{"id":5427,"date":"2022-09-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:22:35","slug":"actions-to-take-with-virgin-america-joining-skyteam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/actions-to-take-with-virgin-america-joining-skyteam\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions to Take with Virgin Atlantic Joining SkyTeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn\u2019t heard before now (maybe you didn\u2019t read this post\u2019s title), <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/about-virgin\/latest\/virgin-atlantic-to-join-skyteam-alliance\">Virgin Atlantic announced yesterday that they\u2019re joining SkyTeam<\/a>. What that probably means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delta award availability will get better, but cost more (#bonvoyed)<\/li>\n<li>ANA, Singapore Airlines, and Air New Zealand award redemptions will go away since each of these airlines is in Star Alliance, a SkyTeam competitor<\/li>\n<li>Virgin Atlantic award availability will probably get better for SkyTeam partners<\/li>\n<li>The 50,000 Virgin Atlantic mileage redemption for Delta business class to and from Europe loophole will likely be closed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a result, I\u2019d do the following, and do it quickly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Book any ANA business class or first class round-trip awards to Japan and South Asia now, especially since <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.travelagentcentral.com\/asia\/japan-fully-reopen-october-11\">Japan is opening on October 11<\/a>. At 90,000-95,000 points round trip for business class, and 110,000-120,000 points round trip for first class, it\u2019s hard to find a better redemption in any program<\/li>\n<li>Book any Delta business class award tickets to and from Europe right away, again assuming that you can find availability<\/li>\n<li>Book any Air New Zealand awards to Australia and New Zealand right away, also assuming you can find any availability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t forget that <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/global.americanexpress.com\/rewards\/transfer\">American Express has a 30% transfer bonus for Membership Rewards to Virgin Atlantic<\/a> that runs through Friday. Good luck!<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5433\" sizes=\"(max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/virgin.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/virgin.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/virgin-234x300.jpeg 234w\" width=\"420\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Act fast on V05 too. Soon you\u2019ll lose access to use it a toothpaste and mouthwash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you hadn\u2019t heard before now (maybe you didn\u2019t read this post\u2019s title), Virgin Atlantic announced yesterday that they\u2019re joining SkyTeam. What that probably<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}