Yes, just like those argos gift vouchers will work in tesco, sainsburys, pc world and every other shop on the planet ! DOH !

Booked two seats in the names MR and MRS CORBYN, sure he will end up sitting on the wing in protest!

The left-wing

Best read in a Borat voice:

Was seriously unimpressed with my last VA flight to Orlando MCO. Service and food was awful seeing as the flights were £1k each, but I guess we were in economy. Maybe using points to upgrade to upper class is the way to go.
I thought BA had a bad reputation but we used them subsequently again to MCO and it was so much better.

Are you able to share your spreadsheet so that we can do our own calculations?

As long as you stay clear of:
Economy reward flight
Economy upgrade to premium
Economy companion flight

then you should mostly be getting good value. At regular required miles, the above represent a loss (ie you're basically chucking your miles away). At 30% fewer, well I'm not convinced its that much better.

Basically the tax on economy flights wipes out the value of your miles.

Best things to use miles on are:
Economy upgrade to upper
Prem econ upgrade to upper
Prem companion

Upper companion oddly is also not a good deal.

Does it still work out this way when Economy and Premium Economy are reduced by 30% (and Upper Class isn't)?

I have enough points right now for a New York return trip myself and my wife in PE, but I would have to pump more American Express rewards points into Virgin Atlantic miles to make it Upper Class. Otherwise I'd be using the Amex points towards a hotel on the same trip.

Reward miles are best used for upper class, there is no point using your miles for anything else other than an upper class flight. 80k for JFK and 100k for the ROTW. I previously flew to Oz for 200k miles but they stopped that route :disappointed::disappointed::disappointed::disappointed::disappointed:

my daughter fly with last time, the baby throw-up (just baby milk), requested something to dry up the floor, the steward did it , later ring the bell to ask hot water to feed again, no one bother to turn up to serve. ask yourself, would you flight with them. go to BA any day

Ah right, thanks for the heads up, saved me some time there :smiley:

Singapore don't release any reward business class seats to partner airlines. You can only redeem for economy seats and that's a waste of miles.

Oh, I was looking at this the other day http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/flying-club/flying-club-partners/airlines/singapore-airlines.html

Great

Had you chosen upper class for 100k miles, instead of a 2/3K fare, it would have been about 600 quid - saving far more than 300 plus you would get access to the Heathrow Club lounge and fly upper class

Not possible. Singapore Airlines cashed out of VA a long time ago.

got about 90000 points, what's the best value destination to use them on?

So to travel to Las Vegas i need 49,000 miles and then pay £412?

I recently booked premium economy to SF and back from LA for £738 - this seems better

Any genuine deals to be had, or are these all dependent on previously-accrued miles?

I had him so far on the left wing he would have gone underneath the plane and be back on the right wing.

Booked two seats in the names MR and MRS CORBYN, sure he will end up sitting on the wing in protest!

If I earn miles with virgin can I then use these at BA?

No you cannot

In premium economy yes

Good find :smile: