Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Flying Club has been running another big bonus if you buy Virgin Points – see here. Today, Tuesday, is your last day to take part. The maximum bonus is 60%. If you are a Gold member of Virgin Flying Club, you get 70%. To put this in perspective, before 2020 Virgin Atlantic had never […]
Category: Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club
How to earn Virgin Atlantic Silver and Gold status flying with KLM and Air France
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
This is your complete guide to earning Virgin Flying Club tier points from flights on Air France and KLM. The partnership between Virgin Atlantic, Air France and KLM launched in February 2020. This was, of course, terrible timing. No sooner had we published our initial coverage then the UK slipped into lockdown. With travel now […]
Review: the American Express Centurion lounge at Virgin’s New York JFK Terminal 4
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
This is our review of the American Express Centurion lounge in Terminal 4 at New York JFK airport. Most relevant for our readers is that this is the terminal used by Virgin Atlantic and its partner Delta Air Lines. I recently found myself at the airport with several hours to kill and decided to pop […]
Review: the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse lounge at New York JFK Terminal 4
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
This is our review of Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse business class lounge at New York JFK airport. As part of this series we have also reviewed the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse lounge at Heathrow Terminal 3 and the Premium Economy cabin on a flight from London to New York. At the end of my trip I once […]
Virgin Atlantic boosted by new financial investment from Delta Air Lines
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Delta Air Lines has just anounced a new financial investment in Virgin Atlantic, in a move which should hopefully allow the UK airline to survive the omicron storm. In total, Delta has committed $1.2 billion across three airlines where it has a shareholding – Virgin Atlantic, Aeromexico and LATAM. It isn’t clear how much of […]
Bits: Qantas and Emirates open lounges, get a Virgin salt and pepper set, HfP party at Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Qantas and Emirates re-open their UK lounges There is good news for anyone flying with British Airways out of Heathrow Terminal 3 in the near future. Qantas has re-opened its Heathrow Terminal 3 lounge. This is an excellent facility and well worth a visit. Unfortunately, we haven’t done a proper review since […]
Bits: Virgin Money planning a Curve-style card?, Hyatt opening in Santorini and Sardinia
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Is Virgin Money planning a Curve-style product? Virgin Money has been circulating an interesting survey to selected customers asking for their views on what appears to be a Curve-style wallet aggregator product. I don’t know any more about it than what you can see in the three screenshots here (click to enlarge […]
Review: how is Virgin Atlantic’s Premium Economy cabin on the A350?
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
This is our review of Virgin Atlantic’s premium economy experience on the A350 from London Heathrow to New York JFK. After reviewing BA’s premium economy (World Traveller Plus) in 2019 I was hoping I would be able to do the same for Virgin Atlantic in 2020. Obviously that never happened, but better late than never! […]
BIG BONUS: Get up to 60% extra when you buy Virgin Points
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Flying Club has launched another big bonus if you buy Virgin Points – see here. The maximum bonus is 60%. If you are a Gold member of Virgin Flying Club, you get 70%. To put this in perspective, before 2020 Virgin Atlantic had never even run a 50% bonus. 15% to 30% was the […]
Review: the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse at Heathrow Terminal 3
Written by Rhys Jones @ Head for Points
This is our review of the Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse lounge at London Heathrow Terminal 3. With Virgin Atlantic now having sent two Clubhouse passes to all Flying Club Silver members we thought it was worth doing another ‘proper’ review of the flagship Clubhouse at Heathrow. Anika last reviewed the lounge some time ago in 2018. […]
Bits: funky Platinum cards, BA and Virgin close Arrivals lounges, United Airlines resumes Edinburgh
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Funky new American Express Platinum designs …. but not for the UK Perhaps aware that the design of The Platinum Card has become a little staid, American Express is launching two new designs in January. Unfortunately, these will only be available to US customers for now. I thought they were worth sharing, […]
How do you earn Virgin Points at YOTEL hotels?
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Today I want to look at how you can earn Virgin Points, in the Virgin Atlantic frequent flyer scheme, when you stay at YOTEL hotels. I recently ran an article outlining hotels chains which do not give Avios but which do give Virgin Points. YOTEL is one of the more significant places so it is […]
Corporate news: Virgin Atlantic in talks to raise £400m, IAG’s Air Europa purchase hits UK snags
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
There are two interesting bits of corporate news which are worth knowing about: Virgin Atlantic in talks to raise a further £400 million Sky News, which has a good track record in breaking Virgin Atlantic stories, reported on Saturday that the airline is in talks to raise an additional £400 million. Whilst US flights have […]
Bits: Heathrow Christmas rail woes, 30% discount buying Hyatt points, 2000 Virgin Points with Clubcard auto-convert
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: No tube or Heathrow Express to the airport over Christmas If you are flying over Christmas or New Year, or just heading to Heathrow to pick up a visiting relative, you need to be aware of a number of key rail closures. There will be no London Underground services to Heathrow Airport […]
How to convert Marriott Bonvoy hotel points into Hilton Honors or IHG Rewards points
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Because most frequent traveller currencies can be converted into something else, there are always odd opportunities that get thrown up. Sometimes you can do a conversion which you would logically not expect to be possible. This is one of them. In general, a golden rule of airline programmes is that you cannot convert OUT of […]
Bits: Virgin Atlantic flash sale to South Africa and Caribbean, Bonvoy F1 event, Conrad Miami leaves Hilton
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
News in brief: Virgin Atlantic running a weekend flash sale If you are planning a trip to South Africa or the Caribbean, Virgin Atlantic is running a flash sale until Monday night. Details are here. South Africa Promo code SOUTH gets you: £30 off Economy Classic and Delight £50 off Premium £75 off Upper Class […]
You can now ‘gift’ upgrade and 2-4-1 vouchers if you have Virgin Flying Club status
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
On Monday we published details of five positive improvements to Virgin Flying Club. In summary: the thresholds to earn Silver and Gold status will be reduced from April 2022 Silver members can now have a household account, a benefit which has been available to Gold members for many years Silver members will receive a one-off […]
Good Virgin Flying Club changes – lower thresholds, household accounts, Clubhouse passes
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Atlantic has announced a flurry of improvements to Virgin Flying Club this morning. The good news is that they are all genuine improvements. None of them are revolutionary, and not all of them with benefit everyone, but all members should come out of it better off in some way. You could now earn Gold […]
Get 15,000 Virgin Points by opening a free Virgin Money current account
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
Virgin Red – the new app which gives you additional possibilities for earning and spending Virgin Points – has brought back its Virgin Money current account offer. You can earn 15,000 Virgin Points by switching your current account to the Virgin Money ‘M Plus’ account. It also applies to the ‘monthly fee’ ‘Club M’ account. […]
Here’s a short video of today’s dual take-off at Heathrow
Written by Rob Burgess @ Head for Points
British Airways has just shared this video from the Heathrow control tower of the dual take-off of the British Airways and Virgin Atlantic flights to New York this morning. This is to celebrate the reopening of the US to visitors travelling from the UK. If you look at the Instagram story that Rhys posted earlier, […]