Festive Fridays Are Here: Earn Avios & Virgin Points on Your Christmas Gifts!

Goodbye Thursday Travel Tips, hello Festive Fridays!

Our popular Thursday series is taking a pause for the rest of 2025, and for a very exciting reason… we’re launching a brand-new series designed to help you make the most of your Christmas shopping.

Starting Friday 7th November, Festive Fridays will show you how to earn Avios and Virgin Points on your Christmas gifts, yes, really!

Welcome to Festive Fridays, where we will show you how to earn Avios or Virgin Points on your gifts

Why We’re Launching Festive Fridays

Christmas shopping can be stressful, expensive and time-consuming. We know you, our community, loves travel, smart spending and maximising rewards. So we wanted to create something that brings all three together.

Whilst I know November is early by some standards to put Gift Guides out, it is a serious bug-bear of mine that some publications and brands put them out 10 days before Christmas. This is too late, and honestly it grinds my gears!

Festive Fridays is designed to help you:

• Make gift shopping easier with curated recommendations

• Discover retailers where you can earn Avios or Virgin Points

• Turn everyday spending into travel rewards

• Save time hunting for deals and loyalty offers

• Get closer to flights, upgrades and perks—without spending extra

In short: you’re buying gifts anyway… so why not earn points while you do it?

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What Are Festive Fridays?

Each Friday, we’ll release a brand-new gift guide packed with ideas for every type of person in your life. But these aren’t just any gift guides… every item we feature will come with the potential to earn Avios or Virgin Points, helping you get closer to your next flight or upgrade while you shop.

It’s the ultimate Christmas travel hack.

What to Expect

On Friday 7th November we will be kicking things off with a guide to Advent Calendars to start the countdown to Christmas.

Then, each Friday after that, we’ll cover different categories, including:

• Gifts for Kids

• Gifts for Pets

• Gifts for Home Lovers

• Gifts for Foodies

• Gifts for Him

• Gifts for Her

But I won't spoil it by telling you which guide is coming out when! No matter who you're buying for, we’ll have you covered and help you earn rewards as you go.

Give Gifts You Love … And Earn Avios & Virgin Points on Your Christmas Gifts

This Christmas we want to help you not only give gifts you love and they will love too. But we also want to help you get on your next holiday! Christmas is the perfect time to earn considerable points, be it Virgin Points or Avios. Often there are boosted rates, but this is money you would have spent anyway on the people you love most in the world. To give your loved one a thoughtful gift, and to give you the gift of your dream destination.

Festive Fridays start 7th November so mark your calendars, get ready to make every gift count and commit to next year's holiday plans.

Helena

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