Virgin Atlantic To Hilton Points Transfer Ratio Being Devalued

The only reason I'm hanging onto my VS miles is because I'm banking on them to commit to their a380 order. This devaluation kinda ruins my backup plan if VS ditches their plans to purchase a380s.

So if the transfer does not occur for 30 days, do you think they will honor the 2:1 ratio as long as you initiated the transfer before the devaluation?

@ Bo -- I assume the rate would be based on when the transfer is requested and not when the points post.

Wow! Right one week after I applied for BofAm's VA MasterCard. This whole 'miles&points' game is becoming more and more difficult is not to say one day pointless.
Is there any alternative to it, such us transfer to another account, i.e. Hawaiian Airlines, etc. in order to transfer miles to Hilton thereafter???

@Bill

You must be real fun at parties

Dang that sucks. I have 2 Virgin Atlantic accounts, one with 11k and another with 54k. I really want to take advantage of LAX to LHR flight. But I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

Lucky, the doge meme seems to be having an influence on your blog... Much valuable? Wow. Such points.

@Bill;
I disagree with you; points do have a value. It is not a standard value like a cent, dollar, yen etc... but it has some exchange value to it. I agree that the value is very flexible and changes constantly but if you are able to compare "standard room" at x hotel during this time was y amount in 2012 and now it is y+z amount it means I need to give an extra z points today which means it has been devalued. Since it does carry some intrinsic value (hard to measure, I agree) it is therefore possible for that value to have been devalued.

@Rami

I don't think he's saying that. He's saying ratios simply represent relationships between numbers, and thus hold no intrinsic value. It's a misnomer, yes, and a very technical one. But who cares? We get the point.

Anyone have data points for how long the Virgin > Hilton transfer took?

@ BNAJames -- Usually 1-2 weeks, in my experience.