Virgin Airlines: SYD -> LAX $1148 Return

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Chthonic on 29/03/2013 - 13:01 virginaustralia.com (501 clicks)

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Pretty good deal, hope this helps some people.

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  Associateddonga100 @ Virgin Australia on 29/03/2013 - 13:22

  +4

  If you fly to LAX with Virgin make sure you join Velocity Rewards. You will earn enough points for a $50 voucher from Myer/David Jones/Westfield/Kmart/Target. It's free to join.

  I'm not the official Virgin rep for Ozbargain, just happen to work there.

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    watwatwat on 29/03/2013 - 14:14

    So how does redemption of vouchers etc. compare to redemption of flights? I would have thought it may be more beneficial to redeem with Virgin flights if you plan on choosing them in the future.

    Edit: hm, looks like I have 12.5k points in my account. :o And 120 "status credit" points, whatever those are.

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      Associateddonga100 @ Virgin Australia on 29/03/2013 - 15:05

      +1

      Flights are slightly better value in general. A few examples; a $50 voucher is around 7000 points, one way flight SYD-BNE is 9500 for econ or 16400 for business, SYD-LAX is 59,400 for econ or 122,500 for business.

      Looking at this the business class redemption flights are by far the best value. You can fly SYD-LAX return in business class for the price of apx. thirty five $50 vouchers ($1750).

      I still redeem for vouchers myself just because I'm too impatient to save a lot of points and I can use the vouchers on stuff I would be buying anyway so it is practically the same as getting cash.

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        Associateddonga100 @ Virgin Australia on 29/03/2013 - 15:22

        It also sounds more attractive/achievable to tell people they will get a $50 voucher for doing one trip than saying "just do this trip 35 times and you'll have enough points for a business class ticket".

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        RockyRaccoon on 29/03/2013 - 16:46

        Is this for 1 way or round trip?

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        Associateddonga100 @ Virgin Australia on 29/03/2013 - 17:20

        The amounts I quoted above are all one way but 35 x 7000 = 245k which is enough for a return business class ticket SYD-LAX.

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        RockyRaccoon on 29/03/2013 - 18:49

        +1

        17 and 1/2 trips to the US for a business class trip, I dont think my bum would survive… LOL

        Like you, I'd take the shopping vouchers instead… With ozbargain I can get more than the $100 worth…

        Thanks

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      seanbaussie on 29/03/2013 - 21:33

      I'm pretty sure flight redemptions also still require payment of flight taxes on top of the points. Makes the gift vouchers far more valuable.

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        Associateddonga100 @ Virgin Australia on 30/03/2013 - 09:00

        With Virgin you can choose to include the taxes or not. The prices I quoted above don't require any payment of taxes. For example, you could choose to pay 6900 points + $17.39 taxes for a SYD-BNE flight.