Virgin Trains becomes a Flying Club Partner

Not sure if this is something that people are aware of but from December 7th Virgin Trains will become a points earning partner for flying club members. See below for full details:

From 7 December Virgin Trains will be joining the Virgin Atlantic Flying Club scheme as a points earning partner. Flying Club members will be able to earn points for journeys they make with Virgin Trains. Journeys have to be booked on the Virgin Trains website and be for a Virgin Trains journey.
Members will earn 2 miles per 1 spent on a Virgin Trains journey and they must provide their membership number on the shopping basket page.
TERMS & CONDITIONS
The terms and conditions are:
Miles can only be earned on journeys booked via http://www.virgintrains.com when the journey is booked to travel on Virgin Trains only and a Flying Club membership number is provided at time of booking. Any other journeys or booking channels will not earn miles. If a journey starts or ends on another Train Operator then we advise for members to purchase the different journeys separately to ensure points are earned on the Virgin Trains journey. When Miles will be allocated depends on the type of ticket purchased.
Advance tickets are non refundable and therefore points will be allocated after the journey date has passed. Miles will be allocated up to 5 days after the day of travel.
Anytime, Off Peak, Super Off Peak and Virgin Business tickets allow more flexibility about the date or time and are refundable so miles will be allocated up to 65 days after the outward date of travel.

Nice to see a new partner that I can earn miles with [:)] Thanks for the update.

Now can I get my Virgin 10% discount as well? [:?]

Good. Now wouldn't it be lovely if AU card holders could get some sort of discount on upgrades to First Class?! I'm not holding my breath though.

Excellent news i've been taking one 1st class trip a week for the last year and never had any benefit, now comes the chance to rack up the miles [:D]

[buns]

Excellent News[y][y]

Thanks for breaking the news to us here on the Site[oo]

buns

While good news a bit annoying I have got booked about 700 worth of tickets and as it didnt ask me for my flying club number I guess I cant earn miles on these despite being journeys after 7th December!!

[buns]

quote:Originally posted by michaeljtodd
While good news a bit annoying I have got booked about 700 worth of tickets and as it didnt ask me for my flying club number I guess I cant earn miles on these despite being journeys after 7th December!!




'Claim Missing Miles' perhaps[:w][}:)][:w]

Worth a try

buns

Oh, this is brilliant news!! Finally, a partner i can actually USE!

quote:originally posted by michaeljtodd
While good news a bit annoying I have got booked about 700 worth of tickets and as it didnt ask me for my flying club number I guess I cant earn miles on these despite being journeys after 7th December!!

quote:originally posted by buns
'Claim Missing Miles' perhaps

Worth a try

This is what it says about claiming missing miles.

ManagingCustomerQueries

Anyretrospectiveclaimsforpoints,whereamemberdidntentertheirFlyingClubnumber,willbehandledbyVirginAtlantic.CustomersshouldbeadvisedtogototheFlyingClubsectionofVirginAtlanticwebsitetoclaimmissingmiles.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

As a weekly traveller on Virgin trains this is great news. However I have just looked around the VA web site and also made a dummy booking on Virgin Trains site and couldn't see any mention of earning FC miles

Anyone managed to find any online detail or even earn miles on VS trains yet?

Cheers,

Matt

Hi folks, just to let you know that the start date has apparently been amended to December 16th due to problems starting this project. Hope this helps. Sorry for the late advice but only just noticed the e-mail about it!

Well what a result, its not currently showing on the Virgin Atlantic Website but I have just booked a ticket on the VT.com website and was asked for my FC number.

2 miles for every 1 spent on vt.com

Should of happened sooner but definately a move in the right direction.

Finally something I can use the bloody number for!

Already posted a while ago

[:)]

[honey lamb]

Topics merged to avoid confusion

any ideas on monthly first class season ticket holders? i travel daily on Virgin and hold Virgin frequent flyer account and would like to kmow that my daily commute isnt a complete waste of momey... :0), although it would seem that its only single/rtn journey that qualify, although i havent seen those exact words written anywhere..

anyone know anything?

i also did a dummy booking on the site and saw nowhere to enter my number?

Has anyone managed to get any miles credited yet?

Did a VT booking for travel in mid-Feb, but not yet had the miles added to my account. VS site says that 'Miles will be allocated up to 5 days after the day of travel.'

Have emailed FC to ask for an update, waiting for a reply.