Need a few more Velocity Points to book your next reward flight, perhaps in Business Class? For a limited time, receive a 50% bonus on purchased points, making this a good opportunity to top up your balance while paying less.
Buying Points might make sense when topping up your balance for specific reward seat bookings on Virgin Australia or with partners like Qatar Airways or Singapore Airlines. We also have a dedicated guide on how to buy Velocity Points if you’re new to this idea.
50% bonus: what you need to know
| Offer expires: 11:59pm, 23 October 2026 |
Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering up to a 50% bonus on purchased Points.
You can enjoy a flat 50% discount on any amount over 50,000 Points – this is better than some deals, where the bonus points are only applied at a tiered level.
- Buy 50,000 points or more: receive 50% bonus points
Here are the key caveats:
- Each purchase must be between 50,000 and 250,000 Points to receive any discount.
- A maximum of 250,000 Points may be purchased per calendar year. Bonus points don’t count.
- You can buy Points as often as you like as long as you stay under the overall cap.
- For this promotion, you will need a minimum of 1,000 Velocity Points in your account to purchase more.
Case study: Perth to SE Asia in Business Class
Early in 2026, I flew from Perth to Da Nang (Vietnam) in Singapore Airlines Business Class. The award seat costs 44,500 KrisFlyer miles + A$110, which I transferred from 68,975 Velocity Points. Let’s say you’ve already saved 76,000 points, found availability, and want to book this for two people return.
With a 50% bonus, you could buy 200,000 Velocity Points for $4,681. That gives you a total of 376,000 Velocity Points with the bonus, enough to book two return tickets via KrisFlyer. Add the taxes, and you’re effectively paying A$5,121 for two people return, or $2,560.50 per person.
The current return cash fare charged by Singapore Airlines is around A$4,890 per person, which is a substantial saving after buying Velocity Points Boosters with a 50% bonus.
Case study: Sydney to Bali with Virgin Australia
Here’s another example. Say you’re after return flights to Bali in Virgin Australia Business Class, and you only have a thousand Points saved up. The cash return price for two people in May 2027 is $2,911 per person.
But with the pair of Business reward seats below, all you need to do is buy 140,000 Velocity Points for $3,276 and receive an extra 70,000 bonus points. Add on $604 in fees and taxes, and that brings you to $3,880 for two people return. That’s $1,940 per person, including all fees – around 33% in savings just by buying Points strategically.
Tip: You can also use Velocity Points to book reward seats on other partner airlines such as Qatar Airways, United and ANA.
How to buy Velocity Points Booster
- Work out how many extra points you need to buy (including the bonus). We recommend checking that your desired flights are available for redemption.
- Go to the Points Booster page via our special link below and purchase the amount of points needed. The bonus points will be added on top.
- Allow up to 72 hours for the points you purchased and bonus points to be credited to your account. However, in most cases, it should be near-instant.
- Use your new points to redeem your reward!
Check out our current points valuations. When you redeem your points, try to get more than that value. Keep in mind that Points Booster transactions are processed overseas and may incur an international transaction fee. You may wish to use a card that doesn’t charge international fees.
Points Booster October 2026 Promotion Terms & Conditions:
Buying Points with Velocity Points Booster is facilitated by Points Inc.
To be eligible for this offer, Velocity members must have a minimum Points balance of 1 Point. Members will receive a 50% bonus Velocity Points on purchases of between 50,000 and 250,000 Points purchased through the Velocity Points Booster website or the Membership Contact Centre between 12:01 AM AEDT 20 October 2026 and 11:59 PM AEDT 23 October 2026 (Promotion Period).
The minimum purchase for Members is 50,000 Points at a time and can be purchased as many times as desired during the Promotion Period. Members can buy up to a maximum of 250,000 Points per calendar year. The Bonus Points awarded during the promotional period will not count towards the maximum limit allowed in a calendar year. This offer does not apply to Points purchased when searching or booking a Reward Seat via Reward Seat Points Top-Up.
Points will be allocated to the Velocity membership account of the member buying them. Prices are in Australian Dollars and are inclusive of GST. The applicable price will be the price published at the time the Points are purchased and is subject to change for any future transactions without notice. Once the member buys the Points, the amount paid is non-refundable (unless the member is entitled to a refund under the Australian Consumer Law). Points Booster transactions are processed outside of Australia. The member is responsible for any additional fees charged by the member’s financial institution in connection with the Points Booster transaction. Velocity Points will be credited to your Velocity Account within 72 hours after full and successful payment. Points bought must be redeemed for a Reward. Buying Points doesn’t guarantee the availability of a desired Reward. If you have any enquiries in relation to Points Booster, please contact the Membership Contact Centre.
Velocity membership Terms and Conditions apply.
Offer history
Sometimes Velocity offers a bonus and sometimes a discount. The 100% bonus deal back in October 2020 is the best we’ve seen to date, though a 40% discount is also good.
| Month | Bonus (%) | Discount (%) | Lowest price per point | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 50 | 1.56 | flat 50% bonus | |
| September 2026 | 40 | 1.4 | Point Hacks and Australian Frequent Flyer special offer | |
| August 2026 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| June 2026 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| April 2026 | 40 | 1.4 | flat 40% off for three days, then tiered | |
| February 2026 | 40 | 1.67 | tiered | |
| December 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| October 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| June 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| May 2025 | 35 | 1.52 | tiered | |
| February 2025 | 40 | 1.67 | tiered | |
| October 2024 | 30 | 1.51 | tiered | |
| July 2024 | 40 | 1.4 | lowest price, tiered | |
| May 2024 | 35 | 1.52 | tiered | |
| March 2024 | 30 | 1.64 | not tiered | |
| December 2023 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| July 2023 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| November 2022 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| April 2022 | 30 | 1.64 | Also had 30% off VA reward seats |
Summing up
Important tip: ensure there is reward seat availability for the redemption you’re eyeing before you purchase the extra points needed! Then, it’s easy to buy the Velocity Points Booster and redeem it straight away.
In general, we don’t advise buying points speculatively in any program. But if you have your eye on that trip and it’s available for redemption, Velocity Points Boosters could help you get there. For other ways to earn Velocity Points, check out this guide.
American Express Velocity Platinum
- Bonus points
- 50,000 Velocity Points¹
- Annual fee
- $440 p.a.
- Earn
- 1.25 Velocity Points earned per $1 on all eligible spend except for government bodies². 2.25 Velocity Points per $1 spent on selected Virgin Australia purchases². 0.5 Velocity Points per $1 on Government spend²
American Express Velocity Platinum
- Bonus Points
- 50,000 Velocity Points¹
- Annual Fee
- $440 p.a.
- Earn
- 1.25 Velocity Points earned per $1 on all eligible spend except for government bodies². 2.25 Velocity Points per $1 spent on selected Virgin Australia purchases². 0.5 Velocity Points per $1 on Government spend²
Earn 50,000 Velocity Points¹ when you apply for the American Express Velocity Platinum, are approved, and spend $5,000 in the first 3 months. The card earns Velocity Points on spend and includes complimentary Virgin Australia Lounge Access every time you fly with Virgin Australia. New Amex Card Members only. T&Cs apply.
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Hi Guys,
Can we please make it a bit clearer in the article and EDM’s that when buying points through this offer the company that processed the transaction is UK based. Little disappointing to see an offer being pushed by an Australian Company incurs foreign transaction fees….
Hi there, using the link, the drop down menu only allows me to select a maximum of 80K points with a discount of 20%. Is there an error? Or is this deal no longer going up to 250K points? Any info would be helpful : ) Thanks!
I brought 250,000 points yesterday they got credited within a minute my wife brought 250,000 this morning at 7.00am and she still hasn’t received the points but the money from the account has been taken out?
Hey Brandon, Love to see this article updated with the latest chart. I realise history is history, but the points needed for the same journey is crazy now.
I make zone 8 to zone 3 at 78,000 krisflyer points
Why is it better to transfer to SIA instead of booking (as I do atmo) directly through VA? Is it an availability issue? Or are the VA charges so much more than SIA for the same ticket.
Can you transfer the purchased velocity point to KrisFlyer miles?
Yes, you can.
Hi Brandon, thanks for your article! Do you know if purchasing points using a velocity-associated credit card (I.e. velocity platinum Amex card) is considered an eligible spend to accrue an increased points value per $1 (for example, using the above mentioned card it is currently 2.25 points per $1 spent on eligible Virgin Australia purchases).
Hi, unfortunately not as these are processed by Points.com, not Virgin Australia.
Big thanks Brandon!! I used this hack mid December 2023 to buy points for 4 x tickets (2 adults + 2 kids + 1 infant) Melbourne to LAX 2 days later in business class on United at 95500 points a ticket, had about 150,000 points beforehand so still hit the wallet a little but totally worth it with young kids.
Was due to fly Qantas on reward tickets but cancelled them 48 hrs out and got a full refund because they changed the scheduled time on me, had to ask for no points penalty though.
Had a quick read of this. Nz based commenter. Even if you get the velocity points quite cheaply, their award chart for J + the fees and surcharges is uncompetitive. Aeroplan, alaska, avianca and avios are much better value.
I guess if you have already earned some velocity points it might stack up but if you are outright buying all the velocity points then there are cheaper options. You would still get a business class fare cheaper via velocity points but there are even better ways to get that fare if buying the points through those other programs.
In case anyone is interested in making the purchase, your credit card company may consider this ‘foreign transaction’. When I bought two lots under my account and my partner’s during the November 2022 promotion, both our credit cards (different issuer) charged us the 3% foreign transaction fees. So make sure you use a credit card that waives/does not charge the fee.
Overall a nice article, but…
The October 2020 maths in the table don’t look right for the 100% bonus offer (?).
Oh and your SYD-LHR one-way biz on SQ example seems to be completely messed up:
1. You only need to buy 140,000 points to have enough to cover 139,000 point redemption (not 150,000)
2. The applicable discount for that number if points is 40% (not 30%)
3. You’d be paying AUD1965.60 for the 140,000 points at 40% (not AUD2457 for 150,000 points at 30%: in any case the list price under the current promo is AUD2106 not AUD2457 for 150,000 points)
4. Total cost including cash copayment therefore AUD1966 plus AUD473, thus AUD2439 (not AUD2930)
Yes or no?
For return rinse and repeat (presumably using family pooling to avoid maximum point purchase limits) – your’e already purchasing in the highest discount of 40%.
Incidentally, your (dumb and misleading) point valuation of 1.8 cents is completely irrelevant when you clearly know how much you’ve paid for a point and you are recommending (sensibly) only to purchase for specific reward that’s available, thus you know the potential redemption value for those points.
In this case your’e suggesting that folk accept a minimum of about 30% return on investment (1.4 cents compared with 1.8 cent) – do you really think that’s a sensible goal?!
Alternatively, if you’ve paid 1.4 cents then simply decide whether the difference between that and the redemption value of the reward is sufficient to warrant the effort and risk (award snaffled up before you get back to it or ghost availability).
At a redemption value of 2.8 cents you’ve simply made a 100% return on investment.
Comparing, say, a 2.8 cent redemption value to the Point Hacks point valuation of 1.8 cents tells you nothing of substance (unless you need validation from folk who, apparently, can’t even get their own math right!).
You have stated the price per point for this offer (and the last) as 1.04c. If I am not mistaken, this should be 1.4c.
Thanks for flagging! It was correct in-text but mistyped in the table so I’ve fixed it.
Small compliment maybe but at least the above article even with its various errors is a more competent effort than the drivel on the Point Hacks sister site AFF on the same topic and its utterly blatant credit card promo…
Hi platy, the errors have been amended. Blame working while jetlagged for that 🙂
Just gone to do this today, only to find they’ve taken the website offline and the points offer is now unavailable. Tried at 19.00 AWST. Thanks Velocity!
Every time I have looked for a rewards seat, I can only find BC rewards seats for well over 1 million points per seat. I’m based in Adelaide but have tried from Melbourne and Sydney and find the same thing. I have tried looking for 3 seats (unlikely I know) and even just looking for the single seat just to see if that changes things. I’m Platinum (not that it should make that big of a difference) and have tried multiple days over the September 23 month so I’d love to know how old that screen shot is. Or on the other hand, any tips on whether I am doing something wrong.
Cheers
Just double-checking, we can’t transfer Velocity points to KrisFlyer currently?
And if they re-introduce the transfer, it may be 1.55 Velocity : 1 KrisFlyer, which is not worth it with this current deal of 30% off Velocity points purchase?
Can anyone provide any advice on this?
Hi Loong, correct, the transfer isn’t back yet. We don’t know if the rate will change when it returns. It’s probably best not to buy Velocity Points speculatively for the KrisFlyer transfer, unless you were to redeem for Singapore Airlines reward seats via Velocity immediately.
Virgin Australia and Travel Associates advise that purchased points cannot be used for Rewards Seats, where in fact they may be economic.
Do you know anything to the contrary?
Hi John Worrall
We have not heard anything regarding Velocity Points purchased through Virgin Australia’s Points Booster offering not being able to be used for reward seats. The only requirement is that points are purchased to redeem a specific Reward.
The points table I was referring to is the one on the ‘points booster promo’ page, but I have now worked out what is confusing about it. The table in question lists figures in the ‘points/cost’ format, when in fact this should be called a ‘points/value’ table. Reference to ‘cost’ implies a purchase transaction, i.e. it would cost $ to buy X points. Yet the points booster table intends to demonstrate how much ‘value’ in the form of bonus points does one get by purchasing points. So in this context the points booster table is rightly showing figures up to 50,000 points only because it only refers to the 20% bonus component. Like I said, the 20% bonus represents a ‘value’ of the offer, not the ‘cost’. Sorry if I caused the unnecessary confusion.
with the recent changes in value of transferring velocity points to krisflyer, is it still worth it under this promo to just buy velocity points and transfer them straight to krisflyer.
I read through Velocity T&Cs and cannot find anywhere if purchased points are even allowed to be transferred to KrysFlyer. Also, in relation to the purchase table, it is very confusing in that it shows $ amounts up to 50,000 points yet T&Cs say one can purchase up to 250,000 points per calendar year. So, where is the table for 50,001 – 250,000 points?
Good point: the terms and conditions do state ‘They cannot be sold, transferred or exchanged other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions’ but I’m not sure whether transferring to KrisFlyer would be included in that. I’d wager that you could transfer them but I don’t want to say that with 100% certainty.
I’m a little confused about the purchase table comment. When I click through to the buy Velocity Points page, it does show amounts right up to 250,000 points in the table. Perhaps try a different browser?
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the reminder. This promotion was also offered in April of this year and I posted it on the Deals and Tips page of the Community section. Wasn’t sure how else to get the message out there.
Thank you. I’m sorry I missed that—I can see it here now. Will endeavour to keep a closer eye on that. I have updated this guide accordingly.
Please double check the points purchase limit presented in this article.
IIRC you may purchase 50% of your current points balance, which is not the same as 50% of the points needed!
An important difference – for example, if you need 150 points for your redemption you would need to have an existing balance of 100 points in order to maximise the 50,000 point max allowable purchase, thus one third not one half of points needed for the redemption.
(That said, I’m not sure if VA would allow the two annual point purchase in quick succession – if you are able to do back to back purchases you could indeed double your points from a 100,000 pt starting point to a 200,000 point end point by making two 50,000 point transactions! You could theoretically even more than double your points if starting with less than 100,000 points!)
Hi Matt,
Do you know if I can use my velocity points to upgrade a person travelling with me also? I have enough points for 2 upgrades from Sydney to Abu Dhabi.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, you can only use your Velocity points to upgrade on a Virgin Australia flight and Virgin no longer flies to Abu Dhabi—that’s on Etihad and you cannot upgrade on partners. More info here.