Get a 30% bonus when you use Virgin Flying Club ‘Miles Booster’ – is it a good deal?

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Virgin Atlantic has launched its semi-regular bonus on ‘Miles Booster’.

‘Miles Booster’ IS a potentially very good deal.

Miles Booster only works if you have a Virgin Atlantic cash or reward flight booked or have taken one in the last six months. You are able to buy an additional 200% of the base miles you will earn from the flight for just 1p each.

Click here for details.

How Virgin’s Miles Booster works

If you have a New York economy flight booked, for example, you would earn 6,916 base miles from your trip.

Miles Booster allows you to buy up to 13,832 additional miles for just 1p each. Plus, with this promotion, you would get an extra 30% bonus as well.

If you maximised the Miles Booster option for a New York economy flight, you would be able to buy a total of 17,981 Virgin Flying Club miles for just £138.32. That is 0.77p each, which is well worth considering.

You can retrospectively buy miles via Miles Booster for any Virgin Atlantic flights taken in the last six months, cash or reward. Yes, even previously flown or currently booked redemptions count.

Even if you don’t have any current bookings, you may be able to take advantage of this based on recent flights you’ve taken. At this price, I would consider the Miles Booster deal if you know that you will be using them in short or medium term.

This offer runs until 31st July 2018.

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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the real harry1 says:

14 Jul14 July 07:02

Anybody seen any news about VAFC joining up with Flying Blue – dates, mechanics etc?
- Rob says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 10:14
  
  All I know is that is might happen before the actual alliance is approved because the frequent flyer partnership doesn’t need Government approval, unlike the flying JV.
Mycity says:

14 Jul14 July 08:12

If I remember correctly I think if you book a miles booster and then at some point cancel the flight you don’t get your money refunded, however you still get the full miles, is this still correct?
- Yorkieflyer says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 08:55
  
  Yes that’s correct. We booked using miles, purchased booster when 30% offer on, got the 30% immediately. Then cancelled when the de/re valuation made our premium economy flights cheaper then rebooked, purchased 30% booster bonus again and after flying received both base booster miles. Using MBNA upgrade voucher which which survived the cancellation
  - Mycity says:
    
    14 Jul14 July 09:35
    
    Great thanks as I thought, I’ve a flight booked for next March that’s not 10% certain to happen, didn’t want to boost and find issues.
- NYC123 says:
  
  19 Jul19 July 12:26
  
  So could one purchase flight, boost miles then cancel flights within 24 hours?
  - the real harry1 says:
    
    19 Jul19 July 12:44
    
    Sounds like it, 1p/ mile not too bad
    - Rob says:
      
      19 Jul19 July 12:58
      
      No, they are onto this.
@mkcol says:

14 Jul14 July 09:06

Perfect timing for this having booked LAS in economy classic last week & used miles to upgrade to Premium after your other article about the reduced fares https://headforpoints.com/2018/07/07/discount-code-virgin-atlantic-economy-flights-caribbean-orlando-las-vegas/ as I’d been swithering about whether to do Miles Booster or not.
Ian says:

14 Jul14 July 09:12

Can anyone please point me in the right direction to be able to apply this offer to a recent reward flight? I can’t find the option anywhere online?
- Mycity says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 09:33
  
  Can only be done by calling Virgin, no issue though they will do it.
- thomas says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 10:07
  
  yes, by phone, and you can earn on reward flights too.
Definitas says:

14 Jul14 July 10:19

not sure I have fully understood this offer. we took one way UC reward flights to ATL in February. Does this apply to one way flights?
- Rob says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 11:27
  
  Yes
David says:

14 Jul14 July 11:46

OT-ish: I have just under 10k Virgin miles in my father’s name, expiring later this year. He also has an almost empty IHG account, and no plans to do anything with either. Any way of salvaging the Virgin miles?
- Peter K says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 15:53
  
  You could move his miles into a Hilton account in his name (10k Virgin miles = 15k Hilton) and then once his Hilton account had been open a month move them into your own Hilton account.
  Or move 10k Virgin into 10k IHG which may be enough for a cheap redemption or cash& points redemption for someone.
- David says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 16:27
  
  Thanks both. I’ll aim for the 10k and then close it out to Hilton. Need to find 900, so might use a Tesco voucher as a starter.
Jonathan says:

14 Jul14 July 14:20

Do the points post on a card as points.com or Virgin – just working out if it’s worth paying using my new Virgin card or existing Amex?
- Rob says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 15:22
  
  Probably points.com as they do pure points purchases although, as you need to call Virgin to do this, it could go either way I admit.
David says:

14 Jul14 July 16:36

I’ve booked a Virgin rewards flight for 5 of us in Premium but now that the Virgin MBNA is closed, I’ve found myself with 2 x Economy to Premium upgrade vouchers. Dies anyone know if Virgin will let me apply those retrospectively and refund me the points difference?
- David says:
  
  14 Jul14 July 16:36
  
  *Does
  - Peter K says:
    
    14 Jul14 July 22:19
    
    Your best bet might be to try ringing them. I find them very helpful.