(EXPIRED) Virgin Atlantic Mastercard 65K offer is back again

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Bank of America’s Virgin Atlantic credit card is again offering a 65,000 mile welcome bonus: 60,000 miles after $2,000 in purchases in the first 3 months plus an additional 5,000 bonus miles when you add two authorized users. Virgin Atlantic miles can be quite valuable to have, as can this card (See: Virgin Atlantic World Elite Mastercard Deep Dive: Maximize Earnings and Status).

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The Offer

Card Offer
None
Card is currently not available to new applicants.
$90 Annual Fee
Information about this card has been collected independently by Frequent Miler. The issuer did not provide the details, nor is it responsible for their accuracy.

Key Card Details

Card Name w Details & Review (no offer)

$90 Annual Fee
Earning rate: 3X Virgin Atlantic ✦ 1.5X everywhere else
Base: 1.5X (1.95%)
Brand: 3X (3.9%)
Card Info: Mastercard World Elite issued by BOA. This card has no foreign currency conversion fees.
Big spend bonus: Companion award ticket with $25K annual spend ✦ 7,500 bonus points with $15K cardmember year spend + an additional 7,500 points with $25K cardmember year spend ✦ 25 tier points towards elite status per $2,500 spend (max 50 tier points per month).

Quick Thoughts

While we used to frequently see a bonus that was advertised as “90K miles” on this card, that offer was really for 75K bonus miles (See: An analysis of the Virgin Atlantic 90K offer) and we have not seen that offer return in quite some time. This offer is being advertised as an 80K offer, but once again that number includes anniversary spending bonus points that are an annual feature of the card rather than a new cardmember bonus, so this is really a 65K offer.

One of the nice things about Virgin Atlantic miles is that they are easy to obtain, which means it is easy to add miles to those earned from this bonus to put together the points you need for an award. Virgin Atlantic is an Amex transfer partner, Chase transfer partner, and Citi transfer partner.

Virgin Atlantic has a number of great sweet spots, including the fact that Virgin Atlantic sometimes shows excellent Delta award availability (and for many fewer miles). Here are a couple of posts on using Virgin Atlantic miles:

Of course, another Virgin Atlantic sweet spot is for ANA First Class between the eastern US and Tokyo for 120K miles round trip or just 110K miles round trip from the west coast. Virgin Atlantic publishes different award charts for each partner, which can be found here.

Overall, it’s great to see an increased offer finally return on this card for those who have been waiting it out for a better bonus.

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