Check your email for a holiday gift: With just a few minutes of work, you can link your Virgin Red account to your Flying Club account and easily earn 4,000 Virgin points.
Targeted Virgin Atlantic Flying Club Members (who may not yet have their accounts linked to Virgin Red) have received an email containing a unique promotional code offering bonus points for linking before December 24th. Promotional codes can only be used once and are non-transferable.
Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club is the airline’s loyalty program, while Virgin Red is a Virgin Group-wide rewards club with more than 150 ways to earn Virgin Points and more than 200 ways to redeem Virgin Points .
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Although they are technically separate programmes, once you link your Flying Club and Red accounts together, your single Virgin Points balance will appear in both programmes. You can redeem the same points from either account.
If you don’t have a Virgin Red account, you can Create one for free here. Then, link your existing Flying Club account and enter your unique email code in the “Promo Codes” section of Virgin Red’s “My Account” tab to easily earn bonus points.
According to our December 2024 ValuationTPG values Virgin Points at 1.4 cents each, making those 4,000 bonus points worth $56. While this may not seem like much, Cheap fares to London Now it’s just 6,000 points, plus fees, taxes and surcharges for just $73.
This means this simple account link can get you more than half the points you need to fly to the UK
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Virgin Points are easy to earn and Flying Club is a transfer partner for all major transferable currencies:
It’s worth noting that Capital One miles transfer to Virgin Red, not directly to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club.
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bottom line
If you haven’t linked your Flying Club and Virgin Red accounts yet, it’s worth checking your email and following the linking steps to easily earn 4,000 Virgin Points. You can then earn Virgin Points by flying with Virgin Atlantic or one of its airlines SkyTeam Alliance Partnersincluding Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM.
Through these two linked programs, Virgin Points can be redeemed in a variety of ways, whether for new Saver seats, using points to upgrade Virgin Cash fares, or redeeming them for a variety of travel and other experiences through Virgin Red.
