Get 2,015 Virgin Flying Club miles for a Hertz rental

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Back in 2013, Hertz and Virgin Atlantic ran a very generous promotion which gave 2,013 Virgin Flying Club miles on a rental. In theory you were meant to rent for at least three days but it actually paid out irrespective!

A similar offer has just been launched for 2015 – see here on the Hertz website.

Hertz is offering 2,015 Virgin Flying Club miles if you rent for 3 days or more, in the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand or Canada, before the end of March. The catches are:

you must pay for your booking with a Virgin Atlantic credit card. I’m not sure if Hertz can accurately track this, to be honest, but this is in the rules.

you need to use the Virgin discount codes, which may not necessarily be the cheapest you can access. History shows that this is not necessary and you will usually get the points using any rate code.

For rentals of under 3 days or if you have no Virgin credit card, the standard Hertz deal of 1,000 Virgin miles is also attractive.

I don’t expect that many HFP readers will a) have a Virgin credit card and b) need a 3-day Hertz rental before the end of March and c) find the best price to be with the Virgin discount code.

I would still be tempted to credit any Hertz rental to Virgin in any event (Iberia has now dropped them as a partner so there is no Avios option) and see what turns up.

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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Save East Coast Rewards says:

23 Feb23 February 04:10

Unless I ‘Save East Coast Rewards’ I’ll be crediting my East Coast trips to VS Flying Club too (and booking non-East Coast trips elsewhere – if they don’t want to reward me why should they get the commission?) so now the Iberia route to earning Avios is no longer open it makes sense to credit Hertz to VS. Even if I don’t start flying VS regularly I can cash out to Hilton (unless Hertz is a direct Hilton partner, I need to check).

Some news: myself and Raffles made the papers: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport/bid-to-save-generous-east-coast-loyalty-club-as-franchise-goes-private.118966830

I also decided to use some of my EC Rewards points in a competition. So if you want a first class East Coast Rewards return enter our competition: http://saveecrewards.co.uk/win

It’s designed to raise awareness of how poor the Nectar scheme is. The spend required to fund the prize would only have earned £9.20 with Nectar. Assuming a first class return would cost £100 (this of course is on the low side) this would require a whopping 20,000 Nectar points to buy the ticket (£10,000 spend at current rates or £20,000 spend at Sainsbury’s enhanced rates in April).
Alan says:

23 Feb23 February 04:52

Hmm – decisions, decisions! Have a one-day rental in Oz this weekend, currently set to UA MileagePlus for 500 points (will help extend expiry and have a healthy VS balance already) – can’t decide whether to risk the switched or not!

@SaveECRewards – nice job on the article, sums things up well and they look pretty silly at the end although still keep hanging on to their ‘research’!
- Save East Coast Rewards says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 06:16
  
  I was particularly happy to find out they spoke to Raffles too. I was going to suggest it but didn’t need to, wonder if she already knew of HfP or if she discovered it through one of the plugs on my site.
  
  I wonder if passenger focus will get anywhere?
  
  CrossCountry has sent out a survey to their subscribers. I wonder if they’re trying to seize the opportunity and set up a loyalty scheme. It asks if you’re a member of East Coast Rewards and proposes a scheme across the Arriva/Deutsche Bahn UK franchises.
  
  Basically they seem to be following my suggestions to Stagecoach/Virgin and applying them to their own franchise.
  - Rob says:
    
    23 Feb23 February 10:18
    
    Interesting. I assumed you had given her my details!
Michael says:

23 Feb23 February 08:10

Is there any convenient way to find out about all airmiles (or hotelpoints?) offers of all the major car rental companies, without spending a lot of time of research on each companies site? Also is it possible to do a price comparison search for car rentals?
- Rob says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 10:14
  
  If you click on Avis and Hertz in the ‘Categories’ menu, bottom right, you will bring up my past articles. The Club Carlson / Avis deal is very good.
Gordon says:

23 Feb23 February 08:15

It will be interesting to see if anyone gets the 2015 in addition to the standard 1000. The last time they ran this campaign i had about 6 rentals during the promotional period and i got both on every one. The big advantage last time was it was a one day rental so if you could find a cheap one day rental it was worth it for 3000 points
- Rob says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 10:13
  
  Someone I know was booking a series of sub-£20 one-way rentals in London from one Hertz to another, then getting another car and going to another Hertz, and so on, finally looping back to the Hertz where he started (with a totally different car).
Kev says:

23 Feb23 February 10:32

Can this be done retrospectively? I had a few bookings in January
- Rob says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 11:04
  
  If you didn’t credit the bookings to anyone, you can retroclaim points via a form on the Hertz website. Hertz will assume the rental office failed to enter the number.
Danny says:

23 Feb23 February 12:29

Very useful to know about the Virgin promo. Would be great if Head for Points could more frequently cover how to get the most miles out of car rentals–badly in need of more advice!
- Rob says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 15:09
  
  Click on Avis and Hertz in the categories and you will see other articles including pieces on which hotel schemes let you credit car rentals. There are some Avis promos with Iberia and BA which I will also cover soon.
Gordon says:

23 Feb23 February 13:59

just reading the promo again. Does it have to be 3 days?
- Rob says:
  
  23 Feb23 February 15:04
  
  Yes, in theory. Last time it ran they paid out on any length of rental but obviously you should not rely on that repeating itself.
e14 says:

23 Feb23 February 17:01

Pity I have a job this time.