VS Onepass questions
 

Hi all, I'm a CO silver....will a regular economy class flight on VS net me any bonuses or upgrade possibilities?


thanks

When I flew VS, you were only eligible to earn miles ****IF**** the flight was a CO codeshare. So in order to earn OP miles and elite bonuses, you need to book through CO and make sure you have a CO flight number, but VS operated.

I believe this has changed and you now earn miles on all Virgin operated flights, system wide. You only earn EQM on transatlantic flights, though.

While you will earn miles for VS operated flights:

http://www.continental.com/onepass/earn/air.asp

...only those ticketed under a CO code will qualify for status and Elite bonuses.

http://www.continental.com/onepass/elite/qualify.asp

I just had some friends bly IAD-LHR and Virgin won't even enter the One Pass number into their system.

If the ticket is bought through CO, then your OP number should already be in the reservation, assuming you provided it. VS flights bought directly through VS won't count for OP miles, so if that's the case, that's why the wouldn't enter a OP number into the reservation. If booked through CO with CO flight numbers and VS won't enter a OP number, then something isn't right.

xyzzy is absolutely correct. As of August 1, it does not matter whether you are booked on the CO flight number or the equivalent VS flight number if it's a transatlantic flight; i.e. you will earn EQM's on VS metal no matter how you are ticketed.

This was reported about a month ago:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/008883.html

Cheers,
Brooklynflyer

What I've been having trouble confirming is the mileage redemption possibilities on VS flights ex-LHR. Are the LHR-HKG/JNB/etc. flights possible for redemption? Anyone know of the mileage levels required for such?

I posed this question at [email protected], and the response was that only code-shared flight across the atlantic will earn EQMs.

That may be the answer you got but if you deal enough with CO, you know that the agents answering your questions get the right answer as often as a monkey gets "heads" when flipping a coin. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

CO's computer is automatically crediting EQM's to any transatlantic VS flight regardless of whether you are ticketed on CO or VS ticket stock. If only we could attach pdf files, I could prove it...

Cheers,
Brooklynflyer