I redeemed a voucher recently for Manchester to Atlanta return. For my dates I had to pay 15k points and £247 tax for an economy ticket and then the agent upgraded me to upper class using the voucher for the 110k points needed (I’m Silver) and I paid the difference in fees of £561. The agent was very helpful but had to go off the call for a while to check he was able to upgrade me 2 classes which he was and completed both transactions on the phone. Overall seems a good deal as the cash fares are £4k+.

I wanted to ask though if I’ll receive tier points for upper class ie. 100 each way as need to plan to try and retain silver going forward given it doubles the voucher value from 75k to 150k. I read on some threads it might be the original booking class (econ) that you are rewarded on, which would be disappointing as I wanted upper class from the get go, but this is how Virgin choose to transact it. Is there somewhere in my booking that confirms Tier points to be earnt as couldn’t find it in my email confirmation.