Update: DEAD!
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-Earn 5 points per dollar on the AMEX Platinum Card or 3 points per dollar on airfare with the AMEX Premier Rewards Gold Card or the AMEX Business Gold Rewards Card.
-Earn 3 points per dollar and get $300 in airfare automatically refunded every calendar year with Chase Sapphire Reserve®.
–Bookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until 11:29pm EST tomorrow. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.
-Limited seats are available on each date. Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work your way up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.
-All fares below are for nonstop flights.
American: JFK to Los Angeles valid dates:
January 11, 18, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31
February 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
American: Los Angeles to JFK valid dates:
January 24, 31
February 14
Virgin America: JFK to Los Angeles valid dates:
December 14, 15
January 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
February 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Virgin America: Los Angeles to JFK valid dates:
January 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
February 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
These fares are not on sale with American miles, but you can pay for the ticket with “hybrid points” if you have AMEX or Chase points and a Business Platinum or Sapphire Reserve card.
Using AMEX points:
If you have The Enhanced Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN you can get a 50% rebate on the airline of your choice.
The 50% rebate says it will take 6-10 weeks, but people are reporting receiving the rebate in just 2 days!
You can login to your account and redeem AMEX points for travel here.
A $114.10 flight will be 11,410 points and you would get a 50% rebate making the effective cost just 5,705 points, a value of 2 cents per point:
Using Chase points:
If you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve® card you can redeem points for 1.5 cents each towards travel. The card comes with 100,000 signup points and $600 in travel spending in your first cardmembership year! A $114.10 flight will be 7,606 points. That includes all taxes and you still earn miles for flying!
You can login to your account and redeem Chase points for travel here.
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23 Comments On "American/Virgin: Fly Nonstop Between JFK And Los Angeles For $114 (Or 5.7K Hybrid Points) Each Way"
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I Like the Hybrid Points.
Thanks Dan!
5.7K Amex points or even fewer still Virgin America miles
@Dan I saw some dates in february with jetblue for the same price using the celebrate promo.
@high end hobo:
If you happen to have ’em.
@Michael kohan:
I wrote that yesterday, but that isn’t bookable with hybrid points.
9.3K round trip using Virgin A Miles
Even better deal than using Chase and Amex points.
You can also book the same fare directly from Virgin Airlines @ http://www.virginamerica.com You can also book the round trip & the same price will show. The total for the round trip is $228.60. Virgin unlike American has certain seats they don’t charge an extra fee for.
@Deal Guy:
See previous comments
@Eli:
Less time to cancel than on Priceline though.
By booking on websites other than the Airlines official site can be detrimental @ times as the airline is not responsible is something goes wrong etc.
@Eli:
Nonsense.
I thought Virgin America isn’t on the AMEX Airline choice list??
I just checked Priceline for those fares. If ordering from priceline you cannot pick your seat rather you can just pick if you want a window or Aisle seat etc. If people don’t have a confirmed seat in the rare case that they overbook people without assigned seats are the first to get bumped.
@Eli:
Do you make this up as you go along?
You can still pick a seat after you book direct with the airline.
@Deal Guy:
Actually probably still better to use Amex points so you wont have to pay $11.20 in Fees and you’ll earn ~1000 miles from the trip
Yes maybe you can book the seat directly with the Airline but that also means you have to spend time on the phone calling them to do so.
Doesn’t seem to work for the dates i entered 1/22-1/26
@Eli:
No, you can do it online.
@Daniel:
“Always search one-way for 1 seat and then work your way up to the number of seats you need in order to book as many seats on sale as you can.”
When u say always search for one seat one way even if the airline says only one left at this price?
@dave:
Grab the cheapest seat and then book more.
@high end hobo:
Most people have VA miles from the JB match.
A lot of people don’t have the Business Plat and I’d rather keep my MR points for having a more universal choice.
IMO, Virgin is a better value.
Update the cheap special Fare sale of $229 round Trip from NYC to LA with Virgin & American has ended & now its about $276 round trip.
You cannot select Virgin America as AMEX airline choice!!!
@Mistake:
Did you call and ask?
@Dan yes, multiple times! Ended up selecting American and got great tickets, so thank you!!