Calendar Month View

[Viper6]

Does Virgin have a way to see the whole month's view of reward seats, like Qantas do? I can't find any option for this.

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Or even to filter by business award seats without having to click into each and every time slot for every day, only to find out it is an Economy reward flight?

 

[MattA]

There is no calendar view, sadly (not for J anyway).

There is a little URL hack you can use to filter out Y, which is to do a search for whatever date you are looking for (it's easiest to do it with one way searches), then take a look at the URL and change this bit

class=First
to
class=Business

Don't change anything else, but then copy the whole URL into a new tab and hit enter (this bit is important -- it won't work if you try to reload it in the current tab).

For one way itineraries originating in Australia, unfortunately this will return all the "any seat" redemptions at 1Mill+ points, but you can at least scan down the list and if any of them show the little "reward seats available" box then there should be a genuine business award available.

It's slightly easier for itineraries originating outside Australia, because VA doesn't sell revenue tickets originating overseas. That means the search will *only* return J awards if available on that date (no "any seat"/"points plus pay"). If there aren't any awards it will drop back to an availability calendar, but sadly this calendar shows Y availability and does not respect the class=Business filter.

However, once you've changed the URL param it does "stick" within the flight-selection page, so you can click around the 7 day filter at the top to quickly check a range of dates. If you find yourself on the calendar view you can try clicking on dates that are highlighted, but if there is only Y availability on the selected date you'll drop back to the calendar again.

The other thing I do is if there are specific dates I'm looking at is to bookmark the searches (with the modified parameter). The whole of the query (dates, city pair etc) is captured in the URL params, so you can save searches as bookmarks for all the dates you are interested in and then quickly open them all up again later to see if something has become available.

 

[Mattg]

I usually use the United website for this purpose.

 

[Viper6]

There is no calendar view, sadly (not for J anyway).

There is a little URL hack you can use to filter out Y, which is to do a search for whatever date you are looking for (it's easiest to do it with one way searches), then take a look at the URL and change this bit

class=First
to
class=Business

Don't change anything else, but then copy the whole URL into a new tab and hit enter (this bit is important -- it won't work if you try to reload it in the current tab).

For one way itineraries originating in Australia, unfortunately this will return all the "any seat" redemptions at 1Mill+ points, but you can at least scan down the list and if any of them show the little "reward seats available" box then there should be a genuine business award available.

It's slightly easier for itineraries originating outside Australia, because VA doesn't sell revenue tickets originating overseas. That means the search will *only* return J awards if available on that date (no "any seat"/"points plus pay"). If there aren't any awards it will drop back to an availability calendar, but sadly this calendar shows Y availability and does not respect the class=Business filter.

However, once you've changed the URL param it does "stick" within the flight-selection page, so you can click around the 7 day filter at the top to quickly check a range of dates. If you find yourself on the calendar view you can try clicking on dates that are highlighted, but if there is only Y availability on the selected date you'll drop back to the calendar again.

The other thing I do is if there are specific dates I'm looking at is to bookmark the searches (with the modified parameter). The whole of the query (dates, city pair etc) is captured in the URL params, so you can save searches as bookmarks for all the dates you are interested in and then quickly open them all up again later to see if something has become available.

You are a legend, thanks heaps!!! Will save me soooo much time.

Post automatically merged: Apr 13, 2023

I usually use the United website for this purpose.

Can you elaborate? Does United website show reward availability for flights from BNE-DOH for example?

 

[Milefest]

There is no calendar view, sadly (not for J anyway).

Technically you can force the calendar view by using "date-selection" instead of "flight-selction" in the URL parameter. Unfortunately VA disabled previewing the cheapest redemption by replacing it with "Available". Hopefully that's coming to an end with price previews beginning to appear in the week view.

 

[MattA]

You are a legend, thanks heaps!!! Will save me soooo much time.

Post automatically merged: Apr 13, 2023

Can you elaborate? Does United website show reward availability for flights from BNE-DOH for example?

No worries. I learnt of the class=Business trick on these pages. Just paying it forward…

I’m sure @Mattg will correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe United is only useful for donestic VA redemption availability. International searches via United will show its Star Alliance partners, not QR/EY etc. Maybe useful for SQ but not sure if United and Virgin get access to the same availability.

Technically you can force the calendar view by using "date-selection" instead of "flight-selction" in the URL parameter. Unfortunately VA disabled previewing the cheapest redemption by replacing it with "Available". Hopefully that's coming to an end with price previews beginning to appear in the week view.

Have you figured out a way to get the calendar to only show J availability? As I said above it doesn’t seem to respect the same business filter as the “flight-selection” page. I did try fiddling around in the browser tools a while back to see if there was a way but no joy and gave up.