Quick Overview
- Earn Virgin Atlantic points with over 20 partner credit cards across 8 programs.
- Top Virgin Atlantic credit card transfer partners include American Express Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Chase Ultimate Rewards and Citi ThankYou Rewards—all offering 1:1 transfers.
- Use co-branded credit cards from Marriott Bonvoy, World of Hyatt, and other hotel loyalty programs to easily top off your Virgin Atlantic Flying Club account.
This page outlines the earning rates in Virgin points for all major Virgin Atlantic credit card transfer partners and includes a calculator to help you determine which partner cards will earn you the most points based on your spending.
Virgin Atlantic credit card transfer partners
AMEX Membership Rewards credit cards
American Express offers several of the best travel rewards credit cards in the market under their Membership Rewards program. These cards offer fantastic intro bonuses, high bonus multipliers, and superb benefits.
It also helps that American Express partners with Delta which is a close and frequent codeshare partner of Virgin Atlantic, giving you more ways to book flights on their routes.
Points earned with Membership Rewards credit cards can be transferred into Virgin Atlantic at a rate of 1,000 AMEX points for 1,000 Virgin points.
Here are the Membership Rewards credit cards you can use to earn Virgin Atlantic points:
Chase Ultimate Rewards credit cards
Chase has three Ultimate Rewards credit cards that allows you to transfer points to Virgin Atlantic. Each of these cards offer top-notch travel insurance, bonus value for redemptions made through the Chase Travel portal, and great earning rates on dining and travel.
Ultimate Rewards points can be transferred to Virgin Atlantic at a rate of 1,000 Chase points for 1,000 Virgin points.
Here are the Ultimate Rewards credit cards that allows you to transfer points to Virgin Atlantic:
Citi ThankYou Rewards credit cards
If you have the Citi Strata Premier℠ Card or Citi Prestige Card, you will be able to transfer Citi ThankYou Points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club at a 1:1 ratio. This means that every 1,000 Citi Points you transfer to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club will give you 1,000 Virgin Points.
Citi is one of the best programs for easily maximizing your rewards with little effort and for a very low cost. This is because you can pair the Citi Strata Premier Card with the no annual fee Citi® Double Cash Card and earn 2X to 3X points on all purchases.
Use the Citi Strata Premier to earn an unlimited 3X points across it's featured bonus categories and use the Citi Double Cash to earn 2X on all other purchases (1% back when you use the card and 1% back when you pay off those charges).
Here's the credit cards you can use to earn Citi ThankYou points:
Bilt Rewards credit cards
Bilt Rewards points can be transferred to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club at a 1:1 rate. Every 1,000 Bilt Rewards points you convert will give you 1,000 Virgin points.
Bilt Rewards is most known for being able to pay for your rent and mortgage using the Bilt Mastercard and not being charged a transaction fee. This allows you to earn a large sum of points doing something you would normally have to do anyway which is paying for the roof over your head.
On top of that, Bilt Rewards makes it very easy to earn points spending locally with their partners. You can even attach a credit card to your Bilt Rewards account and earn additional points on your purchases.
Here are the credit cards Bilt offers:
Marriott Bonvoy credit cards
Marriott Bonvoy offers a long list of co-branded credit cards that you can use to earn points spending at Marriott properties as well on everyday purchases. Marriott Bonvoy points can be converted into Virgin Atlantic points at a rate of 3 Marriott Bonvoy points for 1 Virgin point.
On top of that, you will also earn a bonus 5,000 Virgin points for every 60,000-block of Marriott Bonvoy points you transfer in a single transaction. This means a 60,000-point transfer would net you a total of 25,000 Virgin points which is pretty solid.
If you frequent Marriott brand hotels, I highly recommend picking up at least one of their credit cards as they offer great value and range of top-notch benefits.
Here are the credit cards Marriott offers:
Other credit card transfer partners
Virgin Atlantic points can also be earned with a handful of other co-branded credit cards. These programs will not earn you many Virgin points, but they can be used to easily top off your account if you're a few points shy of a redemption.
Hyatt points can be transferred to Virgin Atlantic at a 5:3 rate meaning that every 5,000 Hyatt points you convert will give you 3,000 Virgin points. You will also receive a 5,000-mile bonus for every 50,000 Hyatt points you transfer in a single transaction.
Here are the credit cards Hyatt offers:
Hilton Honors points can be transferred to Virgin Atlantic at a 20:3 rate. Every 20,000 points you transfer will give you 3,000 Virgin points.
Here are Hilton's co-branded credit cards:
IHG One Rewards points can be transferred to Virgin Atlantic at a 5:1 rate. Every 5,000 IHG points you transfer will give you 1,000 Virgin points.
Here are the credit cards IHG offers:
What's the best credit card for Virgin points?
Input your monthly and yearly spend amounts into our credit card finder tool to find out which credit cards will earn you the most Virgin points and best return per $1 spent.
Results will include all co-branded Virgin Atlantic credit cards and all Virgin Atlantic Flying Club credit card transfer partners. Results will show up to the top 20 cards.
This calculator uses our valuations, the intro bonuses we have in the database, and includes the maximum (calculable) bonuses for each card. If you want to have control over these options and much more, check out this tool:
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Results
Listed below are the results based on what you entered into the tool above. These estimates are to help guide you towards making the best decision when it comes to picking up a rewards credit card.
You can click on "Show Calculations" to see a breakdown of how the rewards were calculated, click on the card itself to learn more/apply through our partners (big thanks if you do!), or click on any of the other links to learn more about the card and it's rewards.
Do note that some of the calculations are rounded so it is possible that the estimated values may be off by a point or two when added up.
Remember that this particular tool uses our point/mile valuations, the intro bonuses we have in the database, and includes the maximum (calculable) bonuses for each card. If you want to have control over these options and much more, slide over to the Rewards Credit Card Directory & Calculator.
These calculations should be used for illustrative purposes only.
