Guaranteed award seats on all flights

https://thepointsguy.co.uk/news/exclusive-virgin-gold-rewards/

At Last ! I can put the Amex down now

Thanks for the heads up, have been looking daily for reward seats to AUS for next year and none have appeared as yet, except the odd couple using other airlines and not direct. Will be keeping an eye out around lunchtime

Oooh amazing! Thanks for this, I have been checking for Vegas flights for my husbands 40th and there has been basically nothing! Hopefully we can get some today!

I've been checking for G availability to LAX in March... nothing this morning and checked at 12 Noon as per the reports. It's now showing 2 on pretty much every flight. On hold to book now

I’m waiting on hold too! Stressing me out thinking the flights we want will get snapped up while I’m waiting Need to use upgrade voucher otherwise I’d just do it online

Another one on hold... waiting to upgrade the PE awards I already booked in hope the UC seats would open up

Awesome post, thanks for that.

Just grabbed 2 return G's for LHR - SFO for next year. For the exact dates I wanted.

Never been that lucky before.

Hallelujah!

That is all.

Got my upgrade to G too

1h 20 later and we are booked!! So pleased, I’d given up hope that we were going to be able to get reward flights!

1 hour 53 later and I am still on hold....... .

3 hours later and still on hold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 hrs on the phone and bagged my reward seats, had to split and do 2 of us out in UC, 2 out in PE, then swap for the return 2 in UC and 2 in PE but will be keeping an eye to see if 2 more G's appear between now and March next year.

Agent said she had been busy doing reward bookings as they had changed the allocations from today. And also they had a hew phone system today which was causing long delays on the phone.

So I initially got through after about 40 mins but then once I gave the details of the flights I wanted to book, she said she needed to transfer me to another team since it was an Upper class flight?

I’ve not had that before, from the auto message I was transferred to a ‘senior trained agent’ Frustratingly that was then another 30 mins on hold to give all the details again from scratch. But all fine and booked in the end!

There was no reward availability to LAS for March or April, within the last few hours everyday has opened up so looks like VS are updating the reward inventory online.

[mitchja]

It's not just VS rewards that have been released today as I've managed to grab some DL reward flight too. Booked the following reward flights today for New Year:

MAN>ATL G (Upper)
ATL>FLL O (DL First)
FLL>JFK O (DL First)
JFK>LHR G (Upper)

It wouldn't book as a multi-city booking, so I've ended up with 3 new bookings (the VS TATL flights and 2 separate DL flight bookings).

The VS bit was booked online and the DL bookings done via online chat (could see them online but couldn't book them). The JFK>FLL bit showed nothing initially and whilst I was booking the ATL>FLL, literally after I'd finished that booking, I thought I'd have another look and hey presto there was availability showing on the FLL>JFK leg on the date I wanted.

No more than a 5 minute wait for both online chats. They can make bookings for you as they will send you to a secure online payment system to take the card payment.

Four hours later, dates changed, upgraded and credit card reward voucher finally used… only 3 and 1/2 of those left to use

Interesting… the new reward seats released today have not appeared in SeatSpy

Interesting… the new reward seats released today have not appeared in SeatSpy

I don't know how seatspy works under the hood, but they may not have access to said inventory yet.

Literally every flight in the next 300+ days had 14 miles seats added to them today.

Managed to get 8x UC returns to MCO for Easter 2023.

Interesting… the new reward seats released today have not appeared in SeatSpy

They have started adding now, I’m getting alerts flooding through!

Interesting… the new reward seats released today have not appeared in SeatSpy

They have started adding now, I’m getting alerts flooding through!

Yup… me too

I love the fact that they are adding reward seats, my issue is it's only 2 in UC and PE.

I typically travel in a group of 3. Had a quick look on SeatSpy, and it seems that most days they've stuck to adding 2/2/8 as per the announcement.

Today is the last day I can add the 4x points boost to my summer flight, wondering now if it is worth it, if I won't be able to get 3 seats.

I love the fact that they are adding reward seats, my issue is it's only 2 in UC and PE.

I typically travel in a group of 3. Had a quick look on SeatSpy, and it seems that most days they've stuck to adding 2/2/8 as per the announcement.

Today is the last day I can add the 4x points boost to my summer flight, wondering now if it is worth it, if I won't be able to get 3 seats.

Some aircraft (e.g. the higher density A350s) only have 16 Upper seats and aircraft allocations can and do change, so VS are probably trying to get the balance right between offering reward seats and selling them for revenue.