Examine your electronic mail for a vacation reward: You possibly can simply earn 4,000 Virgin factors for just some minutes of labor by linking your Virgin Purple account to your Flying Membership account.
Focused Virgin Atlantic Flying Club members (who might not have but linked their account to Virgin Purple) have obtained emails with a singular promo code providing bonus factors for linking by Dec. 24. You possibly can solely use promo codes as soon as, and they’re nontransferable.
Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Membership is the airline’s loyalty program, whereas Virgin Purple is the Virgin group-wide rewards membership, with greater than 150 methods to earn and greater than 200 methods to redeem Virgin factors.
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Although they’re technically separate packages, when you hyperlink your Flying Membership and Purple accounts collectively, your single Virgin factors steadiness will seem in each packages. You possibly can redeem the identical factors by both account.
If you do not have a Virgin Purple account, you may create one for free here. Then, hyperlink your current Flying Membership account and enter the distinctive electronic mail code within the “Promo Codes” part of your “My Account” tab in Virgin Purple for simple bonus factors.
Based on our December 2024 valuations, TPG values Virgin factors at 1.4 cents every, making these 4,000 bonus factors value $56. Whereas that may not appear big, Saver fares to London now begin from simply 6,000 factors plus charges, taxes and surcharges of simply $73.
Which means this easy account linking offers greater than half the factors you will want for a flight to the U.Ok.
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Virgin factors are straightforward to earn, and Flying Membership is a switch companion of each main transferable foreign money:
It is value noting that Capital One miles switch to Virgin Purple, not on to Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership.
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Backside line
In case you have not but linked your Flying Membership and Virgin Purple accounts, it’s value checking your electronic mail and following the linking steps to choose up an easy 4,000 Virgin factors. Then you may earn Virgin factors by flying Virgin Atlantic or its SkyTeam partners, together with Delta Air Traces and Air France-KLM.
Via the 2 linked packages, there are lots of methods to redeem Virgin factors, whether or not for a brand new Saver seat, to improve a Virgin money fare with factors, or for varied journey and different experiences by Virgin Purple.