{"id":14701,"date":"2023-02-02T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=14701"},"modified":"2023-02-02T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T13:40:38","slug":"british-airways-and-virgin-atlantic-relaunches-shanghai-with-great-reward-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/02\/02\/british-airways-and-virgin-atlantic-relaunches-shanghai-with-great-reward-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways and Virgin Atlantic relaunches Shanghai with great reward availability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After being absent from China&#8217;s market for three years and having permanently discontinued Hong Kong, Virgin Atlantic is resuming its daily service between London Heathrow and Shanghai Pudong on the first of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reward availability was released this morning, and you can book literally any single day, although seats over China&#8217;s festive periods are selling fast.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-availability.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-availability.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14700\" width=\"400\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-availability.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-availability-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-availability-768x312.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here is a reminder what a one-way ticket in Upper Class costs, and the respective fees from Shanghai \/ London:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Economy: 12,500 points + 833 RMB \/ \u00a3208<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Premium Economy: 22,500 points+ 1,565 RMB \/ \u00a3360<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upper Class: 57,500 points + 1,719 RMB \/ \u00a3411<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12610\" width=\"484\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1.jpg 967w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/virgin-atlantic-787-9-upper-class-cabin-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You need to add another 10,000 points if flying at peak. Shanghai is operated by the older B787 aircrafts, although I think they are less bad compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2022\/12\/05\/my-review-of-virgin-atlantics-a350-upper-class-suite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"My review of Virgin Atlantic\u2019s A350 Upper Class Suite\">the A350 suite<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British Airways on the other hand, is also relaunching Shanghai on April 23rd and Beijing on June 3rd. However Avios seats have been available for quite a while now so it&#8217;s not as exciting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BA&#8217;s new RFS pricing wants 200,000 Avios + \u00a3550 for a return trip to Shanghai, which is ridiculous. Unless you are looking to book first class with a companion voucher, Virgin Atlantic is the more favourable option by a large margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being absent from China&#8217;s market for three years and having permanently discontinued Hong Kong, Virgin Atlantic is resuming its daily service between London Heathrow and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,17,39,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-british-airways","category-uk","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14703,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions\/14703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}