Virgin Atlantic status match now on

[davefl]

From economy class and beyond –

Between now and Valentine’s Day (14th February), Flying Club are offering British Airways Executive Club members an upgraded status match.

Executive Club Gold & Silver > Flying Club Gold
Executive Club Bronze > Flying Club Silver

All members need to do is have a Virgin Atlantic Flying Club account, and book a Virgin Atlantic flight in Premium or Upper Class. Then fill in this form to get your status.

https://help.virginatlantic.com/gb/en/contact-forms.html?webform=status-match

Also For any round-trip flight booked for travel until 30th June 2024, there are bonus points afoot. You can earn:

2,000 bonus Virgin Points on each Economy trip
5,000 bonus Virgin Points in Premium
10,000 bonus Virgn Points in Upper class.

Virgin Atlantic is also offering a bonus through their credit card. The Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Card allows points to be earned. Those taking out a Reward+ Credit Card before Monday 4th March will receive double points on spending up to £5000 or up to 14th April 2024, whichever comes first, alongside 15,000 points on their first purchase made within 90 days of taking the card.

[RonnieB]

You make it sound so easy!
There’s also the small matter of never having already had a virgin status match, so that’s worth checking first before booking any flights!

A little Bronze to Silver match many years ago has scuppered me!

[RK228]

We live very close to Glasgow airport, which doesn’t seem to have any connectivity to Virgin Atlantic flight network from what I can see, otherwise I might be interested.

Are others in Scotland making use of Virgin Atlantic and, if so, how?

I think they might have an Edinburgh-Orlando flight, but not really interested in North America. We primarily travel east.

[BA Flyer IHG Stayer]

If you did some dummy bookings you’d see that VS offer conenctions via LHR on BA. All on same ticket so bags get checked through etc

[davefl]

Also consider AF and KLM from the regions for flying east and south using status from VS.

Much easier than T5-T3 transfers

[RK228]

BA Flyer IHG Stayer wrote:

If you did some dummy bookings you’d see that VS offer conenctions via LHR on BA. All on same ticket so bags get checked through etc

I had tried dummy bookings earlier to places we like to go or might want to go (e.g., Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, etc.), but it says nothing available for those searches even if I select flexible dates option. Am I missing something to get the BA connections (or any connection options for that matter)?

davefl wrote:

Also consider AF and KLM from the regions for flying east and south using status from VS.

Much easier than T5-T3 transfers

Yes, if I can find a Virgin flight to meet the conditions of the match, this would probably be the main interest and best use for us; we used to primarily use KLM prior to the pandemic because we did find the transfers easier and KLM serve Glasgow.

[davefl]

DP – match confirmed in less than 12 hours.

[AL]

Welcome, newcomers, to the dark side! We have top notch lounges, consistent crew experience and better snacks!

[Wiseoldman]

Had a status match pre covid so cant take advantage of this also!

[Ash]

I’ve searched and couldn’t find an answer…grateful for assistance….I’ll be taking my Virgin flight in April 12th, returning may 21st….will Virgin status match me if I get my Bronze status after taking the Virgin flights?

Does the Virgin status last for your current virgin year plus the following?

[davefl]

@Ash, not for the promotion that ends tomorrow because you need to provide proof of your BA status when requesting the match with a pic of your BAEC card. They will probably go back to their usual matches after this.

[Ash]

Thank you @davefl , next time hopefully.

[safetycard]

If we were to book a reward flight, then at T-72 hours get the status match, then at T-48 hours cancel or move the reward flight… do you think we’d loose the status match?

[Helloboy]

So it doesn’t seem the status match and new status is done on a rolling basis- I see that I got the status match today – 72 hrs before my flight but instead of it being valid for the entire year till let’s say 20 Feb 2025, it says to retain gold status I need to earn 1000 tier points by January 31, 2025.

Is that an error ?
Can anyone else comment.