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If you’ve not tried Virgin Trains Ticketing yet, the Virgin Red-owned rail booking app, there is a generous incentive available.

You will receive 1,000 Virgin Points with your first booking of £5+.

1,000 Virgin Points are worth £5 off a future Virgin Trains Ticketing booking or can be used towards reward flights or any other Virgin Red redemption.

Get 1,000 Virgin Points with Virgin Trains Ticketing

This is how the deal works:

  • download the Virgin Trains Ticketing app
  • register or sign-in using your Virgin Red account details (you will need to install the Virgin Red app if you haven’t already, and link it to your Virgin Flying Club account)
  • make your first purchase (this offer is strictly for new Virgin Trains Ticketing customers) for £5+ with Virgin Trains Ticketing
  • you will receive a promo code during the checkout process for 1,000 Virgin Points which you need to redeem via the Virgin Red app

You can, as Virgin Red suggests, use the 1,000 points for £5 off your next train ticket, but in reality you are free to use them as you wish.

The offer runs to 1st September.

And double points for everyone!

Whether or not you are a new customer to Virgin Trains Ticketing, you will receive 6 Virgin Points for every £1 you spend in the app by 1st September.

Points should post within seven days of travel.

It’s worth noting that the Virgin Trains Ticketing app offers split ticketing, allowing you make additional savings if two separate tickets – instead of one direct ticket – would be cheaper. London Paddington to Bath Spa, for example, could be cheaper if booked as London Paddington to Reading and Reading to Bath Spa. The app will identify such anomalies automatically.

If you have a Virgin Atlantic credit card, you may also have a decent cashback offer for Virgin Trains Ticketing in your app. I know some people are seeing 9%, which would stack with these offers. I don’t see anything in my app but I have used a similar offer in the past which may disqualify me.

You can find out more about this offer in the Virgin Red app.

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How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (April 2025)

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.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 50,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 50,000 Virgin Points.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large 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

50,000 points when you sign-up 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. 

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Comments (26)

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  • Lumma says:
    6 Aug6 August 05:08

    I’m sure it’s possible to get closer to £5 but the last time they did this 1000 point offer, I booked Waterloo to Wimbledon for £5.60

    • Lumma says:
      6 Aug6 August 05:14

      If exactly £5 works, Newcastle to Durham on a Transpennine Express only anytime single would do it (there’s also lots of advance tickets on that route on other operators for slightly more than £5)

      • QFFlyer says:
        6 Aug6 August 12:48

        Can confirm it does, HUN-SNO anytime day single, got the code the second the payment was taken.

  • Matt says:
    6 Aug6 August 08:01

    Virgin trains – I have done a couple of comparisons on several routes and they are missing tons of train operators which means they come out a lot more expensive prices on the existing trains higher too….

  • drdan says:
    6 Aug6 August 08:02

    Check NatWest for 9% too…

  • Martin S says:
    6 Aug6 August 08:03

    They made the signup process quite convoluted, given that Virgin Train ticketting, Virgin Red and Virgin Atlantic are all separate apps

    So far I’ve been unable to link my Virgin Red with my Virgin Atlantic account. It fails at the end after keying in the verification code sent to my email. “Oops there was a problem” or similar. I’ll try again another day on a different machine.

  • Polly says:
    6 Aug6 August 08:17

    On RJ. Can’t get the title or country to fix. All l get is a ✔️ sign! Anyone else got this issue? All else filled ready to go…

  • Rob says:
    6 Aug6 August 09:08

    To be fair, they normally roll over although not guaranteed.

  • Andrew. says:
    6 Aug6 August 09:41

    8% on Barclaycard
    6% on Virgin Money
    5% on all my LBG

    It’s definitely a good perk for booking a low value fare, but as always got to keep an eye on the offers. LNER is generally the most reliable route for rebates with it being ubiquitous on most cards and stacks with Airtime.

    Always keep an eye on those Corporate Perks sites too. Have knabbed two £18 fares on Avanti from BHI to GLA recently, Northern have a 25% discount on their fares and TPX a 20% on their fares if you have the right partnerships.

  • LittleNick says:
    6 Aug6 August 11:08

    Shame there’s hardly anything worth spending Virgin points on to obtain outsize value. I can’t spend Virgin points on AF/KLM either as that’s been gone for weeks now, wanted to do an AF redemption but can’t. Bit Frustrating

    • BJ says:
      6 Aug6 August 12:43

      Why can you not do AF; are you aware that you need to call?

      • LittleNick says:
        6 Aug6 August 14:16

        It says on their site, they can’t do AF/KLM redemptions either online or their contact centres, is this wrong and can be done by phone?

    • Lumma says:
      6 Aug6 August 14:06

      I recently spent 18k +$5 on a Delta domestic that was selling for over $300 for cash. I’d consider that oversized value

      • LittleNick says:
        6 Aug6 August 14:17

        Yes that’s very good value, going to be a while before I need a US domestic though

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