Purchase Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Points with a 70% Bonus

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tl;dr—Virgin Atlantic just launched its first points sales of 2025 and the airline is offering a bonus of up to 70% when you purchase miles. If you’ve identified a good redemption using Flying Club points, this might be a good deal for you.

Through March 7, 2025, you’ll receive a bonus of up to 70% on your purchase of Virgin Atlantic Flying Club points. This could be a decent opportunity to up your Flying Club balance for a savvy redemption.

It’s worth mentioning that Virgin Atlantic is seemingly always selling miles. The airline offers near-monthly promotions to purchase miles throughout the year, so if you aren’t a buyer here you’ll likely have many more opportunities to do so in the coming months. Over the last few years, the steady offer we’ve seen to purchase Flying Club points miles has been with a 70% bonus, so this current offer is right at that same mark.

Key Terms to Know

Virgin Atlantic points sale - Source: virginatlantic.com — Virgin Atlantic points sale – Source: virginatlantic.com

You must purchase between February 5th, 2025 and March 7th, 2025 (23:59 GMT) to receive up to 70% bonus points.
A member can purchase or gift points in increments of 1,000, subject to an overall limit of 200,000 points in each calendar year.
The bonus associated with your points purchase is structured as follows:
- Buy < 5,000 points: No Bonus
- Buy 5,000 – 24,000 points: 20% Bonus
- Buy 25,000 – 69,000 points: 40% Bonus
- Buy 70,000 – 124,000 points: 60% Bonus
- Buy 125,000 – 200,000 points: 70% Bonus
Every purchase comes with a one-off £15 / $22 transaction fee. It costs £15/$25 for every 1,000 base points purchased. For example, if a member buys or gifts 1,000 base points they will pay £30/$47, if they buy or gift 5,000 base points they will pay £90/$147 and if they buy or gift 10,000 base points they will pay £165/$272.
Members will have the right to cancel any purchases of points for up to 14 days after the date of purchase provided that none of the purchased points have been redeemed. If any of the purchased points have been redeemed, the member will not be entitled to a refund for any of the purchased points including those that have not been redeemed. Once the 14 day cooling off period has expired any points purchased and received by members are non-refundable and non-transferable, except as expressly permitted under the Flying Club terms and conditions.

How Do You Purchase Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Points?

Purchasing Flying Club Points is simple:

Visit virginatlantic.com and click on ‘Flying Club’.

Simply visit this link and and Login.

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2. Once logged in, scroll down to find the menu show below (it’ll be on the left side of the page) and select ‘Buy points’.

On the next page, you can select how many miles you’d like to purchase from the dropdown menus and follow the prompts to complete your transaction.

If you purchased the maximum amount of points during this sale, you’d net 340,000 Virgin Atlantic points at a cost of $5000.

Pro-tip: You might find luck using a VPN, setting your location to somewhere in the UK and then going through this flow as it’s been reported that the cost to purchase miles is cheaper in pounds.

What are Some Good Uses of Virgin Atlantic Points?

Oftentimes you’ll find the best redemption deals come from using the loyalty currency of one airline to redeem for a flight on another airline. For example, one might redeem Flying Club Points to fly with a partner airline, say Delta Airlines, as they are members of the same airline alliance – Skyteam. Airlines also strike one-off partnerships with others airlines, even if they aren’t part of the same alliance, thus enabling members to earn and redeem miles when flying each respective program. This is a key concept for playing the points and miles game and I touch upon this briefly in this Introduction to Points and Miles – A Primer post.

The Flying Club loyalty program is a favorite among points and miles enthusiasts due to the good availability of premium cabin partner awards seating, reasonable redemption costs, and frequent points sales. There are some solid redemption options within Flying Club.

For example, for just 60,000 Flying Club points (one way) you can fly in style – business class – between the Japan and the U.S. on All Nippon Airways.