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, January 17 2025.
Miles and Points On Sale — January 17 2025
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:
- Choice Privileges
- Hilton Honors
- IHG One Rewards
- Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Avianca LifeMiles
- Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards
- United Airlines MileagePlus
Choice Privileges: Up to 40 Percent Bonus Points
You only have until Thursday, February 6, 2025 to take advantage of receiving a bonus of up to 40 percent more points on your purchase of Choice Privileges points with a minimum purchase of 6,000 Choice Privileges points in one transaction as follows:
- Buy or gift 6,000 to 15,000 Choice Privileges points = 35 percent bonus Choice Privileges points
- Buy or gift 16,000 to 180,000 Choice Privileges points = 40 percent bonus Choice Privileges points
Hilton Honors: 90 Percent Bonus Points
You can receive a bonus of 90 percent on any purchase of a minimum of 3,000 Hilton Honors points — up to a maximum limit of 160,000 Hilton Honors points — and no definitive date has been set for the expiration of this offer.
IHG One Rewards: 100 Percent Bonus Points
You have until the end of the day on Friday, January 31, 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 a maximum limit of 200,000 IHG Rewards base points for $2,000.00 — not including the bonus points.
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan: Up to 40 Percent Bonus Miles
The regular price for purchasing Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles is $27.50 per 1,000 miles; but until Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:59 in the evening Pacific Standard Time, you can purchase a minimum of 3,000 miles and receive a bonus of up to 40 percent more miles as follows:
- Buy 3,000 to 14,000 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles = 30 percent bonus Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles
- Buy 15,000 to 100,000 Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles = 40 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 Friday, January 31, 2025 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 Friday, January 31, 2025 as follows:
- Buy or gift 1,000 LifeMiles = 110 percent bonus LifeMiles
- Buy or gift 2,000 to 15,000 LifeMiles = 140 percent bonus LifeMiles
- Buy or gift 16,000 to 35,000 LifeMiles = 150 percent bonus LifeMiles
- Buy or gift 36,000 to 200,000 LifeMiles = 160 percent bonus LifeMiles
Southwest Airlines Rapid Rewards: Up to 50 Percent Discount
Through Sunday, February 23, 2025, purchase a minimum of 3,000 Rapid Rewards points and receive a discount of up to 50 percent.
United Airlines MileagePlus: Up to 90 Percent Bonus Miles
Until 11:59 in the evening Central Standard Time through Friday, January 31, 2025, you can purchase or gift a minimum of 5,000 miles and up to a maximum of 176,000 miles and receive a discount of up to 30 percent as follows:
- Buy or gift 5,000 to 19,000 MileagePlus miles = 30 percent bonus MileagePlus miles
- Buy or gift 20,000 to 44,000 MileagePlus miles = 60 percent bonus MileagePlus miles
- Buy or gift 45,000 to 131,000 MileagePlus miles = 90 percent bonus MileagePlus miles
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, January 17 2025, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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