Virgin Atlantic has launched a new feature to its Flying Club loyalty program called “High Five.”
As of today, all Flying Club members are eligible to earn toward High Five, which rewards them for flying with Virgin across five calendar years. Even better, award flights will be eligible, and the qualifying activity will be backdated up to five years.
The News
- Virgin Flying Club has launched High Five, a rewards program for regular but infrequent customers.
- Flying Club members who fly a paid or award flight with Virgin Atlantic in five different years will receive 12,000 bonus points.
- Your High Five progress can be viewed in the Virgin Atlantic app.
Quick Thoughts
If you fly with Virgin in five different years – which don’t have to be consecutive – you’ll earn 12,000 bonus points. That’s a great reward, considering award flights count, and award pricing between the US and the UK starts at 6,000 points one-way.
After you’ve reached your first High Five, you’ll earn 10% bonus points on paid flights with Virgin thereafter if you have entry-level Red tier status. You’ll then earn a new High Five reward for every five different calendar years that you fly with Virgin Atlantic.
There are a few terms to be aware of. As already mentioned, years are calculated on a calendar-year basis, with only one flight per year counted towards a High Five.
The good thing is that Virgin will calculate qualifying activity retroactively, looking back five years from January 2026 (i.e., flights taken from 2021 onward). If you’ve taken qualifying flights with Virgin Atlantic every year since 2021, that means you’ll immediately be eligible for your first award of 12,000 bonus points.
There are a couple of other important terms. One is that only Virgin Atlantic-operated flights count. If you booked a flight with Virgin Atlantic points that was operated by Delta, that won’t count, even though it would’ve been a codeshare.
Virgin Atlantic has also stated that only flights taken as a Flying Club member count towards a High Five. That means if you flew on Virgin Atlantic metal but the flight was booked with, say, Delta SkyMiles, it won’t be eligible either unless your Virgin Atlantic Flying Club number was attached to your ticket at the time of booking.
Want to learn more about miles and points? Subscribe to email updates or check out our podcast on your favorite podcast platform.
Do flights booked with Virgin points on partner airlines count?
Article clearly says no. Awards must be flown on Virgin metal to count.
I don’t see a way to “register” after clicking the Direct Link to Registration. Also, I’m guessing Virgin Australia, booked with Virgin miles, doesn’t count?
Is this indefinite?
If I flew in 2024, and will again in 4 more years with the last being in 2035, do I then get the status in 2035?
Yep, that’s how it’s set up, provided Virgin doesn’t make any changes to the feature in the next 10 years. There’s no guarantee on that front and who knows how valuable 6K points will be in a decade’s time.
This sounds like more fun than the Jet Blue challenge.