Virgin companion seat

mike4scuba · 24 Jun 19, 03:54 PM

Hi if you book a return seat in economy does the companion offer get a free return seat or do you pay the tax and fees

tomdan · 24 Jun 19, 03:59 PM

Sorry, do you mean for a person with disabilities? If so Tui do free seats for the person with s disability and their companion,not sure about virgin.

Cabbie · 24 Jun 19, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by tomdan

Sorry, do you mean for a person with disabilities? If so Tui do free seats for the person with s disability and their companion,not sure about virgin.

No it's a perk you get for spending a certain amount of money on your VS credit card.

-Steve

THOscar · 24 Jun 19, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by mike4scuba

Hi if you book a return seat in economy does the companion offer get a free return seat or do you pay the tax and fees

Taxes apply as per T&Cs at virginatlantic/gb/en...d-flights.html

Edit: That page may not apply actually but you do pay taxes as I used this for our trip in November and taxes are itemised on the receipt.

tomdan · 24 Jun 19, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Cabbie

No it's a perk you get for spending a certain amount of money on your VS credit card.

-Steve

😂😂😂😂sorry. Like the sound of that perk

clyde/seymore · 24 Jun 19, 05:05 PM

Definitely have to pay the taxes. We�ve just done this and it was about �240 I think for economy companion from Manchester.

Softy · 24 Jun 19, 06:27 PM

Yeah you do. The only free part is not paying the 25k miles for the companion.

mike4scuba · 24 Jun 19, 07:03 PM

Mmm what would you do.

2 of us going Sept 2020
We have 53,000 points and a companion flight

Can you buy a companion flight on the outward flight then buy return flights using the air miles

What's the best way to attack this

Guest · 24 Jun 19, 07:08 PM

Originally Posted by mike4scuba

Mmm what would you do.

2 of us going Sept 2020
We have 53,000 points and a companion flight

Can you buy a companion flight on the outward flight then buy return flights using the air miles

What's the best way to attack this

I am more familiar with BA but I thought the companion voucher worked the same way.

Assuming it does, you buy one individuals flights with the airmiles and use the companion voucher to get the second person's flights. You don't buy a companion voucher.

I don't know how many air miles Virgin flights require, but I would probably save up until I had enough for Upper.

You always have to pay taxes for flights, regardless of whether you got the flights by cash, airmiles or companion voucher.