Originally Posted by sxc
I'm in HK and received a brochure from Virgin-Atlantic as part of an industry body magazine I receive. It said in small type that Virgin Blue would participate in Virgin-Atlantic's flying club later in the year.
I can't remember the exact wording, and I've thrown out the brochure now, but I remember thinking that the wording implied that Flying Club would be Virgin Blue's frequent flyer program.
This would be great news as the Virgin Awards are a much better value since Qantas murdered us with the increases this year.
Not to mention the dreaded assisted booking fee.
It would be awesome to have a new way to earn when flying in
Domestic Au ^ Come on Richard! Nowwwww :-: :-: :-:
I am now enrolled in The Virgin Program as a result of those increases
and earning in ways I never could with the Qantas program. ^
Hilton hotel stays give 1000 VF miles worth double that of Qantas
Sprint allows US members to earn VF miles.
80,000 miles gets Upper Class to London anywhere from the US they fly.
Virgin Blue would be the icing on the cake.
Hertz and Avis Car rentals earn 1k on VF for as a little as a 1 day car rental
Hyatt 50 k gold passport points earns 29k Qantas points but 50k Hyatt points equals 35k VF miles ^
Making it worth 70,000 Qantas points in comparison. Then if that isn't good enough the lower redemption levels too boot.
Virgin Rocks ^
They even had availability from LHR to SYD in Upper Class for the few dates I looked into next year.
Qantas still had none in biz or first with the increases
I owe much to Qantas for their increases.
It made me walk away from giving them my tens of thousands in revenue needlessly.
It all goes to other One World partners and VF now......
I'm sure they don't miss me a bit
