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, December 27 2024.
Miles and Points On Sale — December 27 2024
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 With Brian Cohen. 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 membership programs which are featured in this latest edition of miles and points on sale are:
- Hilton Honors
- World of Hyatt
- Wyndham Rewards
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Avianca LifeMiles
- EVA Air MileageLands
- Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles
- JetBlue Airways TrueBlue
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- United Airlines MileagePlus
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 240,000 Hilton Honors points — but you have until the end of the day on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 11:59 in the evening Eastern Standard Time to take advantage of this offer.
World of Hyatt: 25 Percent Bonus Points
Until the end of the day on Saturday, January 4, 2025, you can enjoy a bonus of 25 percent on the purchase of a minimum of 3,000 World of Hyatt points — that is, spend a maximum of $2,640.00 to receive a total of 137,500 World of Hyatt points instead of 110,000 points.
Wyndham Rewards: Up to 45 Percent Discount
Starting with a minimum of 3,000 points, you can get up to a 45 percent discount on your purchase of up to 200,000 Wyndham Rewards points through Tuesday, December 31, 2024.
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 Tuesday, December 31, 2024 as follows:
- Buy or gift 6,000 to 24,000 AAdvantage miles = 10 percent discount
- Buy or gift 25,000 to 79,000 AAdvantage miles = 15 percent discount
- Buy or gift 80,000 to 104,000 AAdvantage miles = 20 percent discount
- Buy or gift 105,000 to 149,000 AAdvantage miles = 25 percent discount
- Buy or gift 150,000 AAdvantage miles = 35 percent discount
Avianca LifeMiles: Up to 160 Percent Bonus Miles
Receive a bonus of up to 160 percent when you purchase a minimum of 1,000 Avianca LifeMiles to a maximum of 200,000 Avianca LifeMiles through the end of the day on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 as follows:
- Buy or gift 1,000 LifeMiles = 110 percent bonus
- Buy or gift 2,000 to 20,000 LifeMiles = 140 percent bonus
- Buy or gift 21,000 to 35,000 LifeMiles = 150 percent bonus
- Buy or gift 36,000 to 200,000 LifeMiles = 160 percent bonus
EVA Air MileageLands: Up to 40 Percent Bonus Miles
Purchase a minimum of only 1,000 EVA Air MileageLands Miles through Tuesday, December 31, 2024 and you can receive a bonus of up to 40 percent.
Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles: Up to 150 Percent Bonus
Until Friday, January 10, 2025, you can purchase up to a maximum of 50,000 Frontier Miles and receive a bonus of up to 150 percent when you purchase a minimum of 3,000 miles as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 7,000 Frontier Miles = 100 percent bonus Frontier Miles
- Buy 8,000 to 19,000 MileagePlus miles = 120 percent bonus Frontier Miles
- Buy 20,000 to 50,000 MileagePlus miles = 150 percent bonus Frontier Miles
JetBlue Airways TrueBlue: Up to 130 Percent Bonus Points
The end of the day on Tuesday, December 31, 2024 is the last day on which you can purchase a minimum of 3,000 TrueBlue points and receive a bonus of up to 130 percent with JetBlue Airways.
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards: Up to 50 Percent Discount
Through Tuesday, December 31, 2024, purchase a minimum of 3,000 Rapid Rewards points and receive a discount of up to 50 percent.
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 30 Percent Discount
Until 11:59 in the evening Central Standard Time through Tuesday, December 31, 2024, you can purchase or gift a minimum of 7,000 miles and up to a maximum of 176,000 miles and receive a discount of up to 30 percent.
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, December 27 2024, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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