Virgin Atlantic appears to have hit on a new trick to increase loads on its struggling Little Red UK domestic services – by offering to status match British Airways Executive Club customers to .....

Virgin Atlantic appears to have hit on a new trick to increase loads on its struggling Little Red UK domestic .....

18 Mar 201418 March 2014 by Rob Burgess • 19 comments

One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up to 10,000 Membership Rewards points per year for 1.5p each. It is even less known today .....

One of the lesser known features of the American Express Membership Rewards programme is the ability to buy up .....

11 Mar 201411 March 2014 by Rob Burgess • 21 comments

One of the most common questions I receive via email from new readers is whether they can convert their Virgin Flying Club miles to Avios points.  I thought I would save myself some typing in the .....

One of the most common questions I receive via email from new readers is whether they can convert their Virgin .....

6 Mar 20146 March 2014 by Rob Burgess • 25 comments

American Express has launched a 20% bonus on transfers of Membership Rewards points to Virgin Flying Club. A lot of people, including myself, did not receive the email.  However, the bonus is NOT .....

American Express has launched a 20% bonus on transfers of Membership Rewards points to Virgin Flying Club. A .....

22 Feb 201422 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 24 comments

Since BAA WorldPoints relaunched as Heathrow Rewards last year, the sign-up bonuses have been pretty weak, to be honest.  Now we have a real return to form. In conjunction with Virgin Atlantic, .....

Since BAA WorldPoints relaunched as Heathrow Rewards last year, the sign-up bonuses have been pretty weak, to .....

20 Feb 201420 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 69 comments

Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be interesting, though, would be to rank the sign-up bonuses in terms of cold hard cash. Put .....

Our ‘Credit Card Offers’ tab lists all of the card deals currently available. What I thought might be .....

18 Feb 201418 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 94 comments

A quick reminder that 10th February (Sunday) is the last day to buy or transfer Virgin Flying Club miles with the current 25% bonus. If you are planning to convert a chunk of Tesco Clubcard points to .....

A quick reminder that 10th February (Sunday) is the last day to buy or transfer Virgin Flying Club miles with .....

8 Feb 20148 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 1 comment

Flying to Australia is a painfully difficult way to make money.  It was therefore not much of a surprise when Virgin Atlantic announced this week that it was scrapping its Hong Kong to Sydney .....

Flying to Australia is a painfully difficult way to make money.  It was therefore not much of a surprise when .....

7 Feb 20147 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Virgin Atlantic is not in a major airline alliance, despite Delta Air Lines – a core plank of the Skyteam alliance – being a 49% shareholder. Despite that, the airline does have .....

Virgin Atlantic is not in a major airline alliance, despite Delta Air Lines – a core plank of .....

6 Feb 20146 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 35 comments

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event during January was the launch of the temporary sign-up bonus on the Virgin Flying .....

I have updated the ‘Credit Card Offers‘ page at the top of the site for February. The big event .....

5 Feb 20145 February 2014 by Rob Burgess • 44 comments

I made a throw-away remark in my post on Virgin and Tesco yesterday that Virgin Flying Club is reducing the transfer ratio of miles to Hilton HHonors points.  I want to look at that more closely .....

I made a throw-away remark in my post on Virgin and Tesco yesterday that Virgin Flying Club is reducing the .....

29 Jan 201429 January 2014 by Rob Burgess • 12 comments

Tesco has launched a 30% bonus on transfers of Tesco Clubcard points to Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club.  This means that you will receive 325 miles per £1 of Clubcard vouchers you convert, .....

Tesco has launched a 30% bonus on transfers of Tesco Clubcard points to Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club.  .....

28 Jan 201428 January 2014 by Rob Burgess • 64 comments

Heathrow Rewards – the loyalty scheme for Heathrow’s duty free shops – has launched a new sign-up promotional bonus in conjunction with British Airways, although you can redeem the .....

Heathrow Rewards – the loyalty scheme for Heathrow’s duty free shops – has launched a new .....

27 Jan 201427 January 2014 by Rob Burgess • 29 comments

As well as launching their ‘25% off economy redemptions’ sale yesterday, Virgin Flying Club also announced a 25% bonus when you buy, transfer or gift Virgin Flying Club miles. The link to .....

As well as launching their ‘25% off economy redemptions’ sale yesterday, Virgin Flying Club also .....

15 Jan 201415 January 2014 by Rob Burgess • 13 comments