Want to elevate your Velocity Points balance? Whether you’re travelling for business around Australia or venturing out on holiday overseas, there’s an offer for you. Here are the latest bonus points offers with Virgin Australia.
Triple points on Virgin Australia flights
| Expiry: 4 December 2025 |
Making some new Virgin Australia flight bookings? Don’t forget to head to the Velocity website or app and activate the triple points offer first. It’s valid for new bookings made by 4 December 2025, for travel up to 27 October 2026.
The usual earn rate on Virgin Australia domestic, trans-Tasman and international short-haul flights is 4 points per dollar. With this offer, you’ll earn 12 points per dollar, in addition to any tier or credit card bonuses that are applied to the base rate.
Travel Tuesday – triple points on travel extras
| Expiry: 8 December 2025 |
Move aside, Cyber Monday – Travel Tuesday is where the offers are at. Until 8 December, enjoy triple Velocity Points on a range of partners, including:
- Virgin Australia Holidays
- Princess Cruises via Cruisepilot
- Travel Insurance via Cover-More
- Virgin Australia Hotels by Hopper
- Car Hire via Trawler
For most partners, that’s a boosted 9 Velocity Points per dollar on most eligible bookings.
Up to 500 Velocity + 500 Flybuys bonus points
| Expiry: 31 January 2026 |
Don’t miss out on some easy bonus points with Flybuys and Velocity.
Until 31 January 2025, new and existing customers can earn 250 bonus Velocity Points and 250 bonus Flybuys points on their next manual transfer of at least 1,000 Flybuys points.
The Auto Transfer offer is 500 bonus Velocity Points and 500 bonus Flybuys points for customers who have never used Auto Transfer before. This offer isn’t available if you’ve previously done an Auto Transfer before.
As we sometimes see higher Auto Transfer offers for first-time users, you may want to consider holding off transferring your points until later in 2026.
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Recent notable Velocity Points offer history
- December 2025: Triple points on Virgin Austrlaia flights + travel extras
- October 2025: Double points on Virgin Australia hotels
- September 2025: Up to 20,000 bonus Velocity Points with selected credit cards
- April 2025: Quadruple points on Virgin Australia hotels
- March 2025: Up to 30,000 bonus Velocity Points with selected credit cards
- January 2025: Up to 20,000 bonus Velocity Points on new VA long-haul flights
- October 2024: Double Velocity Points on Qatar Airways flights
- August 2024: 2,000 bonus Velocity Points on Virgin Australia flights
- August 2024: 50% more Velocity Points on Singapore Airlines flights
- July 2024: Double Velocity Points on Qatar Airways flights
- May 2024: Quadruple Velocity Points at Rocket Travel (hotels)
- February 2024: Double Velocity Points on new flight bookings
- February 2024: 30,000 extra points or 200 SCs on selected credit cards
- November 2023: 30,000 extra Velocity Points on selected credit cards
- August 2023: Double Velocity Points on Qatar Airways flights
Velocity offer history before 2023:
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- December 2022: Double Velocity Points on all new flight bookings
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- August 2022: Double Velocity Points on all new flight bookings
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- June 2022: Double Velocity Points for new Business Flyer signups
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- May 2022: 40K bonus points or six months trial Gold with Velocity credit cards
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- April 2022: 30% off Virgin Australia reward seats
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- July 2021: Double points on fuel at 7-Eleven
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- June 2021: Up to 4.5x bonus points on the Velocity e-Store
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- April 2021: Earn triple Velocity Points on your next flight
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- February 2021: Earn double Velocity Points on your next flight
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- January 2021: Win your share of 20 million Velocity Points; earn 1,000 bonus points with Youfoodz
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- October 2020: Up to 8x bonus points on the Velocity e-Store
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- September 2020: Double Velocity Points on all Virgin Australia flights
Need even more points?
There are a number of other ways to earn bonus Velocity Points through offers, including by signing up for a Velocity points-earning credit card, shopping online through the Velocity e-Store, booking hotels and shopping with your Visa card at participating small businesses.
Got yourself a tidy balance of Velocity Points? Here are some of the best ways to use those points.
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Or do they need to apply for the card via the Velocity website?
Thanks!
And lets say I’m flying Virgin during these 4 months, and I reach 80 status credits and 2 sectors during that time. Is that automatic gold 12 months … or I have to do this earning after I achieve the “minimum spend” (4 months) ?
Many thanks to anyone who knows!
When I made the booking I took a screen shot of the sale page so I could prove what I was saying was correct. At the time when the sale began, it clearly read “Receive 30% off the points amount required to redeem Economy and Business Class Reward Seat on flights across Australia and Beyond”. (No mention of Virgin operated flights only in either the blurb or the T&C)
Since I raised it with Virgin, and after I booked and lodged a complaint that I am entitled to 30% off the points, I see that they have now changed the wording to “Receive 30% off the Points amount required to redeem Economy and Business Class Reward Seats WHEN YOU TRAVEL ON VIRGIN AUSTRALIA FLIGHTS across Australia and beyond.
That bit about “when you travel on Virgin Australia Flights” was not on the original sale fare advertising.
The original T&C had absolutely no mention that it only applied to Virgin Operated only flights. Originally the T&C (Screen shotted) said the sale applied to “year round Economy and Business level reward seats”.
Since then they’ve added in the words “Virgin Australia marketed and operated flights” which weren’t there in the beginning when I saw the sale and made my booking to take advantage of it.
As for Virgin’s website original T&C’s, it does mention “Redemption bookings are available across our international and domestic network (excluding Christmas Island & Cocos Island).”
My interpretation of ‘our’ is meaning Virgin Australia’s network and not partners, but your interpretation is something you’ll need to chase up with them.
But just for interest, the word “us, we, our” actually has a definition under Virgin’s Conditions of Carriage – it means Virgin “or any other carrier that accepts the booking”. So that means there was nothing at all in the original advert that limited the 30% discount to Virgin Operated flights only. They only changed the wording after I booked it and made them aware (and I’m presuming others probably made them aware too). Will let you know how I go.
Any insight, or indication for a double status credit promo?
The timing of double status credit promotions is unfortunately never known in advance. If we are to go by previous promotions, one would be due soon, however, it has been noted that Qantas may be moving away from blanket double status credit promotions, or at the very least, reducing the number of them, in favour of more targeted offers based on a member’s travel and search history.
Looking at the T&Cs on the e-mail, it suggests the 10,000,000 points are worth $317,073.17 (ex GST). So that suggests Velocity are valuing their own points at
3.17c each (+GST)
– A little overstated perhaps?
I have found a one way business class route (3 legs), that includes a leg in the A330 for under $650 but can only be booked via an agent as it is not available on the VA website.
Cheers
Matt
The terms and conditions don’t exclude agents. Just make sure to register for the promotion and book an eligible Virgin Australia flight during the promotion period.
The link to activate is taking me to the expired February double status offer.
An alternate approach is to log into Velocity and select Offers.
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Please try again as the link should now work.
Secure Parking is with QFF, so I can’t see Wilson partnering with QFF anytime soon. The Secure Parking-QFF offering wasn’t as good as the Wilson-VFF as it only allowed a secure a bay option to collect points.
I’m not sure why this would be the case. I would suggest to go direct to the source on this one and contact Velocity.
What is the best way to shop using flybuys? Will I be eligible just by swiping my flybuys card at coles and 1st choice liquor as I normally do? Or do i need to transfer flybuys points to velocity?
The terms of the promotion state that “To be eligible to receive the Christmas bonus Velocity Points you must earn Velocity Points between 20 November 2018 and 08 January 2019 (Activity Date) with three (3) or more Participating Partners”.
The only way to earn Velocity points from Flybuys is to transfer your Flybuys points to your Velocity Frequent Flyer account. Simply swiping your Flybuys card at Coles or 1st Choice will earn you Flybuys points only, which by itself is not sufficient to meet the requirements of this promotion.
Do you know if this offer is available for departures starting from ADL? For e.g booking a ADL-HKG via MEL on the outbound and inbound.
Do you get points if you book the tickets via an OTA? Say Amex Travel?
I’ve activated the offer and have some travel credit left with Amex.
Cheers
Mitch
The current triple points offer terms advise it is not valid with any other offers or promotions. Would the 10% off codes publicised on Point Hacks fall in to this category i.e. if I booked MEL-HKG using the virgin discount codes would I no longer be eligible for the Triple points?
Cant wait for the 20,000 points.
The Velocity points I received for the Delta flight were low, 0.5 pt per mile. Will I get the double points for the return leg even though I booked in Nov 2016?
Thanks