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American Express Membership Rewards has announced a 30% transfer bonus when transferring Membership Rewards to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club. The offer is valid through May 22, 2017, at 23:59 Mountain Time. Despite Virgin Atlantic and Virgin America cutting ties a few months back, there are still some sweet spots to be had.
Sweet Spots to be Had with Virgin Atlantic
Looking around the Virgin Atlantic Flying Club, you can find plenty of great options for which to redeem your miles. Some of the best deals on using your miles include the following:
- Business class awards to Europe with Delta—for 90,000 to 100,000 miles round-trip (depending on origin)
- Business class on Virgin Atlantic between London-LHR, and Atlanta, Detroit,
- Business class awards on Virgin Atlantic between the UK and Los Angeles or Las Vegas
- Intra-South Africa Awards with Virgin Partner South African Airways
To find out exactly how many miles you'll receive when you transfer your points, just head over to the Membership Rewards promotion page and enter the number of points you want to transfer and you'll see how many miles you will receive.
The function works the other way as well so if you know how many flying club miles you need for a particular award, you can enter them to find out exactly how many Membership Rewards points you need to transfer.
Overall
Transfer bonuses from American Express Membership Rewards are always a sweet treat. If you have any travel planned on Virgin Atlantic or some of its partner airlines, it is well worth looking at. Any offer that increases the leverage and value of The Platinum Card® from American Express or your Premier Rewards Gold Card from American Express is welcome news.
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Wish AMEX Membership Rewards would have more transfer bonuses in Canada.
Is it valid also for international american express card?
Most likely not. Sorry, we don’t have any credit cards based outside of the US so we cannot check our accounts to confirm.
Isn’t virgin merging with Alaska? If so thats an awesome way to get Alaska miles!
Virgin AMERICA has been purchased by Alaska. Not Virgin Atlantic.
Hope the transfer bonuses keep coming!
transfer bonus is great but that LHR tax is terrible.
Time to get busy w/MR!
Both are a bit too costly a program for us
These transfer bonuses help lessen the sting of VS fuel surcharges.
Much better value to transfer to Singapore. You can always get Virgin Atlantic miles from BoA
Another great use of Virgin Atlantic miles is for ANA first class.
Some of my accounts are in a disabled state. What must I do to enable them please?
If you see an account marked as disabled in your AwardWallet profile, please open the account, review the notes as to why it is disabled and take the recommended action. That should re-enable it.
Who doesn’t like those bonuses! Thanks as always for the info!