Guide To Redeeming Virgin Atlantic Points On Delta

Delta's old business class finishes are so garish. America's most premium carrier really is overdue for a livery refresh!

Typo: "For example, take a Delta business class flight from Newark to Dakar" - you must mean JFK, not EWR 🙂

“I should also mention that in many cases redeeming Delta SkyMiles for domestic economy travel can be a pretty good value, given how the program is structured.”

Thanks for including this, Ben. I use SkyMiles almost exclusively for short distance regional flights and continue to get decent value from it, especially with the 15% Discount.

Ah, yes, the classic “flies Delta 767 five years ago and judges the entire fleet based on it” comment.

The most difficult and frustrating thing is finding VA award seats from NYC to Europe other than to London, Edinburgh or Manchester..
After reading about the great value of VA points I bought some but have been unable to find flights. Any advice would be appreciated

I'll second @redacted. Since they've changed elite qualification, I only kept the DL card for the 15% off and it saves me a ton of miles. DL often will discount the miles cost for short haul domestic below the cash cost if a flight has low demand and sometimes do the opposite - especially in premium cabins - when in high demand. Then throw in the 15% off. I booked a one way DCA-ATL for 7,100 miles last night. I guarantee you that flight is never available for $71 one way.

Hi- My traveling for business days are behind me- and have been for 10 years. I'm sitting on 580,000 points of Virgin Atlantic, 250,000 or more Chase and 250,000 or so Amex points and some stragglers here and there. My wife and 2 adult kids want to see something cool- I'm thinking Alaska and want to cash in these as effectively as possible- I'm open to flying and hotel vs cruise - what would you all do?

I used to do this but haven't found availability to the west in years.