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Welcome to Freakimilers Coffee Break, where we focus on a single topic related to miles and points.

And each coffee break is limited to 20 minutes or less, pour your money back.

On today's coffee break, best uses for virgin points.

Virgin points come from Virgin Atlantic rewards, but also from a separate program called Virgin Red.

And whether you earn points from one or the other, they're all really

combined into one so you can use them either way. So we're just sort of generically describing

them as virgin points for the show. And we decided it was a good time to talk about uses for virgin

points because as we record this,

Chase has a 40% transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic

through February 28th.

And we noticed that this is the third 40% transfer bonus

to Virgin Atlantic in just the last four months.

So we've had, now this is the second from Chase, and we had one from American Express at the end of last year.

And so it's looking like those are becoming more and more common, and of course, that can make your transferable points go much further when that kind of thing is available.

So it's a good idea to sort of keep an eye on.

What are good uses of these points so you know what to look for next time a great transfer bonus rolls around.

Yeah, and you know, this could be sort of a side effect benefit of going dynamic. We normally

hate it when programs go with dynamic award charts, and Virgin sort of has that going on,

where they'll charge, at least for their own flights, more for some seats than others, but that

creates opportunity in the sense that those flights that are in less demand,

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