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American Express Membership Rewards has announced a 30% bonus on transfers to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. The promotion runs through September 12, 2018. While you won't see this posted publicly at AmericanExpress.com, when you access your Membership Rewards earning account, you'll see this promotion.
Key Terms
- 30% Bonus is valid for transfers through September 12, 2018
- Receive 1,300 Virgin miles for every 1,000 Membership Rewards points transferred
- The promotion is hard-coded at a ratio of 1:1.3
- Transfers must be completed in increments of 1,000 Membership Rewards; no limit on points transferred
Is It Worth It?
If you are after a specific redemption with Virgin Atlantic or one of its partners, then this is one of your best options to boost your miles balance. Remember Virgin Atlantic is one of the few airlines that is partnered with all three major transferrable credit card rewards programs.
Our Take
Transfer bonuses are a frequent benefit of Membership Rewards. This is the first time in 2018 we've seen such a transfer with Virgin Atlantic, the last time a 30% transfer bonus ending in November 2017.
Even though Virgin Atlantic Flying Club underwent some predominantly negative changes in 2016, the program still has some sweet spots and great redemption options with partners.
Source: Points With A Crew
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Not enough incentive to transfer speculatively, but with an award in mind, a nice little bump. And it’s worth noting Virgin does have some sweet spots for Premium Economy awards across the Atlantic; I’ve had my eye on partaking of that for a while.
Premium economy on Virgin Atlantic was one of my favorite low-cost redemptions. Sure there are are taxes and fees but still comes up well above 1cpp.
Yah, great bonus especially when Virgin over to Hilton.
While I have done it in the past, unfortunately, I am not invested in Membership Rewards at this point.
Virgin Atlantic has some great award flights with partners
I love Jet Blue mint
Is that a recommendation to take advantage of the TrueBlue offer instead of this offer?
Only US membership rewards I imagine.
Correct?
Correct.
Its a bit speculative, but ill dump some point now as have redemptions needed soon.
There are few sweetspots on FlyingClub
Flying Club could be a good place to turn to if you need some Australian domestic awards as a non Oneworld person.
Nice for a specific redemption if you have it in mind and can find availability, but as above wouldn’t do speculatively.
Not bad if you have a redemption in mind
South Africa here I come thanks to VA miles
Not for me, I dont even have an account with them.
Only a good deal if you want to redeem now and need a few more miles.
Otherwise pass
Transferring…
I transferred 1000 points to Virgin yesterday but I was only credited with 1000 Virgin Miles not 1300 as in the offer
I’d call American Express to see what might have happened. The bonus miles should come right over.
Does anyone know if these types of offers apply to Canadian Amex holders? Or if we have a similar portal listing current offers? I haven’t been able to find anything like it so far – there’s the initial emails they send, but no place that I can find that aggregates all of the currently available offers.