Velocity Frequent Flyer Points Boosters are a handy stop-gap measure for when you’re just shy of your next reward. Right now, you can buy more Velocity Points at up to 40% off.
Buying Velocity Points might make sense when topping up your balance for specific reward seat bookings on Virgin Australia, or a partner like Singapore Airlines or United. We also have a dedicated guide on how to buy Velocity Points if you’re new to this idea.
Up to 40% off: what you need to know
| Offer expires: 22 December 2025 |
Velocity Frequent Flyer is offering up to 40% off points on purchased Points Boosters until 22 December 2025. This offer is tiered, so you’ll get a bigger discount the more points you buy.
- Buy 1,000-35,000 points: No bonus
- Buy 40,000-90,000 points: 20% off
- Buy 100,000-190,000 points: 30% off
- Buy 200,000-240,000 points: 35% off
- Buy 250,000 points: 40% off
Here are the key caveats:
- Each purchase must be a minimum of 1,000 points and a maximum of 250,000 points.
- A maximum of 250,000 points purchased per calendar year applies. Bonus points don’t count.
- The price per point varies. As you buy larger amounts, the cost per point decreases. Plus, the bonuses are tiered based on how much you buy. So keep this in mind.
- You can buy points as often as you like as long as you stay under the overall cap.
The value per point gets better as you buy bigger amounts. Say you purchased 40,000 points with a 20% discount: each point would cost you 1.98c. With this current offer, you can get 250,000 points at a cost of 1.4c each.
We currently value Velocity Points at _v(1,vff) each. When you redeem your points, try to get more than that value.
It’s worth pointing out that this offer isn’t quite as generous as previous offers. The tiering system now only applies the 40% discount when you’re buying 250,000 points, whereas it was previously available when buying 110,000+ points.
- We generally recommend only buying points as a top-up, rather than getting the whole balance. But when there’s a 40% off offer, there can be cases where buying the whole amount needed for a reward can be handy.
Just make sure that you have reward seat availability to book before buying points.
Note: Velocity Points expire after 24 months of inactivity.
Offer history
Sometimes Velocity offers a bonus and sometimes a discount. The 100% bonus deal back in October 2020 is the best we’ve seen to date, though a 40% discount is also good.
| Month | Bonus (%) | Discount (%) | Lowest price per point | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| October 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| June 2025 | 40 | 1.4 | tiered | |
| May 2025 | 35 | 1.52 | tiered | |
| February 2025 | 40 | 1.67 | tiered | |
| October 2024 | 30 | 1.51 | tiered | |
| July 2024 | 40 | 1.4 | lowest price, tiered | |
| May 2024 | 35 | 1.52 | tiered | |
| March 2024 | 30 | 1.64 | not tiered | |
| December 2023 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| July 2023 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| November 2022 | 40 | 1.40 | lowest price, tiered | |
| April 2022 | 30 | 1.64 | Also had 30% off VA reward seats |
Summing up
Important tip: ensure there is reward seat availability for the redemption you’re eyeing before you purchase the extra points needed! Then, it’s easy to buy the Velocity Points Booster and redeem it straight away.
In general, we don’t advise buying points speculatively in any program. But if you have your eye on that Qatar Airways trip to Europe or that ANA flight to Tokyo, Velocity Points Boosters could help you get there.
For other ways to earn Velocity Points, check out this guide.
American Express Velocity Platinum
Offer ends: 30 Apr 2026
- Bonus points
- Up to 100,000 bonus Velocity Points¹
- Annual fee
- $440 p.a.
- Earn
- 1.25 Velocity Points earned per $1 on all eligible spend except for government bodies⁵. 2.25 Velocity Points per $1 spent on selected Virgin Australia purchases⁵. 0.5 Velocity Points per $1 on Government spend⁵
American Express Velocity Platinum
Offer ends: 30 Apr 2026
- Bonus Points
- Up to 100,000 bonus Velocity Points¹
- Annual Fee
- $440 p.a.
- Earn
- 1.25 Velocity Points earned per $1 on all eligible spend except for government bodies⁵. 2.25 Velocity Points per $1 spent on selected Virgin Australia purchases⁵. 0.5 Velocity Points per $1 on Government spend⁵
Earn up to 100,000 bonus Velocity Points¹. That’s 70,000 bonus Velocity Points when you apply online by 30 April 2026, are approved, and spend $5,000 on eligible purchases on your new American Express Velocity Platinum Card within the first 3 months. Plus, an additional 30,000 bonus Velocity Points when you spend a min of $1 on your Card within 90 days of paying your second year annual Card fee.
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Can you transfer the purchased velocity point to KrisFlyer miles?
Yes, you can.
Hi Brandon, thanks for your article! Do you know if purchasing points using a velocity-associated credit card (I.e. velocity platinum Amex card) is considered an eligible spend to accrue an increased points value per $1 (for example, using the above mentioned card it is currently 2.25 points per $1 spent on eligible Virgin Australia purchases).
Hi, unfortunately not as these are processed by Points.com, not Virgin Australia.
Big thanks Brandon!! I used this hack mid December 2023 to buy points for 4 x tickets (2 adults + 2 kids + 1 infant) Melbourne to LAX 2 days later in business class on United at 95500 points a ticket, had about 150,000 points beforehand so still hit the wallet a little but totally worth it with young kids.
Was due to fly Qantas on reward tickets but cancelled them 48 hrs out and got a full refund because they changed the scheduled time on me, had to ask for no points penalty though.
Had a quick read of this. Nz based commenter. Even if you get the velocity points quite cheaply, their award chart for J + the fees and surcharges is uncompetitive. Aeroplan, alaska, avianca and avios are much better value.
I guess if you have already earned some velocity points it might stack up but if you are outright buying all the velocity points then there are cheaper options. You would still get a business class fare cheaper via velocity points but there are even better ways to get that fare if buying the points through those other programs.
In case anyone is interested in making the purchase, your credit card company may consider this ‘foreign transaction’. When I bought two lots under my account and my partner’s during the November 2022 promotion, both our credit cards (different issuer) charged us the 3% foreign transaction fees. So make sure you use a credit card that waives/does not charge the fee.
Overall a nice article, but…
The October 2020 maths in the table don’t look right for the 100% bonus offer (?).
Oh and your SYD-LHR one-way biz on SQ example seems to be completely messed up:
1. You only need to buy 140,000 points to have enough to cover 139,000 point redemption (not 150,000)
2. The applicable discount for that number if points is 40% (not 30%)
3. You’d be paying AUD1965.60 for the 140,000 points at 40% (not AUD2457 for 150,000 points at 30%: in any case the list price under the current promo is AUD2106 not AUD2457 for 150,000 points)
4. Total cost including cash copayment therefore AUD1966 plus AUD473, thus AUD2439 (not AUD2930)
Yes or no?
For return rinse and repeat (presumably using family pooling to avoid maximum point purchase limits) – your’e already purchasing in the highest discount of 40%.
Incidentally, your (dumb and misleading) point valuation of 1.8 cents is completely irrelevant when you clearly know how much you’ve paid for a point and you are recommending (sensibly) only to purchase for specific reward that’s available, thus you know the potential redemption value for those points.
In this case your’e suggesting that folk accept a minimum of about 30% return on investment (1.4 cents compared with 1.8 cent) – do you really think that’s a sensible goal?!
Alternatively, if you’ve paid 1.4 cents then simply decide whether the difference between that and the redemption value of the reward is sufficient to warrant the effort and risk (award snaffled up before you get back to it or ghost availability).
At a redemption value of 2.8 cents you’ve simply made a 100% return on investment.
Comparing, say, a 2.8 cent redemption value to the Point Hacks point valuation of 1.8 cents tells you nothing of substance (unless you need validation from folk who, apparently, can’t even get their own math right!).
You have stated the price per point for this offer (and the last) as 1.04c. If I am not mistaken, this should be 1.4c.
Thanks for flagging! It was correct in-text but mistyped in the table so I’ve fixed it.
Small compliment maybe but at least the above article even with its various errors is a more competent effort than the drivel on the Point Hacks sister site AFF on the same topic and its utterly blatant credit card promo…
Hi platy, the errors have been amended. Blame working while jetlagged for that 🙂
Just gone to do this today, only to find they’ve taken the website offline and the points offer is now unavailable. Tried at 19.00 AWST. Thanks Velocity!
Every time I have looked for a rewards seat, I can only find BC rewards seats for well over 1 million points per seat. I’m based in Adelaide but have tried from Melbourne and Sydney and find the same thing. I have tried looking for 3 seats (unlikely I know) and even just looking for the single seat just to see if that changes things. I’m Platinum (not that it should make that big of a difference) and have tried multiple days over the September 23 month so I’d love to know how old that screen shot is. Or on the other hand, any tips on whether I am doing something wrong.
Cheers
Just double-checking, we can’t transfer Velocity points to KrisFlyer currently?
And if they re-introduce the transfer, it may be 1.55 Velocity : 1 KrisFlyer, which is not worth it with this current deal of 30% off Velocity points purchase?
Can anyone provide any advice on this?
Hi Loong, correct, the transfer isn’t back yet. We don’t know if the rate will change when it returns. It’s probably best not to buy Velocity Points speculatively for the KrisFlyer transfer, unless you were to redeem for Singapore Airlines reward seats via Velocity immediately.
Virgin Australia and Travel Associates advise that purchased points cannot be used for Rewards Seats, where in fact they may be economic.
Do you know anything to the contrary?
Hi John Worrall
We have not heard anything regarding Velocity Points purchased through Virgin Australia’s Points Booster offering not being able to be used for reward seats. The only requirement is that points are purchased to redeem a specific Reward.
The points table I was referring to is the one on the ‘points booster promo’ page, but I have now worked out what is confusing about it. The table in question lists figures in the ‘points/cost’ format, when in fact this should be called a ‘points/value’ table. Reference to ‘cost’ implies a purchase transaction, i.e. it would cost $ to buy X points. Yet the points booster table intends to demonstrate how much ‘value’ in the form of bonus points does one get by purchasing points. So in this context the points booster table is rightly showing figures up to 50,000 points only because it only refers to the 20% bonus component. Like I said, the 20% bonus represents a ‘value’ of the offer, not the ‘cost’. Sorry if I caused the unnecessary confusion.
with the recent changes in value of transferring velocity points to krisflyer, is it still worth it under this promo to just buy velocity points and transfer them straight to krisflyer.
I read through Velocity T&Cs and cannot find anywhere if purchased points are even allowed to be transferred to KrysFlyer. Also, in relation to the purchase table, it is very confusing in that it shows $ amounts up to 50,000 points yet T&Cs say one can purchase up to 250,000 points per calendar year. So, where is the table for 50,001 – 250,000 points?
Good point: the terms and conditions do state ‘They cannot be sold, transferred or exchanged other than in accordance with these Terms and Conditions’ but I’m not sure whether transferring to KrisFlyer would be included in that. I’d wager that you could transfer them but I don’t want to say that with 100% certainty.
I’m a little confused about the purchase table comment. When I click through to the buy Velocity Points page, it does show amounts right up to 250,000 points in the table. Perhaps try a different browser?
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the reminder. This promotion was also offered in April of this year and I posted it on the Deals and Tips page of the Community section. Wasn’t sure how else to get the message out there.
Thank you. I’m sorry I missed that—I can see it here now. Will endeavour to keep a closer eye on that. I have updated this guide accordingly.
Please double check the points purchase limit presented in this article.
IIRC you may purchase 50% of your current points balance, which is not the same as 50% of the points needed!
An important difference – for example, if you need 150 points for your redemption you would need to have an existing balance of 100 points in order to maximise the 50,000 point max allowable purchase, thus one third not one half of points needed for the redemption.
(That said, I’m not sure if VA would allow the two annual point purchase in quick succession – if you are able to do back to back purchases you could indeed double your points from a 100,000 pt starting point to a 200,000 point end point by making two 50,000 point transactions! You could theoretically even more than double your points if starting with less than 100,000 points!)
Hi Matt,
Do you know if I can use my velocity points to upgrade a person travelling with me also? I have enough points for 2 upgrades from Sydney to Abu Dhabi.
Thanks.
Unfortunately, you can only use your Velocity points to upgrade on a Virgin Australia flight and Virgin no longer flies to Abu Dhabi—that’s on Etihad and you cannot upgrade on partners. More info here.