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.
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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