Test your e-mail for a vacation reward: You’ll be able to simply earn 4,000 Virgin factors for just some minutes of labor by linking your Virgin Purple account to your Flying Membership account.
Focused Virgin Atlantic Flying Club members (who could not have but linked their account to Virgin Purple) have obtained emails with a novel promo code providing bonus factors for linking by Dec. 24. You’ll be able to solely use promo codes as soon as, and they’re nontransferable.
Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Membership is the airline’s loyalty program, whereas Virgin Purple is the Virgin group-wide rewards membership, with greater than 150 methods to earn and greater than 200 methods to redeem Virgin factors.
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Although they’re technically separate applications, when you hyperlink your Flying Membership and Purple accounts collectively, your single Virgin factors stability will seem in each applications. You’ll be able to redeem the identical factors by way of both account.
If you do not have a Virgin Purple account, you may create one for free here. Then, hyperlink your present Flying Membership account and enter the distinctive e-mail code within the “Promo Codes” part of your “My Account” tab in Virgin Purple for simple bonus factors.
In keeping with our December 2024 valuations, TPG values Virgin factors at 1.4 cents every, making these 4,000 bonus factors price $56. Whereas which may not appear large, Saver fares to London now begin from simply 6,000 factors plus charges, taxes and surcharges of simply $73.
Meaning this straightforward account linking supplies greater than half the factors you will want for a flight to the U.Ok.
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Virgin factors are simple to earn, and Flying Membership is a switch companion of each main transferable forex:
It is price noting that Capital One miles switch to Virgin Purple, not on to Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership.
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When you have not but linked your Flying Membership and Virgin Purple accounts, it’s price checking your e-mail and following the linking steps to choose up an easy 4,000 Virgin factors. Then you may earn Virgin factors by flying Virgin Atlantic or its SkyTeam partners, together with Delta Air Strains and Air France-KLM.
Via the 2 linked applications, there are numerous methods to redeem Virgin factors, whether or not for a brand new Saver seat, to improve a Virgin money fare with factors, or for varied journey and different experiences by way of Virgin Purple.