Get a 20% bonus when you convert Amex Membership Rewards points to Virgin Flying Club

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• Frenske says:

  22 Feb22 February 07:19

  Oh please please please do Avios coversion bomus soon. I am getting towards the end of first year (fee free) of my MR membership.

  • Brian says:

    22 Feb22 February 08:27

    Avios has a promotion on at the moment – for every £5 of Clubcard vouchers you transfer to Avios, you get an entry into a competition….to win a 7 course meal cooked for you at your home by some chef or other. That, I guess, is our ‘conversion bonus’… :)))

  • John says:

    22 Feb22 February 10:23

    6 months of Gold fee is £62.50, which is 10000 avios at worst, so if there is any avios bonus in Dec 2014 then I would only need 50000 base MR to cover my fee, plus I can wait till then to refer my wife until then (hopefully no changes to signup and referral bonus – 31000 MR),

    May have to pay 1 month fee to get 7500 MR for spending £15k anyway, and 2-3 MR per £ of travel spending is pretty good (and they gave me some compo for screwing up the bonus MR anyway)

  • flieduk says:

    22 Feb22 February 16:11

    I think Avios know, if they read the comments on this blog, that they will get hammered as soon as they open up a CC to Avios bonus promo

• Nigel says:

  22 Feb22 February 08:06

  Hi
  I did a transfer on Thursday and was pleased to see the points appear within seconds on my Virgin Red account +surprised to see this 20% bonus which also appeared instantaneaously.

  At the same time I transfered points to BA exec which have only now appeared-2 days later.

  Can now cancel the Plat card 🙂

• Ian says:

  22 Feb22 February 11:50

  Is this better compared to transfer from SPG to Virgin?

  • Rob says:

    22 Feb22 February 13:09

    How long is a piece of string? An SPG point is worth more than an Amex point, but ONLY if you are going to redeem it in an SPG hotel. If you use Amex points for Virgin, you have more flexibility left because the SPG points go to 30 different airlines – but of course that may not be a feature you need. And Amex points can also be transferred to Carlson and Hilton, unlike SPG. All depends what other uses for each pile of points you have …..

    • Ian says:

      22 Feb22 February 13:19

      Thanks Raffles. My plan is to redeem on Virgin later in the year. And probably because I’ll cancel my Gold soon maybe this is the time to do the conversion…

• Elena says:

  22 Feb22 February 13:10

  Sorry a little of topic. I am looking to get the Black Virgin Credit card but I was wondering, is the Regus offer only for the main cardholder or a supplementary card can apply as well?

  Thanks

  • Ryan says:

    23 Feb23 February 10:07

    Main cardholder only

• Stephan says:

  22 Feb22 February 15:13

  When was the last avios bonus points offered by amex?

  • Rob says:

    22 Feb22 February 15:59

    Last Autumn, it had Carlson in it plus BA, Virgin and Etihad I think

• flieduk says:

  22 Feb22 February 16:07

  Hi,

  I have a BAPP Amex which I applied for when I lived in my old house in December. I have since moved house and wondered how likely I would be to get the Amex Plat at my new address. I don’t know if I am likely to get accepted or not living in a new house.

  My bank account and AMEX accounts have been transferred to my new address. I have also registered on electoral roll here/

  I don’t want to apply and get rejected if I am likely to get refused but likely to get accepted if I apply in a few months time. On the other hand, I am keen on getting the Cathay Pacific .

  TIA
  Flieduk

  • Neil says:

    22 Feb22 February 16:49

    I think you should be fine given your existing relationship with Amex. I’d have thought that short residency would only be an issue if you were approaching a new lender.

    The worst that would happen is that they say no and you have a search on your credit file – not a big deal really.

    If your motivation to to get the Cathay Gold card then you’ll want to apply in the next couple of weeks.

  • Rob says:

    22 Feb22 February 17:18

    You will be OK. The form asks for all previous addresses in the last 3 years and they do a check against those as well as your current address.

• flieduk says:

  22 Feb22 February 17:32

  Thanks Raffles. I was just under the impression that you were less likely to get accepted when you move house, even with past credit history (I can tell this from the MSE credit checker!)

  Thanks

• flieduk says:

  22 Feb22 February 17:55

  Bahh.. People on Flyertalk think to wait until Electoral roll is updated. How sure are you raffles? Kinda in a catch-22 here :/

  • Rob says:

    22 Feb22 February 18:21

    Upside of CX Gold if accepted outweighs minor inconvenience of a credit report ding if rejected!

  • ankomonkey says:

    22 Feb22 February 21:52

    I successfully got Virgin white cards 6 weeks after moving house, with no previous relationship with MBNA.

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