Transferring Miles

Advice please!

In the past (possibly a few years back) I was able to transfer miles from my wife's account to mine without charge, which then enabled me to use the (nearly worthless in my opinion) miles and do a single miles+money booking.

It now appears that to transfer miles you have to pay...which makes the entire exercise pointless as the cost to transfer is the same as the discount you get from the miles+money.

I was told by FC that the only way to do it is to make two separate bookings. Which I dont want to do...

Is there any other way around this?

Are you travelling together?

Previously I was told you each need enough miles for one sector each, however this was before the delta tie up.

And yes around 2010 my friend was able to transfer me some miles for free, however not had any reports of this being possible recently

You can still book two separate sectors from two separate accounts (as long as there are the miles to pay for each sector in each account - there is no pooling)

But they will still be on separate PNRs and tickets.

Sometimes you have to suck these things up - either pay to do the transfer and have a single booking or pay via two accounts and have separate ones.

Thanks Tontybear

I feared that might be the case...am I right that having two separate bookings is a big negative? Or should I not be so bothered IYO?

My concern is more when things start to go wrong / Virgin bugger things up / change seat selections / aircraft changes etc. Which...we all know can and does happen!

Personally I don't have a problem with travelling on different bookings and have done so in the past.

All those things you list happen to people with tickets on the same bookings.

Where it is a problem is if YOU cancel your trip then you'll likely have 2 cancellation fees to pay though you might find a sympathetic agent to only charge you one.