Points Usage Dilemma: QF A380 Biz Class or Virgin Atlantic Upper Class?

[AviationNZ]

Guys, found this thread happening at FT.... seems like there are serious availability issues atm on VA (esp compared to QF and most other airlines at the moment with quite alot of inventory available), have a read:

No award seats SYD-HKG until Aug 2010 !!?? - FlyerTalk Forums

Apparantly zero award seats, (all classes) for 10 months syd/hk

hmmmmmm

I'm bouncing between FC and Krisflyer for my amex points and both seem to be having major issues! Starting to wish I dumped them in QFF!!

Hopefully it is just a software issue as one of the members suggested, and will be fixed shortly. I've used them a few times in the past and found it to be pretty good, so I'll be pretty annoyed if this is a sign of the future with VS.

It seems to me that more and more airlines are making it harder to redeem points bookings :evil:

 

[pauly7]

Hopefully it is just a software issue as one of the members suggested, and will be fixed shortly. I've used them a few times in the past and found it to be pretty good, so I'll be pretty annoyed if this is a sign of the future with VS.

It seems to me that more and more airlines are making it harder to redeem points bookings :evil:

Yes, but this is ridiculous - nothing for 10 months.

I rang up as well, because Amex have a 20% bonus transfer to VS atm but I don't want to transfer my points and have them trapped there!

The VA call centre was pretty hopeless, they confirmed zero availability after tapping around for a while, they said it was strange since they had a look at loads (paying) and they were quite low as well. I asked them to lodge a query/complaint but they didn't sound very interested... grrrr!

EDIT: Could they be quitting the route?