Booking virgin flights for August 2016 question

[mandyz]

Sorry to hijack, but whilst you are talking about Virgin Atlantic for August 2016, I wonder if you could advise...

We've had a quote flying out on 6th - 20th August for 4 of us, 3 adults and 1 child. It comes in at a total of £2,284 plus 112,000 miles. There are no economy miles flights available, so the above is based on paying to fly out in economy and using miles to fly back in premium economy. Do you think that this represents good value? 112,000 miles is just shy of 4 return economy flights, but I don't know if a dare wait to see if any economy miles flights become available for the dates that we need

 

[wilma-bride]

Sorry to hijack, but whilst you are talking about Virgin Atlantic for August 2016, I wonder if you could advise...

We've had a quote flying out on 6th - 20th August for 4 of us, 3 adults and 1 child. It comes in at a total of £2,284 plus 112,000 miles. There are no economy miles flights available, so the above is based on paying to fly out in economy and using miles to fly back in premium economy. Do you think that this represents good value? 112,000 miles is just shy of 4 return economy flights, but I don't know if a dare wait to see if any economy miles flights become available for the dates that we need

If there are no economy flights available now for rewards points, there won't be any more released.

 

[caledonia]

The advice given earlier to book on the day the flight dates are released is sound I have been doing this for years both with B.A and Virgin and did so in August for July flights with B.A.As stated I have never found the price to go down and as the seats sell the price rises to the point where you would be mad to pay the prices sometimes asked.As to using miles airlines tend to block the peak periods or have so few available that its almost impossible to book reward flights.Good luck.

 

[Button]

Just booked our Aug 16 flights last night (yay). Whilst it's stupid money it's actually cheaper than we paid last year going around same dates. £2492 for 2 adults and 1 child m+m

I found day flights released was stupid, the return alone £800+ But the next day it dropped down to £448

 

[BudgieMama]

Our dates were awful with everyone (15th-29th Aug)... but 14th-28th were much better. Called Disney, moved our trip for free, and booked last night. Ended up slightly cheaper with BA, and they have a better luggage allowance (23kg hand luggage is very nice!) so we decided to go with them again. I know they're not the best, but it's 9 hours and then we're at WDW! Worked out at £1900 for 2 adults with earliest flight out and latest flight back which is what we wanted. We decided that, whilst it might come down, the time and the stress it would save were worth the extra cost!

 

[Nilsifjel]

I checked out a whole raft of options but settled with KLM/Delta from Newcastle via Amsterdam and Atlanta. I've done this route before and it was fine. £730 return for 10th August to 24th 2016. There was no way I was breaking the 1k barrier with Virgin.

 

[escriven75]

I must be doing something wrong. I was looking for Aug 2016 flights (tentative dates being 8Aug - 18Aug 2016) from O'hare/Chicago/US to Heathrow for one adult, 2 young kids. I'm looking at American/British Airways so I can use my miles for one ticket but the tickets prices are coming up around $1700 for 1 adult and $1300 for each kid (times 2). Even if I can use miles for the adult ticket, a total of $2600 more seems very high for the kids tickets. Obv this is our first trip to the UK so I don't have a benchmark for what should be a reasonable fare and when is the prime time to book for the best price. Any advice is appreciated!

 

[BudgieMama]

£400 per child each way doesn't sound ridiculous for the height of summer, at least to me.

 

[escriven75]

£400 per child each way doesn't sound ridiculous for the height of summer, at least to me.

I guess I just need to wrap my head around the exchange rate :\
Thanks!