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It’s back! Virgin Atlantic is repeating its biggest ever deal for buying Virgin Points!

This offer runs until 7th March.

If you are short of points for your next redemption, then now is a good time to top up as this matches the highest bonus offers we have ever seen from Virgin Atlantic.

Get up to a 70% bonus buying Virgin Points!

The bonus depends on how many points you buy:

  • 5,000 to 24,000 points – 20% bonus
  • 25,000 to 69,000 points – 40% bonus
  • 70,000 to 124,000 points – 60% bonus
  • 125,000 to 200,000 points – 70% bonus

The maximum number of points you can buy is 200,000. Since the beginning of 2025, this is the new, permanent maximum you can buy in a calendar year.

It cost £15 per 1,000 points, with the bonus added on top.

At the top end, 200,000 Virgin Points, which comes to 340,000 points with the 70% bonus, will cost you £3,000.  This works out at 0.88p each.

0.88p is exceptionally cheap for a direct miles purchase. Most Virgin Atlantic commercial partners will be paying the airline more than 0.88p for their miles. That said, as always, we don’t recommend buying speculatively.

Bonus points are credited at the time of purchase and will appear on members’ accounts within 24 hours, so are a good way of grabbing points quickly if you spot an attractive reward flight.

Get up to a 70% bonus buying Virgin Points!

Virgin Atlantic are a member of the SkyTeam airline alliance. This allows redemptions across partners such as Aeromexico, Air France, China Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Garuda Indonesia, KLM, Korean Air, SAS and Vietnam Airlines.  This article from our ‘Virgin Redemption University’ series explains what it costs to redeem Virgin Points on SkyTeam partners.

Points can be bought (or gifted) in increments of 1,000 and there is a one-off £15 charge per transaction (regardless of size). You won’t be able to buy points if your current points balance is zero.

The link to buy points is here.

The 70% bonus offer runs to 7th March.

Comments (36)

  • Hardy says:

    Bought 4 UC return to Delhi for 252k miles + 2.2k taxes helped by the £250 refund on Amex. The saver flights do exist but its somewhat tough now.

  • Aardvark says:

    I use Virgin for a Capetown return (2 adults) – Premium out and Upper Class back. It still much cheaper to do the companion voucher, boost the previous flight and buy some points at this discounted rate as compared to a prem eco return cash price. So it still is a no brainer!

  • Charlie says:

    I definitely can see good value in Virgin points, but won’t be buying. Simply because points.com offered 70% for nearly a month in December 2023, again in March 2024, a week in July 2024, another month in October 2024, and again for a month now in February 2025. I’ll wait for the next 70% off in summer or autumn 2025 when my current stash has gone. 70% may even increase to 100% then depending on metrics post-devaluation. Who knows?

  • Mark says:

    Quick question? as they are now offering up to 70% on gifting. Is it possible for a family member to buy with the 70% uplift, then get extra uplift to transfer to me?

    • Rob says:

      No. You are not gifting existing points, you are buying new points which are given as a gift from you to someone else.

      • Mark says:

        Thanks for the clarification, ive never looked at the gifting before. Just looking for loop holes lol

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