{"id":17225,"date":"2023-11-13T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2023-11-13T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T13:07:11","slug":"the-virgin-atlantic-china-eastern-partnership-starts-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/11\/13\/the-virgin-atlantic-china-eastern-partnership-starts-sort-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic &#8211; China Eastern partnership starts (sort of)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Virgin Atlantic joined Skyteam earlier this year with immediate effect. However, there was one team member, China Eastern, that was excluded from the launch and it was deferred to &#8220;a later date&#8221;. Well, that later date turned out to be November 10th.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/skyteam-virgin-atlantic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/skyteam-virgin-atlantic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/skyteam-virgin-atlantic.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/skyteam-virgin-atlantic-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As you can see from <a href=\"https:\/\/flywith.virginatlantic.com\/gb\/en\/partner-airlines\/skyteam\/china-eastern.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Virgin&#8217;s page<\/a>. From now on you can earn Virgin points and tier points when flying China Eastern. However the most sought-after feature &#8211; redeeming Virgin points on MU &#8211; is still not active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese airlines are sometimes notorious for playing dirty games especially when it comes to their loyalty program. Xiamen Airlines, also a Skyteam member, rarely releases ANY reward ticket to partner airlines, and I&#8217;m not sure how they get away from it lightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If these problems can finally be resolved, Virgin points will open up new redemption opportunities in China and Asia. Even if you don&#8217;t want to visit China, remember that reward availability to China tends to be excellent, and you can use China Eastern etc for onward connection to another country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic joined Skyteam earlier this year with immediate effect. However, there was one team member, China Eastern, that was excluded from the launch and it&#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":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skyteam","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225","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=17225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17228,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions\/17228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}