Virgin really, really wants you to keep saving up those frequent flyer miles
By Laura June 
posted December 22nd 2008 10:02PM
posted December 22nd 2008 10:02PM
The ad above seems to be implying that we'll all soon be able to put our frequent flyer miles toward one of Virgin Galactic's super-expensive space tourist flights. Of course, it's pretty vague, and we're not going to get overly excited about it since we've barely ever saved up enough miles to get to Pittsburgh, but hey -- anything that encourages us to believe we can achieve goals previously reserved for Moby and Sigourney Weaver is fine with us.
[Thanks, Brian]
[Thanks, Brian]
Kudos, but still - I know, you said :p
People this is 100% an advert which only relates to Australia. Virgin Blue is Australian, Velocity rewards is also, and the picture is centered on Australia with flight paths all coming out of Australia. I kinda wonder where Engadget got the ad? It must have been Australia somewhere so why do they think it relates to anywhere else? Who knows.
Don't be dissin' on The 'Burgh!
I really doubt it has anything to do with virgin galactic...
It will be about the new virgin international carrier based in Australia called "VAustralia", which will operate on the sydney/melbourne/brisbane to los angeles/san franscisco route.
It is due to begin operation in February.
You're all wrong. This is an ad for Velocity Reward, the Frequent Flyer arm of Virgin (Australia, so Virgin Blue, Polynesian Blue, Pacific Blue and shortly, V Australia). There are numerous billboards up about winning 25 million frequent flyer points, with suggestions that you could spend them on a trip to space. Nothing has been confirmed it's "teaser" marketing, nothing more. This promotion is designed to lure people away from the new Qantas Frequent Flyer Credit Card programs (As they are about to stop allowing people to manually credit points to their program, and will force people to use credit cards that only "sweep" their points earned each month directly to the Qantas FF program, with no option to use them for anything but this). They are offering 1 million points per month "incentive" to swap from an existing "manual transfer" credit card to one of, what they call, their "direct earn" cards, all of which are crappy.
It's Typical Virgin style. "Let's try and beat Qantas with stupidly tacky advertising!". They do it to a "T".