At TPG, we typically commend Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club program as one of one of the most underrated and high-powered regular leaflet programs. Flying Club is a transfer partner of all significant charge card programs, so Virgin factors are simple to gain.

However, even if the factors are simple to gain does not imply they are simple to make use of.

Virgin Atlantic signed up with the SkyTeam partnership in 2023 and has a number of various other nonalliance airline company companions with which you can gain and retrieve Virgin factors. Unfortunately, Virgin’s internet site is not one of the most easy to use and has lots of constraints.

Some Flying Club redemption companions can be booked online, while others need you to quest for honor area and call to publication.

What are the Flying Club airline company companions?

You can gain and retrieve Virgin Atlantic factors on the complying with participant airline companies of the SkyTeam partnership:

• Aerolinas Argentinas
• Aeromexico
• Air Europa
• Air France
• China Airlines
• China Eastern Airlines
• Czech Airlines
• Delta Air Lines
• Garuda Indonesia
• ITA Airways
• Kenya Airways
• KLM
• Korean Air
• Middle East Airlines
• Saudia
• TAROM
• Vietnam Airlines
• Virgin Atlantic
• Xiamen Airlines

In enhancement to these airline companies, you can additionally publication honor trips with the complying with non-SkyTeam airline companies making use of Virgin factors:

You can additionally gain Virgin factors — however not retrieve them — with companions Scandinavian Airlines, IndiGo and LATAM.

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Which Flying Club partner airline companies can be booked online?

In enhancement to trips run by Virgin Atlantic, Flying Club participants can retrieve their Virgin factors on the complying with partner airline companies (for all various other airline companies, you have to call 800-862-8621 to publication).

Related: Is Virgin Atlantic costs economic climate worth it on the A330-900neo?

Air France-KLM

To prevent the considerable additional charges Flying Club troubles trips run by Virgin Atlantic, scheduling trips run by Air France-KLM can be an economical means to make use of Virgin indicate fly to Europe and past. While costs economic climate on these airline companies is not normally readily available to publication online or by phone, economic climate and organization course can be booked online at the complying with prices:

• One-means economic climate trip to Europe from the West Coast for 15,000 factors
• One-means economic climate trip to the Middle East from the East Coast for 25,000 factors
• One-means business-class trip to Europe from the East Coast for 48,500 factors
• One-means business-class trip from the East Coast to North Africa for 66,500 factors

Related: Private collections and modern touches: What it resembles flying Air France’s brand-new organization course

Delta Air Lines

With Delta taking vibrant rates to the severe and billing 300,000-plus miles for one-way, global, business-class honors, making use of Virgin Atlantic to rack up low-cost honors can be excellent.

Long-haul trips to Europe, Asia-Pacific, Africa and South America are rather simple to discover and can be booked online.

Related: An evaluation of Delta Air Lines economic climate on the Boeing 767 from London to New York

Unfortunately, Delta’s costs economic climate item is not available to publication with Virgin factors, and while Delta One business-class seats can practically be booked online, they are really hardly ever readily available and currently included massive additional charges.

Short-haul trips run by Delta are simple to publication online. Prices beginning at a sensible 7,500 Virgin factors in coach class or 21,000 factors in first-rate.

Korean Air

Based in Seoul’s Incheon International Airport (ICN), Korean Air trips can be booked with Virgin factors online, though accessibility beyond Asia is hard to discover.

ITA Airways

Rising from the ashes of the now-defunct Alitalia, ITA Airways has exceptional honor accessibility making use of Virgin factors and can be booked online. ITA’s long-haul business-class item is exceptional, with a strong lounge in Rome Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci Airport (FCO), sophisticated onboard dishes and fashionable Italian surfaces.

Related: An evaluation of ITA Airways organization course on the A330neo from Rome

LATAM

South American service provider LATAM can be booked online with Virgin factors, and accessibility is usually great in between North America and South America, with business-class trips from Florida to Brazil setting you back simply 50,000 factors plus marginal charges and tax obligations.

El Al

Flying Club silently included Israel’s flag service provider El Al to its partner airline company checklist previously in 2024, and thankfully, these trips can be booked online, though the prices in between the United States and Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) are high.

Related: Inside El Al’s initial retrofitted — and greatly updated — Boeing 777

Middle East Airlines

One of SkyTeam’s lesser-known airline companies, Middle East Airlines (generally described as MEA), is based in Lebanon’s Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport (BEY).

While MEA does not run long-haul trips, it has a suitable path network to Europe and can be booked online making use of Virgin factors.

China Airlines

While Flying Club urges that trips on Taiwanese service provider and SkyTeam participant China Airlines (not to be perplexed with China-based Star Alliance participant Air China) can be booked online with Virgin factors, TPG has actually not discovered any kind of accessibility on China Airlines via Virgin’s internet site.

Xiamen Airlines

Based in Xiamen, China, SkyTeam participant Xiamen Airlines runs various trips within Asia and a handful of courses to Australia and Europe. Its present North American locations consist of New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Vancouver International Airport (YVR).

You can publication Xiamen Airlines redemptions making use of Virgin factors online.

How to gain Virgin factors

It’s simple to enhance your Virgin factors equilibrium with the ideal charge card, as Flying Club is a transfer partner of every significant program with a transferable money, consisting of:

Some of the above programs supply routine transfer perks to Flying Club, indicating you could require also less factors than you initially assumed.

Many of these programs supply cards that include fantastic welcome perks. Here are a few of our favored traveling benefits charge card that gain transferable factors that can be transformed to Virgin factors:

Bottom line

Virgin Atlantic’s Flying Club program flaunts an excellent checklist of redemption companions inside and beyond the SkyTeam partnership. Unfortunately, the program’s internet site is much less remarkable, with many partner redemptions not available online, needing a little added research and a telephone call to 800-862-8621.

You might desire to make use of an exterior source to inspect honor accessibility via various other programs and after that get in touch with the Flying Club program to schedule the seats you understand are readily available.

There are some exceptional offers to be had, so it deserves the initiative.