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I will be trying to book 4 tickets to a very popular destination on the day the outbound seats get released.
Can I use my Virgin Companion Voucher?
The inbound seats will only become be released 10 days later.
Any ideas or strategies to make this work?
There aren’t any ‘strategies’ required – VS are particularly flexible. Here’s the easiest and most common approach:
– Your voucher is valid for use. You will need to have A, P or G fare classes available to use it.
– Call up and book the outbound on the day of release, and use ‘half’ of the voucher.
– Call back ten days later and book the inbound with the other ‘half’ of the voucher.
– VS will merge the tickets on to the same PNR (it might take a few hours whilst it processes).Each flight has two Upper (G), two Premium (P) and eight Economy (A) seats available. Others might be come available down the line after revenue management sorts that out, but there’s not a guarantee.
Each voucher will, obviously, give you access to one G seat, on payment of taxes. You will need to pay 50% of the Virgin Points required to book in to Upper when using your voucher, too, unless you’re a Gold or Silver.
Done.
Sorry to jump on the back of this but search function not working and I’m new to Virgin (BA redemption regular)
I’m looking to book something very similar when the seats are released in two days time.
Like BA are they released at midnight and you can call up then to grab them or is the strategy something completely different to BA’s system?
Tips on securing Virgin Atlantic reward seats
See above on around Page 5 of Virgin Flying Club threads
Consensus is flights released 5am GMT (not BST!!)
Virgin US Line should open then
+1 800 862 8621and should be free on Skype.
Haven’t tried it myself so good luck!
Thanks Gregoose.
Im not sure if its a known issue but I haven’t been able to get the search in forum to work for awhile now.
Looks like an early phone call then.
We’d like 6 adults, a child and a lap infant all booked on the same flight to MCO, haha.
We, having been spoilt with BA would like to fly Upper class, grandparents will manage with PE and the brother-in-law, his wife and 7year old will have to sit in the back!!
Worse case we book BA via LHR and meet them there but would be best for us if we had a helping hand with a lap infant.
I used a combo virgin’s award seat tool and seatspy to secure my return flight from New York in upper using my upgrade voucher. New York not impressive I guess as lots of seats hut my dates are fixed.
I had already booked the outbound. The call centre was very helpful and quick for outbound (Newcastle I think), for inbound when I called today needed me to call twice as the line got cut off (seemed a non uk call centre and they didn’t quite follow my query) whereas the second agent (I believe Newcastle based as well) and only kept me on hold to calculate taxes. 12,300 points plus £360 tax is good value for the return leg especially as my voucher is expiring soon 🙂
Consensus is flights released 5am GMT (not BST!!)
To give background as to why this is: VS runs on a stripped-down version of Air4, which is Delta’s offerings of their systems to partner airlines. That’s why there’s a lot of similarity in DL and VS IT (and, for example, why a few DL tricks work on VS tickets). Air4 runs on GMT-4, Atlanta’s timezone relative to GMT, since that’s where DL is based.
Im not sure if its a known issue but I haven’t been able to get the search in forum to work for awhile now.
There is a sticky in literally every sub-forum saying that search is down and telling you how to fix it 🙂
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