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, August 18, 2023.
Miles and Points On Sale — August 18 2023
A sale may be a discount on the price required to purchase miles or points — or perhaps the frequent travel loyalty 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. Rather, they are compiled in this article — typically whenever a new sale is announced or an old sale expires — so that you can shop for miles and points from different frequent travel loyalty 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 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 loyalty programs which are featured in this latest edition of miles and points on sale are:
- Choice Privileges
- Hilton Honors
- IHG One Rewards
- Marriott Bonvoy
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles
- Iberia Plus
- JetBlue Airways TrueBlue
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- United Airlines MileagePlus
Choice Privileges: Up to 25 Percent Discount
You only have until Sunday, August 27, 2023 to take advantage of receiving a discount of up to 25 percent on your purchase of Choice Privileges points with a minimum purchase of 6,000 Choice Privileges points in one transaction — and the maximum amount of points which you can purchase this year is 180,000 points as follows: when you purchase…
- 6,000 to 11,000 Choice Privileges points = 15 percent discount
- 12,000 to 17,000 Choice Privileges points = 20 percent discount
- 18,000 to 180,000 Choice Privileges points = 25 percent discount
Hilton Honors: 100 Percent Bonus Points or 50 Percent Discount
You can receive either a bonus of 100 percent or a discount of 50 percent on any purchase of a minimum of 5,000 Hilton Honors points — up to a maximum limit of 160,000 Hilton Honors — but you have until the end of the day on Tuesday, September 19, 2023 to take advantage of this offer.
IHG One Rewards: 80 Percent Bonus Points
You have until the end of the day on Friday, September 1, 2023 to take advantage of receiving a bonus of 80 percent on IHG One Rewards points with a minimum purchase of 5,000 IHG One Rewards base points and up to a maximum limit of 150,000 IHG Rewards base points for $1,500.00 — not including the bonus points.
Marriott Bonvoy: Up to 30 Percent Bonus Points
You can buy or gift a minimum of 2,000 Marriott Bonvoy points — up to a maximum total of 100,000 points — and get a bonus of up to 50 percent through Friday, September 8, 2023 as follows:
- 20 percent bonus when you buy 2,000 to 9,000 Marriott Bonvoy points
- 25 percent bonus when you buy 10,000 to 39,000 Marriott Bonvoy points
- 30 percent bonus when you buy 40,000 to 100,000 Marriott Bonvoy points
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan: Up to 60 Percent Bonus Miles
The regular price for purchasing Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles is $27.50 per 1,000 miles; but until Sunday, August 20, 2023, you can purchase a minimum of 3,000 miles and receive a bonus of up to 60 percent more miles as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 24,000 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles = 40 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles
- Buy 25,000 to 44,000 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles = 50 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles
- Buy 45,000 to 100,000 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles = 60 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles
American Airlines AAdvantage: Up to 35 Percent Discount
You can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 150,000 AAdvantage miles in order to receive a discount of up to 35 percent — for a cost of $3,668.44 for 150,000 miles — through the end of the day on Thursday, August 31, 2023 as follows:
- Buy or gift 5,000 to 54,000 AAdvantage miles = 20 percent discount
- Buy or gift 55,000 to 149,000 AAdvantage miles = 25 percent discount
- Buy or gift 150,000 AAdvantage miles = 35 percent discount
Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles: 150 Percent Bonus
Until Friday, September 8, 2023, you can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 30,000 Frontier Miles and receive a bonus of up to 150 percent as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 7,000 Frontier miles = 100 percent bonus
- Buy 8,000 to 19,000 Frontier miles = 120 percent bonus
- Buy 20,000 to 50,000 Frontier miles = 150 percent bonus
Iberia Plus: 50 Percent Bonus
Until Tuesday, August 22, 2023, you can purchase up to a maximum of 200,000 miles and receive a bonus of 50 percent Iberia Avios — but the minimum purchase is 2,000 Iberia Avios..
JetBlue Airways TrueBlue: Up to 70 Percent Bonus
Until the end of the day on Thursday, August 31, 2023, you can purchase a minimum of 3,000 TrueBlue points and receive a bonus of up to 70 percent with JetBlue Airways as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 19,000 TrueBlue points = 30 percent bonus
- Buy 20,000 to 39,000 TrueBlue points = 50 percent bonus
- Buy 40,000 to 60,000 TrueBlue points = 70 percent bonus
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards: Up to 50 Percent Discount
Through Sunday, August 20, 2023, purchase a minimum of 3,000 Rapid Rewards points and receive a discount of up to 50 percent bonus Rapid Rewards points.
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 90 Percent Bonus
Until the end of the day on Friday, August 25, 2023, you can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 87,500 miles and receive a bonus of up to 95 percent as follows:
- Buy 5,000 to 14,000 MileagePlus miles = 30 percent bonus
- Buy 15,000 to 39,000 MileagePlus miles = 60 percent bonus
- Buy 40,000 to 92,000 MileagePlus miles = 90 percent bonus
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, August 18, 2023, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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