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13 Oct 20, 09:02 AM |
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Virgin reward seats availability
The reward seat availablabity seem to fluctuate
Kept an eye out for newly released 10:30am flights in premium but nothing listed. Go back half an our later and they are sold out. Yet you can buy them as retail flights. They are £1700 single though. Is this done so they can maximize income by prioritising retail over reward flights. May have to plump for the 1pm flights as they are available |
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13 Oct 20, 09:08 AM |
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If there was nothing listed how do you tell if they've then sold out?
Reward and revenue fares have always been separate, and yes, they will always prefer to sell a seat for cash rather than miles but they have to balance out the 'pool' of miles customers are holding by offering a certain number at any time. Are you looking right at the 11 month window?, it always take a few days for the fare buckets to settle down while demand is assessed. |
13 Oct 20, 09:31 AM |
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A single fare is fully flexible and refundable - the most expensive fare available and is not a fair comparison with the lower level return fares which have completely different rules so you can't really use this to compare to a normal return fare.
As Dr.JumbaJookiba said Virgin's revenue managment department keep the reward seats completely separate from revenue producing fares. BA do guarantee a minimum of 4 World Traveller and 2 Club World on each flight, the latter go very quickly and BA Rev Man do release extras at times but Virgin don't advertise if they have this so it is a bit pot luck especially now during CV. |
13 Oct 20, 04:14 PM |
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I've just booked our reward seats - albeit in economy - however I have been watching every day for them and been on seat spy too. I thought they had been releasing fairly consistently for the last week at least. They are currently up to 2nd September for released flights but seatspy are showing 7 in upper 4 in premium and 9 in economy. They have definitely been releasing 9 in economy on a daily basis with the exception of I think last friday & saturday.
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13 Oct 20, 04:17 PM |
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probably worth noting I rang up around 7.30am to get mine and had about an hours wait. I was told the best time to ring was 7.00am
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13 Oct 20, 04:30 PM |
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