{"id":17944,"date":"2024-01-19T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T10:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=17944"},"modified":"2024-01-19T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T20:20:09","slug":"error-fare-virgin-atlantic-lhr-pvg-upper-class-for-30k-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/01\/19\/error-fare-virgin-atlantic-lhr-pvg-upper-class-for-30k-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Error fare: Virgin Atlantic LHR-PVG Upper Class for 30k points"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(UPDATE: Virgin woke up and pulled the &#8220;offer&#8221; &#8211; it lived for almost 20 hours though!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virgin Atlantic launched <a href=\"https:\/\/flights.virginatlantic.com\/en-gb\/points-flight-deals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">a new global reward sale<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Book by Jan 31st<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Travel by Dec 31st<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Save 20% points on all reward flights<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Few destinations are excluded<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a good offer, although not as good as the previous 50%-off and 33%-off sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More importantly, their Shanghai route seems to have loaded the sale fare erroneously.<\/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\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-error-fare.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"260\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-error-fare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-error-fare.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-error-fare-300x98.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-error-fare-768x250.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>You pay the following for PVG-LHR, off-peak and peak:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Economy: 8,000 points \/ 16,000 points + 873 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Premium: 14,000 points \/ 22,000 points +1,565 CNY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Upper Class: 30,000 points \/ 38,000 points + 1,719 CNY<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it into context, the original price for Upper Class off-peak is 57,500 points, so it is almost half-price, not just 20% off. For LHR-PVG you pay the same amount of points, but taxes are gonna be much higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have an onward connection, the discount works too.<\/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\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-nyc-error-fare.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-nyc-error-fare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-nyc-error-fare.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-nyc-error-fare-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/virgin-atlantic-pvg-lhr-nyc-error-fare-768x272.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Just a couple of days ago VS had an \u00a3800 error fare to Shanghai in Upper Class too &#8211; something&#8217;s going on there for this route? Do not hesitate as it might get fixed anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(UPDATE: Virgin woke up and pulled the &#8220;offer&#8221; &#8211; it lived for almost 20 hours though!) Virgin Atlantic launched a new global reward sale: It is&#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":[44,40,37],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-17944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-europe","category-virgin-atlantic","tag-flight-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944","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=17944"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17958,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}