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 22, 2025.
Miles and Points On Sale — August 22 2025
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:
- Choice Privileges
- Hilton Honors
- World of Hyatt
- IHG One Rewards
- The Leading Hotels of the World Leaders Club
- Marriott Bonvoy
- Air Canada Aeroplan
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Miles & More
- Qatar Airways Privilege Club
- United Airlines MileagePlus
Choice Privileges: Up to 40 Percent Discount
You only have until Monday, August 25, 2025 to take advantage of receiving a discount of up to 40 percent on your purchase of Choice Privileges points with a minimum purchase of 4,000 Choice Privileges points in one transaction as follows:
- Purchase 4,000 to 7,000 Choice Privileges points = 30 percent discount or $0.00798 per Choice Privileges point
- Purchase 8,000 to 13,000 Choice Privileges points = 35 percent discount or $0.00670 per Choice Privileges point
- Purchase 14,000 to 180,000 Choice Privileges points = 40 percent discount or $0.00618 per Choice Privileges point
Hilton Honors: 100 Percent Bonus Points
You can receive a bonus of 100 percent on any purchase of a minimum of 5,000 Hilton Honors points — up to a maximum limit of 160,000 Hilton Honors — through the end of the day on Thursday, September 25, 2025, which comes out to $0.005 per Hilton Honors point.
World of Hyatt: 20 Percent Bonus
Until the end of the day on Monday, October 6, 2025, you can enjoy a bonus of 20 percent on the purchase of a minimum of 5,000 World of Hyatt points — that is, spend a maximum of $1,430.00 to receive a total of 66,000 World of Hyatt points. That comes out to $0.022 per World of Hyatt point.
IHG One Rewards: 100 Percent Bonus Points
You have until the end of the day on Thursday, August 28, 2025 to take advantage of receiving a bonus of 100 percent on IHG One Rewards points with a minimum purchase of 5,000 IHG One Rewards base points and up to an elevated maximum limit of 300,000 IHG Rewards base points for $3,000.00 — not including the bonus points — which comes out to 0.005 per IHG One Rewards point.
The Leading Hotels of the World Leaders Club: Up to 100 Percent Bonus Points
Through Friday, September 12, 2025, you can purchase a minimum of 2,000 The Leading Hotels of the World Leaders Club points and receive a bonus of up to 100 percent as follows:
- Buy 2,000 to 11,000 Leaders Club points = 50 percent bonus Leaders Club points
- Buy 12,000 to 29,000 Leaders Club points = 75 percent bonus Leaders Club points
- Buy 30,000 to 50,000 Leaders Club points = 100 percent bonus Leaders Club points
Marriott Bonvoy: 40 Percent Bonus Points
You can buy or gift a minimum of 2,000 Marriott Bonvoy points — up to a maximum total of 150,000 points that does not include the bonus points — and get a bonus of 40 percent through Wednesday, September 17, 2025. That comes out to $0.0089 per Marriott Bonvoy point.
Air Canada Aeroplan: Up to 85 Percent Bonus
You can purchase or gift a minimum of 4,000 Aeroplan points and receive a bonus of up to 85 percent through Wednesday, September 10, 2025 as follows:
- Buy or gift 4,000 to 29,000 Aeroplan points = 40 percent bonus Aeroplan points
- Buy or gift 30,000 to 69,000 Aeroplan points = 60 percent bonus Aeroplan points
- Buy or gift 70,000 to 500,000 Aeroplan points = 85 percent bonus Aeroplan points, which comes out to $0.0146 per Aeroplan point
American Airlines AAdvantage: Up to 40 Percent Discount
You can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 200,000 AAdvantage miles in order to receive a discount of up to 40 percent — for a cost of $4,515.00 for 200,000 miles — through the end of the day on Sunday, August 31, 2025 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 200,000 AAdvantage miles = 40 percent discount or $0.0226 per AAdvantage mile
Miles & More: 50 Percent Bonus
Sharing the Miles & More membership program are Air Dolomiti, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover, Eurowings, Lufthansa, SWISS, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, and Luxair — plus, you can redeem Miles & More miles for flights operated by many partner airlines. Until Tuesday, September 30, 2025, you can purchase Lufthansa Miles & More miles and receive a bonus of 50 percent when you purchase one of four Bundle&Go packages — all of which include a one-off bonus with hotels and cars by points, privileges on five vehicle rentals with Avis, and a one-off reduction on Priority Pass for lounge access at airports — as follows, which comes out to $0.0138 per mile when the bonus miles are included:
- Extra Small Bundle = 3,000 Miles & More for $110.00
- Small Bundle = 10,000 Miles & More for $300.00
- Medium Bundle = 50,000 Miles & More for $1,180.00
- Large Bundle = 100,000 Miles & More for $2,070.00
Qatar Airways Privilege Club: Up to 60 Percent Bonus Avios
You can buy or gift a minimum of 3,000 Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios and get a bonus of up to 60 percent Avios when your transaction is completed through Monday, August 25, 2025 as follows:
- Buy 5,000 to 31,000 Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios = 30 percent bonus Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios
- Buy 32,000 to 65,000 Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios = 40 percent bonus Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios
- Buy 66,000 to 250,000 Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios = 60 percent bonus Qatar Airways Privilege Club Avios, which comes out to $0.0144 per Privilege Club Avios
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 100 Percent Bonus Miles
Until 11:59 in the evening Central Standard Time through Sunday, August 24, 2025, you can purchase or gift a minimum of 8,000 miles and up to a maximum of 100,000 miles and receive a bonus of up to 100 percent as follows:
- Buy or gift 8,000 to 19,000 MileagePlus miles = 35 percent bonus MileagePlus miles or $0.0259 per MileagePlus mile
- Buy or gift 20,000 to 49,000 MileagePlus miles = 65 percent bonus MileagePlus miles or $0.0212 per MileagePlus mile
- Buy or gift 50,000 to 100,000 MileagePlus miles = 100 percent bonus MileagePlus miles or $0.0175 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, August 22, 2025, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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