Get a 70% bonus when you buy Virgin Points – worth it?

Virgin Atlantic has brought back its biggest ever deal for buying Virgin Points.

This new 70% bonus offer runs until 23rd June. After that it will drop to 60% until 18th July.

If you are short of points for your next redemption, now is as good a time as any to top up. This deal matches the highest bonus offer we have seen.

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 costs £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.

Of course, since Virgin Atlantic adopted dynamic pricing for its rewards, it has become trickier to get value from Upper Class redemptions.

As our recent analysis shows, there are excellent deals to be had in Upper Class to Riyadh, Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai and Lagos. You can pay as little as 46,000 points + £578 return in Upper Class to Riyadh, with the calendar wide open at this rate.

For most other routes, you need to have flexibility in when you travel to get a good Upper Class deal. On certain routes (Cancun, Maldives, Cape Town, Johannesburg) you can forget Upper Class entirely because Saver seats are virtually never released.

Of course, you are not restricted to redeeming Virgin Points on Virgin Atlantic.

Virgin Atlantic is 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.

You may also find value for top events at The O2, watching from the Virgin Red Room suite. Peter Kay and Lorde tickets are available for multiple dates at 50,000 points for two people, with Pulp at 60,000 points. Haim, Bastille, Judas Priest / Alice Cooper and OneRepublic are among the artists at 40,000 points for two suite tickets. Some events go as low as 30,000 points for two.

The link to buy points is here.

The 70% bonus offer runs to 23rd June.

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How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (June 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.

The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold Credit Card 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 Credit Card

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 50,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 50,000 Virgin Points.

The Platinum Card from American Express

50,000 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.

The American Express Business Platinum Card

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

The American Express Business Gold Card

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.