Last week Virgin Atlantic announced some major changes to their Flying Club frequent flyer program, which are almost entirely bad news. This is especially true if you primarily accrue Virgin Atlantic miles through points transfers. Virgin Atlantic is transfer partners with all four major transferable points currencies (Amex Membership Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou,…
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Planned downtime from Amex and Virgin Atlantic "due to changes in the flying club" possibly due to changes to membership numbers, between 9th November and 11:59pm UK time 15th November.
See below:
https://insideflyer.co.uk/2016/11/american-express-to-suspend-transfers-to-virgin-atlantic/
This is apparently a technical thing linked to a new IT system and the intro of 'permanent' a/c numbers. Normal service will resume .....
I lament the end of the Virgin America / Atlantic relationship. For 30K SPG points it was possible to transfer the points to V America, resulting in 35K V America points, exactly enough to book a RT flight from the east coast to London in V Atlantic upper class due to their partnership. That was one sweeeeet deal! I just cashed in on one this week for next September. Alas, gone forever, as of the 13th.