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BMI and Virgin Atlantic partnership to end on 31st August

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We finally have a date.  

31st August is the last day for Virgin Atlantic Flying Club members to redeem or earn Virgin miles on BMI flights.

I assume this is reciprocal, so that 31st August will also be the last day to redeem BMI miles for Virgin Atlantic flights. This is still to be confirmed, though.


How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (April 2024)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, the Reward+ card has a bonus of 15,000 Virgin Points):

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

A generous earning rate for a free card at 0.75 points per £1 Read our full review

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for a year and comes with 20,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 20,000 Virgin Points.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 40,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 40,000 Virgin Points.

The Platinum Card from American Express

40,000 bonus points and a huge range of valuable benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Small business owners should consider the two American Express Business cards. Points convert at 1:1 into Virgin Points.

American Express Business Platinum

40,000 points sign-up bonus and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points

(Want to earn more Virgin Points?  Click here to see our recent articles on Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club and click here for our home page with the latest news on earning and spending other airline and hotel points.)

Comments (3)

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  • Jason says:

    No need to apologise Raffles. These updates are great and save me trawling through endless drivel on FT. Your site is brilliant so thank you.

  • Roger says:

    From the VS link: ‘For new reward bookings please contact your local Flying Club helpline to check availability. Travel must be completed on or before 31 August 2012.’

    Even redemptions must be flown by 31/08/2012! A-a-a-argh!

    If that’s the same in reverse – using BD miles for VS flights – that’s upset my notional 2013 plan.

  • uphaar says:

    No need to apologize. I love them, keep ’em coming! FT is great but it’s a bit of work to extract the UK-specific stuff out 🙂

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