Get 250 free Virgin Flying Club miles for installing their shopping toolbar

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Virgin Atlantic is currently offering 250 Flying Club miles for free to any member who downloads a special toolbar for their ‘Shops Away‘ shopping portal.

They have in the past offered as many as 500 miles for doing this. I haven’t seen that available for well over a year, though, so I don’t think you have much at risk by taking the 250.

To access this offer, you need to go to the Shops Away page on the Flying Club website and click on ‘Shop Today’. You will need to log in to access ‘Shops Away’. Once in, click on ‘Mile Finder’ in the top menu.

There is no mention of how long it takes for the miles to turn up, but when this was last on promotion they were posting within 48 hours.

‘Shops Away’ is the Virgin equivalent of BA’s Gate 365 online store or the Avios e-store. I wrote about one of their most generous offers – 700 Virgin miles for making any hotel booking at booking.com – in this article.

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: