Originally Posted by
maccoinnich
This is a good idea if you want to spend your miles for travel on Star Alliance airlines, without fuel surcharges. It's not such a good if you want to use it on Virgin Atlantic Upper Class, as, per the
US Airways Award Chart, ") Award redemption on Virgin Atlantic is only available in economy class." You probably already know this, but I'm providing it for the benefit of anyone else reading the thread.
I guess they have to impose this restriction otherwise everybody would credit to US and then redeem their US miles on Virgin Upper Class without paying the really high fuel surcharges.
Although the same logic applies to economy bookings and you can still book these.
Don't forget that you can credit Virgin flights to some other Star Alliance airlines such as ANA and they have mileage based redemptions so there can be some good opportunities to redeem on shorter inter-contintental flights.