Emirates and Virgin America announced a new partnership today, whereby Skywards and Elevate members can earn and redeem miles for travel on both carriers.
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Interestingly, flying LAX-DXB is only 5K more points than JFK-DXB but the taxes are almost half! So it's only 100K points and $730 for the round trip.
Not exactly a sweet spot but not bad either.
Ohhhhh just figured out why. Flights ex-DXB have a MUCH lower surcharge than flights ex-US.
Wouldn't consider it as a good redemption, considering 2 MR translate to 1 Elevate point. Couple that with the large YQ and we have a deal breaker.
The one-way trips does make the partnership "nice" but like you said the redemption rate is not great.
HOW CAN WE USE THESE PT ON TO EMIRATES AS WE HAVE JUST RECENTLY FLOW VIRGIN TO LONDON
@ AMITMADHVANI -- To clarify, we're talking about Virgin America Elevate points and not Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles -- they're different currencies. The latter can't be redeemed on Emirates.
Between my husband and I we have 303,750.00 of Emerites skywards miles. We want to redeem them on Virgin Amerika, from Lax-NY. I cant get a straight answer how many miles it takes using economy premium. Anybody knows. We are gong one way and I guess 1st class is out. Any comments for me.
Hi would you know if you have a daughter who works for Emirates would get a discount for family members to travel to America with Virgin.
i cant seem to find that information out its all about the points.