What to do with new reward scheme coming?!

[Happeemonkee]

Return trip LHR-LAX 30/11 is 690,000 points and £995 in tax!! Wow

[Caps44]

Am I right in that unless every seat is sold out, then there should be points availability?
I think they are still updating!

[Paul]

This game is dead!! As is any reason to fly Virgin or hold the VS credit card

[Caps44]

Paul wrote:

This game is dead!! As is any reason to fly Virgin or hold the VS credit card

I would wait, still being updated. Points look wrong, the reward page has a 15k for outbound and 20k for inbound, yet when you try and book those dates, it comes with 45k. I would wait until this afternoon.

[laughingplace]

There appears to be some substantial improvements on points/pounds cost of redemptions if you’re flexible with dates. From what I’m seeing so far, I’m happy!

[Happeemonkee]

laughingplace wrote:

There appears to be some substantial improvements on points/pounds cost of redemptions if you’re flexible with dates. From what I’m seeing so far, I’m happy!

Can you quote some examples with dates

[bigmaggot]

I booked some flights with Virgin to MCO next summer during school holidays 2 days ago. Now 4 times more expensive

[roger]

Someone remind me again – What is Virgin Miles now called (DELTA sky peso! equivalent)???

[laughingplace]

1st March – 8th March. LHR-JFK. Upper Class.
58,000 points. £669 “taxes & fees”.

5th March – 11th March. LHR-MCO. Upper Class.
76,500 points. £844 “taxes & fees”.

[craiguk58]

I’m presuming the points cap for the vouchers applies for upgrading 2 one way flights too. So if the points difference is 75k between premium and upper class then you would need to pay the points for premium for 2 people plus the 75k that isn’t covered by the voucher?

[TheMarki]

As expected, anyone with families is stuffed.
The pricing makes no sense though.

As an example, LHR-TPA for May half term:
Economy only: 776,000 plus £900 taxes.
If you equate that to roughly £8-9,000, then it’s cheaper to pay cash: same flights = £4,000 in cash

Just for fun: Upper is 1.8 million points plus £4K taxes.
Madness!

[BBbetter]

Paul wrote:

This game is dead!! As is any reason to fly Virgin or hold the VS credit card

This game is dead for those who want to travel during school holidays!! – ftfy.

[Caps44]

BBbetter wrote:

Paul wrote:

This game is dead!! As is any reason to fly Virgin or hold the VS credit card

This game is dead for those who want to travel during school holidays!! – ftfy.

Depends – Easter holidays and even this December pretty decent points for Dubai for example. US in Summer is not great!

[Scotty665]

EDI – MCO return next September. 154,000 + £822 Taxes (Apparently Saver rate…)

[sammcshane88]

I booked a flight last night as I’m tied into dates. LHR-LAX return in September 25. Premium out and upper back. 2 adults, a reasonable 190,000 points. Today the exact same flights are available but for the princely sum of 794,000. I think I’m checking out of the virgin ecosystem at this point.

[DestinationWDW]

I’ve only just started purposefully collecting virgin points to help with the cost of flights during school holidays to Orlando. Looks like I needn’t have bothered 😂 I may still try and get companion vouchers

[NorthernLass]

A cc voucher worth 75k points isn’t going to be an awful lot of help by the sound of it!

[as02]

I don’t think the issue is just limited to school holidays or busy routes. Even more broadly, the saver seats seem to be far and few and only limited to Wed/Thurs etc. It’s all a sham.

[NorthernLass]

I started collecting VS points because of the direct flights from MAN. So far I’ve used points on 2 VS sectors, 2 x AM ones and one DL, not really my original intention 😂

[Travel Strong]

This morning in Economy: “We have 9 redemption seats available still on this flight, 25k + $153”

This afternoon: “150k + $93 :-)”

[HampshireHog]

Two days ago 20 September 2025 LHR-JNB single upper 57500 + £592 now 215000 + £547. Game over.

[craiguk58]

How does the upgrade voucher work if the premium price is 49k points and upper class is only 29k? Presuming you’d use it as a 241 instead? This seems pretty bonkers

[Roberto]

Seat spy alerted me to a one way Upper Class Barbados to Heathrow 21st Jan now 350,000 miles plus cash…

Yes , 350,000 Miles each – ONE WAY

[Sam777]

Surely these are just glitches with the new changes rather than actual pricing…

Happy with my 65K for one way premium yesterday for the 3 of us + a lap baby (with half a companion voucher). Showing as 502,500 now.

Doesn’t look like we’ll be upgrading from economy to premium on the way out if it’s not a glitch.

[Nico]

Ridiculous – even random off peak dates in November with availability this morning increased massively in all classes. May be some cheaper ones, but will be hard to find.