Sometimes you need an infusion of miles or points to your membership account for whatever reason — perhaps to have enough to redeem for a limited time award as one example — and the best time to purchase or gift miles or points is when they are on sale, as with this miles and points on sale for Friday, July 31, 2026.
Miles and Points On Sale — July 31 2026
A sale may be a discount on the price required to purchase miles or points — or perhaps the membership program from whom you are buying the miles or points will match your purchase up to 150 percent, which is another way of reducing the cost of miles or points.
Offers to purchase miles and points are not usually highlighted in their own articles here at The Gate With Brian Cohen. Rather, they are compiled in this article — typically once per week; but also possibly when a new sale is announced or an old sale expires — so that you can shop for miles and points from different frequent travel membership programs conveniently in one spot and compare the sales to what you want or need.
Note that you may get a different offer from some of the frequent travel loyalty membership programs than what are posted in this article — especially when the offer is touted as a “mystery bonus” or some other vague term.
The frequent travel membership programs which are featured in this latest edition of miles and points on sale are now linked below so that you can access the offers more conveniently:
Choice Privileges: 40 Percent Discount
You only have until Friday, August 28, 2026 to take advantage of receiving a discount of 40 percent on your purchase of Choice Privileges points with a minimum purchase of 6,000 Choice Privileges points in one transaction as follows:
- Purchase 6,000 to 171,000 Choice Privileges points = 40 percent discount or $0.00618 per Choice Privileges point
Wyndham Rewards: Up to 90 Percent Bonus Points
Starting with a minimum of 3,000 points, you can get a bonus of up to 90 percent on your purchase of Wyndham Rewards points through Friday, August 14, 2026. That comes out to $0.068 per Wyndham Rewards point.
Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards: Up to 80 Percent Bonus Points
The regular price for purchasing Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards points is $35.00 per 1,000 miles; but until Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 11:59 in the evening Pacific Daylight Time, you can purchase a minimum of 3,000 miles and receive a bonus of up to 80 percent more points as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 9,000 Alaska Airlines Atmos points = 60 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards points or $0.0219 per Atmos Rewards point
- Buy 10,000 to 19,000 Alaska Airlines Atmos points = 70 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards points or $0.0209 per Atmos Rewards point
- Buy 20,000 to 100,000 Alaska Airlines Atmos points = 80 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards points or $0.0194 per Atmos Rewards point
American Airlines AAdvantage: Up to 40 Percent Discount
You can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 300,000 AAdvantage miles in order to receive a bonus of up to 100 percent — for a cost of $18,812.50 for a total of 1,o00,000 miles — through the end of the day today, Friday, July 31, 2026 as follows:
- Buy or gift 3,000 to 9,000 AAdvantage miles = 10 percent discount or $0.0339 per AAdvantage mile
- Buy or gift 10,000 to 29,000 AAdvantage miles = 15 percent discount or $0.0320 per AAdvantage mile
- Buy or gift 30,000 to 89,000 AAdvantage miles = 20 percent discount or $0.0301 per AAdvantage mile
- Buy or gift 90,000 to 150,000 AAdvantage miles = 30 percent discount or $0.0263 per AAdvantage mile
- Buy or gift 151,000 to 300,000 AAdvantage miles = 40 percent discount or $0.0226 per AAdvantage mile
JetBlue Airways TrueBlue: Up to 125 Percent Bonus Points
Sunday, August 9, 2026 is the last day on which you can purchase a minimum of 5,000 TrueBlue points — up to a maximum limit of 200,000 TrueBlue points — and receive a bonus of 125 percent with JetBlue Airways or $0.0143 per JetBlue TrueBlue point as follows:
- Buy 5,000 to 9,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points = 100 percent bonus JetBlue TrueBlue points or $0.0161 per TrueBlue point
- Buy 10,000 to 14,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points = 110 percent bonus JetBlue TrueBlue points or $0.0154 per TrueBlue point
- Buy 15,000 to 200,000 JetBlue TrueBlue points = 125 percent bonus JetBlue TrueBlue point or $0.0143 per TrueBlue point
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 95 Percent Bonus
Until 11:59 in the evening Central Daylight Time through Thursday, August 20, 2026, you can purchase or gift a minimum of 5,000 miles and up to a maximum of 50,000 miles and receive a bonus of up t0 95 percent as follows:
- Buy 5,000 to 19,000 United Airlines MileagePlus miles = 75 percent bonus United Airlines MileagePlus miles or $0.02000 per MileagePlus mile
- Buy 20,000 to 25,000 United Airlines MileagePlus miles = 95 percent bonus United Airlines MileagePlus miles or $0.01795 per MileagePlus mile
Final Boarding Call
Remember that each frequent travel loyalty program has partners through which you can redeem miles or points; so you are not confined just to the product offered by an airline or lodging company.
Also be sure to read the terms and conditions of each offer. Typically, all sales are final: once you have purchased your miles or points through these sales, you cannot return your points; and your money cannot be refunded.
I have purchased miles and points on rare occasions — and if you need to do so from the aforementioned frequent travel loyalty programs, now is the right time.
If this article is missing any offers of purchasing miles or points on sale, please let me know in the Comments section below. Thank you in advance…
…and until the next edition of this article is written, please keep checking back to this article of miles and points on sale for Friday, July 31, 2026, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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