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While booking a premium cabin to Europe for 47,500 miles might not seem like it’s worthy of an award alert, it’s worth giving this deal a second look because of the current transfer bonuses and promotions. Between November 2022 and April 2023, there is plenty of availability in Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class cabin onboard the new A330-900neo between Tampa and London. Beyond April, you can still book at the same rate, but as of now it will not be onboard the A330-900neo.

While Virgin Atlantic is a transfer partner of many different flexible points programs, right now Chase is running a transfer bonus of an additional 30% when transferring to Virgin Atlantic. Right away, this knocks the price of business class down to 37,000 points each way when using Ultimate Rewards.

But let’s not stop there, you can also stack the Virgin Atlantic promotion that’s offering 50% of your miles when you book a reward flight between the US and UK departing anytime between now and March 25th, 2023. You can do this by linking your Virgin Flying Club and Virgin Red accounts and booking your award flight before November 7th. Once you’ve done that, you’ll get 23,750 Virgin Atlantic miles returned to your Flying Club account meaning you only used 13,250 miles to book a business class flight. Of course, there are always some hefty fees that accompany a Virgin Atlantic award flight, so you can expect to pay an additional ~$870 each way in taxes and fees.

All of the dates below have confirmed availability for at least 2 passengers.

Available Dates

TPA-LHR

November:

5, 8, 12, 14, 15, 19, 29

January:

9-11, 16, 19-21, 27, 29

February:

3, 6, 8, 12, 13, 15, 20

March:

14, 16, 19, 20

May:

1, 14, 18, 22, 30

September:

5-16, 18-23, 25-28

LHR-TPA

November:

4, 6, 8-10, 12, 14, 16, 21, 23, 29

December:

1-5, 11, 13

January:

14, 16-18, 20-26, 31

February:

1, 3, 7, 13-15, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28

March:

2, 6, 9-11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20

April:

25, 26

May:

3, 8, 10, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25-27

June:

2, 4-8, 10, 14, 15

September:

5-8, 9-23, 25-29