7 great miles and points buying opportunities available in April 2023
Airlines and hotels often offer promotions where you can purchase miles or points at a discounted rate. Keep an eye out for these promotions and consider purchasing if the price is right.
It would be a great time to update all the hotel miles and points that are up for sale right now so that you can stock up on the right ones.
Airline Miles bonus sales
Buy Alaska Airlines Miles up to 60 % Bonus. ( till 21 MAY 2023)
You can purchase miles with up to a 60% Bonus on purchased miles (depending upon the offer you receive), which will bring your net cost of miles bought to 1.85 US Cents / INR 1.52 per mile bought. With an assortment of partners such as Singapore Airlines, all oneworld airlines and some others, and the ability to book stopovers, this is a great programme to consider buying miles on.
Buy Air France / kLM Flying Blue Mile upto 100 % Bonus ( till 30 April 2023)
You can purchase miles with up to a 100% Bonus on purchased miles, which will bring your net cost of miles bought to 1.53 US Cents/ INR 1.26 per mile bought at the top end. With the assortment of partners in the SkyTeam alliance, this is a good programme to consider buying miles in .
Buy United Mileage plus Miles upto 100 % Bonus ( till 28 April 2023 )
You can purchase miles with up to a 100% Bonus on purchased miles, which will bring your net cost of miles bought to 1.88 US Cents/ INR 1.54 per mile bought at the top end. With the assortment of partners in Star Alliance and no fuel surcharges passed through to customers, this is a good programme to consider buying miles in .
Buy Emirates skywards Miles up to 35 % Bonus ( through 22April 2023 )
he offer kicks in at the minimum purchase of 5,000 miles, and at the top end, it kicks in the 35% bonus when you buy at least 26,000 miles in one transaction. You can purchase up to 200,000 miles. At the top end, the miles with the promotional miles added will cost you 2.22 USD Cents/INR 1.82 per mile.
Hotel Points bonus sales
Hilton Honors are offering a promotion where they are offering a flat 100% bonus as long as you buy a minimum of 5000 points. The promotion is available through May 9, 2023. In the end, each point comes at a price of USD 0.005 or INR 0.41 equivalent.
Which Credit Card to use
Usually these purchases are not processed directly by the Hotel or Airlines . So you will almost always pay in USD/EUR/GBP, not INR. So, the best cards to earn a bonus are Citi Prestige ,American Express Platinum Card . nd Axis Bank Reserve Credit Card, as these cards offer an international spending bonus.
