V-Flyer

Due to various reasons, not just the disappointing last flight with Virgin I've decided to longer take my biannual holidays out to the Caribbean.
Therefore I've just over 50 thousand flying club miles that I'll never use and I'm lead to believe that I can gift these.
Anybody that's interested let me know and I'll arrange to have them transferred.
Pity I can't gift my tier points as well.

I'll have them please

I would love to have them as they would be greatly appreciated for visiting my family who emigrated years ago. BUT I am sure there is someone who's need is far greater than mine.

I would love them & happily make an agreed donation to a charity of your choice

oldboy

Well said old boy!!

That's very kind Oldboy, I'm out at the moment and on my iPhone but as soon as I get home I'll PM you from my desktop and sort out some details and how I need to go about transferring them.

I greatly admire the benevolence of the OP - BUT - Please be aware that 'gifting' points is not the simple process one may imagine.

To gift 50K points to another member - there will be a fee of £375.00 plus and admin fee of £15.

Whilst this is cheaper than buying 50K points for £750.00, it isn't a freebie.

Nick

The other option is to book a flight for someone using the miles as it would negate the transfer fee

..Or you could hold them for a couple of years? Your views on VS may have changed by then.

If not, there are plenty of alternatives to spending with VS. Enjoy

you could use them elsewhere?
Hotel room or Virgin wines?

Nottingham Nick wrote:I greatly admire the benevolence of the OP - BUT - Please be aware that 'gifting' points is not the simple process one may imagine.

To gift 50K points to another member - there will be a fee of £375.00 plus and admin fee of £15.

Whilst this is cheaper than buying 50K points for £750.00, it isn't a freebie.

Nick

Really?
I'm astounded by this!

There is another way involving no fees, if Oldboy (or anyone else) happens to be FC Gold.

Bombardier, if you change the address on your FC account to Oldboy's, Oldboy can then set up a household account (you will need to give Oldboy your FC number) and immediately transfer the entire mileage of your FC account over at the time of setting up the account. Gratis.

I'll leave others discuss the the ethics of this manoeuvre!

The easiest option - that will arouse zero suspicion - is for Bombardier just to book a reward flight for the beneficiary of the miles and arrange, in private, recompense for the taxes/fees/charges & any donation [charitable or otherwise] for the miles. You can book a flight for anyone using your FC miles, no questions asked.

US airlines (& to a lesser extent, BA & VS) have revenue protection departments who set out to detect sold miles, hidden city ticketing, boomerangs with last legs dropped etc & suspend mileage accounts / deduct miles when they find rules being broken. Never put miles on eBay - this is just waving a red rag to the bull.

That said, many high miles earners who will never spend anything like the miles they earn do actively allow "authorised users" on their account to spend their miles - doubtless in return for some private recompense arrangement.