Late last year I wrote about the negative changes that Virgin Atlantic Flying Club made to their program, which primarily impacted those flying Virgin Atlantic. The changes destroyed what little value the program had, perhaps with the exception of the excellent value of redeeming Flying Club miles for premium cabin travel on ANA. Now Virgin…
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Lucky,
What would be the fees on a VA award (delta metal)? 10k miles and roughly $150 isn't so bad for an emergency one way.
At least Virgin Atlantic, which is 49% owned by Delta, publishes an award chart and publicly notices its changes, unlike parent company Delta. It's a travesty that Delta is so opaque. On a side note, the redemption for transatlantic business-class is a lot lower than Delta.
The important question is: will they still not charge YQ on DL? If they won't, then 20k VS miles for NYC-LHR RT is a steal. even at 40k it's still not bad at all.
They've had the 10k one-way Y redemption in place for VS flights already but those surcharges are a pain. Wait a second, are their fuel surcharges when redeeming flying club miles on DL metal?
That is a massive devaluation when it comes to Tier Points - just look at it... This used to be how you could obtain VS Gold from flying a lot of short flights in Econ. with Delta.
5-10 now as opposed to 25...
Just keeps getting worse.