IainF
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- May 2, 2007
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Just booked our annual trip to USA at Xmas with VA in J for a wonderfully cheap price of $5700 all in each.
Actual routing is BNE-SYD-LAX stop, LAX-JFK stop, JFK-LAX stop, LAX-BNE.
We were pre -allocated the wonderful row 5 on the VA legs and are doing the internal legs on Virgin America J (F).
As the VA website cannot cope with international multicity/stop overs, I spent about 45 mins on the phone sorting this out and the lady on the other end was very helpful. She listened to my requests for exact flight numbers & offered changes when she could see we would save money.
She also did not charge the assisted booking fee.
The only down side that i can see at the moment is lounge access in LAX, but I am to live with that for the price.
As a comparison, QF wanted $6900 (sale price) and Air NZ $$6100.
We have booked the Doubletree suites in Times Square on HHonours points for 4 nights over New Years eve, saving us $700 a NIGHT !
In LAX we have stayed at the London Hotel in West Hollywood previously and I am pretty sure we will stay there again.
I have never flown Virgin America, but by all reports, they seem better than the legacy carriers.
On our return to the West coast, we are using Virgin America to hop up to San Francisco for 5 days to meet with some friends in Nappa Valley.
This trip will put our combined Velocity Status credit balance at least 6500 for the year for the two of us.
Actual routing is BNE-SYD-LAX stop, LAX-JFK stop, JFK-LAX stop, LAX-BNE.
We were pre -allocated the wonderful row 5 on the VA legs and are doing the internal legs on Virgin America J (F).
As the VA website cannot cope with international multicity/stop overs, I spent about 45 mins on the phone sorting this out and the lady on the other end was very helpful. She listened to my requests for exact flight numbers & offered changes when she could see we would save money.
She also did not charge the assisted booking fee.
The only down side that i can see at the moment is lounge access in LAX, but I am to live with that for the price.
As a comparison, QF wanted $6900 (sale price) and Air NZ $$6100.
We have booked the Doubletree suites in Times Square on HHonours points for 4 nights over New Years eve, saving us $700 a NIGHT !
In LAX we have stayed at the London Hotel in West Hollywood previously and I am pretty sure we will stay there again.
I have never flown Virgin America, but by all reports, they seem better than the legacy carriers.
On our return to the West coast, we are using Virgin America to hop up to San Francisco for 5 days to meet with some friends in Nappa Valley.
This trip will put our combined Velocity Status credit balance at least 6500 for the year for the two of us.
