擼卡人生：AMEX award points to Virginatlantic 30% transfer bonus.

AMEX started another round of transferring bonus to Virgin Atlantic, current offer is 30%.

Virgin points are somewhat valuable, as it can book delta/air France/KLM flights, both domestic and international.

Better yet, the Virgin website just reinstated the points redemption calendar again, so you can find flights 1000 times easier.

You can easily find RT flights to Paris in the fall, 24000 points + $300 ish in taxes, so if you do the conversion, you technically only spent 18500 points for a RT ticket in Econ.

I booked Delta flight from a small regional airport to Tokyo next month for 85000+$56, which translating into only 65k +$56 in Econ for a RT ticket, which normally $1500 in cash because I am flying out of a small local airport.

just got back from Paris/Athens/Santorini trip yesterday, it was a quick 9 day trip, Greece is a postcard picture perfect but overall still a pretty poor country.

this trip was booked with flyingblue（air France) points on Delta, RT 32000 pts + $212， at the time AMEX had a transfer bonus of 25% to flyingblue.

Hotels were booked thru Citi Thankyoupoints, at the time of booking, Citi offers $100 off every $500 of prepaid hotel, so avg night for 5 star hotels were around $250 a night, Citi TYP 1 points = 1 cents on redemption.

pic is from Santorini suite balcony