Standard coach rewards on VS cost 50,000 CO OnePass miles. In addition, VS standard Upper Class rewards cost 100,000 OnePass miles. (By way of comparison, a CO standard transatlantic coach reward costs 50,000 miles, and a standard BusinessFirst reward costs 100,000 miles). Currently, OnePass members may not redeem miles for travel in VS Premium Economy.

It is necessary to call OnePass to redeem a reward on VS. In my experience, it is best to search for VS flights with reward space available before calling CO, although CO OnePass agents seem to be improving with respect to searching for VS availability. In order to search for reward space on VS flights, simply go to www.virginatlantic.com and sign up for a Flying Club account. Once you have a Flying Club account, you can search the VS reward calendar for availability on your selected dates and cabin of service.

Determine whether there is reward availability out of another VS US gateway city and build a segment on CO or another Star Alliance partner to that gateway city. For example, if you wanted to fly on the nonstop IAD-LHR flight but it had no reward availability, check JFK, EWR, or BOS. Then, if EWR has a seat available, just build in a CO segment DCA-EWR.

VS currently operates the following US-LHR-US routes:In addition, VS offers the following additional US-UK services: