Virgin Silver Available
 

A work friend of mine found a very neat way

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Virgin-Sil...item20d98689eb

On VS3001 3rd Dec 2014 Flying Club membership forms were being handed out, and the flight supervisor announced that if you had a card with BA they would match that. (They did not say to what, or how).

I asked, and was told it was for new Flying Club members only.

There was nothing special about the form - and nowhere to put any existing frequent flyer number, neither BAEC nor Flying Club.

No mention of membership nor matching at all the following day on VS3008.

Interestingly, looking at my Virgin account yesterday I noticed it says something like "Your membership number has changed" for 3/12/13 - but it hasn't, and I did not sign up for any offers. If I can summon up the will to call them I will ask them about it.

Yes, my BA Silver was matched to VS Silver with a slow-jog-track to Gold (20 TPs in 7 months). OZ Diamond Plus and CX Gold were ignored. (ie. none would match directly to Gold).

It depends on the company and mine actually gives away complementary Silver membership for Virgin Atlantic, however I still fly BA :P

Have you checked the rates on Virgin? Are they really 20% less then published rates from US to UK? Surely they won't get cheaper rates then say Expedia?

As I haven't yet needed to fly VS, I'm still waiting to redeem this benefit, so there hasn't been any need for me to check flight prices.

I do, however, believe that VS can offer cheaper tickets than what's available on Expedia, if VS choose to do so. If you redeem that FC benefit, you are given a special telephone number and special email address at VS; send VS your preferred flights when you are ready to book, and they will apply the discount, process the payment, and issue the ticket.

Interesting. Now that I am located in SFO I have not travelled as much last 12 months. That said, was looking at Premium economy to go home in March and Virgin, Expedia etc are all around $1500. 20% off is good as that would basically pay for the membership to this club...and then should I take another flight home Im saving so well worth it....

Instant Silver
 

I also acquired mine from ebay, Silver was showing in less than an hour :p

I have dropped from silver to red, I really did not see any advantage to being silver given that I only fly PE with Virgin anyway.

My Wife's best friend works for a certain company and was able to get us instant Silver too - handy for the extra miles but not much else.
Would be better if VS Silver was similar to BA.

Was tempted by the ebay thing but missed out! Will keep my eye out.

Flew little red recently and they are offering status match to BA silver/Gold cards. The form is available on board and is returned to crew. I did mine so will wait to see what happens.

I did mention the status match earlier in the thread. Glad you found the opportunity.

As a datapoint, my match to silver in Dec automatically became gold last week after I had earned 20 tier points ( through 20 Little Red sectors).