A couple of times a Year Virgin Atlantic Flying Club have a Miles Booster Promotion. This is a fab way to buy some extra miles at a great rate. You can boost (ie buy extra) your miles on flights taken or ones booked in the future. Did you boost your miles in the October promotion? What happens if you cancel your flight?
What is Miles Booster ? The latest promotion allowed you to buy single or double miles flown. This is flights paid for with money, reward flights or as part of a package ie with Virgin Holidays. (Remember to get your 7% Flying Club discount on Virgin Holidays packages by the way) Here’s an example. New York return is London to New York return trip earns you 6,916 miles – If you have purchased the flight. No miles earned if you redeem a reward flight.
With Miles Booster – You can single boost – so you can buy an extra 6,916 miles for £69.16. Or double boost – So an extra 13,832 miles for £138.32. And you can do this WITH REWARD FLIGHT BOOKINGS.
So a return trip for 2 to say Las Vegas would earn you 31,446 miles. Double boost the miles for £314 and get an additional 44,024 miles. So one trip to Vegas plus £314 and you’ve got over 75,000 miles.
If your Vegas trip was a reward flight then you can still get 44k miles for £314. This is a really good price. Have a look at how miles experts headforpoints and godsavethepoints value Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles.
What happens if you cancel your reward flight booking?
You would think that you get a refund (maybe less and admin fee) for the Miles Booster right? Well actually No. Booking reward flights comes with the almost priceless benefit of cancellations for £30pp. If you cancel the reward flight you have the choice of a refund of the Miles Boosted OR just keep them, no refund, no miles returned. You still receive them when you would have had you have taken the flights.
So what does this mean? Well obviously you wouldn’t book reward flights, boost the miles and cancel the flights just to be able to buy the miles at a great price. Virgin would surely put an end to this benefit very quickly. It does mean though that there is a silver lining should you have to cancel your reward flights.
Another example of Virgins excellent customer focussed service and a million miles away from British Airways efforts – I only got a refund of pre-booked seats on a cancelled flight AFTER I made a court claim with the help of ThisIsMoney!
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