While Alaska's takeover of Virgin America closed last December, it wasn't until late March that Alaska shared their plans for the future of the Virgin America brand. Shortly after that they revealed that they planed to discontinue the Virgin America Elevate program as of January 1, 2018. While I'm sad to see the program discontinued…
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Isn't 90,000 for Virgin Australia business class roundtrip? You say 45,000 one-way, but 80,000 roundtrip.
Doesn't VA only open upper cabin award space close-in to departure? Was planning on redeeming a one-way SYD-LAX in business in November, but I guess that's not going be possible, unless I'm missing some type of work-around?
@ Daniel -- Not especially useful, though, when they only release award seats within days of departure.
Any idea when it will be possible to redeem AA points for Virgin America flights?
Any reason not to transfer my remaining 51k points to AS netting me 66k miles now? I don't see any flights with VX in the near future.
@ beachfan -- It doesn't. As long as you transfer points you get the 30% bonus, even if it's when the program ends.
@ Mh -- You do lose some flexibility, but if you're not planning any partner Virgin America redemptions, then you may as well convert them into a more useful currency.
@ Seth -- No clue yet. It's possible that it may only happen once the airline is rebranded as Alaska, and they get all Alaska flight numbers.