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, September 1, 2023.
Miles and Points On Sale — September 1 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:
- Hilton Honors
- World of Hyatt
- IHG One Rewards
- Marriott Bonvoy
- American Airlines AAdvantage
- Frontier Airlines Frontier Miles
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.
World of Hyatt: 25 Percent Bonus
Until the end of the day on Tuesday, October 10, 2023, you can enjoy a bonus of 25 percent on the purchase of a minimum of 7,000 World of Hyatt points — that is, spend a maximum of $990.00 to receive a total of 55,000 World of Hyatt points instead of spending $1,320.00.
IHG One Rewards: 80 Percent Bonus Points
You have until the end of the day today, 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
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, September 30, 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
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, September 1, 2023, as more offers of purchasing miles or points on sale may be added.
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