Every month, Air France-KLM Flying Blue releases a new set of Promo Rewards. This monthly promo offers discounted awards on select routes operated by Air France and KLM. The discount is generally 25% off the saver level award rate (the cheapest award rate).
Flying Blue Promo Rewards (August 2024)
Here are this month's options between Europe and the U.S./Canada.
Business Class - from 37,500 miles
Premium Economy - from 26,250 miles
Economy - from 15,000 miles
This is the first time I've seen a Flying Blue Promo Reward that isn't to/from Europe.
One Mile At A Time: "Between December 14 and December 28, 2023, LifeMiles is offering a promotion on purchased miles. The program is now incentivizing purchasing miles in a unique way."
"OMAAT readers who register can receive 10% of their redeemed miles back if they purchase any number of miles with the current promotion."
To be eligible for the 10% discount, you must meet these
Flights on Avianca are not eligible.
Points Wire Note:
This is a great opportunity to save some miles when booking business and first class award tickets, especially if you're booking for multiple people. By buying just 1,000 LifeMiles, you can get the 10% rebate. That means you can transfer Amex, Bilt, Capital One, and Citi points to get the remaining miles you need.
For example, 63,000 LifeMiles for a one-way business class award ticket to Europe will earn a 6,300-mile rebate. If you were to book two round-trip tickets, you'd get 25,200 miles back.
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Awayz is a hotel search aggregator that allows you to search for rooms available with points across a variety of hotel chains including. Accor, Choice, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott, and Wyndham
For programs that offer 4th or 5th night free award stays, Awayz will display this info as well. They'll also let you load your hotel and transferable points balances and let you know if you can use a free night certificate.
If you have specific travel dates, you can set an alert if the property you want to book doesn't currently have award space.
Plus, you can compare the award rate to the cash rate.
If you want to give it a try, you can use our promo code STRAIGHTTOTHEPOINTS to get $20 off your first year. Promo offer ends 12/31/2023.
One Mile At A Time: "As of December 2023, it has become possible to redeem IHG One Rewards points for stays at Iberostar properties. IHG has dynamic award pricing, so the cost of an award stay varies based on the property, night, etc. There are no blackout dates."
"Unfortunately one of the major downsides of the IHG One Rewards program is that there aren’t as many outsized award redemption values as with other programs. Personally I value IHG points at ~0.5 cents each, though virtually every redemption option I’m finding with Iberostar offers less value than that."
Points Wire Note:
If you want to get the most out of IHG points, the 4th night free perk with the IHG Premier Card, IHG Traveler Card, or IHG Premier Business card is the way to go. I do not recommend transferring Bilt or Chase points to IHG. Often, your best bet is to buy IHG points during a 100% bonus promo.
One Mile At A Time: "At the moment, saver level award availability across the Pacific is more limited than ever before, with one exception. Specifically, EVA Air has good business class award availability, but only if you book through the carrier’s own Infinity MileageLands program."
"The good news is that these miles are potentially easy to come by. The bad news is that the process of booking through Infinity MileageLands sometimes leaves a bit to be desired."
Points Wire Note:
Only Citi ThankYou Points transfer to EVA Air at a 1:1 ratio. Capital One's transfer ratio is a poor 1:0.75. Yet another reason reminder that points diversification is key and that the Citi Premier is a sleeper card.
EVA has often released an extra business class award seat to its own members. It's unfortunate to see almost all award space restricted to EVA, but it's nice to see multiple seats.
Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles is running a 30% off award promo to end the year. To book a discounted award, you must book by December 27, 2023 and complete your travel by May 31, 2024. Dates between March 27 and April 15, 2024 are not included in the promo.
Business class award tickets are eligible.
For more details and the eligible destinations, check out Turkish's promo page.
Points Wire Note:
Turkish miles are pretty easy to earn as you can transfer Bilt Rewards, Capital One Miles, and Citi ThankYou Points.
You can transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Air Canada Aeroplan with a 20% bonus until 11:59pm ET on July 31, 2024.
If you have the Chase Aeroplan Card, you'll get an additional 10% bonus on the points you transfer if you transfer at least 50,000 points. That means you'll get a 30% bonus. For example, a transfer of 50,000 Ultimate Rewards points will get you 65,000 Aeroplan points if you have the Aeroplan card.
Avianca LifeMiles is running a bonus promo on transfers from American Express Membership Rewards. You can get a 15% bonus on the points you transfer from Amex to LifeMiles through June 30, 2024. Please note that this transfer bonus promo is run by LifeMiles, not Amex, so you won't see it mentioned on your Membership Rewards account.
Points Wire Note: LifeMiles are a great way to book business class award tickets to Europe on Star Alliance carriers.
Each month, Singapore Airlines releases a new round of Spontaneous Escapes. This monthly promo provides a 30% discount on the Singapore KrisFlyer award rate on select routes/flights operated by Singapore Airlines. As their award rates are often steep, Spontaneous Escapes are one of the best ways to use your KrisFlyer miles.
U.S Routes - Economy
U.S Routes - Premium Economy
U.S Routes - Business Class
You can transfer Amex, Capital One, Chase, and Citi points to Singapore KrisFlyer. Unlike many bank/airline partnerships, transfers are not always instant and can take a day or two. I've found that having done a previous transfer helps speed up the process. Personally, I have found that Capital One miles transfer instantly.
You can transfer Citi ThankYou Points to Qatar Airways Privilege Club and receive a 30% transfer bonus. This bonus is handled by Qatar Airways. The terms and conditions state that "All bonus Avios earned will reflect in your Privilege Club account within 45 days post Campaign’s end date."
This transfer bonus ends at 4:49pm ET on May 31, 2024.
Points Wire Note: Qatar Airways is part of the Avios network so you can link your Privilege Club account and link it to your British Airways Executive Club account. Practically speaking, that makes this a 30% transfer bonus to Avios since you can combine Avios between BA, Iberia, Aer Lingus, and Qatar Airways.
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