The 2-4-1 voucher with the Virgin Atlantic credit cards gets easier to use

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• Pid says:

  14 Apr14 April 07:54

  I was going to cancel my card today as now using my partners card, perhaps best to wait to see the changes.

• Rajeh says:

  14 Apr14 April 07:54

  I think the Virgin upgrade voucher is one way. Am I right?

  • Pol says:

    14 Apr14 April 08:17

    It’s a return, although you can use it to book 2 people one way.

    • Rajen says:

      14 Apr14 April 08:27

      Where did you see this?
      I have been looking for a clear answer in TCs but nowhere it says the word “return”

      • Ben says:

        14 Apr14 April 08:37

        Trouble I found with the Virgin vouchers is they expire after a year, I’d have only ever used them if I couldn’t find a cheap Ex-eu J fair. I accumulated 3 of them but as it turned out I always found a cheap fare so they just got wasted.

        • Liz says:

          14 Apr14 April 09:42

          You only need to book within the year for a date beyond – I got Virgin to confirm this to me – we will be getting our vouchers early June.

      • laikaspacedog says:

        14 Apr14 April 09:24

        I’ve used them several times before and each voucher is for a return trip. You can split one voucher between two people for a one way trip, too.

      • Pol says:

        14 Apr14 April 09:38

        If you’re talking about the upgrades, not the companion, I’ve used them several times, one voucher; both as a return and as one way for 2 people.

• David Butcher says:

  14 Apr14 April 08:33

  After the Avios devaluation, and living as I do well away from London, this card became of little use to me. I cancelled mine about two months ago to avoid another year’s fee; the latest increase would have made it even less attractive for me so for once I’ve made the right decision. For me, anyway – I realise others will have different circumstances. Horses for courses I guess.

  • Worzel says:

    14 Apr14 April 08:37

    We are in a similar position David.

    Apart from the obvious £45 initial(potential) gain, I wonder what the strategy behind this might be?

  • Regional says:

    14 Apr14 April 15:50

    Ditto.

    We fly only to Europe and were using it for business class (even though it’s a rubbish product) but it’s no use now with no free regional flights.

    We’ve started using Flybe now where we can and will only take out the BAPP again when we decide to do an infrequent trip to USA, Australia etc.

    I’ve asked Amex to offer us the free BAPP as many long standing Platinum card holders have as it would then be worth using again – we’ve had the Platinum card for 30 years so we’ll see what their response is.

    The problem we have now is between dumping BAPP and the IHG premium card being taken away (we churned that one) we have no decent cards with £10K target spend to use now and we’re back using our bank of scotland visa again!!

    • Alan says:

      15 Apr15 April 04:46

      Might be worth you both taking out the Lloyds card if you could each hit the £7k target for the upgrade voucher?

• Brian says:

  14 Apr14 April 08:35

  Just wish Virgin would change its rules so that you can use the companion voucher with points rather than cash, same as BA.

  • Pol says:

    14 Apr14 April 10:00

    +1

• David L says:

  14 Apr14 April 08:42

  Will they grandfather the £150 fee for existing members? If not, I presume we should all just refer our partners and cancel existing cards (once achieved 241) to take advantage of sign up bonus? In fact, I guess we should probably be churning these anyway…

  Interestingly in T&C it says Amex could bring forward your membership year where “…a different fee becomes payable…the membership year will run from the date the fee change took effect on our systems.”

  Doubtful they will apply this as don’t rememver that happening last time there was a fee increase.

  • Will says:

    14 Apr14 April 10:20

    for the gold card increase from £125 to £140 it was only for new card signups. Those who had the gold card already stayed on £125 (and 7500 bonus MR’s rather than 10,000).

    I imagine those on £150 will remain on that level based on the above. Its more a case of if you want the sign up bonus’ I guess

• Kip says:

  14 Apr14 April 08:59

  Re BA Amex, can an existing supplementary card holder apply in their own name and get the sign-up bonus?

  • pauldb says:

    14 Apr14 April 09:05

    Yes. You can even refer your supp card holder and get the double-bonus (as long as they haven’t had their own BA Amex card for 6 months).

    • luke says:

      14 Apr14 April 10:10

      6 months loosely enforced in my view…I churn it every couple of months and have had no prob getting welcome bonuses so far

      • Mr Fluff says:

        14 Apr14 April 11:24

        I had a premium card, which I ‘downgraded’ to a free one after hitting getting the bonus and 241 voucher, and still got the sign up bonus on the free card. If I upgrade it to premium again after a few months am I likely to get the sign up bonus again, or should I cancel the free one and reapply separately?

        • Rum says:

          14 Apr14 April 16:35

          Would be interested to know hoe you applied for the basic card in order to get the bonus target again. Did you do it online with Amex or over the phone with them?

  • Rob says:

    14 Apr14 April 11:50

    Yes, not a problem.

• Chris says:

  14 Apr14 April 09:07

  I’ve just been on the phone to Amex to cancel my gold card (time for a churn). I asked the question re my BAPP card and they said the only change is the fee and it doesn’t effect existing card holders. He commented they were in a meeting about it last week.

  I didn’t think to ask about if it effects renewals at the time.

• James H says:

  14 Apr14 April 09:13

  If I remember correctly, the last time there was a fee for the Platinum Card had a fee increase from £300 to £450 per year, it DID affect me as an existing card holder.

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