Richard Branson tweets to give away one million Virgin Australia frequent flyer points

SIR Richard Branson has taken to Twitter with an offer to give away all his Virgin Australia frequent flyer points — 1,035,843 of them.

WHAT would you do with over one million frequent flyer points?

That’s the question people on both sides of the Tasman will be asking themselves after Sir Richard Branson took to Twitter today with an offer to give away all his Virgin Australia Velocity frequent flyer points.

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Ever one for the flamboyant gesture, Branson, whose individual tally stands at 1,035,843 points, tweeted:

Just checked my Velocity #frequentflyer balance - over one million points! Any ideas what I should do with them #Australia & #New Zealand?

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) February 12, 2014

Nice idea @11novich! Maybe I will give them to someone. @Virginaustralia Can I give away my Velocity #frequentflyer points?

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) February 12, 2014

All yours @VirginAustralia! The #AusNZ member who tweets the most fun use of my Points wins them! #WinRichardsPoints http://t.co/0kzQOgNjRq

— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) February 12, 2014

With the offer trending across Twitter, Virgin Australia has quickly cobbled together a competition and will give the points away to the Velocity member in Australia or New Zealand with the most creative - or hairbrained - suggestion about how you would use them.

The suggestions have come thick and fast, ranging from the vaguely sensible to the totally ridiculous.

Which, of course, means they’ll probably win.

#WinRichardsPoints 100 - fly to Beijing, moonwalk the Great Wall of China start to finish & high five some panda's along the way!

— Jessica (@jessicasbragg) February 12, 2014

#WinRichardsPoints 210 take my wife on the most romantic trip of a lifetime, inc Necker and Bora Bora, donate the rest to worthy charities

— simplyhavingfun (@enjoynetworks) February 12, 2014

Transfer them to Virgin Galactic. I figure I can at least make it to the thermosphere with a million points. 211 #winrichardspoints

— Dr Sara Boloney (@SarzIndubitably) February 12, 2014

Those points would enable my husband and I to revisit the scene of the crime: we met at a payphone in West Hollywood #WinRichardsPoints 210

— Lissanne Oliver (@LissanneOliver) February 13, 2014

Hell yeah @VirginAustralia I'd use them to visit every country in the world that has vineyards - and compare #wines #winrichardspoints 210

— Winsor Dobbin (@winsordobbin) February 13, 2014

To put it in context, with over one million points you could:

- Fly Melbourne to Los Angeles and back ten times in Economy Class

- Take 29 return trips from Sydney to Fiji in Economy Class

- You and four friends could fly return from Sydney-Honolulu in Business Class.

While the offer may be generous, there's no need to get all warm and fuzzy over the silver-maned British tycoon.

He still holds a cool 10 per cent stake in the Australian carrier, despite selling down his share in recent years - which is probably more than you own.

To add Branson’s stash to yours, simply jump onto Twitter and send a tweet containing:

- the first three digits of your Velocity membership number

- the hashtag #winrichardspoints

- your pithiest or most heartfelt response to the question, “What would you do with Richard Branson’s Velocity Frequent Flyer points?”

Entries close on Friday at midnight, with the winner to be announced on Monday.