{"id":19816,"date":"2024-06-21T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=19816"},"modified":"2024-06-21T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T16:34:19","slug":"error-fare-virgin-lhr-pvg-upper-class-in-22-5k-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/06\/21\/error-fare-virgin-lhr-pvg-upper-class-in-22-5k-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Error fare: Virgin LHR-PVG upper class in 22.5k points!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We knew that Virgin was going to start a 40-year anniversary sale today. It turns out they&#8217;ve made some mistakes again this time, in our favour. I woke up to hundreds of messages on my Wechat!<\/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\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19815\" style=\"width:400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/virgin-points-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">The offer page is here<\/a>, in short you get 40% off all reward redemption on Virgin-operated flights until the end of this year. In reality however,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The discount works on next year&#8217;s flights too (UPDATE: fixed)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Shanghai route is more like 60% off, not 40%!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s what you pay for PVG-LHR in standard season:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Economy: 6,000 points \/ 12,000 points + 888 RMB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Premium: 10,500 points \/ 16,500 points +1,565 RMB<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Upper Class: 22,500 points \/ 28,500 points + 1,719<\/strong> <strong>RMB<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-shanghai.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19814\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-shanghai.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-shanghai-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/06\/virgin-atlantic-40-anniversary-sale-shanghai-768x344.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>22,500 points for Upper Class is insane, and the fees on this route is still quite reasonable &#8211; for LHR-PVG you&#8217;ll pay \u00a3200 more which is fair considering the hefty APD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure what&#8217;s the matter with Shanghai as Virgin made a similar mistake last time as well. I expect they fix the pricing today so lock in your reservation soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew that Virgin was going to start a 40-year anniversary sale today. It turns out they&#8217;ve made some mistakes again this time, in our favour.&#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":[37],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-19816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-atlantic","tag-flight-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816","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=19816"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19824,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19816\/revisions\/19824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}