Virgin Reward Seats - Changed

[RescueRangers]

If virgin do devalue the points level they will seriously need to rethink the taxes. As with their current taxes and fees with a lower points value will make them stupidly expensive.

Guess we will have to wait a month to see if this is positive or negative

[Hughseysar]

Goes live the actual day I need to look for flights to Orlando next September . I was planning on using points as have 200k , will be interesting to see what that buys me when I log in and book on 30th October.
I would like to believe it’s a good change as more availability but cannot help thinking the points needs for each seat will be way more then now ….. we will see 🤞🏻

[munmun]

Qatar runs a system like this, on day of release seats are often 2 or 3 times the base fare. Its a case of chicken!

[Hughseysar]

Originally Posted by munmun

Qatar runs a system like this, on day of release seats are often 2 or 3 times the base fare. Its a case of chicken!

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Does not sound good

[Softy]

It’s unlikely to be a positive change for peak time flights, which is what most are after on here.

The New York example is a bit of a red herring. Those economy off peak flights can generally be had for £350-400 year round. The taxes/fees on a reward booking are £250+. Not many people would’ve been booking reward seats.
Going down to 12k for the return won’t really entice people to book them.

[DisneyCupcake]

Head for Points article link here

https://www.headforpoints.com/2024/0...-club-changes/

[Yipykayay]

It's hard to take any positives from the info given. It will be interesting to see what happens when it goes live but right now I can't see how it will be better for me personally

[skstorm]

I have a bad feeling about this 😟

[Crawfy]

I will be able to book our reward seats about the middle of Oct but I was going to hold off until Black Friday in case there was a reward seat sale like last year. I'm now thinking I should just book them before the changes come in as I'm worried the no of points required is going to jump up and even with a sale they still might be more or the same as currently. I just don't know what to do!

[Mumofthetwins]

Not sure what to do about my upcoming trips.

I have a November trip with upgrade voucher used .. may change to points booking and will my voucher then be worth 150k points ?
Will there be expiry dats on the voucher points ?

February I have a points booking I want to upgrade .. do I do it now or wait until the changes 🤔

Hopefully they will start announcing more details soon 🤞🏻