Hi all,
I wanted to cross post my thread in the VA sub here, I think I might get some different opinions and knowhow. My original question was.
Just wondering what is the 'best' way for my partner and I to get to New York in business class using my velocity points?
We are fairly points poor, with about 420,000 at the moment. Both of us planning to cancel and renew NAB cards so lets say we have 570,000. Time of year is flexible, though June/July/August is preferable. VA platinum until August 17.
My best idea at the moment is return with Singapore (booked via krisflyer) and a stopover in London. However I can only seem to find these on waitlist for 2 ppl. I am interested in RTW also. I can't seem to find anything on the Virgin website.
Has anyone ever done this? I would love to know what points redemption method you went with. Other options I can think of include VA return to LAX and a separate LAX to NYC on Virgin America. Might cost a lot of points though....
After getting some feedback I posted this question..
Thanks again for the feedback. Seems like using points to fly VA J MEL - LAX is the unanimous verdict. I have found some flights around 10.5 months away that could work. Flights are about 100,000 pp one way
Now to get LAX - NYC it is a bit more mixed, delta economy is cheap, I found 242USD pp return. Delta J (and also Virgin America J) first is ~50,000 pp one way.
So that's 300,000 points pp return in J. So riddle me this.. Why not book Singapore Airlines? J is 215,000*1.35=290,000 pp return.
Yes it costs more in fees (quite a bit more). Also I can only find waitlist. Also it's longer flying time. But Singapore airlines are amazing. So much better than Virgins awful ground staff (and their hit and miss attendants).
Can anyone search Singapore and not find waitlist?
Hoping an SQ regular might have tried out some of the options to get to new York..
Thanks in advance,
Dannyism
I wanted to cross post my thread in the VA sub here, I think I might get some different opinions and knowhow. My original question was.
Just wondering what is the 'best' way for my partner and I to get to New York in business class using my velocity points?
We are fairly points poor, with about 420,000 at the moment. Both of us planning to cancel and renew NAB cards so lets say we have 570,000. Time of year is flexible, though June/July/August is preferable. VA platinum until August 17.
My best idea at the moment is return with Singapore (booked via krisflyer) and a stopover in London. However I can only seem to find these on waitlist for 2 ppl. I am interested in RTW also. I can't seem to find anything on the Virgin website.
Has anyone ever done this? I would love to know what points redemption method you went with. Other options I can think of include VA return to LAX and a separate LAX to NYC on Virgin America. Might cost a lot of points though....
After getting some feedback I posted this question..
Thanks again for the feedback. Seems like using points to fly VA J MEL - LAX is the unanimous verdict. I have found some flights around 10.5 months away that could work. Flights are about 100,000 pp one way
Now to get LAX - NYC it is a bit more mixed, delta economy is cheap, I found 242USD pp return. Delta J (and also Virgin America J) first is ~50,000 pp one way.
So that's 300,000 points pp return in J. So riddle me this.. Why not book Singapore Airlines? J is 215,000*1.35=290,000 pp return.
Yes it costs more in fees (quite a bit more). Also I can only find waitlist. Also it's longer flying time. But Singapore airlines are amazing. So much better than Virgins awful ground staff (and their hit and miss attendants).
Can anyone search Singapore and not find waitlist?
Hoping an SQ regular might have tried out some of the options to get to new York..
Thanks in advance,
Dannyism
