Dom Davis (The Blog)

So we’re going to Barbodos Well, we’ve booked a hotel in Barbados. We’ve still got to book the flights. I’m hanging fire on that because it’s going to require talking to a booking agent. Not for us the basic going onto the website, putting in of the details and the paying of the cash, oh no. Here’s what I’d like to happen:

• I have 21,000 odd Virgin Atlantic airmiles. My wife has 9,000 odd. I work for Virgin Group. What I hope can happen is the following:
• I gift 11,000 airmiles to my wife for £180.
• I book two (2) economy flights with a 30% discount for being a Virgin Group employee.
• I spend 40,000 points (20,000 per account) to upgrade the economy seats to premium economy.

Here’s what I suspect will happen:

• I will not be allowed to upgrade the flights because it’ll need to be on a qualifying flight and the flight isn’t qualifying.
• and/or I wont be able to use my Virgin group discount in conjunction with airmiles.
• and/or The Virgin Group discount will need to be on a qualifying flight and the flight isn’t qualifying.

Regardless, I should be able, at the very minimum, do miles + money for both of us and/or get the Virgin Group discount, so I wont be paying full price even if we do have to go pleb class.

I also need to work out what to do with all the leftover points if I can’t spend the vast majority of them on this trip as they expire. Anyway, I’ll know more once I’ve phoned them