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News in brief:

Earn 3,000 Virgin miles with a generous wine offer

If you’ve never ordered from Virgin Wines before, it is running a generous offer which is worth a look.

For £65.88 including delivery, you will receive:

12 bottle of wine (mixed whites, mixed reds or mixed mixed!)

a bottle of prosecco

3,000 Virgin Flying Club miles

You are NOT signing up for any future wine deliveries.  Whilst the landing page discusses Virgin’s WineBank scheme, you do not have to join this.  If you click through the ordering process, you will see that you are not agreeing to anything beyond the initial £65.88 purchase.

Full details are here.

If you’d prefer to earn 1,000 Avios with a case of wine, take a look at this Laithwaites offer instead.  It requires an avios.com account.

Get double Virgin miles buying foreign currency at Moneycorp

Over the weekend I ran this article on how to earn miles when purchasing foreign currency.

As part of that, I mentioned the partnership between Moneycorp and Virgin Flying Club, which is outlined on the Virgin Atlantic site here.  You earn 1 Virgin mile per £1 exchanged.  You can either collect your money from Moneycorp at Gatwick or a regional UK airport (not Heathrow), have it delivered or pick it up at a Moneycorp branch.

Whilst it isn’t mentioned on the Virgin / Moneycorp page, until 31st August you will receive double Virgin miles – 2 per £1 exchanged – when you use Moneycorp.

Do check the FX rate if using your own money as it may be marginally worse when taking miles.

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How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards

How to earn Virgin Points from UK credit cards (April 2025)

As a reminder, there are various ways of earning Virgin Points from UK credit cards.  Many cards also have generous sign-up bonuses.

You can choose from two official Virgin Atlantic credit cards (apply here, the Reward+ card has a bonus of 18,000 Virgin Points and the free card has a bonus of 3,000 Virgin Points):

Virgin Atlantic Reward+ Mastercard

18,000 bonus points and 1.5 points for every £1 you spend Read our full review

Virgin Atlantic Reward Mastercard

3,000 bonus points, no fee and 1 point for every £1 you spend Read our full review

You can also earn Virgin Points from various American Express cards – and these have sign-up bonuses too.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold is FREE for a year and comes with 20,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 20,000 Virgin Points.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on the ‘free for a year’ American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card is increased from 20,000 Membership Rewards points to 30,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (30,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

American Express Preferred Rewards Gold

Your best beginner’s card – 30,000 points, FREE for a year & four airport lounge passes Read our full review

The Platinum Card from American Express comes with 50,000 Membership Rewards points, which convert into 50,000 Virgin Points.

SPECIAL OFFER: Until 27th May 2025, the sign-up bonus on American Express Platinum is increased from 50,000 Membership Rewards points to a huge 80,000 points. Points convert 1:1 into Avios (80,000 Avios!) and many other programmes. Some people may see even higher personalised offers. Click here to apply.

The Platinum Card from American Express

80,000 bonus points and great travel benefits – for a large fee Read our full review

Small business owners should consider the two American Express Business cards. Points convert at 1:1 into Virgin Points.

American Express Business Platinum

50,000 points when you sign-up and an annual £200 Amex Travel credit Read our full review

American Express Business Gold

20,000 points sign-up bonus and FREE for a year Read our full review

Click here to read our detailed summary of all UK credit cards which earn Virgin Points. 

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Comments (119)

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  • Stephen says:
    19 Jul19 July 14:12

    Ps. I also should say the 3000 miles from my 1st order are in my flying account, cancelling winebank will not affect the bonus airmiles, Stevie

  • Matt says:
    19 Jul19 July 15:46

    Quick reminder in case I’m not the only one… If you took out a moneycorp card for the offer Rob wrote about last July 31 and have left it sitting around then the monthly inactivity fee will kick in soon. I’ve just withdrawn my free 20 quid…Cheers Rob!

  • RussellH says:
    19 Jul19 July 17:17

    This is the first mainstream article I have seen on this. There was a piece in Travel Trade Gazette a couple of months ago, though, where mass market operators were being told about just this; significant because the implication of part of the article was that some of the cheapest operators effectively made all their profit from credit card surcharges of about 2.5%.

    Firms were saying that headline prices would rise by about this amount for next year.

  • Rob says:
    19 Jul19 July 17:35

    Cool. I really want to get a Qatar plane!

  • Crafty says:
    19 Jul19 July 18:50

    OT: Just landed 3h10 late on an Easyjet. This was a known delay all day. They said on board it was a knock on impact from bad weather this morning or yesterday. What’s the prevailing wisdom on this as “exceptional” for EU261?

    • the real harry1 says:
      19 Jul19 July 19:24

      the further in time you get away from an original extreme bad weather incident, the less of a defence it might serve

      as it’s over 3 hrs you could put in the EU261 claim and see what the first reply is – then if negative (and with EJ it is quite likely to be negative) you could investigate further to see if their defence will hold up

      or hand over to Bott & Co who will do all the hard work but take a % of the payout, which is quite a good option with a tough nut like EJ

      there’s a slight difference between volcanic ash and a storm somewhere else ie non-existent on your route/ point to points

      • Crafty says:
        19 Jul19 July 19:26

        Thanks Harry. Quite looking forward to this. Also have an Ombudsman case relating to my mortgage to get stuck into. Should be fun!

        • Worzel says:
          19 Jul19 July 19:48

          Crafty @ 19:26 – looking forward to hearing how the flight and mortgage issues go.

          • Genghis says:
            19 Jul19 July 19:56

            Sounds like to enjoy this stuff! 🙂 I’ll fight my corner but prefer the my life to be simple.

    • the real harry1 says:
      20 Jul20 July 19:02

      yep you seem to be stuck in a time warp, not your fault

      any reason you can’t close the CEDR case stating slow progress & that you are taking your case to more direct legal action vs BA? (or threat of it)

      • TripRep says:
        20 Jul20 July 19:14

        As for compensation , after the case being ruled in my favour, sadly the adjudicator has made an incorrect assumption resulting in an error in the calculation, so I’m left to decide when I pursue BA through the courts for the remainder of EU261/2004. Meanwhile I have been told a cheque is in the post from BA.

        CEDR seem to either ignore or not respond to email or messages with me querying the total figure on the case, so I had to resort to phoning them multiple times. Finally after briefly speaking with someone, I’m awaiting a call for a chat with a CEDR manager to discuss their poor level of service, the CEDR rep told me they promise it’ll happen within 48 hours, no prizes for guessing if its been more than 48 hours already….

        I intend summarising the experience to Rob for him to publish and give an example of how I would expect a hypothetical case to be eventually resolved via CEDR. I also recommend not using CEDR for reasons above.

        • the real harry1 says:
          20 Jul20 July 19:19

          tough one, hard luck

          but useful as a pointer to use more direct methods?

          mine (admittedly under £300) was all sorted in a few days

        • Alan says:
          20 Jul20 July 20:09

          Sorry to hear of your experience, but agree will be a useful lesson for others – perhaps Rob could get the CEDR to provide an explanation/comment too around their poor service?

  • Genghis says:
    19 Jul19 July 20:27

    OT. Renewed IHG Ambassador and went for the $200 option with 15k IHGs and 10% rebate. Received the pack today and it only contained a voucher for 5k IHGs. I’ve emailed IHG but has this happened to others and if so how was it resolved?

  • Anna says:
    19 Jul19 July 20:39

    They will get zero public sympathy, and their remuneration prospects are not going to be helped by people avoiding BA because of them!

  • the real harry1 says:
    19 Jul19 July 20:49

    good spot

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