I made a site to help find good value Virgin Atlantic redemptions – vseats.io

[Matlo]

Hi everyone,

As the title suggests, I made a website to help find Virgin Atlantic reward seats.

It’s similar to the existing Virgin reward flight finder but with added functionality, notably:

– Flight Table – Reward flights shown in a table format with the ability to sort and filter for a full year of flights at once. You can add a route and then click the column headers to sort by cheapest reward seats.
– Flight Calendar – A full year calendar view for a given route, with reward seat prices shown. Both outbound and return calendars are shown allowing users to see where the lowest cost flights are through the year.
– Return Flight Finder – This is the main reason I wanted to make the site and is, for me, the most useful feature. For a selected route (or origin airport) you can input the trip length you want and it’ll find the lowest cost outbound and return flight combinations. This is something that is a bit painful to do on the Virgin reward flight finder as you need to click between outbound and return calendars a lot.

Have a look and let me know if this is useful – the site is https://vseats.io/

Some notes:

– The data source for the site is the Virgin Atlantic reward flight finder. This is known to have some errors and shows seats at different prices to the actual booking pages – always click through to validate pricing. There are direct links to the booking pages on the site to help with this.
– The number of seats available aren’t shown on the VA reward flight finder, therefore clicking through to the booking page is required to find this.
– I’m thinking of adding another page that shows recent notable price drops. I’m also open to suggestions on other features that might be useful.
– This site is a hobby project made for fun and I’m only an amateur coder. I shouldn’t have to say this, but I take no responsibility for any incorrect data, bugs or missing features! Please do however let me know if you find any issues or have any general feedback.

Thanks,

matlo

[kiwibrit62]

Very nice – I think you’ve used CPT for JNB in the calendar function. Shame they have not yet added ICN to the finder!