Use Virgin Flying Club miles for Clubhouse lounge spa treatments – and no more free haircuts

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• thehornets says:

  28 Aug28 August 07:43

  Rob…the free men’s haircut was dropped in the first few days of January this year.

  • Rob says:

    28 Aug28 August 10:41

    Thanks.

• KenJohn says:

  28 Aug28 August 07:53

  I paid £10 for a haircut in June. No queues and got a free slot fairly quickly. I was desperate (too busy at work) and was happy with the results. It is a convinence not a benefit.

• Crafty says:

  28 Aug28 August 08:05

  What will they do if you tell them you identify as female?

  I find these gender-specific rules / exclusions borderline offensive in a supposedly liberal and enlightened country.

  • John says:

    28 Aug28 August 08:29

    Or what if you pass as a man, but want a female hairstyle?

  • Andrew says:

    28 Aug28 August 08:50

    Are they chromosone specific, or are they presentation specific?

  • Brian says:

    28 Aug28 August 12:39

    At least the beard trim isn’t gender-specific….

• ChrisC says:

  28 Aug28 August 09:32

  There will be some people who have a small balance of miles and this will be a good way of using them up rather than have them expire.

  It’s an option that can now be suggested to people who ask how they can use a few k miles.

  Looking at my balance after booking a UC redemption I’ll have enough to book a one way car and pay for an extra treatment because it’s unlikey I’ll ever earn enough VS miles in the future to get enough miles for another reward.

  Best value for the miles in some peoples books? certainly not but for me it’s a practical use for them.

  • Neil Spellings says:

    28 Aug28 August 09:38

    I think we’ll see more low value redemptions like these in the new Virgin loyalty scheme that launches next year, especially if FC miles become the universal reward currency across all Virgin brands, you’ll have hundreds of thousands of Virgin mobile/Media/Trains customers sitting on a handful of miles looking for ways of spending them.

    • ChrisC says:

      28 Aug28 August 11:26

      Indeed. But to use them in the ClubHouse you need to be flying Upper so the number of people using them for treatments will be low

• Catalan says:

  28 Aug28 August 12:54

  I feel Delta and their passengers have caused this due to their sheer numbers. The Clublounge should have remained exclusively for the benefit of Virgin Atlantic customers. But I guess if your major shareholder says jump you say how high!

  • Graham Walsh says:

    28 Aug28 August 17:53

    Also when your major shareholder under cuts a PE flight by £300 on the same VS metal, why would people boom with VS directly. I even questioned it on the chat and their comment was sorry it’s a 3rd party offering it at their chosen price.

• Alex W says:

  28 Aug28 August 16:10

  These 0.5p redemptions look like the shape of things to come. I can only hope that there are plenty of miles rich / value agnostic people out there who will use these redemptions and save the high value flight awards for us.

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