{"id":21059,"date":"2024-10-16T13:09:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=21059"},"modified":"2024-10-16T13:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T12:09:26","slug":"virgin-atlantic-unloaded-many-dxb-jfk-etc-award-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/10\/16\/virgin-atlantic-unloaded-many-dxb-jfk-etc-award-seats\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic unloaded many (DXB \/ JFK etc) award seats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/virgin-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Virgin Atlantic<\/a>, all of a sudden, released an incredible amount of reward seats on certain routes, including over Christmas and Easter next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I noticed this after receiving my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/08\/19\/pointsyeah-a-free-reward-flight-search-and-monitoring-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"PointsYeah, a free reward flight search and monitoring tool\">PointsYeah<\/a> alert for Dubai this morning, and called immediately to book my Christmas trip using the credit card voucher. By phoning Virgin you could also pay in GBP instead of the local currency, which will likely trigger the \u00a3100 Amex cashback offer.<\/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\/10\/amex-virgin-100-offer.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"165\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/amex-virgin-100-offer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/amex-virgin-100-offer.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/amex-virgin-100-offer-300x99.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> According to Seatspy, reward availability is very good on at least a few routes, like Dubai and New York.<\/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\/10\/seatspy-virgin-lhr-jfk-availability.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/seatspy-virgin-lhr-jfk-availability.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/seatspy-virgin-lhr-jfk-availability.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/seatspy-virgin-lhr-jfk-availability-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/10\/seatspy-virgin-lhr-jfk-availability-768x593.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agent that helped me said Dubai is extremely popular today and he&#8217;s handled tens of bookings already. He also speculated that the added reward seats might be related to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/virgin-dynamic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">new dynamic redemption rule<\/a> to be introduced in just two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic, all of a sudden, released an incredible amount of reward seats on certain routes, including over Christmas and Easter next year. I noticed this&#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":[],"class_list":["post-21059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-atlantic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059","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=21059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21067,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21059\/revisions\/21067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}