News: win flights in Virgin’s live aviation quiz, £16 Europcar discount

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• Chas says:

  16 Mar16 March 05:50

  Error: first paragraph says 25 May, whilst the third says 25 March.

  • Wally1976 says:

    16 Mar16 March 07:40

    I read the first paragraph, thought “that’s months away, I’ll have a look nearer the time” and didn’t read any further!

    • Chas says:

      16 Mar16 March 07:49

      I nearly did the same. It’s been corrected now.

• Beardless Hipster says:

  16 Mar16 March 05:52

  Iberia is selling gift cards with 25% off
  https://www.iberia.com/gift-card/

  • Jonathan says:

    16 Mar16 March 08:27

    Discussed the other day & consensus was don’t touch with a barge pole unless you have an immediate use. Iberia CS are awful to deal with so any flight cancellations/changes would be a real headache.

    • xcalx says:

      16 Mar16 March 08:56

      Not the case for our 6 cancelled flights in the last 12 months. All Avios and cash back within 10 days.

      • Jonathan says:

        16 Mar16 March 11:18

        A straight refund fair enough but if you want a reroute, reschedule etc then good luck. BA aren’t brilliant either but at least it’s relatively easy to MCOL them.

        The gift cards also don’t work with Avios redemptions which is pretty much the only reason to favour IB.

    • Rob says:

      16 Mar16 March 09:01

      Agreed. We’re not covering this.

• Lee says:

  16 Mar16 March 05:55

  The 15,000 points to switch is not on my Virgin Red app.

  • Karl says:

    16 Mar16 March 06:29

    Think this offer finished yesterday.

    • Rob Collins says:

      16 Mar16 March 07:20

      This will be the current account that I’ve still not been able to open despite applying on 16th February. Their customer service is appalling. Yes, the 15,000 offer finished yesterday.

  • Patrick Cold says:

    16 Mar16 March 08:46

    A fortunate escape for you. The whole set up is a shambles.

    • mr_jetlag says:

      16 Mar16 March 19:40

      same here, jokers lost my application, guess I’m sticking to Barclays

  • Sam says:

    16 Mar16 March 10:29

    Worked perfectly here. Points delivered much faster than expected

    • Adam says:

      16 Mar16 March 12:02

      Same here although I opened up before Christmas when they were offering 15 bottles of wine.

• Alex W says:

  16 Mar16 March 07:22

  15,000 miles (plus £265 fees) still looks poor value when Virgin are advertising cash flights to NYC for £340 return.

  • Andrew says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:41

    Aren’t the £340 fares Economy Light?

    15,000 miles (plus £265) is for Economy Classic (choose seats and get hold luggage).

    £340+90 (usual EC premium over EL)=£430.
    15,000 points = (£430-£265) £165.

    So 1.1p per point. Not a bad redemption.

    • Andrew says:

      16 Mar16 March 09:59

      Not sure how I manage it, but there must something I’m doing that creates a wordpress table inside the comments boxes.

    • JPa says:

      16 Mar16 March 10:14

      The cash flight would also earn 3,457 miles for a discounted fare class in EC, more if it wasn’t but assuming all are discount fare class at the moment.

  • lumma says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:44

    Not too bad if you got the 15,000 miles for free for opening the current account (they pretty much are free in this instance as there’s nothing stopping you opening another account for another sign-up bonus).

    I suppose you could take the wine instead, but I also have doubts over the advertised value of that. Virgin Wines are my least favourite of these online wine cluba

• Stephen Milward says:

  16 Mar16 March 08:11

  I also couldn’t open a Virgin current account due to ‘an error’ with my personal details.
  Customer Service less than useless and 15000 miles offer did end yesterday.

  • Andrew says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:43

    If Customer Service won’t tell you what the “error” is, just do a subject access request.

    • JPa says:

      16 Mar16 March 10:18

      I got there in the end for mine and my wifes accounts. My one I already had an old YB profile that it didn’t like the number beginning with 44, even though it had just sent me a text message as part of the login process. They changed it on the phone to 0. My wife’s got an unspecified error and worked the second time I started again. My one I probably submitted 6 times before it decided to actually complete the application and open the account! At least you can pull up you pending application and don’t need to start again. Now I am just waiting for them to tell me I can only have the wine and not the points!

      • Sandgrounder says:

        16 Mar16 March 17:03

        I switched on Friday and got the 15k today. The process wasn’t too bad, a technical problem that stopped my application going through online was resolved in one call, although I was given some incorrect advice about needing to call to switch after the opening process was complete and wasted some time doing so. I’ll probably keep it for the 2% on the £1k and see if any regular earning opportunities are introduced.

  • Callum says:

    16 Mar16 March 10:33

    Mine was rejected because of “something on your credit report we can’t discuss” – despite already having 2 Virgin credit cards (which regularly get balance transfer offers).

    • mr_jetlag says:

      16 Mar16 March 19:42

      yes total shambles and not worth any more of my time. I’ll just have to get those 15k miles the roundabout way.

• IanM says:

  16 Mar16 March 08:24

  There’s only one prize for the quiz? Seems pretty pointless

  • ChrisC says:

    16 Mar16 March 08:52

    “A range of prizes are up for grabs …”

  • kitten says:

    16 Mar16 March 09:57

    So, Rhys….What’s your fee for acting as a ‘consultant’ on the quiz ?

    • Rhys says:

      16 Mar16 March 10:04

      Two return Upper Class flights!

• Alex says:

  16 Mar16 March 10:07

  Or you could make Rhys take part(and win) and then do a giveaway or raffle on HFP for £5 so you still earn for charity!😉😂

• ChrisC says:

  16 Mar16 March 10:26

  I think Rhys should enter and and try and defend his crown.

  Then await the complaints that it’s a fix as writer for a blog that promote Virgin won …

  • Rob says:

    16 Mar16 March 13:45

    May be the same questions!

    • Rhys says:

      16 Mar16 March 13:49

      I don’t think they are!

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