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Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 12:40
by territt
After speaking with Virgin it turns out I have 4 vouchers, but I was a little confused about how each one of these works, hoping some of the more seasoned travelers could help me out.

2 x Gold Lounge Passes - Do I need to be with the person using these? How do I gift them to over people?
1 x Gold Upgrade reward - how does this work? book PE and then can upgrade for free to upper? Can I give this one away?
1 x Gold Companion Flight - I have no idea how this one works.

Any help or advice would be great :-)

Re: Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 13:45
by Scarebus350
How have they managed to categorise the vouchers as such? Are these from the reward+ credit card or some other source?
If they are cc vouchers, you choose how they are used and they can be used for any of the above.

They can be gifted if you wish and you can just phone up to use them.

The upgrade is self explanatory, you buy a ticket in one cabin and upgrade to the next subject to award space.
The companion voucher is just that. You book an award ticket in a cabin and you take a companion along in the same cabin. If you are gold, the companion costs 0 miles, if you are a red, then it’s 50% of the miles needed.

Re: Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 14:54
by territt
No Credit card, just from my flying in the last 12 months,

Re: Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 15:09
by CommanderB
Sounds like someone cleared 2000+ tier points. Nice!

The upgrade rewards are really powerful in my eyes. You can either use it for a return flight or it can be used in two halves for two one way flights on the same or different bookings.

The vouchers work identically to those earned from the credit card, in fact, on the back end they're exactly the same. The only real difference is, you choose what you want the credit card voucher to be rather than the fixed use case you earn as specified above.

Re: Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 17:56
by territt
@Commander, got to 2400 odd by the time it reset.

How does the tax work with the upgrade voucher?

Re: Advice on vouchers.

PostPosted: 07 Feb 2024, 20:40
by CommanderB
Nice going! 2400 tier points is an achievement.

“Tax” for the upgrade voucher is a fixed fee one way per route. I did an LAX upgrade a couple of weeks ago and the fee was £325. Not sure what the other routes are as I’ve only done west coasts recently. It works the same way as a points upgrade.