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Yes, Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles expire if there is no activity on your account for 36 months. Every time you have some activity on your account, it resets your mileage expiration clock, and you have 36 months from that date before your miles expire.
Every Flying Club activity you complete, be it with our partners on the ground, or in the air will ensure your membership stays active for a further 36 months.
What Qualifies as Activity?
Activity is defined by Virgin Atlantic as any earning or spending on your account. The following activities will count and will reset your expiration clock:
- Fly with Virgin or with an airline partner and earn miles for your flight
- Exchange Flying Club miles for hotel points, such as Hilton Honors
- Redeem your miles for an award or even a Miles plus money ticket
- Stay with one of Virgin Atlantic’s hotel partners
- Rent a car with one Virgin Atlantic’s car rental partners
- Earn miles by shopping through the Virgin Atlantic shopping portal
- Purchase Flying Club Miles
- Boost your miles when you fly Virgin
- Gift miles to another member
- Earn miles for spending on your Virgin Atlantic® World Elite MasterCard®
- Transfer points from American Express Membership Rewards
Preventing the expiration of Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles is relatively easy, given the options available and the 36 months to complete those tasks.
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This is more generous than the major airline mileage expiration
# years is better than one and a half. Of coarse, Delta and Jet Blue don’t exxpire. Some airlines have a no fee credit card option you can downgrade to (like the unpublicized no fee United Mileageplus card, which you can downgrade to if you know about it, and charge something occasionally. Besides using the shopping or dining programs, surveys are a pain, but Amtrak gives you five miles even if you don’t qualify, to have activity at least every 18 monthes.
Thanks for the info.
Get your Virgin miles on Delta and they will never expire.
The shopping portal is a fantastic way of keeping miles alive.
Wouldn’t a conversion to hotel points (like HH) reset the clock also?
Absolutely! I’ve just added it to the list.
Nice! I thought that might be the case.
Good to know thanks.
The 36 month expiration policy is much nicer than most airlines 18 or 24 month policy.
Use my Virgin Mastercard to pay off all my now cancelled bank direct debits – we have a PayPoint sytem in the UK where you can use Amex and M`card to physically pay your bills at supermarkets (The Co-op ) and corner shops https://www.paypoint.com/en-gb/consumers/service-directory ALL my expenses now go through direct airline credit card payments – either Virgin or BA Amex
Hi, would boosting Tesco CC points to miles be classed as activity on the account?
Unfortunately, I don’t know and have no way to test it. Please share your results if you try.
I transferred AEMR points to my Virgin account, but 10 days after posting to my account, it has still not reset the expiration date.
Does anyone have similar experience?
I thought the reset would be instant after posting!
Would a transfer to Virgin Atlantic from Citi Thank You Points with the 30% bonus reset the 36 month expiration?
Also, what is a quick way to add 1 Citi Thank You Point to my 24999 points so I don’t strand 999 points?
Yes, that transfer will reset expiration. Spend $1 on a credit card that earns ThankYou points. Or, you could call and just ask them to give you a point. They may say no, but it can’t hurt to ask.
oops …missed the exoiration date for Virgin Atlantic. I had 95,000 miles but have stopped using Virgin for business . Is there any way to re-activate them. I am planning a holiday to Oz and NZ and had hoped to use them there