Companion seats - Value or Rip off???
Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 21:45I have a companion seat thru my virgin amex credit card but can never seem to use it. any advice?
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Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 21:45Posted: 11 Sep 2009, 21:51Forget about it, it's a marketing thing, IMHO it's next to worthless.
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 08:56quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
Forget about it, it's a marketing thing, IMHO it's next to worthless.
If you're prepared to pay very high fares to get a companion seat, go for it. As Scrooge says, they're generally worthless unless your company pays D or J in Upper and you can use it in such cases. The best option seems to be one S in PE and in that case the companion voucher could actually save you money.
Other than that it's worthless and a gimmick.
Join my campaign to have the companion voucher replaced by two upgrade vouchers [}:)].
Forget about it, it's a marketing thing, IMHO it's next to worthless.
If you're prepared to pay very high fares to get a companion seat, go for it. As Scrooge says, they're generally worthless unless your company pays D or J in Upper and you can use it in such cases. The best option seems to be one S in PE and in that case the companion voucher could actually save you money.
Other than that it's worthless and a gimmick.
Join my campaign to have the companion voucher replaced by two upgrade vouchers [}:)].
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 09:08I have estimated that for PE flight I want to take, the companion seat would save around 50. For the agro involved and loss of miles/tier points its not worth it.
Thanks
Thanks
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 10:57quote:Originally posted by slinky09
quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
Forget about it, it's a marketing thing, IMHO it's next to worthless.
Join my campaign to have the companion voucher replaced by two upgrade vouchers [}:)].
Where do we sign up....[oo]
quote:Originally posted by Scrooge
Forget about it, it's a marketing thing, IMHO it's next to worthless.
Join my campaign to have the companion voucher replaced by two upgrade vouchers [}:)].
Where do we sign up....[oo]
Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 11:20sign me up too !
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Posted: 12 Sep 2009, 15:53Agree with Slinky, the best use is on an S PE fare, where you could make quite a saving, so they aren't totally useless, but like all rewards, you have to be clever and flexible to get the best use of them.
Neil
Neil
Posted: 13 Sep 2009, 18:51They can be good money - we got a full-fare J in Upper to Sydney with companion ... which cost less then two restricted Z fares! So we spent less and had limo transfers in the UK, Oz and HK - definately worthwhile then!
You have to be clever and work hard to get value for money.
You have to be clever and work hard to get value for money.
Posted: 13 Sep 2009, 20:25Can you still claim the free John Lewis vouchers for travelling in certain fare classes if you're using a free companion seat ticket as well? It seems to me that the required fare classes would have some degree of overlap.
I can't imagine there would be many situations where the full-fare ticket, the free companion seat and the free vouchers would be a better deal than two cheap tickets, in whichever class, where the full-fare ticket and the free companion seat without the free vouchers wouldn't be a better deal than two cheap tickets, but I would be surprised if there weren't any such situations at all.
I can't imagine there would be many situations where the full-fare ticket, the free companion seat and the free vouchers would be a better deal than two cheap tickets, in whichever class, where the full-fare ticket and the free companion seat without the free vouchers wouldn't be a better deal than two cheap tickets, but I would be surprised if there weren't any such situations at all.
Posted: 13 Sep 2009, 20:28I've got the most value from them for my family on S fares to MCO. The huge increase in taxes and fees in recent years has not helped.