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Save 25% on Virgin Atlantic flight redemptions in all cabins

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If all went to plan overnight, all Virgin Atlantic flight redemptions should be showing with a 25% points discount this morning.

Here are the key details:

  • You need to book by 17th September
  • You must fly by 31st December. If your outbound is before this but your return is later, only the outbound flignt will be discounted.
  • Only flights operated by Virgin Atlantic are included. No codeshares and no SkyTeam or other partner flights are reduced.
  • Taxes and charges are NOT reduced
  • All cabins are included

We tend to see a version of this offer every autumn. With cash flights to the US, Virgin Atlantic’s main market, dropping sharply over the colder months, a promotion like this is the only make to make redemptions look attractive.

Even with 25% off, however, you should check cash alternatives carefully.

The sweet spot is probably flights to Dubai, the Maldives and the Caribbean, which are also reduced by 25% even though we are heading into their peak season.

You can check out availability and taxes / charges on the Virgin Atlantic website here.


How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (November 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

30,000 bonus points (TO 18 NOVEMBER) 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 – 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.

The Platinum Card from American Express

Huge 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

(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 (45)

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  • e14 says:

    Oslo to Dubai on AY should come in around £978

  • riku says:

    The Finnair site is a bit economical with the truth
    >> Enjoy ample space … and priority services like lounge access and complimentary internet access<<
    The cheapest fares are business light where there is no lounge access and no complementary internet. Even the more expensive fares only include 1h internet. You get better internet on the short haul planes (free messaging for all passengers for the whole flight) than on the long haul planes – which is probably the reverse of what people need most.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      And the Finnair website makes that clear when presenting you with the various pricing options and whats included (or not). They are very open about it.

      And even if you chose the lowest fare then OW benefits kick in for lounge access, seat selection and even luggage.

      • BJ says:

        With the cost of reserbing seats the more ecpensive fares can make sense, especially if we have a hood reason to bank 300% miles on Alaska MP. For example, such miles were going a long way to paying my JAL flight from Japan to BKK which were over £1k revenue fares.

  • Priya says:

    I am unable to see a 25% discount on Virgin Atlantic. Can you please help me with the same?

  • Osher says:

    Premium and upper class are also included

    • Rob says:

      They aren’t meant to be …..

      • as02 says:

        It does say on the website that it’s for all cabins. The offer header also doesn’t mention Economy anywhere.
        So maybe something worth correcting in the post?

      • Gill says:

        Just booked upper with the discount

      • Robin N says:

        I don’t think they are – but there is an odd discount. The usual off peak premium return from Delhi which is usually 35k points is showing as 33.6k points. Economy is showing with 25% discount

      • Bumblebee says:

        It says on Istagram it’s all seats until Dec.

        • Rob says:

          I agree the website says it and it works! Just saying that the document we were sent last week says in about 10 places it is economy only!

      • BJ says:

        Will be beat anyway in 6-8 weeks for Black Friday if history repeats itself.

    • CamFlyer says:

      It also looks like the VS portion of connecting itineraries (eg, LHR-JFK-xxx, VS/DL) on partners is also discounted.

  • Tiberius says:

    Riyadh is on sale too – ridiculous cash price of £1600 for 2 in economy when Saudia and Etihad is £1050 for same dates.

  • Matt says:

    You can already book Oman air with Avios through qatars site. I can see lots of availability in economy LHR – MCT but no business.

  • Alison says:

    I’m a fan of starting a long trip to Asia/Australia from Scandinavia for the price advantage as well as opportunity to visit a city I might not otherwise visit. I can highly recommend an overnight stay in Oslo at the Amerikalingen Hotel. Its one of the nicest boutique hotels anywhere and just across from the Central station about 40 mins from OSL. A short walk from the Munch museum too.

    • daftboy says:

      Seconding this – Oslo is a great start point for this reason, easy trip into the city centre on the fast and frequent Airport Train, Amerikalinjen is a great hotel steps away from the station and the city centre is really compact so it’s easy to enjoy before a flight, even if you only have a morning to explore

    • L Allen says:

      +1 for a weekend in Oslo ahead of a trip. The Thief hotel is fantastic and also just a short walk from the train station. They give you free tickets to the local art gallery / museum which has some very interesting exhibitions.

      • flyoff says:

        I don’t know if we were unlucky but we were caught in chaos when flying back to Oslo with Qatar. Ethiopian and Emirates had arrived before us and immigration could not cope. It took us over 1 1/2 hours to get through as UK passports can’t be used at the automatic passport machines and with such a long queue back into the gate area a lot of people were pushing in to the queue. It was chaos and there was no queue management until the queue snaked around the immigration area. When we spoke to immigration they said it was often like that and there were no plans to upgrade the tiny immigration area. Many people missed connecting flights but fortunately we had allowed a long connection time. After getting back to LHR I was surprised that Norweigans get access to the automated passport gates and they do not reciprocate. I used to tarvel to Oslo for work and I agree it is a nice City but I vowed I wouldn’t return after the chaotic airport.

        • conspicuous-capybara says:

          The UK also lets Americans use the e-gates, the reverse experience isn’t exactly what you’d call reciprocal.

        • Alison says:

          I have used OSL a couple of times en route to/from Bali and/or Perth with Qatar . Coming back last time to connect to BA for onward LHR flight I had the same issue with passport control but the ground staff were super helpful and let us join an empty queue. What’s more they all had a sense of humour 🙂

  • Steven says:

    Re the tip on how to search from different departure points on the Finnair website, is there a similar hack for the British Airways website? E.g. when searching up BA flight sales/holidays, it shows all the prices departing from LHR but is there a way to see all the prices/options when departing from another UK airport? Thanks.

    • Richie says:

      Try Inverness, I think the APD is lower.

      • Steven says:

        Thanks Richie, I was wondering if there was a way to physically do it with the British Airways website? So if you did say want to depart from Inverness, is there a way you can see all the sales/holiday destinations from Inverness on the one screen rather than have to input each one individually?

        • Richie says:

          When you have found your bargain from LHR, then do a simple search for the same from INV, MAN, EDI etc.

          • Kpworldtravels says:

            If you do multi city you can start in INV and on the return just book up to LHR. Costs slightly more than INV return tickets.. but I prefer this option

      • BJ says:

        Not quite lowet, even better – it’s nonexistent.

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