Excellent Virgin Atlantic availability to Los Angeles and San Francisco

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Earlier in the month I told you how Virgin Atlantic was cancelling its routes to Cape Town, Tokyo, Mumbai and Vancouver in return for additional flights to North America.

Late last week, Virgin loaded up reward availability for these new services. As with the new British Airways service to Kuala Lumpur availability is currently excellent.

San Francisco

If you are interested in travelling:

London to Los Angeles (from March 29)

London to San Francisco (from March 29)

…. then it is worth taking a look at the Virgin Atlantic website. Availability is very good.

For example (this is the position as at 3pm Tuesday), there are 21 days in June 2015 when you can get 2 Upper Class seats from London to Los Angeles – you are looking at the dates with a purple bar underneath the circle:

San Francisco also seems fairly open. The other new Virgin services such as Detroit do not yet seem to be open for booking.

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (December 2021)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards. Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, one has a bonus of 15,000 points):

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

The UK’s most generous free Visa or Mastercard at 0.75 points / £1 Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 points bonus and the most generous non-Amex for day to day spending Read our full review

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for a year and comes with 20,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 20,000 Virgin Points: