Companion flight earned via virgin black card

Hi all,

I'm planning a trip to Hong Kong in October/ November and wanted to use my companion ticket. I just called up and the prices they gave me was extortionate.... £1700 in economy then £340 in tax for the companion fair.

Can anyone suggest a better more cost effective way to use companion ticket as I ideally wanted to travel uc.


Thanks.

Unfortunately, no, the companion tickets aren't the best for value for money! I think a few might of found acceptable use for them in PE?

Companion tickets are one of VS's big weaknesses compared to BA, who make them easier and cheaper to redeem.

The problem is you can only use them in conjunction with a full fare, flexible ticket which means it's often cheaper to pay for two discounted, non-flexible tickets.

Yes the VS companion tickets are useless, unless you're happy to pay for a fully flex fare in order to get one. BA is the opposite in that you can only get the companion fare by using Avios to purchase the first ticket, so in BA's case the companion ticket is a true freebie.

Sounds useless. So I guess I might even just not use it as it was cheaper to buy 2 separate tickets at general price.

Thank you

[Neil]

As others have said in the main it is pretty useless to the average traveller.
Sometimes when combined with an S PE fare it can work out cheaper than 2 K PE fares, but I've never seen it worth it in UC or Economy.

It's a marketing gimmick, except for true fully flex high price seats. Spun as a perk of the card, best to ignore and use the miles or sale fares.

Yep. I have bitterly discovered lol. Thanks all.