Qantas and Virgin Australia have both launched bonus points offers for manual transfers into their respective frequent flyer schemes this month.
Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering 15% bonus Velocity Points when you transfer from one of its participating card partners, flybuys or hotels.
A whole bunch of partners are participating.
Qantas meanwhile is offering up to a whopping 45% bonus Qantas Points on transfers from cards – but before you get too excited, note that this is scaled according to the transfer size and only a handful of cards in Australia allow you to manually transfer points to Qantas (eg the Amex Platinum Card).
Here’s how it works:
| Bonus Points | Points transfer |
|---|---|
| 45% more Qantas Points | 2,000,000 Qantas Points and over |
| 25% more Qantas Points | 500,001 – 1,999,999 Qantas Points |
| 15% more Qantas Points | Up to 500,000 Qantas Points |
As usual, these offers don’t apply to cards that automatically earn Qantas or Velocity Points, rather it must be a rewards program where you manually transfer points.
Both promotions end on 30 November 2018.
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