Miles & More miles expiry is coming for ex-cardholders – what can you book before Friday?

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• HAM76 says:

  26 Mar26 March 10:01

  There’s also the option to donate miles to support earthquake victims in Turkey and Syria. The minimum amount is 3,000 miles. The cheapest gift card is also 3,000 for FloraPrima.

  The country selection on the miles and more website is utterly confusing, BTW. They list Russia, but for the UK you have to search in the other countries section, but also make sure to look for Great Britain instead of UK or United Kingdom.

• tw33ty says:

  26 Mar26 March 10:48

  Bit niche, but there’s a Lufthansa physical shop at Hamburg airport you can buy stuff with miles and more points if you’ve got a small amount to use and passing through.

• Xmenlongshot says:

  26 Mar26 March 11:13

  That’s super annoying – I was really banking on them extending it. 172k miles to utilise…

  Doesn’t provide a huge incentive to then keep using LH

  • Lady London says:

    26 Mar26 March 20:57

    One of the sites lets you cash out to Amazon vouchers. Either UK or Germany – I forget which one I did. You have to use on same country Amazon and there were other vouchers too.

    They’re much better used for flights eg transcontinental US in Business. That’s what I had used mine for – until Lufthansa turned out many months later to have somehow cancelled the booking for no good reason.

    That was finally the last straw for me with Lufthansa and I liquidated out my points for a couple of nice up to date tech bits off .de worldshop, the rest went to Amazon vouchers and I closed the account.

    If you’re not a Senator Lufthansa are tiresome to deal with. Even in the German banks I worked in more people were collecting avios than LH.

• King of Sutton says:

  26 Mar26 March 12:10

  I’ve just logged in and can see that I have 12k miles. Where does it say how many miles expire this quarter? I’ve looked everywhere but I just can’t find it.

  • Bagoly says:

    26 Mar26 March 12:16

    On the page Account | Overview.

    If none are expiring this quarter or next then it doesn’t say (indeed annoying that one can’t get negative confirmation)

    • King of Sutton says:

      26 Mar26 March 12:19

      Ah right, nice one, thanks. Mine must be expiring later in the year then.

• Jeronimo says:

  26 Mar26 March 12:14

  I’ve been hoping that they would continue to extend the “gesture” until a new credit card partner is found. I thought Barclays would pick up the baton given they do this programme for US customers.

  Oh well, time to switch a new programme then. I’ve been tossing between Aegean and United, as both have a manageable expiry policy. In fact, UA miles don’t expire but it’s tough to earn elite status.

  • TGLoyalty says:

    26 Mar26 March 13:59

    May still do the last gesture came very late in the quarter

    The CS isn’t always up to date with such things.

• Concerto says:

  26 Mar26 March 13:05

  Ok, here is my next post of ideas:

• Concerto says:

  26 Mar26 March 13:07

  The best use of Miles & More miles is for flights, obviously. My most recent redemption was a one way flight on AnadoluJet (TK) from Istanbul SAW to Bergamo BGY which saved me about €800. The cost was 17,000 miles and some €50-70 taxes. I was getting a bit desperate, so I turned to M&M as a last resort, expecting some connecting flights via Germany to be offered, which was indeed the case. AnadoluJet is a subsidiary of Turkish Airlines but I did not expect their flights to be available for miles redemptions. Because it was a one way flex ticket, it could be modified free of charge. This would apply to any one way M&M ticket, in fact.

  You probably could get good value for a one way ticket on other Lufthansa Group airlines too. But don’t waste your time, money or miles with business class, it really is bad within Europe. As for the mileage bargain offers, I am a bit wary of those because there is absolutely no flexibility whatsoever and you have to book them so far in advance that it’s usually cheaper to pay a cash ticket than the stupid taxes they put on these miles tickets. I almost never book mileage bargains because of the inherent dangers, although I have been tempted to book one of the long haul ones.

  • Bagoly says:

    26 Mar26 March 13:57

    meilenschnaeppchen are typically 3.5-5 months out (from the 1st of the month when they are released) for long-haul and 1-3 months out for short-haul.
    But LOT long-haul are typically 1-3 months out, and I think Austrian have sometimes also been the same.

• Andrew says:

  26 Mar26 March 13:39

  And just underneath that it states “Award miles do not expire if you make at least one qualifying purchase per month with your Miles & More charge card” so there’s no chance of getting anything out of Affiniture.

  • NFH says:

    26 Mar26 March 15:13

    I disagree. Given that it was Affiniture’s decision to discontinue the card, they made it impossible for consumers to comply with this term.

    This term also does not make it clear that miles previously earnt in compliance with this term can subsequently fail to benefit from the “unlimited mileage protection” and thereby expire.

    The principle of contra proferentem, which is codified by Section 69 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, causes any ambiguity to be interpreted against the author.

    • JDB says:

      26 Mar26 March 17:29

      You need to look at the full terms rather than what is stated in the marketing material headlines – that has been determined by the Ombudsman countless times. Those terms make clear that there are grounds to allow expiry. Affiniture is quite probably also no longer in a position to provide extensions and it would appear that M&M has been generous in granting extensions on a goodwill basis.

    • Lady London says:

      26 Mar26 March 18:20

      no survival clause though

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