Did you know Lufthansa Miles & More offers a 25% miles discount for children?
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The Lufthansa Miles & More scheme is certainly not perfect, but it does have some good reasons to use it. As I covered in an article about my trip to the Middle East over Christmas 2020, Miles & More offers good value on this route.
One of the odder quirks of the Miles & More scheme, which can make their redemptions better value than you think, is that they offer a 25% discount on the miles required when you redeem for a child.
A child is defined as someone aged 2-11.
This only applies to flights on Austrian Airlines, Air Dolomiti, Brussels Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Eurowings, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Luxair and SWISS, but that is enough to be going on with.
It is only applied for participating airlines. If your booking includes any sectors on other carriers, the discount will not be applied at all.
The discount is automatically applied when searching for redemptions on the Miles & More website.
For a family, this makes Miles & More redemptions attractive. Let’s take a Miles & More business class redemption from the UK to the Middle East:
- British Airways wants 180,000 Avios + £350 return on a peak date, so 720,000 Avios for a family of four assuming no Amex 2-4-1 vouchers (this assumes you book the ‘most Avios, least cash’ option)
- Lufthansa or SWISS, with a change of plane in Europe, only wants 70,000 miles return + £565 so you are already ahead. The discount on the two child tickets is just icing on the cake, meaning that the total required is only 245,000 Miles & More miles rather than the 280,000 you might initially expect.
Here is a pricing example for one adult and one child to Dubai:
Unfortunately, if this sounds attractive to you, the UK Lufthansa Miles & More payment card closed to new applicants four years ago. Unless a replacement appears – and we are hopeful, given that Star Alliance has started launching its own cards – your options for earning Miles & More miles from routes other than Star Alliance flights are slim. They have virtually no transfer partners from financial or hotel programmes.
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