9 Best Ways to Earn Lots of Asiana Airlines Asiana Club Miles
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Asiana Airlines is one of South Korea’s 2 major airlines along with Korean Air.
As a member of the Star Alliance, Asiana offers the ability to earn airline miles with a transferable point program and co-branded credit cards.
In this post, we’ll walk through how you can maximize earning Asiana miles.
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Sign Up For an Asiana Airlines Asiana Club Account
Asiana Airlines requires you to sign up for a frequent flyer account to use miles or transfer points from a credit card program into a frequent flyer program. The process is straightforward and only requires you to sign up for a new account.
Hot Tip: It’s important to keep track of your username, password, and account number, as you’ll need this information to log in to your account.
Earn Asiana Club Miles with Credit Cards
Asiana Airlines provides several ways to earn miles from sign-up bonuses and spending on credit cards affiliated with the airline.
The airline has 2 co-branded credit cards. It also partners with Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), so you can use SPG credit cards to accrue Asiana miles as well.
Both Marriott and Ritz-Carlton provide additional ways to earn points that you can transfer into Asiana miles. Marriott acquired SPG, so you can transfer Marriott or Ritz-Carlton points to SPG points, which you can transfer to Asiana miles.
1. Bank of America Credit Cards
Asiana currently offers 2 Bank of America co-branded credit cards. While not the quickest way to earn miles due to the lackluster 30,000-point sign-up bonus, both the personal and business credit cards provide an additional avenue for adding miles to your Asiana account.
The Asiana Visa Signature card is the personal credit card. You’ll receive the following benefits with this credit card:
- 30,000 Asiana miles after you spend $3,000 in the first 3 months
- 3 miles per $1 spent on Asiana airline tickets
- 2 miles per $1 spent on gas and groceries
- 1 mile per $1 spent on all other purchases
- $100 annual rebate toward the purchase of an Asiana airlines ticket
- No foreign transaction fees
- 2 certificates for an Asiana lounge only in the U.S.
- 10,000 bonus mile certificate when you pay your annual fee
- $99 annual fee
If you have your own business, you may qualify for the Asiana Visa Business card. If you’re approved, you’ll receive the following benefits:
- 10,000 Asiana miles after your first purchase
- 2 miles per $1 spent on Asiana airline ticket purchases
- 1 mile per $1 spent on all other purchases
- (2) $100 annual rebate towards the purchase of a U.S.-departing Asiana airlines ticket
- $80 annual fee
2. Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) Credit Cards
SPG is one of 3 hotel programs that you can utilize to transfer hotel points into airline miles. The other 2 hotel programs are Marriott and Ritz-Carlton.
For every 20,000 SPG points you transfer to an airline, you’ll receive a 5,000-mile bonus. 20,000 SPG points become 25,000 Asiana Airlines miles after the transfer!
As is the case with most SPG airline partners, transferring points to Asiana from SPG is one of the easiest ways to earn Asiana miles.
SPG Cards
| CREDIT CARD | CARD INFO |
|---|---|
| Starwood Preferred Guest® Credit Card from American Express |
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Starwood Preferred Guest® Business Credit Card from American Express |
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Hot Tip: If you are looking for more ways to redeem SPG points, check out our best ways to use SPG points for max value.
3. Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Credit Cards
With Marriott/Ritz-Carlton’s acquisition of SPG, you can transfer Marriott/Ritz-Carlton points to Asiana. You’ll need to be a member with either Marriott or Ritz-Carlton and SPG to be able to transfer your points. Simply sign up if you aren’t already a member.
To convert your Marriott/Ritz-Carlton points to Asiana miles, you’ll transfer your Marriott/Ritz-Carlton points to SPG at a 3:1 ratio (3 Marriott points = 1 SPG point) and then transfer those points to Asiana at 1:1 ratio.
Hot Tip: It’s important to remember that for every 20,000 SPG points transferred to one of its airline partners, you’ll receive a 5,000-mile bonus. For example, if you transfer 20,000 SPG points to Asiana Airlines, you’ll receive 25,000 Asiana Airlines miles.
Marriott and Ritz-Carlton currently offer 3 credit cards, the Marriott Rewards Premier Plus (personal), the Marriott Rewards Premier Business, and the Ritz-Carlton Rewards Credit Card.
Marriott Cards
| CREDIT CARD | CARD INFO |
|---|---|
Marriott Rewards® Premier Plus Credit Card |
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| Chase Marriott Rewards® Premier Business Credit Card |
Ritz Carlton Cards
| CREDIT CARD | CARD INFO |
|---|---|
| 💳 The Ritz-Carlton Rewards® Credit Card |
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Earning Asiana Club Miles Through Travel
In addition to earning miles from credit card spend, Asiana Airlines offers ways to earn miles through travel. From airlines to hotels and car rental companies, Asiana makes it easy to earn miles with its partners.
4. Airfare and Airlines Purchases
Asiana Airlines is a member of the Star Alliance. When flying Asiana or any airline in the Star Alliance, you have the opportunity to earn Asiana miles.
Simply use your Asiana Airlines account number on your airline ticket reservation no matter which Star Alliance airline you’re booking, and you will be credited with Asiana miles after completing your flight.
For example, if you put your Asiana Airlines account number on your United Airlines flight, you will receive Asiana Airlines miles.
Asiana also partners with non-Star Alliance airlines including China Southern, Etihad, Qantas, Qatar Airways, and SriLankan Airlines.
| Asiana Other Partner Airlines | |
| Air Astana | Air Busan |
| Air Macau | Air Seoul |
| China Southern | Etihad Airways |
| Hong Kong Airlines | Qantas |
| Qatar Airways | S7 Airlines |
| Shandong Airlines | Shenzhen Airlines |
| SriLankana Airlines | |
It’s important to read through the mileage accumulation for each partner airline if you plan to credit a partner airline flight to Asiana.
Each airline has different accumulation rates, so make sure you understand the terms before crediting your flight.
5. Finance Partners
Asiana has a number of credit card and bank partners associated with its program. Bank of America is the sole credit card partner for U.S. residents, while a number of other partners are available if you’re based outside the U.S.
Mileage is accumulated based on the dollars or local currency that you spend with each of the financial partners.
6. Car Rental Partners
Asiana partners with 5 car rental companies, 3 of which are based in the U.S. U.S. residents can use Hertz, Alamo, and National.
LOTTE is only available for rentals in Korea, while rentalcars.com excludes car rentals in the U.S. and Canada.
7. Hotel Partnerships
Asiana Airlines offers discounts and the ability to earn miles with its hotel partners.
Notable hotel partners in its program include SPG, Marriott, IHG, Hilton, and Hyatt. For example, if you’re a Hyatt member, you’ll earn 500 Asiana miles per stay.
You’ll need to link your hotel loyalty program account with your Asiana Airlines account and provide the hotel front desk with your Asiana account information to earn miles.
8. Duty Free
If you find yourself in Japan, Asiana offers mileage when buying items inside of the airport. ANA Duty Free Shops in the Narita, Haneda, and Kansai airports provide you with a way to earn miles on your spend.
9. Other Asiana Partners
Asiana members receives discounts and special benefits when utilizing the airlines other partners. The airline’s other partners include a cruise company, a ballet company, and 2 additional hotels, among others.
Final Thoughts
While Asiana does not provide a substantial number of ways to earn miles like American Airlines does, targeting your spending on the right credit cards and flying Asiana or partner airlines will help.
The program offers additional ways to earn miles including spending with its hotel partners, car rental partners, and other partners.
Bottom Line: Whether you’re eyeing that business class flight to Europe or first class flight to Korea, Asiana is a program that you’ll want to keep in mind.
A nice post, and more detailed than many. As a holder of an Asiana card from BOA, can I be approved for another?
Hi Christian
The short is answer is yes.
BOA has a 2/3/4 rule that is important to know. The rule is that you’ll only be approved for 2 cards per rolling 2 months, 3 cards per rolling 12 months, and 4 cards per rolling 24 months.
Based on what I’ve read, there is not limit to the amount of credit cards you can have with BOA but I’d recommend researching to confirm.
Amazing post. Traveling while earning money seems like a good way to go. I would love to read more from the blog.
Hi Burmisoutdoor
Please let us know what topics you’d like to see covered in the future.