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.
Miles and Points On Sale — January 17 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
- World of Hyatt
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- British Airways Executive Club
- United Airlines MileagePlus
Choice Privileges: Up to 30 Percent Bonus Points or Up to 25 Percent Discount
For this latest iteration with an interesting twist, you have a choice — pun intended — to take advantage of receiving either a bonus of 30 percent more Choice Privileges points or a discount of up to 25 percent on your purchase of Choice Privileges points — but you only have until Friday, February 3, 2023 with a minimum purchase of 4,000 Choice Privileges Rewards points in one transaction as follows:
- Buy 4,000 to 7,000 Choice Privileges Rewards points and choose either:
- 15 percent discount
- 20 percent bonus Choice Privileges points
- Buy 8,000 to 19,000 Choice Privileges Rewards points and choose either:
- 20 percent discount
- 25 percent bonus Choice Privileges points
- Buy 20,000 to 180,000 Choice Privileges Rewards points and choose either:
- 25 percent discount
- 30 percent bonus Choice Privileges points
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 80,000 Hilton Honors points for $800.00, which is $0.005 per point when factoring in up to an additional 80,000 bonus points — but you have until the end of the day on Tuesday, March 7, 2023 to take advantage of this offer.
World of Hyatt: 25 Percent Discount
Until the end of the day on Thursday, January 19, 2023, you can enjoy a discount of 25 percent on the purchase of a minimum of 5,000 World of Hyatt points — that is, spend a maximum of $1,980.00 to receive a total of 110,000 World of Hyatt points instead of spending $2,640.00.
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 Saturday, January 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
British Airways Executive Club: 40 Percent Bonus Avios
Until Friday, January 20, 2023, you can purchase or gift a minimum of 5,000 Avios up to a maximum of 200,000 Avios and receive a bonus of up to 40 percent Avios — or receive up to 280,000 total Avios
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 45 Percent Discount
Until the end of the day on Friday, January 27, 2023, you can purchase or gift up to a maximum of 175,000 miles and receive a discount of up to 45 percent as follows:
- Buy 5,000 to 14,000 MileagePlus miles = 15 percent discount
- Buy 15,000 to 49,000 MileagePlus miles = 30 percent discount
- Buy 50,000 to 175,000 MileagePlus miles = 45 percent discount
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 other. 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, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
Note: instead of a separate article every time a new sale of miles or points is announced, this article is being used on an ongoing basis with updated information. All photographs ©2015, ©2017, ©2019, ©2020, and ©2021 by Brian Cohen.
