you what is available in one click – there is the 14 day free trial available.

[memesweeper]

If you want to see how dire Virgin premium availability is use the ‘where can I go’ feature on Seat Spy. It’s awful. Delta via Virgin is slightly better.

[ChasP]

In addition to lack of availability there is also the question of what a point is worth

An upper class flight to Eastern USA used to give a value of around 1.6p but since the recent increases in charges I’m getting around 0.8p – quite a devaluation

perhaps its time for Rob to revise his valuation as any figures before this year are no longer relevant

[TimM]

Booking redemption flights with Virgin points on Virgin metal (to use the credit card voucher) appears to be something of a black art. The last time I asked, HfP had a comprehensive guide to Virgin redemptions down as a long-term project. Any progress Rob?

[FREEFLIGHTS]

I also asked if Rob would run up a “how to book using Virgin 2-4-1”. No pressure Rob, we know you are doing a great job.

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[Daiboy1980]

‘How do flights with Virgin Points work?’

They don’t lol!

[davefl]

Daiboy1980 wrote:

‘How do flights with Virgin Points work?’

They don’t lol!

They do!

Had 2 x returns in UC this year, premium points booking upgrading to UC with the CC voucher.

[AndyGWP]

I have done 4 x upper flight segments (and for 2 pax) with them in the past 4 months… all were redeemed on day of release last year, times were different then tho 🥴

[Daiboy1980]

davefl wrote:

Daiboy1980 wrote:

‘How do flights with Virgin Points work?’

They don’t lol!

They do!

Had 2 x returns in UC this year, premium points booking upgrading to UC with the CC voucher.

NYC I assume?

Outside of that route, the availablilty is truly awful

[davefl]

Daiboy1980 wrote:

davefl wrote:

Daiboy1980 wrote:

‘How do flights with Virgin Points work?’

They don’t lol!

They do!

Had 2 x returns in UC this year, premium points booking upgrading to UC with the CC voucher.

NYC I assume?

Outside of that route, the availablilty is truly awful

MAN-ATL I did originally book MAN-JFK for one of them but switched it after every possible connecting route after 6pm from JFK was cancelled or retimed – Jetblue and AA both suck!

[billyrayvalentine]

Does VS release flights at a particular time like BA?