Buy Emirates Skywards Miles With up to a 25% Bonus

Updated: December 10, 2024, 1:02am CST

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Purchase Emirates Skywards Miles and Get up to a 25% Bonus
Best Ways To Redeem Emirates Skywards Miles
Final Thoughts

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Emirates offers some of the very best inflight experiences in the world. However, booking award tickets in its premium cabins is limited to its Skywards loyalty program.

While Emirates is already a 1:1 transfer partner of every major transferable points currency — Amex Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Capital One Miles, Chase Ultimate Rewards, and Citi ThankYou Rewards — purchasing miles can still make sense on occasion, depending on how you are planning to put those miles to use.

Let’s go over the details.

Purchase Emirates Skywards Miles and Get up to a 25% Bonus

Through December 22, 2024, at 2:59 p.m. ET, you can receive up to a 25% bonus when you buy miles in the following increments.

Buy 5,000 to 15,000 miles with a 10% bonus
Buy 16,000 to 25,000 miles with a 15% bonus
Buy 26,000 to 100,000 miles with a 25% bonus (2.45 cents per mile)

Note that you could be targeted for a more or less lucrative offer.

You can purchase miles in increments of 1,000. There’s also a maximum of up to 100,000 miles per year before the bonus. Finally, Points.com processes all these transactions, so they won’t be coded as travel purchases.

We value Emirates Skywards miles at 1.1 cents apiece. And even if you receive the 25% bonus, you’ll purchase miles for 2.45 cents each. Therefore, you’ll want to have a specific redemption in mind where you know you can get significantly more value than you would without purchasing miles.

Hot Tip:

Since this purchase won’t earn bonus points in a “travel” or “airfare” category, use your best card for everyday spending. Alternatively, use this purchase toward a card with a great welcome bonus right now.

Best Ways To Redeem Emirates Skywards Miles

It’s hard to go wrong when you redeem Skywards miles. You can spend them on experiences like Emirates first class on the Airbus A380 or even the new game-changing first class product on the Boeing 777.

Emirates Inaugural World's Shortest A380 First Class Window Suite Cherag Dubash — Emirates A380 first class seat. Image Credit: Cherag Dubash

However, Emirates has increased award rates and fuel surcharges on its award tickets multiple times, to the point where the fees you’ll pay on an award ticket will be a considerable cost.

While these increases have impacted virtually every route that Emirates flies, a few have remained unscathed — the most notable being the airline’s fifth-freedom routes between Newark (EWR) and Athens (ATH), and New York (JFK) and Milan (MXP).

On these routes, you can fly one-way in business class (remember, you’ll get access to the full onboard bar, even in business class!) from 87,000 miles one-way. Or, you can fly in first class one-way for 102,000 miles.

Hot Tip:

Read up on the best ways to redeem Emirates Skywards miles for maximum value!

Final Thoughts

If you want to take advantage of this offer, remember that you have until December 22 at 2:59 p.m. ET to do so. That said, depending on your situation, you might be better off just transferring miles that you already have from one of the major transferable programs.

For those who decide to purchase, as always, ensure you have a specific use for the miles before doing so. Finally, make certain that the redemption will provide you with more value than what you’ll spend on purchasing the miles.