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 at up to 40% off.
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% off: what you need to know
| Offer expires: 21 October 2025 |
Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering up to 40% off points on purchased Points Boosters until 21 October 2025. This offer is tiered, so you’ll get a bigger discount the more points you buy.
- Buy 1,000-14,000 points: No bonus
- Buy 15,000-80,000 points: 20% off
- Buy 90,000-150,000 points: 30% off
- Buy 160,000-200,000 points: 35% off
- Buy 210,000-250,000 points: 40% off
Here are the key caveats:
- Each purchase must be a minimum of 1,000 points and a maximum of 250,000 points.
- A maximum of 250,000 points purchased per calendar year applies. Bonus points don’t count.
- The price per point varies. As you buy larger amounts, the cost per point decreases. Plus, the bonuses are tiered based on how much you buy. So keep this in mind.
- You can buy points as often as you like as long as you stay under the overall cap.
The value per point gets better as you buy bigger amounts. Say you purchased 15,000 points with a 20% discount: each point would cost you 2.41c. With this current offer, you can get 250,000 points at a cost of 1.4c each.
We currently value Velocity Points at 1.90 cents each. When you redeem your points, try to get more than that value.
It’s worth pointing out that this offer isn’t quite as generous as previous offers. The tiering system now only applies the 40% discount when you’re buying 210,000+ points, whereas it was previously available with buying 110,000+ points.
Maximising a 40% off promotion for a huge discount
- We generally recommend only buying points as a top-up, rather than getting the whole balance. But when there’s a 40% off offer, there can be cases where buying the whole amount needed for a reward can be handy.
Just make sure that you have reward seat availability to book before buying points.
Note: Velocity Points expire after 24 months of inactivity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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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.
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.
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!).
Cheers
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?
Do you know anything to the contrary?
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.
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?
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.
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!)
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.