Both Virgin Australia and London based carrier, Virgin Atlantic have today signed a new partnership which will enable passengers to easily and effortlessly travel from Australia to the United Kingdom or vice versa.
Basically the airlines have signed a codeshare agreement and what this does is basically make the travel more streamlined. In this case, if you’re flying from Australia to the United Kingdom, you can fly Virgin Australia to Hong Kong (or Los Angeles) and then easily connect onto a Virgin Atlantic flight onto London.
Virgin Atlantic & Virgin Australia
Here are the full list of benefits of the new codeshare partnership, courtesy of Virgin Australia,
- enabling guests to travel between Australia and London on Virgin flights, connecting through Los Angeles or Hong Kong;
- providing guests travelling from the UK with options for convenient connections to eight cities on Virgin Australia’s domestic network; Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney;
- expanding the customer offering to include new connections on Virgin Australia’s domestic network, being Adelaide-Sydney, Adelaide-Melbourne and Canberra- Melbourne;
- allowing guests to organise all flights, including the connecting flights, under the one booking, with a single check-in and baggage drop;
- allowing Virgin Atlantic Flying Club members to earn miles, and Virgin Australia’s Velocity Frequent Flyer members to earn Points and Status Credits when flying with either airline under the codeshare; and
- providing eligible members of the Frequent Flyer Program with full access to Virgin Australia Lounges and Virgin Atlantic Clubhouses.
Travel to Hong Kong on Virgin Australia then easily connect onto Virgin Atlantic onto London
This new partnership comes at a great time as next month, Virgin will commence their new Sydney – Hong Kong service which I’m sure will be a very popular flight which will fill very will. That flight will start off on June 2nd.
Overall I think this is a great agreement and will benefit passengers greatly who travel VA and their partners but also passengers who frequent the U.K.
What are your thoughts on the new codeshare agreement?
4 comments
Lets see how this will affiliation will pan out.
ok then let me put this scenario out there ..
Redemption flight ,… one-way LHR-HKG traveling on VS on their B789 in upperclass.
The VS Flying club redeemables are between 57,500-63,500 Flying club miles…
now my point is :
The fees and taxes and associated charges are a Whopping £365.41 for one-way
..Let’s see how VA-VS go , but after the VA-EY
“manifestly excessive” charges inflicted upon the points savvy
consumer , it’s a no go for premium travel on EY
P.S
** Welcome back and keep up the good work
Where have you been the last 3 months?!
I thought you had given up on this blog.
Thanks for this! Hadn’t seen it reported anywhere else and this makes a viable option to SQ via SIN.
Any knowledge regarding the option to transfer either Velocity points to VAFC or vice versa?
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