Help with Virgin reward flights

[loola30]

The 4th August is out so I would think it will only be a few days if they release them. I say be bold, book the outbound.

[loola30]

Originally Posted by Tinker's Mum

Aww - thankyou so much We are looking for 2 adults and a child
We have the hold on the outbound until 11pm on the 20th

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That's a really long hold. That's great!

[dippiedawnie]

This is going to sound super crazy but the last time I booked points I tracked the site and noticed the time they were updating the website was about 3am. (I wasn't getting up on purpose just a woman of a certain age who goes to the loo during the night so I would log in and check) on the day we wanted I got up at 3am and rang and booked straight away. They only had released premium economy on the 1st day but luckily I had enough points to book. They only release some on that day and then more as the months go on dependent on sales. In Juky I checked for this August and economy flights were available on points just 5 weeks out. You just have to keep checking which is a pain but worth it in the end. Got my fingers crossed.

[Noodle500]

I've bagged our one way pe flights 11th August next year.

I've now only got enough miles for economy return.
Given we've got a 4 day window of return dates before bank holiday Monday before the schools are back would paying for extra miles (£450) needed for pe be worth it?
I suppose I'm asking is there more availability in pe for reward flights?

[Ritz]

Could you be flexible on your return Airports. Possibility of flying from Miami or into another UK airport.
When we booked ours earlier this year a return to Manchester wasn't available on release day but Glasgow was so booked that. Then 2 days later Manchester became available so swapped to that.

[Softy]

Originally Posted by Noodle500

I've bagged our one way pe flights 11th August next year.

I've now only got enough miles for economy return.
Given we've got a 4 day window of return dates before bank holiday Monday before the schools are back would paying for extra miles (£450) needed for pe be worth it?
I suppose I'm asking is there more availability in pe for reward flights?

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It’s a much smaller cabin so there are a lot less seats, so generally no. But if your flight isn’t selling too well then they’d release more at some stage.

[Noodle500]

Originally Posted by Ritz

Could you be flexible on your return Airports. Possibility of flying from Miami or into another UK airport.
When we booked ours earlier this year a return to Manchester wasn't available on release day but Glasgow was so booked that. Then 2 days later Manchester became available so swapped to that.

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That's a thought. We take train to airport so nothing stopping us flying into Gatwick.
We've flown back from Miami before but would prefer having a 2nd choice in UK

[TelfordWolf]

We have nabbed reward flights to MCO a few times now - ALL in the school holidays so no problems there - secure the outbound and add the return on release day - all went to plan this year thankfully...

Remember that you can go from Manchester, Gatwick AND Glasgow.. (Belfast I feel is a little too far!)

Couple of years back we did a late booking ( late for us) only about 2 months ahead and got 4 x PE return flights on Saturday's in August to/from Glasgow - there were some available for August 2020 the other day as I checked - ( bit sad I know but was curious )...
Glasgow is not that far from the midlands and it's a smaller easier airport...

Saying that there are none now!

Keep checking daily as some will appear from one of those airports..
Even flying to MIA is an option...

There are MIA - LON flights available on your return date in Economy for example...

[loola30]

These are available now! Orlando to Manchester, Saturday 8th August. Showing economy classic seats on both the 5pm and 7pm flight. Go, go, go! Actually I'll PM you also.