Virgin flight cancellation can you do this ?

[fraser301]

Looking to book either MAN or EDI to MCO mid August with family 4 adults and 2 children and wondering to book now as currently there are no mileage reward seats available. My question is since we have excess of 300 K miles would I be allowed to cancel at no extra cost apart from £35 admin fee and then use miles ?
Any help appreciated

[toots82]

Hi,

Do you mean buy cash and then transfer it to a miles booking if availability came up? If so then I doubt it to be honest. Probably doing it the other way round would work but I'm no expert on reward flight so hopefully DRJJ or MrTM etc. will be along soon with more of an idea

[Jasonharry]

No, they’re non refundable and non changeable, they won’t let you do it

[Softy]

No chance

[fraser301]

Just a thought will wait for next couple of weeks and if no joy bite the bullet and pay ironically there are many reward seats via Atlanta in August so balancing up the inconvenience of change with kids

[Mr Tom Morrow]

OP. Nothing to add to the replies above apart from one extra thing but it’s not a great idea anyhow!

If Miles seats do become available then you could cancel your cash booking and roll it forward under their existing terms for the following year if I have read their latest blurb correctly. Then you could use the Miles.

Would I do this? No.

[fraser301]

I have around 300 k miles so bearing in mind current prices looking at PE/UC this should represent a significant saving.

[gismo1554]

Sorry to hijack but as related - does anyone know if you purchase a one way with points as soon as flights become available can you then change this to a return once the return flight becomes available? My outbound should show up soon but was worried by this post that availability might be low so would be better to book sooner but 2 one ways are around 10,000 points more

[Warkman58]

What you might be able to do, and this depends on your ticket, you could use your miles to upgrade to premium

[Zavala]

Hi - so reward flights are slowly releasing on the direct route each day - currently early august has released in Upper each way, with premium and then standard to follow (currently they are open up to mid July). With rewards it really is a waiting game and you will likely just need to hold your nerve longer than you might expect. I would recommend signing up to seatspy (they do a free trial so you can test it) and plugging in your route and dates and setting up an alert then you can easily see all dates and get an email the moment anything opens up.

With your airmiles balance you will need to be looking at economy tickets if you want to cover all of your flights (22.5k each way pp), premium are 32.5 each way and upper 57.5k. But it's well worth it, I just snagged 4 UC tickets for late July/August return which came in at £15k if bought normally.

One final recommendation would be never use your air miles just to discount the ticket that is the least effective use of airmiles on a points per penny basis.

To the previous poster re changing tickets after booking with points, yes if you want to secure a flight now that is available then convert to return after you can do that (I did a similar thing in 2019). Reward flights are a lot more forgiving when it comes to changes etc.