Get 500 free Virgin Flying Club miles for installing their shopping toolbar

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Virgin Atlantic is offering 500 Flying Club miles for free to any member who downloads a special toolbar for their ‘Shops Away‘ shopping portal.

This is double the number of miles they offered when they last ran this offer. In theory you cannot do it again if you previously installed and uninstalled the toolbar, but who knows how good the Virgin IT is?!

As per their terms and conditions:

Download the Mile Finder tool before 14 May 2014 and earn 500 bonus miles. One time only bonus for downloading the Mile Finder. We reserve the right to remove the download bonus of 500 miles if you subsequently uninstall the Mile Finder

To access this offer, you need to go to the Shops Away page on the Flying Club website and click on ‘Download The Mile Finder’. The miles appear to be added within 48 hours, looking at comments elsewhere.

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (December 2021)

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, one has a bonus of 15,000 points):

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

The UK’s most generous free Visa or Mastercard at 0.75 points / £1 Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

15,000 points bonus and the most generous non-Amex for day to day spending Read our full review

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold 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

Your best beginner’s card – 20,000 points, FREE for a year & two airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 30,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 30,000 Virgin Points:

The Platinum Card from American Express

30,000 points and an unbeatable set of travel benefits – for a fee Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points.

(Want to earn more Virgin Points? Click here to see our recent articles on Virgin Atlantic and Flying Club and click here for our home page with the latest news on earning and spending other airline and hotel points.)

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Rob says:

7 Apr7 April 10:02

Thanks, I will add that in.
nick says:

7 Apr7 April 12:20

There are also 500 on offer for completing one survey on erewards. similar to the avios offer a few months ago
- John says:
  
  7 Apr7 April 22:42
  
  Avios offer is still on isn’t it?
GlennM says:

7 Apr7 April 15:01

Worked for me too (recently had it installed a couple of months ago). Also I received my 1000 points tip from Tesco yesterday for holding onto automated VA conversion until 31st March, now switched it back to normal before the next roll-up! Easy points!
- Louie says:
  
  7 Apr7 April 16:16
  
  But that should have been 2,500 Virgin miles……
- Simon says:
  
  7 Apr7 April 18:02
  
  Only 1000 miles here as well for Tesco auto conversion.
  - David says:
    
    7 Apr7 April 18:09
    
    Same here. Now why does VS remind me of bmi…..
    - Simon says:
      
      9 Apr9 April 23:36
      
      I had the extra 1,500 miles added onto my account today with a date of 01 Apr 2014.
      
      I phoned Virgin about the missing miles and was told the Tesco auto convert promo was only worth 1000 miles so I sent them their email which stated it was worth 2,500 miles.
      
      I haven’t had a reply to my email so not sure if I’ve got the extra miles as a result of my email or if they’ve just realised their mistake and corrected everyones account.
      - David says:
        
        10 Apr10 April 17:10
        
        They have given everyone the extra (missing) 1,500 now.
      - Coreen Griffiths says:
        
        10 Apr10 April 17:58
        
        Thanks. I wasn’t expecting to receive the extra 1500 – I thought it was only 1000 very welcome!
- Charlie says:
  
  7 Apr7 April 18:56
  
  I got an email in January from Virgin Flying Club to say there will be a 30% bonus when auto-converting Tesco clubcard points, in the May 2014 Clubcard statement. Did anyone else get this?
  
  The confusing thing is, is that I got this email a few days before the January 2014 Clubcard statement which also had a 30% bonus. So I am not sure if the email was a mistake.
Alan says:

7 Apr7 April 15:45

How quickly do these points tend to post? I presume by installing it after the login screen it must be customised in someway to be tied to your VS a/c?
- Fenny says:
  
  9 Apr9 April 19:48
  
  I signed up after reading the article and the points came through today.
  - Alan says:
    
    9 Apr9 April 19:50
    
    Thanks – points now posted for me too 🙂
pazza2000 says:

7 Apr7 April 17:40

I’ve installed, no mention of the sign up miles and I did not have to enter my VS number again when doing so, having signed into my FC account. Only took a minute(in chrome) so worth the effort.
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7 Apr7 April 18:02

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James67 says:

7 Apr7 April 18:59

Storm in a teacup!? Readers can and should exercise some judgmentvin choosing what to read or not. We should all remember the benefits the blog has brought to us as individuals. As such I think we are being unreasonable if we grudge Raffles somr return for his efforts.
maximum power says:

11 Apr11 April 20:29

I know nobody will be reading this now, but what an f**cking disgrace, this is to download a toolbar an hour of my time i will never get back and its still not downloaded and i had to download crome which has took over my computer, sometimes 500 points are not worth, whats was the 500 points for? compensation for making a simple task hard
- Guesswho2000 says:
  
  13 Apr13 April 20:13
  
  Weird, I installed this on Safari the other day (I use Firefox, but already have Safari anyway as it’s on a Mac) and it was simple enough. Anyway, miles have posted, and I got the 250 a few months ago too. Same browser too, I don’t want it on FF, but don’t care on safari as I never use it anyway!