We're 10! WIN Flying Club Gold!

[Pete]

Hello All,

As part of our 10th birthday celebrations, I'm delighted to announce an exclusive competition for V-Flyer visitors. Simply book a Virgin Atlantic flight via V-Flyer before the end of March 2013 and you'll have a chance to win Flying Club Gold status for 12 months.

Already got Flying Club Gold? No problem, if you win, Virgin Atlantic will extend your membership for another year!

Want to join us on the Manchester inaugural? Need to make a couple of business trip bookings? Haven't sorted your holiday yet? Looking for the lowest fares for inspiration? Here's a link:
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/gb/en/id ... fares.html

(And yes, if you follow that link and book a flight, you're in the draw).

So what does Flying Club Gold get you?

• Earn 100% bonus on base flown miles
• Access to Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse for you and a guest, regardless of your class of travel
• One extra piece of baggage up to 23kg
• Upper Class Check In for you and your family regardless of class of travel
• Fast Track through Immigration & Security on departures from London Heathrow and London Gatwick for you and a guest
• Access for you at the Revivals Lounge at LHR when arriving on a VS-prefix flight
• Access to shared parter lounges when travelling on Singapore Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Air New Zealand, Virgin Australia, Cyprus Airways or Virgin America
• Priority boarding get settled in your seat sooner
• Complimentary treatment and 10% off any subsequent treatments at Cowshed in the Clubhouse
• Supplementary Silver membership for someone 18 or over sharing your house address
• Kids' accounts - up to 6 members of your household aged 2 to 17
• Happy Birthday, receive a bonus 2,000 miles on your birthday
• No date change fees on mileage bookings
• Guaranteed Economy seat on any Virgin Atlantic flight - even when the flight is full
• Purple Parking: 10% discount and earn miles for all bookings with Purple Parking
• Virgin Holidays: Enjoy 10% off plus 2 miles for every £1 spent
• Complimentary Regus Businessworld gold membership worth £420 per year. Plus you will also receive 2 free Day office uses.

Them Rules

• Book a Virgin Atlantic flight via a V-Flyer link before the closing date and you will be entered into a prize draw. Links via third party sites such as Quidco will not be recorded and do not qualify for this promotion.
• The prize consists of Flying Club Gold membership for one year. Current Flying Club Gold members will have their expiry extended by one year.
• The prize is not transferable and has no cash value.
• Closing date for entries is midnight on March 31st. The winner will be drawn at random and announced by April 13th 2013.

Good offer!

What a fantastic prize and kudos to VS for offering this y) y) y) y) y)

Even us traitors might be tempted!

Curses! If only I knew before last week. B)

Well done VS for offering this prize!

Er - yes, a very well done. If you convert that to it's cash eqiv. value...........
Would there happen to be an extra special prize if already Au??? UNIQ????? LOL

[Pete]

If you're already Gold, your membership will be extended by a year.

And to think I just booked a flight this morning. Ah well c'est la vie.

This is a nice offer though. Good luck to all that enter.

[buns]

What a fantastic prize and kudos to VS for offering this y) y) y) y) y)

Ditto, very generous of VS in my view y)

buns

..and for those of us who have to phone up VS FC line to book their tickets in flexible classes and then upgrade with miles as the website cannot do two things at once???

Good prize though Pete, top notch negotiating with Crawley Towers ^)

[Pete]

..and for those of us who have to phone up VS FC line to book their tickets in flexible classes and then upgrade with miles as the website cannot do two things at once???

Is one workaround to phone them to check G availability then book the flight online while they're still on the phone?

Haven't seen this link mentioned in a while, and not sure if it still works, but it's in the Flying Club area of the VS still and supposedly lets you book a specific class.
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/fr ... /index.jsp

Great prize, thanks Pete and VS!

to check G availability

Assuming I am heading for UC there Pete - good shout

Haven't seen this link mentioned in a while, and not sure if it still works, but it's in the Flying Club area of the VS still and supposedly lets you book a specific class.
http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/en/gb/fr ... /index.jsp

Oh yeh, you can do one but not the other

Way round it as suggested is to find the reward availability, give VS a call, whack the reward seat on reserve (G or P ), book the full fare ECO or PE through the website and then call back.... my thats a lot of phone calls for an "In the face of the ordinary" website ii)

Forgive me people, I am being a tad flippant today... perhaps it was all that wine with lunch :w

If you're already Gold, your membership will be extended by a year.

Ah yes, but what if you're already qualified for gold next year as well

Seriously, very nice prize though, even if it won't really do anything for me personally.

Flipping great prize! Not scheduled to book a flight......but now????? Could be the excuse needed

Well done Pete, nice to see some VS enticements for many die-hards.
Quite disappointed with some reaction to this, suppose you can't please everyone.
VS are missing a trick in keeping the VF community enticed..

Well done.

NH

[Pete]

If you're already Gold, your membership will be extended by a year.

Ah yes, but what if you're already qualified for gold next year as well

I'm guessing 'extended by a year' means just that.

[Neil]

Just to add my y) to Pete for organising this.

It's a really good prize for VS to offer and a really good opportunity for a lucky VF member to get gold when it would normally be out of their reach, especially if not a regular UC traveller, the lounge access alone is a great benefit.

Way round it as suggested is to find the reward availability, give VS a call, whack the reward seat on reserve (G or P ), book the full fare ECO or PE through the website and then call back.... my thats a lot of phone calls for an "In the face of the ordinary" website ii)

Slightly o/t but why more than one call? Ring, ask for the options to upgrade from Economy / PE to Upper for your range of dates , decide yay or nay, pay for base ticket and have miles deducted at the same time. Least ways that's how I did it a couple of months back; took about 15 mins.

That's not to say the web experience isn't poor, of course....

Way round it as suggested is to find the reward availability, give VS a call, whack the reward seat on reserve (G or P ), book the full fare ECO or PE through the website and then call back.... my thats a lot of phone calls for an "In the face of the ordinary" website ii)

Slightly o/t but why more than one call? Ring, ask for the options to upgrade from Economy / PE to Upper for your range of dates , decide yay or nay, pay for base ticket and have miles deducted at the same time. Least ways that's how I did it a couple of months back; took about 15 mins.

That's not to say the web experience isn't poor, of course....

But that wouldn't allow you to book via the above link to enter the (rather excellent) competition

[Pete]

Needless to say, booking yourself onto the MAN-LHR inaugural is a perfectly valid flight. As if you needed an excuse to join the V-Flyer crew with their early-morning hangovers...

Way round it as suggested is to find the reward availability, give VS a call, whack the reward seat on reserve (G or P ), book the full fare ECO or PE through the website and then call back.... my thats a lot of phone calls for an "In the face of the ordinary" website ii)

Slightly o/t but why more than one call? Ring, ask for the options to upgrade from Economy / PE to Upper for your range of dates , decide yay or nay, pay for base ticket and have miles deducted at the same time. Least ways that's how I did it a couple of months back; took about 15 mins.

That's not to say the web experience isn't poor, of course....

But that wouldn't allow you to book via the above link to enter the (rather excellent) competition

Aha. Excellent point. Memo to self; do pay attention at the back...

[honey lamb]

Needless to say, booking yourself onto the MAN-LHR inaugural is a perfectly valid flight. As if you needed an excuse to join the V-Flyer crew with their early-morning hangovers...

While I can't go on the inaugural :# I take it that any other MAN-LHR flight is OK - or indeed any flight within the UK?

aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww can't I sneak in an entry somehow as I'm booked on the 21st March Boohoo xxx