How Many Elevate Points per Flight?
 

Hi. I am trying to figure out how many Elevate points I'll receive for a particular flight I'm thinking of purchasing. T

The web site offers the following guidance to people with this question (in the member guide): "The specific number of points that will be awarded for eligible flights, purchases and activities will be available on the Virgin America website". Okay, I believe 'em. BUT WHERE? I couldn't find it when trying to price my flight. Is it available BEFORE you actually purchase your ticket?

Thanks to anyone with this info. Cheers!

Multiply the cost of the ticket by 5 and that is how many points you will earn. See:

http://www.virginamerica.com/va/what...wwhatIseleVAte

There are many good reasons to choose VX. The frequent flyer program is not one of them.

Thanks!
 

That's it. I appreciate the pointer.

For me, and this is my own opinion, I found elevate to be pretty beneficial. I've only flown VX on the LAX-SFO/SFO-LAX trip, which I'm usually able to snag for around $120ish roundtrip. If I pick a good date, I can usually use 2,500 elevate points each way, which means after only 4 trips, I already have one-way taken care of for my next. I find this to be a pretty comparable deal to say WN, which requires me to fly 8 roundtrips to qualify for a free roundtrip ticket.

Plus with my new VX Visa, my monthly spend is pretty much ensuring me enough elevate points for another one-way ticket. If you fly VX for longer trips, this probably doesn't apply, but so far, I'm really happy with elevate.

EleVAte is not a horrible program for everyone - it is almost competitive with WN's program for short-haul flights. It's certainly competitive with the Jet Blue and Frontier programs, though the 18 month expiration means it is still inferior to those two programs. However, it is vastly inferior to all of the legacy programs when talking about long-haul flights, particularly for people who buy premium cabins.

There are many great things about VX but eleVAte is not one of them.

Elevate actually doesn't seem that bad for economy tickets. However, if you want to fly in First, it's a RIDICULOUSLY bad redemption. Like, SO BAD that you would be crazy to waste your points on it.

Does anyone know/have experience in redeeming elevate points for a free ticket (coach), and then paying $50 to upgrade based on availability 24 hours before departure? Are you allowed to do this, or is the $50 upgrade only available if you paid for the coach ticket?

I don't think anyone here has tried it yet, but it is documented to work.