by Lufthansa Flyer | Oct 26, 2014 | Featured, Lufthansa, Miles & More, Points/Miles |
For those of you who take advantage of LUFTHANSA’s Miles & More program, don’t forget to check the October Mileage Bargains for award travel.
There are 136 opportunities for Business Class award travel between the USA and destinations throughout Europe, Russia and the Mid-East. The beauty of these special offers is that you’ll only need 55,000 miles instead of the normal 105,000 miles that are usually required for Business Class redemptions from the USA. A 48% discount is never a bad thing when it comes to travel! 🙂
Economy Class redemptions are available as well with savings of 50% from the typical redemption schedule. Instead of 60,000 miles, you can redeem round-trip economy tickets for only 30,000 miles.
Yes there are taxes to consider when booking award travel through Miles & More, but even with taxes in the $600 neighborhood for Economy Class bookings or approximately $900 for Business Class bookings these are not bad deals. Business Class especially is attractive when you consider the value of the ticket if you had to buy it.
The current offerings expire on October 31 and cover travel for February 2015. March travel offers will be available on November 1. In addition to all the offers for travel starting in the USA, there are pages and pages of great deals for travel originating from countries world wide, just select them from the ‘FLIGHTS FROM:’ tab on the main page.
There aren’t too many Frequent Flyer Programs that regularly discount their redemption schedule by 50% and it is one of the many reasons that I will be leaving United Mileage Plus and focusing my efforts on Miles & More and Senator status for 2015. More on that later!
by Lufthansa Flyer | Jun 3, 2014 | Featured, Miles & More, Points/Miles |
Normally you don’t see me writing much about credit card offers and how to manipulate or maximize every little feature that they offer. I leave that to the blogosphere at large to take care of these things.
However there is one offer that I wanted to remind you of since it expires soon. For those of you who have been sitting on the fence regarding Barclay’s Premier Miles & More World MasterCard, please be aware that the deal to earn up to 50,000 miles for your ‘M&M’ account will come to an end at the end of June.
If you missed Barclay’s initial announcement regarding the limited time offer, here are the details:
This deal actually dovetails perfectly into Lufthansa’s Meilenschnaeppchen program where each month new deals are offered where you can book travel through your Miles & More account for only 50% of the required miles. For example, a Business Class ticket redemption between the USA and Europe generally ‘costs’ 105,000 miles. Via Meilenschnaeppchen, you can find specials for Business Class tickets for only 55,000 miles (plus taxes, etc).
When you consider how easy it is to earn the 50,000 miles via the Premier Miles & More World MasterCard, you automatically will earn enough miles for a Business Class ticket through Meilenschnaeppchen:
20,000 miles after first use of card + 30,000 miles after spending $5000 + 1 mile per dollar on the $5000 you put on the card to reach the spending threshold = 55,000 miles (aka Business Class Ticket!).
To me this is an absolute no-brainer!
As far as other redemption options from Miles & More, there are other attractive ways to use your miles. For example, roundtrip economy class tickets for travel originating in the USA have the following redemption schedule:
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Within the USA: 25,000 Miles.
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Within North American: 30,000 Miles.
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To Europe: 50,000 Miles.
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To South America: 60,000 Miles.
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To Asia or Australia: 80,000 Miles.
As I stated earlier, I typically do not write much about credit card offers as a normal part of LufthansaFlyer’s content but when I see a deal that I think is GENUINELY a good one, and one that I take advantage of myself, I will let you know about it. This is one of them!
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by Lufthansa Flyer | Jan 7, 2013 | Points/Miles |
ACCOR is currently holding a promotion in conjunction with Mile & More that awards program members with 1500 miles for qualified stays between now and February 28.
To qualify for this promotion you must be a Miles & More member as well as an Accor Le Club member. To register your Miles & More account with your LeClub account, please use this link. Additionally, you need to make sure that Miles & More is your preferred award partner on you Le Club account profile.
If you are not a Le Club member, you can sign up here.
As I mentioned earlier, the promotion applies to qualified stays and a “qualified” stay is defined differently based on what type of ACCOR property you stay at:
Sofitel, Pullman and MGallery Hotels: A qualified stay is one night.
Novotel, Suite Novotel, Mercure and Adagio: A qualified stay is two nights.
ibis and ibis Styles: A qualified stay is four nights.
Based on the terms and conditions, there do not seem to be limitations as to the amount of stays that are eligible for the bonus miles. Miles will post automatically to your Miles & More account approximately 2 weeks after each qualifying stay.
