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Old Oct 7, 2015, 10:54 am
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Virgin America / AmEx "challenge" - would this be attractive to UA flyers?

Is this a good deal?

I can get Elevate Gold Status with a transfer of 80,000 miles from Membership Rewards.

Wondering if any UA flyers have flown Virgin and would jump at the bit on this one.

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Old Oct 7, 2015, 11:14 am
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Not sure this is exclusive to UA...but I had a comp Virgin gold last year and liked them a great deal. They just don't have enough route netwrok - esp. international - to make it work for me, otherwise being sfo based I'd switch
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Old Oct 7, 2015, 11:43 am
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Originally Posted by 1k-all-the-way
Not sure this is exclusive to UA...but I had a comp Virgin gold last year and liked them a great deal. They just don't have enough route netwrok - esp. international - to make it work for me, otherwise being sfo based I'd switch
This is not a challenge to UA-it's a 25% transfer bonus of AMEX MRs to VX such that transferring 80k will get you elevate gold instead of transferring 100k

See http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...vate-gold.html
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Old Oct 7, 2015, 12:10 pm
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Given the is VX promo for AMEX, suggest those interested flow in those forums.

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