Virgin Atlantic releases award floodgates | Ep157 | 7-2-22
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Virgin Atlantic has promised to open up at least 12 award seats on every flight. This has led to unprecedented award availability. Here's how to make the most of it.
- 1:27 Giant Mailbag: How to log into hotel wi-fi with a Chromebook
- 4:44 3 Cards 3 Continents 3 Updates
- Stephen cashes out 50K Membership Rewards
- Greg exchanges 40K ThankYou points for 56K Avios
- Nick needs to cancel his first booking
- 14:59 Mattress Running the Numbers: Biltmore Arizona
- 18:35 Awards we booked this week (St Pancras, London)
- 23:07 Main Event: Virgin Atlantic releases award floodgates
- 45:53 Question of the week: Are Marriott SNAs worth anything anymore?
Mentioned in this episode:
Check out all of our other travel podcasts from around the world
This podcast is part of Voyascape, a podcast network that brings together the world's best travel podcasts. You can find all of our podcasts from around the world at Voyascape.com. If you are interested in advertising or sponsored content on any of our shows you can find out more at the link below.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at voyescape.com. |
| 0:10.7 | Let's get into the giant mailbag. |
| 0:13.5 | What crazy thing did City this week? |
| 0:17.5 | It's time for mattress running the numbers. |
| 0:19.8 | Ready for the main event? |
| 0:21.0 | The main event. |
| 0:22.3 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:26.6 | Today's main event, Virgin Atlantic releases award floodgates. |
| 0:32.0 | Let the bookings begin. |
| 0:35.2 | Indeed. |
| 0:37.1 | What first? Now, Virgin Atlantic had big news this week and we will get into the |
| 0:43.9 | details, but short version is that awards are wide open. So we'll get into how best to take |
| 0:51.3 | advantage of that. In the Miles. First of course. Your favor. |
| 1:02.2 | Nick's on vacation this week and is a little, you know, Yota-ish, I guess. |
| 1:02.5 | Right. |
| 1:03.3 | Right, right. |
| 1:06.8 | Yeah, I'm a little off time zone. |
| 1:10.2 | Lighting's a little rough if you're watching on YouTube because, you know, I'm making do with what I got. And, you know, 10 to 1, the battery pack that I just plugged into my |
| 1:15.1 | phone won't have enough charge to maintain the light on my face for the entire show. So we'll |
| 1:19.8 | see. So yeah. I mean, even as it is, Nick's looking a little bit like one of those, those videos |
| 1:25.4 | where someone is coming forward to reports |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Frequent Miler, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Frequent Miler and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.