Will Virgin Galactic Offer Flights Redeemable With Frequent Flyer Points?
Tipster Brian Houston over at Videosift.com received an email from Virgin’s Velocity rewards program with the above image attached. He reckons it’s hinting at the ability to redeem your Velocity frequent flyer points for a seat on their Virgin Galactic flights. I reckon he’s probably right. Obviously we’ll have to wait for February to come around before we know for certain, but if it is the case, expect to pay an absolute crapload of frequent flyer points for the privilege. In fact, if you don’t already fly Virgin everywhere, and have a Velocity rewards credit card for all your expenses, I’d say you probably won’t ever earn enough points to redeem a Galactic flight. In any case, we’ll see what Virgin have to say come February…
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I highly doubt that’s the case. Why would they build up anticipation for something none of us will be able to achieve?
If it were the case, we’d all wait until February, just to be disappointed. Bad PR.
My guess is that they’ll be releasing more direct earn cards, other than the NAB Velocity card, and they will have better earning capabilities. I certainly hope that’s the case too; I’m two thirds of the way to redeeming a return trip to LA.
They’ve revealed a bit more information. 25million velocity points are up for grabs, and there’s the chance of someone winning a trip on Virgin Galactic.
There’s also a poor attempt and getting people to talk about it on blogs, facebook, youtube, etc.
http://www.velocityrewards.com.au/content/AboutTheProgram/LatestNews/Waitforanofferthatsoutofthisworld/index.htm