VS Onepass questions
Oct 5, 2003 | 6:25 pm
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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?
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Oct 5, 2003 | 6:36 pm
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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.
Oct 5, 2003 | 7:32 pm
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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.
Oct 5, 2003 | 8:16 pm
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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
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
Oct 6, 2003 | 12:51 pm
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I just had some friends bly IAD-LHR and Virgin won't even enter the One Pass number into their system.
Oct 6, 2003 | 1:00 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by spokemd:
I just had some friends bly IAD-LHR and Virgin won't even enter the One Pass number into their system.
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I just had some friends bly IAD-LHR and Virgin won't even enter the One Pass number into their system.
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Oct 6, 2003 | 1:19 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by xyzzy:
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.</font>
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.</font>
This was reported about a month ago:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum20/HTML/008883.html
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Brooklynflyer
Oct 6, 2003 | 1:59 pm
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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?
Oct 6, 2003 | 3:10 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by brooklynflyer:
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.
Cheers,
Brooklynflyer</font>
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.
Cheers,
Brooklynflyer</font>
I posed this question at [email protected], and the response was that only code-shared flight across the atlantic will earn EQMs.
Oct 6, 2003 | 3:52 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by airlinemileswhore:
I posed this question at [email protected], and the response was that only code-shared flight across the atlantic will earn EQMs.</font>
I posed this question at [email protected], and the response was that only code-shared flight across the atlantic will earn EQMs.</font>
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...
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