One of the more interesting things about the pandemic has been how airlines have handled cancellations, refunds, and status during the pandemic. BA for example took a long time to extend status and did block online refunds (like most airlines) but generally they have processed refunds promptly and their book…
Mr. Brightside, our anonymous points and miles expert, is an elite status junkie. Now that Virgin Atlantic has achieved a rescue deal and has joined forces with Air France and KLM, he is sure that there must be some interesting opportunities to earn elite status with Flying Club, but is…
As I predicted, the BA job losses were sadly just the start of cost-cutting within the travel industry. Hot on the heels of British Airways announcement of 12,000 job losses, earlier today Virgin announced that they would be cutting up to 3,150 staff, which is almost a third of its…
Virgin Atlantic is in big trouble! That statement shouldn’t be shocking to you, if only because the airline itself has been open about its application to the UK government for a bailout. The airline also convinced important suppliers such as Airbus and Rolls Royce to write to the Chancellor of…
If you a frequent flyer like me, you probably don’t worry too much about your miles expiring. Certain airlines do operate a “hard expiry” policy of course, which helps to focus the mind on the earning and spending of those specific miles. But for those airlines who only expire the…
I don’t really like flying back from the US East Coast overnight even in business class. Even if you try to sleep straight away, with flight times of around 5 hours 40, you rarely get more than about 3½ hours sleep. Although it means an early start, I do like…
A few things – All flights, hotels and associated costs were paid by Virgin Atlantic. The outbound flight was a press-only charter. Virgin Atlantic staff from various departments were onboard for questions and “issues”. Virgin are very proud of this new product. I was excited. Now I am a bit sad…
Today’s review is from Roving Reporter. I took my first long haul business class flight ten years ago. It was on Virgin to JFK and I thought it was amazing. I had ‘entered’ another realm (having only ever flown economy before) and I can still remember how exciting the whole…
Upper Class wing check-in On all my previous Virgin Upper Class flights I had connected through Heathrow on ex Dublin tickets so I had never actually used the Upper Class Wing. On this one I had used miles to upgrade a premium economy ticket so I was determined to give it…
At the request of a reader as well as one of my friends asking for some help over a glass or two (!) of wine the other night, I will be covering how to book Virgin redemptions. Even if you are a hard and fast BA Avios collector, Virgin are…
