Double Flying Club miles at American Express Currency Exchange
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Virgin Flying Club is currently offering double miles (2 miles per £1) when you exchange your foreign currency at Amex Currency Exchange at Heathrow, Edinburgh or Birmingham. You can also get double miles at Gatwick at Moneycorp.
You can read full details of the offer here. It ends on May 31st.
This offer is particular interesting when you remember that Amex Currency Exchange charges Amex-issued credit and charge cards as a purchase.
This means that – if you use a Platinum, Gold, Green, BA, Nectar, SPG, Costco etc Amex card to pre-order your currency – you will earn miles or points on your American Express card. It will also count as spending towards any sign-up bonus you are working towards.
(Unfortunately, this does NOT work with MBNA or Lloyds-issued American Express cards.)
If you are flying through Heathrow, you can actually triple dip:
Earn 1 Avios per £1 or 2 Flying Club miles per £1 when you pre-order via Amex Currency Exchange
Earn 1 BAA WorldPoint for every £10 you exchange (show your card at collection, but they never post so keep your receipt and email or post it to WorldPoints)
Earn miles or points on the Amex card you use to pay
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 18,000 Virgin Points and the free card has a bonus of 3,000 Virgin Points):
Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard
18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review
Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard
3,000 bonus points, no fee and 1 point for every £1 you spend 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.)
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