dougzz99

I think Amex have put a stop to very many card churners. I myself have struggled to refer or get new cards in last 12 months but spent 15 years churning.

Ed

Can you explain further, seems must have been something most unusual

Estelle

No, that’s not what it says.

Chris

Actually I did have both cards a few years ago specifically for this and I did get the double bonus, but I think it was an initial offer voucher (not the ongoing one) and they may have changed the rules now

Mike

Yes

Try using points from the card and the voucher for an upper class return to JFK. This needs 35k points and £1k in fees. You’ll miss out 10k points as you’re on a redemption, so really you’re 45k points, and just under £1.2k out of pocket (including card fee). You’ll spend £30k on the card to earn these points.

On the other hand, a VS cash ticket is £1.6k. The net saving is therefore £400 on £30k of credit card spend, i.e. 1.3%. It’s not bad, but I do better on Amex.

Gareth Morgan

No

Chris

No

Ian

Have you actually been charged on barclaycard, or just been told you would be? I’ve never been charged for Gib pounds on any card over the years.

Dylan

+1

Harrier25

The Gibraltar Pound does not actually exist.
Sure an ISO currency code exists, GIP, but that does not mean the currency actually exists.

The Gibraltar Government issued notes and coins are GBP, just a different issuer, a bit like notes issued by commercial banks in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

GIP simply does not exist. Challenge anyone saying otherwise.

Daisy

I double checked my statements again today and I did the spend. And yes they told me to call VMoney who told me to call V Atlantic. Thank you Daisy, I need to start the never ending phone calls now.

Traumahawk007

Exactly. These customer service representatives don’t have a clue!

Can

I’ve had the exact same problem. I went through all of CC statements from my reward date and wrote down all the amounts I had paid on the card and totalled them up. My card year starts June but I had spent 20 k at the end of Feb. After two phone calls taking down the second persons name I spoke to, the voucher hit my account today. You need to phone flying club and not VM. Flying might tell you to phone VM, but VM will tell you to phone flying club. Apparently VM send FC a list every month of what your spend is. I too pay my card off as I go along rather than month end. It took 7 weeks for the voucher to show on my account.

Ian

Interesting I wasn’t charged when using my Virgin card in GIB duty free & was charged in GBP

Tarmohamed

Tel Aviv is an interesting one… I’d lean towards JFK, let’s see what I can find. Thanks both.

Rob

I dont like the logic or the complexities. It would be much better if they just gave an extra reward instead

Ian

I got an answer to this from the credit card team, yes they will charge me a non-sterling transaction fee for making purchases in Gibraltar Pound Sterling! Guess I won’t be applying for a new card then.

Chris M

They did send out emails to the fee free card holders a few years back after spending 10k to switch up to the fee card without needing to cancel & wait 6 months. I did this but my fee free card never switched so ended up making an official complaint which went in my favour. Case handler credited my account over 100k points and £200 compo. I done this for two consecutive years then had enough.

Rob

The flight times are awful for those routes…

LHR-JFK is a heavily competitive route, and there’s plenty of flights at just about any hour of the day, which makes it easy enough to pick up a cheap flight

Rob

Yes, I am looking at the V Atlantic statement. I don’t even have the V Red app. As I said, I called they confirmed it is not there.

Can

I got my current one despite making midcycle payments so I doubt that’s the issue.

You’re looking on your virginatlantic.com statement? I don’t see anything in the Virgin Red account page about my voucher (although I know some people do) – I only see it on the account statement page on the airline site.