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You can now redeem Virgin Atlantic points for El Al flights.
Award rates aren’t cheap, though with Alaska’s partnership with El Al going away at the end of July, it’s always good to have more options.
Virgin also often has 30% mileage transfer bonuses, which will help take some of the edge off these rates!
Booking via Virgin:
Booking via Alaska:
One bargain with Virgin points is booking infant lap child travel. You’ll pay just 1,000 points in coach, 2,000 points in premium, or 5,000 points in business class, each way, for an infant ticket.
Virgin Silver elites will get an extra checked suitcase.
Virgin Gold elites will get an extra checked suitcase, priority security, check-in, baggage, and boarding, and lounge access.
You can also earn Virgin points on El Al paid flights as follows:
Virgin Silver members will get 30% bonus points and Golds will get 60% bonus points. You can also earn tier points for El Al paid flights.
Here’s what a one-way flight to/from Tel Aviv will set you back in Virgin points:
- Zone 1 (1-500 miles): 5.5K coach, 10K premium, 20K business.
- Eilat, Larnaca, Paphos, Rhodes
- Zone 2 (501-1,000 miles): 11K coach, 17K premium, 28K business.
- Athens, Bucharest, Sofia, Tbilisi, Thessaloniki
- Zone 3 (1,001-1,500 miles): 17.5K coach, 27K premium, 45K business.
- Budapest, Chisinau, Dubai, Dubrovnik, Krakow, Rome, Tivat, Vienna
- Zone 4 (1,501-2,250 miles): 26K coach, 32K premium, 70K business.
- Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Liege, London/LHR, London/LTN, Madrid, Marseille, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Nice, Paris, Prague, Venice, Warsaw, Zurich
- Zone 5 (2,251-3,000 miles): 31K coach, 41K premium, 80K business.
- Casablanca, Delhi, Lisbon, Marrakech, Mumbai, Seychelles
- Zone 6 (3,001-4,000 miles): 41K coach, 54K premium, 97K business.
- Zone 7 (4,001-5,000 miles): 52K coach, 68K premium, 125K business.
- Bangkok, Phuket
- Zone 8 (5,001-6,000 miles): 62K coach, 84K premium, 150K business.
- Boston, JFK, Newark, Tokyo
- Zone 9 (6,001-7,000 miles): 73K coach, 97K premium, 175K business.
- Fort Lauderdale, Miami
- Zone 10 (7,001+ miles): 91K coach, 122K premium, 220K business.
- Los Angeles
If you have problems typing in your desired airport you will need to click the location icon as shown below and manually search for your destination by country and state. If your destination still isn’t available you will have to call Virgin Atlantic to book award travel to that destination.
On the search page you can select one-way or round-trip, exact dates, flexible within 1 week, or within 5 weeks by changing the word “dates” in the URL to “calendar” on the award calendar search results page. You can also change the class of service by clicking on “Show advanced options.” When you are viewing the award calendar you can toggle it to show direct flights only.
Want to earn Virgin Atlantic points?
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with 30 % transfer bonus they often have. it is not a terrible deal, considering alaska partnership is ending, delta baically require round trip, qantas blocks most availbility, etihad charge more…
using the same math 65k for premium is decent. 115k business not quite
Attempting to searching available reward flights from jfk-tlv and nothing is coming up. What am I doing wrong?
same here.
maybe your trying round trip.
seems like you have to search one way.
Is this equivalent to the Alaska/etihad availability or Qantas ?
Same availability as Alaska/Delta
i purchased KLM award flights for virgin atlantic metal with connection the flight between went from 2 hours to 7 hours, KLM customer services terrible, any ideas?
If I’m flying Elal and continuing with virgin Atlantic do I get points with Elal ? Virgin? Or both?
I booked this type of connection through delta award, on El Al I earned diamond’s + points and on virgin only tier points.
Wow. Disappointing redemption options. For biz, that’s a minimum equivalent of $4,500 in cash based on 1.5 cents/point when transferring to Virgin (disregarding the frequent transfer bonuses). Maybe a decent deal for JFK-LHR, where taxes on Virgin metal are very high, but that’s ALOT of points each way.
Will this work with companion offer ?
I have the same question. I guess there is only one way to find out… Whoever books first should let everyone else know.
Isnt that just for Virgin metal?
No companion offer is only on virgin metal
Any DP whether they have availability like Alaska and Etihad?
Same availability as Alaska/Delta
Can one fly TLV-LHR-JFK and earn matmid points?
Idk any decent redemption I’ve ever seen with Virgin points always had a million dollars in fees
fees are very low on partner flights (except AF/ klm) ie. delta Ita ANA etc.
I have used VS for cheap US-departing DL long-haul flights. Things like 30k VS points + $5.60 or so for the very same DL flights where DL wanted over 100k DL miles + $5.60 or so.
are all the 30% bonuses over?
Yes, but they occur regularly.
Are the cheaper award options for El Al elsewhere?
Lax :/
im finding plenty of availability
Doesn’t seem the 30% chase transfer bonus is still available. Expired on 6/14. This post was written 6/19. Am I missing some info? Do these bonus transfers happen frequently?
The point was that they occur regularly.
Any idea when we will be able to book ELAL with flying blue points. and how many points will it cost nyc-tlv?
This is a huge inflation over the Alaska rates, but much easier to get Virgin points than Alaska. May this be our only problems in life.
Where can I search which dates are available business on Alaska?
If I book elal Business class on Alaska how do I/Can i add a lap infant?
Good luck!!! They’ll keep blaming it on each other!!! Speaking from experience
Which points can be transferred to Alaskan?
I booked a El al reward flight on Alaska for January How can I change the date
Will the ticket expire? or Alaska will stop to sell Elal Flights?
I just booked a round trip on elal from tlv to jfk through delta for 2 weeks in july for 108,000 delta points which is more then the 86000 (after the 30% bonus of course) that it would cost through virgin so it doesnt seem like such a bad deal
make that 96k with the transfer bonus
@dan, @jj
If I book an Elal Business class on Alaska how do I/Can i add a lap infant?