Velocity Frequent Flyer Points Boosters are a handy stop-gap measure for when you’re just shy of your next reward. Right now, you can buy more Velocity Points with up to an extra 40% bonus points.
Buying Velocity Points might make sense when topping up your balance for specific reward seat bookings on Virgin Australia, or a partner like Singapore Airlines or United. We also have a dedicated guide on how to buy Velocity Points if you’re new to this idea.
Up to 40% bonus points: what you need to know
| Offer expires: 3 March 2026 |
Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering up to 40% bonus points on purchased points. This offer is tiered, so you’ll get a bigger bonus the more points you buy.
- Buy 1,000 to 60,000 points: no bonus
- Buy 70,000 to 250,000 points: 40% bonus
Here are the key caveats:
- Each purchase must be a minimum of 70,000 points and a maximum of 250,000 points to receive the bonus.
- A maximum of 250,000 points purchased per calendar year applies. Bonus points don’t count.
- You can buy points as often as you like as long as you stay under the overall cap.
Here’s how to make use of the offer:
- Work out how many extra points you need to buy (including the bonus).
- Go to the Points Booster page, 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.
*Points Booster February 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 40% bonus Velocity Points on purchases of between 70,000 and 250,000 Points purchased through the Velocity Points Booster website or the Membership Contact Centre between 12:01 AM AEDT 24 February 2026 and 11:59 PM AEDT 3 March 2026 (Promotion Period).
The minimum purchase for Members is 70,000 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. Points Booster transactions facilitated through the Membership Contact Centre will attract a fee of $20 or 2,500 Points. 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.
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% bonus is also good.
| Month | Bonus (%) | Discount (%) | Lowest price per point | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Qatar Airways trip to Europe or that ANA flight to Tokyo, Velocity Points Boosters could help you get there.
For other ways to earn Velocity Points, check out this guide.
American Express Velocity Platinum
- Sign-up Bonus:
- Up to 100,000 bonus Velocity Points¹
- Rewards Earn Rate:
- 1.25 Velocity Points earned per $1 on all eligible spend except for government bodies⁵. 2.25 Velocity Points per $1 spent on selected Virgin Australia purchases⁵. 0.5 Velocity Points per $1 on Government spend⁵
- Annual Fee:
- $440 p.a.
- Offer expires
- 30 April 2026
- The American Express Velocity Platinum Card has 70,000 bonus Velocity Points on offer for new American Express Card Members who apply, are approved and spend $5,000 on eligible purchases within the first 3 months of approval, plus an additional 30,000 Velocity Points when you spend a minimum of $1 on your Card within 90 days of paying your second year annual Card Fee¹. (Offer ends 30 April 2026. New Amex Card Members only. T&Cs apply.) Includes several perks such as Virgin Australia Lounge Access² every time you fly domestically with Virgin Australia, 2 VA Guest Lounge Passes³ each year and a Complimentary Domestic Return Virgin Australia Flight⁷.
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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.