Advice on upgrading using miles

crabbie1

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Need some advice.Thinking of buying 24000 miles (£375) so that we could upgrade to premium economy on VA would the upgrade be for all three of us as we are booked together or just me as the account holder? Round trip is 20000 miles but I want to upgrade on the outward journey only therefore one way should be 10000 each. I already have 6500 miles so in order for us to upgrade I would need to buy the 24000. Is this correct? would it be better to phone VA rather than do it online.? Thankyou.
 
i would ring them before buying the miles as not all tickets are upgradable via miles and it also depends on if they have tickets avaliable for the upgrade using miles.

if PE tickets are free it doesnt mean that you can get miles upgrades as its a different fare class to normal tickets

just to be sure ring them and then if the fare is available then you can buy the miles over the phone and book the upgrade at the same time that way the person at VA can hold the seats while they buy the miles for you
 
Need some advice.Thinking of buying 24000 miles (£375) so that we could upgrade to premium economy on VA would the upgrade be for all three of us as we are booked together or just me as the account holder? Round trip is 20000 miles but I want to upgrade on the outward journey only therefore one way should be 10000 each. I already have 6500 miles so in order for us to upgrade I would need to buy the 24000. Is this correct? would it be better to phone VA rather than do it online.? Thankyou.

Bottom line, you need to speak to Virgin.

But you may wish to be aware of the following.

The upgrade 'cost' is per person.
To upgrade 3 people it isn't just a case of having enough miles, it's whether there are 3 upgrade seats available in PE on your flight.

But the big issue is what booking class your ticket is in - only certain ones are eligible for upgrade, ones classed as "full adult fare". Which generally are not what most people have paid.
For example, I've just run Manchester-Orlando return, outward 18th Sep, return 2nd Oct, through the Virgin website. Lowest economy fare = £637. But the lowest upgradeable economy fare = £807.

The airlines like us to collect these miles but don't make it easy to redeem them.
 




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