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20% off Virgin Australia Economy Reward Seats between SYD/ BRI/ MELB/ADL and Hong Kong

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With Virgin Australia now flying daily to Hong Kong, we couldn’t help ourselves and have discounted Reward Seats for the first time in over 2 years! Enjoy 20% off Virgin Australia Economy Reward Seats between Sydney and Hong Kong*.

To secure your discount, simply find a Reward Seat for your preferred travel date and book by 21 December 2017. The displayed Points prices already include your 20% discount.

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  • joeiwu on 21/11/2017 - 13:32
    +4

    Pity it doesn't apply to business class reward seats…!

    • jaybo on 21/11/2017 - 15:07

      i tried to find some the other day and they don't seem to exist anyway :)

  • jjjaar on 21/11/2017 - 13:54

    Got the email for Melbourne as well.

    • easternculture on 21/11/2017 - 14:05

      Thanks updated the post

      • scorpionsa on 21/11/2017 - 14:19

        I’ve also received for Adelaide

  • congo on 21/11/2017 - 14:39

    Just booked with Tigerair last night :-(

    • bbtlovebbt on 21/11/2017 - 15:05

      this 20% off worked out more than what i paid for 1 week ago.

      • congo on 21/11/2017 - 15:23

        They increase/hiked the points required? They can do that?

        • bbtlovebbt on 21/11/2017 - 16:13
          -1

          Points are kindly converted into value? Value increased, then require more points?

        • Coley on 21/11/2017 - 17:04

          @bbtlovebbt:
          I think your confused between a reward seat and an any seat paid for with points.

  • Serathis on 21/11/2017 - 14:45
    +1

    I managed to find the lowest at 41k points from Syd-HKG.

    anyone found anything better?

    • jaybo on 21/11/2017 - 15:12
      +3

      69,300 return MEL-HKG in September

      my issue is I'm going in March already, we bought tickets for $429aud return, which is so cheap to begin with i don't feel like wasting my points :D

      I'm saving my points for business to europe, when i finally cash all these babies in i want it to be spectacular~! :D

      • Serathis on 21/11/2017 - 15:53

        492aud return?! with Qantas?

        • Meconium on 21/11/2017 - 18:38

          You need to stop by here more often!

          (There have been sales and price wars over this route for the last few months, search the site for details.)

        • jaybo on 21/11/2017 - 19:46

          $429, and Virgin :)
          actually just realized it was my Scotts cheap flights mailing list which put me onto that price, not OzBargain

          travelling in March, there's been plenty of other fares around the ~$470-$550 mark though, virgin, qantas, even cathay i think

  • qazwsx on 21/11/2017 - 15:01

    The problem with Virgin is that their redemptions are damn expensive to begin with

    • Thatbargainhunter on 21/11/2017 - 16:02
      +3

      Depends how you spend them.

      Some Pacific island flights are very good value redemption wise.

      Also, Sydney to LA on Qantas is 72,000 points.

      On Virgin it is less than 45,000.

      Given that they are considered roughly equivelant in terms of earn rates and the value they sell in the classifieds, I would say they are actually much better value than QFF points.

      • ols108 on 21/11/2017 - 17:37

        Not to mention the costs of the taxes.

        Qantas taxes return to LA are almost $600 from memory

        Virgin is $180ish

      • qazwsx on 23/11/2017 - 23:45

        Fair enough, I generally fly west into Asia/Europe not east to the US so looking in the other direction. Going west, the redemptions rates are woeful - just put it into SQ or CX go from there

  • SonGHosT on 21/11/2017 - 15:05
    +3

    Can we redeem points for economy and then upgrade to business using points?

    • oranje on 21/11/2017 - 17:03

      I doubt it but interested to know myself

    • Cyphar on 21/11/2017 - 17:34

      Not sure why you were getting downvoted for that. It's a fair question as you can do so with Qantas reward seats.

    • ols108 on 21/11/2017 - 17:38
      +1

      Nope, you can't upgrade a "reward flight" using points sorry.

  • Thatbargainhunter on 21/11/2017 - 15:56

    Also Brisbane email, got an email. However, given that the flights are usually pretty cheap and you rack up decent points on this flight (having to go via Melb first but on international earn tables), I am not sure it is worth using points on this.

    • oranje on 21/11/2017 - 17:04

      Just to clarify - If you travel a domestic route as part of an international itinerary, the points/status earned is based on international earn tables?

  • isthisreallife22 on 21/11/2017 - 18:44
    +1

    Does anyone have a good process they go through to see whether it's worth transferring FlyBuys/CreditCard points to Virgin for deals like this?

    TRANSFER
    1. See how many points you can get using the credit card rewards program transfer wizard (e.g. 104,000 CC points = 41,600 + 15% = 47,840 velocity points)

    COMPARE GIFT CARD EXCHANGE RATE
    2. See what gift cards are worth in credit card portal: 104,000 CC points = $500
    3. See what gift cards are worth in velocity so 47,840 velocity points = ($250/45,000)*47840=$265.78

    COMPARE FLIGHT EXCHANGE RATE
    4. Find a baseline flight value e.g. BNE-SYD on 6 March = $99 flights via VA
    5. Velocity points = 11,800 velocity points
    6. CC points (via CC travel portal) = 17,044 points

    Value of CC point:
    - Pre-exchange Gift Card = $500/104000 = 0.48c per initial CC point
    - Pre-exchange Flight Redemption = $99/17044 = 0.58c per initial CC point (which for 104000 would require $604 gift cards to break even… this one is winning)
    - Post-exchange Gift Card = $265.78/104000 = 0.26c per initial CC point
    - Post-exchange Flight Redemption = (($99/11800)*47840)/104000 = 0.38c per initial CC point

    So I'd be better off booking this flight through the CC rewards portal??

    Any thoughts on figuring out when it would make sense? Is it more of a flight by flight comparison??

    I'd need to do this same thing for Flybuys too

    • tunzafun001 on 22/11/2017 - 00:26
      +1

      I booked a last minute flight to Melbourne during the AFL grand final weekend. Going to snowfields. Price was around $280 one way. Redemption was 8000pts / 14k business. I actually took the business class flight. Extra baggage included. Plane was absolutely packed in the back, empty seats in business. Also had a delightful 1.5hr in the lounge pre flight and flight…factors like these are lost in equations. But I like what you did above. My example was for around a $100 gift card value.

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