LHR > EWR / PE / Best Practice

Hey,

i need to travel this route from the 30th July to 6th august (or thereabouts). I want to travel PE - typically a cost conscious traveller (clients paying, gotta bill carefully :/) but I got bumped on my last flight, so i have 50,000 miles to spend.

any tips?

best, james

Hi James,

Welcome to V-flyer

A B class economy fare comes out at ~£655. This can be upgraded to PE for 20k miles. Tax would then be ~£195. You'd collect 6916 miles in the process.

Miles plus Money PE comes in at £805 and would cost you 7,500 miles....any good? (see Virgin Atlantic FAQ, Spending Flying Club Miles with Virgin Atlantic)

Or top up by 18k miles for £285. 67.5k miles = PE to NYC. Tax at £195. Total £480....

Regards
Nick

excellent!

given i have a budget of about that for my flight, that's excellent.

Now, how does one go about assuring that the flight will have the upgraded PE cabin?

Originally posted by imajes
excellent!

given i have a budget of about that for my flight, that's excellent.

Now, how does one go about assuring that the flight will have the upgraded PE cabin?

Just edited as I ignored the most obvious....

[preiffer]

£800 to spend?

Well, you can do a LOT better than a PE M+M then...

LJXGB7 fare to EWR on those dates is £480.

Plus taxes/fees = total of ~ £620

BUY an additional 10k miles for £165. Total miles = 60,000 = upgrade from Y to Upper.

Total cost = £785, Upper Class return. And technically, you've only spent around 50k miles, as your L fare will earn as a regular economy ticket. [y]

on the balance of it, that deal is better... (the upper one)

but to add a slight twist; i'm going to be heading to the US a couple more times this year (at least) so would like to spread out for a couple PE rather than going all out for UC. (UC is nice, but would rather save that treat for... later )

(actually, i go first class in eurostar all the time and while UC on VS seems awesome, i'm not blown away.)

so the m+m deal seems pretty nice; low mile spend and i can invoice my client for the majority of the ticket (full price econ) so i get a fairly pleasant experience but w/o having to spend lots (of either miles nor cash).

so.

how do i make sure it's the new seating??
thx!

[Decker]

You can't... operational factors can change things at the last moment. But the "business routes" timing wise have the best chance

that sucks... well, i guess i have to do my best to get one..


james

[preiffer]

Originally posted by imajes
(actually, i go first class in eurostar all the time and while UC on VS seems awesome, i'm not blown away.)

Hmm. Snap.

So I'm pretty secure in suggesting that if you're refering to "Business Premier" on Eurostar vs Upper on Virgin, then you're comparing "reserved seating" at your local town hall musical production to a box at the Royal Albert Hall...

(Especially if you factor in that bomb-shelter they call a lounge at Waterloo [:w])

Originally posted by preiffer
£800 to spend?

Well, you can do a LOT better than a PE M+M then...

LJXGB7 fare to EWR on those dates is £480.

Plus taxes/fees = total of ~ £620

BUY an additional 10k miles for £165. Total miles = 60,000 = upgrade from Y to Upper.

Total cost = £785, Upper Class return. And technically, you've only spent around 50k miles, as your L fare will earn as a regular economy ticket. [y]

Only issue is the lack of UC G-Class on the outbound date....Outbound PE, and back in UC would be a good call and only "cost" 40k miles

you guys... now UC is way tempting...

Originally posted by imajes
you guys... now UC is way tempting...

It's a slippery slope once you fly UC....

i'm thinking it's like an expensive drug where i'll steal and borrow to keep funding it.... nasty.

Take the VS17 to EWR. All 346s are refitted with new PE seats so assuming they do not switch a/c types on you then you will have the new seating. Personally I prefer the 17 anyway.

Have a good flight.

Phil FM