by PointsGuru | Sep 26, 2015 | Virgin America Elevate
Citibank’s 
credit card division announced that you can can now transfer an unlimited number of your ThankYou Points to Virgin America Elevate points. This is great news for those of us in lust with the Virgin America experience. I say lust because they do not fly to many cities as we await them to build up their fleet. This is also great for Citi cardmembers and the ThankYou Points network for being one of the best as it is improving day by day over all the other credit card rewards in means of redemption. Citi cardmembers can now transfer their ThankYou Points to 14 hotel and airline loyalty rewards programs.
Eligible cards for this ThankYou points promotion include the Citi ThankYou Premier and Citi Prestige cards. The 25% bonus runs through October 21, 2015. You must transfer a minimum of 1,000 ThankYou Points. Every 2 ThankYou Points you transfer to Virgin America you will receive 1.25 Elevate points.
Virgin America reward flights start as low as 2,500 points to destinations across the U.S. and Mexico including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Cancun, and later this year, Honolulu, Oahu and Kahului, Maui.
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by PointsGuru | Mar 14, 2015 | Virgin America Elevate
I was falling in Love with Virgin America but now they are more of a one-night stand or one-hit wonder. I even bought stock in the company under the ticker VA. I am now losing all faith in the airlines.
Update: They updated my status match without telling me for some reason unless I lost the email to spam somehow. Virgin America is still my favorite airlines 🙂
I got kind of suspicious when they advertised their status match and yet you see many people just like me who tried to match with American Airlines and never hear anything back. I have resent the email three times now since September and contacted them via Twitter still nothing has been done. That’s fine its a luxury I can live without. Although this would have at least helped me in my current “upgrade” for a real “upgrade” I cannot fathom someone bidding for an upgrade to Main Cabin Select. It is beyond me. I can understand additional when booking the far or perhaps if they still have some open after the booking but bidding as if its some in-demand seat is outrageous unless its for $20 more. There is no way I would have pay $90 more if I would have known.
I got an email that asked me to bid for an upgrade on my flight coming up from LAX to DFW. I thought it was for an upgrade not just moving up the main cabin. I was on my phone and not reading all the fine print so then today I got an email saying I was “upgraded” to main cabin select”. Oh. and it is for the middle seat as the window or aisle was not available What I had to pay $90 to sit in a middle seat from the seat that I already had was just a few rows back? This is an upgrade? I would think that by Texas law we would have 24 hours to be able to stop such a charge. I will have to look into it more.
Why would an airline even bother with Main Cabin Select seating. It does nothing that great to warrant the added expense and of course they had middle seats available up there. I have not yet been on a Virgin America flight that had all the Main Cabin Select seats full. If I were the airline I would rip out that area and make that a business class and take out the middle seats.
I now regret paying $150 for my Virgin America Platinum Card because I doubt I will fly this airline again after these heartbreaking experiences. I looked over at Consumer Affairs and it looks like I am not the only one with complaints. They are rated below AeroMexico and American Airlines… and British Airways.
Make sure you pay close attention when bidding for upgrades with Virgin America because you may not be happy with what they consider an upgrade. A middle seat a few rows ahead of where I was sitting for someone who has long arms is NOT what I had anticipated.
#FakeUpgrades #StatusMatchJoke
by PointsGuru | Feb 18, 2015 | Virgin America Elevate
Virgin America announced a New Route from Dallas to Austin with fares from $39 each way. Book by February and Fly by June 6. Travel begins to Austin, TX the home of SXSW starting April 28. With Virgin America you get those nice mood-lit flights between Dallas (DAL) and Austin (AUS) and nonstop service to Austin five times a day.
I will have to consider flying to Austin now instead of driving since it takes almost 4 hours to drive and this will cut down some time and not too much out of my pocketbook while earning Elevate points. My favorite airline now is Virgin America hands down in the US. I am glad to see them grow and grow and grow. I had hoped they had bought out American Airlines when they went bankrupt but instead the horrific merger with US Air took place. Glad to see Virgin America grow even if it is taking forever to do so. Hopefully they will pick up Orlando, Tampa, New Orleans, and grow to more US Cities out of Love Field (DAL) in Dallas, TX.
If you would like free WiFi on Virgin America check out this post.
