Virgin Atlantic moves Las Vegas flight to Heathrow and adds flights to Boston and Barbados

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Virgin Atlantic has announced two new flights to the US.

From 31st March 2019 passengers can fly from London Heathrow to Las Vegas. This route replaces the current Gatwick to Las Vegas flight.

In addition Virgin Atantic has announced a second daily flight from Heathrow to Boston from the same date.

The Las Vegas flight will be operated by a Boeing 787 with 31 Upper Class seats, 35 Premium seats and 192 economy seats. The Boston service will be operated by an A330-300. Both routes are on sale now.

There will also be a return of the seasonal flight from Heathrow to Barbados operating between 11th December 2018 and 19th February 2019.

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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:

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Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points.

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TripRep says:

20 May20 May 07:05

Great to see the increased coverage of VS on HFP over recent weeks. Expect we’ll see more as the JV partnership with Delta/AF-KLM comes to fruition…
https://news.delta.com/delta-air-france-klm-and-virgin-atlantic-sign-agreements-strengthening-trans-atlantic-partnership
- TGLoyalty says:
  
  20 May20 May 10:12
  
  I’m surprised redemptions are taking so long as surely the JV approval has no impact on that
  - the_real_a says:
    
    20 May20 May 16:53
    
    The taxes/fees element of Air France/KLM redemption’s does not look attractive at all!
    - the real harry1 says:
      
      20 May20 May 17:42
      
      It looks terrible compared to BA/ RFS. I got my hopes up too soon and have transferred points over to Virgin – maybe 500,000 so far – in anticipation. But on deeper investigation, if Virgin just adopts AF/ KLM redemption rules for Europe, I won’t use the points that way.
      
      I started converting to BA again, such is my disillusionment. But we’ll see later on this year, I guess.
Anna says:

20 May20 May 07:35

OT – BAPP. Someone was asking about points for adding a supplementary card recently. I applied for one last night and 3000 avios have appeared this morning. I didn’t get an offer.
Matt B says:

20 May20 May 07:55

I think it’s the 31st March not May
- Rob says:
  
  20 May20 May 08:32
  
  Yes it is! Fixed, thanks.
Lumma says:

20 May20 May 08:43

OT but there was something in the comments the other day about needing to be on the booking to get the virgin miles with the number 1 traveller bookings.

I did two separate bookings for the MyLounge at Gatwick north for myself and a friend for the bank holiday weekend, checking my virgin account I’ve only been given one lot of 350 miles (which is still wrong as it should just be 200 for the MyLounge).

I’m not going to chase it for the 50 miles that I’m missing but it could be that they’re cracking down on multiple bookings for people who aren’t the account holder.
Frankie says:

20 May20 May 08:57

I have happy memories off sitting down the back on the only few pairs of double seats on VS43 (747) from Gatwick when there was no other direct flight from London and long before HFP was a twinkle in Rob’s eye.
- Graham Walsh says:
  
  20 May20 May 21:03
  
  I used to pick those seats too on various VS flights.
Rash says:

20 May20 May 09:00

The hertz link doesn’t work for me (maybe because I’m in France) . Does it work for others and do we have to use a certain CDP or PC code? Thanks
- the real harry1 says:
  
  20 May20 May 09:30
  
  708870
Macca says:

20 May20 May 09:34

Just tried for book Prem Eco LHR-LAS in July and all options routes via LAX. Are the flights definitely bookable already?
- Macca says:
  
  20 May20 May 10:24
  
  ITA is showing nothing in Eco or Prem Eco through the whole second half of July .
- Matt b says:
  
  20 May20 May 10:34
  
  July 2018? The LHR flights start next year.
  - Macca says:
    
    20 May20 May 11:07
    
    Oh!!! Hah! That’ll be why then. Totally missed the 2019 part, thanks Matt
KBuffett says:

20 May20 May 09:46

Rob, just out of interest, do you hold status with Virgin? I’m thinking of moving some spend over to them from BA.
- Rob says:
  
  20 May20 May 10:53
  
  No