Earn 4,000 Virgin Rewards points by linking your Virgin Red and Flying Club accounts

Check your email for holiday gifts: You can easily earn 4,000 Virgin points in just a few minutes of work by linking your Virgin Red account to your Flying Club account.

Target Virgin Atlantic Flying Club members (who may not have linked their accounts with Virgin Red yet) have received an email with a unique promo code offering bonus points for linking before December 24. You can only use the promo code once times and they are non-transferable.

Virgin Atlantic’s Fly Club is the airline’s loyalty program, while Virgin Red is Virgin’s group-wide rewards club, with over 150 ways to earn and over 200 ways to redeem Virgin points.

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Although they are technically separate programs, when you link your Flying Club and Red accounts together, your unique Virgin points balance will appear in both programs. You can redeem the same number of points through either account.

If you don’t have a Virgin Red account, you can Create one for free here. Then, link your existing Flying Club account and enter the unique email code in the “Promo Codes” section on the “My Account” tab in Virgin Red to easily earn bonus points.

According to our Valuation December 2024TPG values ​​each Virgin point at 1.4 cents, making those 4,000 bonus points worth $56. Although that may not seem like much, Economy fares to London now starting at just 6,000 points plus fees, taxes and surcharges of just $73.

That means this simple account linking will give you more than half the points you need for a flight to the UK

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Virgin points are easy to earn and Flying Club is a transfer partner for every major transferable currency:

It’s worth noting that Capital One miles transfer to Virgin Red, not directly to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club.

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Bottom line

If you haven’t linked your Flying Club and Virgin Red accounts, you should check your email and follow the linking steps to get 4,000 Virgin points very easily. You can then earn Virgin points by flying Virgin Atlantic or Virgin Atlantic airlines. SkyTeam partnerincluding Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM.

Through the two linked programmes, there are many ways to redeem Virgin points, whether for new Saver seats, upgrading Virgin fares for cash with points or for a variety of other trips and experiences through Virgin Red.