{"id":26688,"date":"2026-02-26T19:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=26688"},"modified":"2026-02-26T19:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T19:46:56","slug":"virgin-atlantic-70-bonus-points-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2026\/02\/26\/virgin-atlantic-70-bonus-points-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Atlantic 70% bonus points sale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another familiar face returning with a points sale is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/points-virgin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Virgin Atlantic<\/a>. Through March 31, you can receive a tiered bonus on points purchases as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>5,000 \u2013 24,000 points: 20% bonus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>25,000 \u2013 69,000 points: 40% bonus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>70,000 \u2013 124,000 points: 60% bonus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>125,000 \u2013 200,000 points: 70% bonus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-buy-points-70-bonus.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-buy-points-70-bonus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-buy-points-70-bonus.jpg 753w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/virgin-buy-points-70-bonus-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The pricing has remained consistent across recent sales, but the main drawback is the high threshold required to unlock the maximum bonus. Note that a \u00a315 transaction fee applies to every purchase. With the 70% bonus, the cost comes out to approximately 0.89p per point, which is as cheap as airmiles usually go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a new virgin account, you must have at least one account activity (could be a credit card or Marriott transfer) before you are eligible to buy points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best Uses for Virgin Points: The &#8220;sweet spot&#8221; for Virgin points remains short-haul redemptions on SkyTeam partners. You can refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/04\/25\/how-to-book-virgins-partner-award-tickets-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">this guide<\/a> on how to search availability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/10\/30\/virgins-dynamic-pricing-is-live-with-excellent-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">If your dates are flexible<\/a>, you could also score decent deals on their Premium or Upper Class cabin to many destinations, although the surcharges may not be entertaining. We were the first to discover their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/10\/19\/virgin-sale-germany-south-america-in-business-class-for-42k-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">pricing error between Germany and South America<\/a>, but that has been fixed (took them a looong time though.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main hassle is that a few partners (e.g. Air Europa and China Airlines) still require calling customer service to book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another familiar face returning with a points sale is Virgin Atlantic. Through March 31, you can receive a tiered bonus on points purchases as follows: The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-26688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-atlantic","tag-points-sale"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26690,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26688\/revisions\/26690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}