Very impressed with today's experience. Wanted to redeem a BA Amex voucher for the two us to fly LGW-MCO next Sept and return SAN-LHR. As it was open jaw I needed to phone Exec Club (I'm just a lowly blue) and was pleasantly surprised that there's a dedicated line just for BA Amex redemptions. No issues with availability, Club World both ways into MCO and back from SAN on the dates of our choice. Just 50k Avios each and £550. Fully changeable and refundable (for a reasonable £25pp fee) up to 24 hrs before flight.
I love VS UC but the VS companion voucher system is unusable, unless you're willing to part with circa £8000 for a full fare J in order to be allowed to use the companion voucher!!
Forget the VS voucher, just doing a similar trip on VS miles would consume 200k miles - double that of BA. I suppose I could book the cheapest upgradeable Economy M fare and upgrade to UC (a good method I've used many times) but that still means parting with around £800 & 45k miles per person. The other issue of course is that UC rewards on VS to MCO are few and far between as is availability back from west coast.
So all in all very impressed with BA, lets hope the flights themselves are great!
Still got 170k VS miles and still love VS!
Thanks
James
I love VS UC but the VS companion voucher system is unusable, unless you're willing to part with circa £8000 for a full fare J in order to be allowed to use the companion voucher!!
Forget the VS voucher, just doing a similar trip on VS miles would consume 200k miles - double that of BA. I suppose I could book the cheapest upgradeable Economy M fare and upgrade to UC (a good method I've used many times) but that still means parting with around £800 & 45k miles per person. The other issue of course is that UC rewards on VS to MCO are few and far between as is availability back from west coast.
So all in all very impressed with BA, lets hope the flights themselves are great!
Still got 170k VS miles and still love VS!
Thanks
James