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Miles & More extends expiry protection for ex-payment card holders

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The current Lufthansa Miles & More Global Traveller payment cards closed on 4th April 2021.

One of the key benefits of holding this card, and paying the £79 annual fee, was that it stopped your Miles & More miles from expiring.

Lufthansa has an unforgiving expiry policy with your miles disappearing three years after being earned, irrespective of activity. The only way to stop it was to have Miles & More elite status or to hold a Miles & More payment card, which hasn’t been possible in the UK for the last 16 months.

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Lufthansa has just given you another three months grace. If ex-cardholders check their Miles & More statements, they will see that they were credited with 1 mile yesterday, ostensibly marked ‘credit card spend’. This tells the Miles & More computer not to expire any miles this quarter.

This has only pushed back the problem, of course. Your miles will now start to expire on 31st December unless another extension is imposed.

As we covered last week, Cornercard has dropped plans to launch a new Lufthansa payment card in the UK. It did say that the airline is now talking to new issuers so we may yet see something turn up. I imagine that if Lufthansa had thrown in towel completely it would start letting miles expire.

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Comments (46)

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  • JerrySignfield says:
    20 Aug20 August 17:23

    Applied on the day of the original article, still waiting a response!

    Phoned them on their dedicated line and emailed their KYC email, no response, this is all rather rubbish, the person on the phone said may take up to 10 days I told them its been over a month, no clue!

  • James Ward says:
    20 Aug20 August 20:21

    Seems like it’s possible to double-dip by topping up with a Curve card, linked to another points earning card. My top-up for £500 went through no problem.

  • Carlos says:
    20 Aug20 August 21:12

    How long does it take for the first 1,500 bonus points to arrive?

  • Graham Walsh says:
    20 Aug20 August 21:32

    Application still showing as manual review as name or DOB doesn’t match. They’ve had it over a week. Is there just 1 person checking applications?

    • Jonathan says:
      20 Aug20 August 22:33

      I put mine through around midnight, and I was a little surprised when it got approved less than a few minutes later, not immediately though.
      I got my card within about 3-4working days (just a quick FYI to all those querying card delivery timescales, that’s when I got mine

  • Willers Julie says:
    21 Aug21 August 00:19

    I subscribed a week or so before that and entered the HFP code. It didn’t work and when I tried again a few minutes later the promo box was gone but the application went in fine. No promo box so no bonus.

    • Rob says:
      21 Aug21 August 00:21

      We can probably fix that. Drop us a note when you get the first 1,500.

      • Willers Julie says:
        21 Aug21 August 00:27

        Thank you so much Rob. FYI the card arrived and good to use within a couple of days & no prob with any transactions.

  • DaveP says:
    21 Aug21 August 07:09

    Has anybody received the card 1500 Avios (and HfP bonus) yet after spending the required £500??

  • Londonsteve says:
    23 Aug23 August 12:48

    I applied on the Sunday, the last day for the HfP bonus offer. My application took 2 days to be approved which included having to re-upload a scan of my passport and doing the face capture thing again. It was approved a few minutes thereafter and a couple of days later I had my card.

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