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Should you redeem your Emirates Skywards frequent flyer miles on easyJet?!

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Emirates has a lot of high quality partnerships such as its established deal with Qantas.  It also works with many other well regarded legacy airlines such as JAL and Air Canada, giving members of the Emirates Skywards frequent flyer scheme more options for earning and spending miles.

We looked at the best Emirates Skywards airline partnerships here last month.

Emirates Skywards also has a partnership with easyJet.

Redeem Emirates Skywards frequent flyer miles on easyJet

Whilst you may be thinking ‘I’m never going to redeem my miles on easyJet’, you need to remember that Emirates Skywards has tough expiry rules for its miles.  You may find a chunk need to be used quickly.

There are other options for expiring Emirates Skywards miles.  Whilst the Heathrow Rewards partnership recently ended, Emirates added a new option to convert Skywards miles into Accor Live Limitless hotel points.

You could also look at using expiring Emirates Skywards miles as part-payment towards a hotel booking or for some Arsenal football tickets – although VIP tickets are now restricted to Gold members of Skywards.

We published a complete guide to earning Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards which you can find here.

The Emirates Skywards and easyJet partnership

The two airlines are not directly comparable, I admit.  Compare the picture below of the Emirates Boeing 777-300ER First Class suite (review here) ….

Redeem Emirates Skywards frequent flyer miles on easyJet

…. with a 186 seat Airbus A320:

Redeem Emirates Skywards frequent flyer miles on easyJet

How are Emirates redemptions priced on easyJet?

There is no complex award chart to get your head around.  See this page of the Emirates website for full details of the deal.

As Emirates is basically buying you an easyJet ticket for cash using your miles, your tickets are non-refundable and non-changeable just like a normal easyJet ticket.

The good news is that you can redeem Emirates miles for the full cost of your flight.  There are no taxes to pay.  You can also pay for seat selection, baggage etc with miles as long as it is booked as part of the original transaction.

Here are some typical prices I looked up, comparing the easyJet cash price to the Skywards miles required:

  • £88.99 or 18,179 miles
  • £68.99 or 14,579 miles
  • £174.64 or 33,596 miles

In these examples you are getting 0.49p, 0.47p and 0.52p per mile respectively.  This isn’t a bad deal, to be honest, if you have no other use for the miles.

The upside is that you can book any easyJet flight, on any day.  No blackouts, no restrictions – although you cannot book flights which connect onto another airline, and of course busier flights will require more miles.

It’s worth noting that Emirates has substantially improved this deal in the last year or so. For many years you were only getting around 0.27p per mile, so it has got a lot more generous.

easyJet flights are one exit route for anyone stuck with expiring Emirates Skywards miles – although certainly not a good enough reason to go out of your way to accumulate Emirates miles in the first place.


How to earn Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards

How to earn Emirates Skywards miles from UK credit cards (March 2025)

Emirates Skywards does not have a UK credit card.  However, you can earn Emirates Skywards miles by converting Membership Rewards points earned from selected UK American Express cards.

Cards earning Membership Rewards points include:

Membership Rewards points convert at 4:3 into Emirates Skywards miles which is an attractive rate.  The cards above all earn 1 Membership Rewards point per £1 spent on your card, which converts to 0.75 Emirates Skywards miles

The American Express Preferred Rewards Gold card earns double points (2 per £1) on all flights you charge to it, not just with Emirates but with any airline.

Comments (14)

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  • PeterK says:

    It looks like the newer easyJet destinations haven’t been loaded to the Emirates search engine, e.g. Gatwick-Rennes. It doesn’t recognise the destination apart from saying there are no services to Rennes railway station 🤣

  • Tom Morgan says:

    Is there a way to redeem from my emirates family account?

    • Rob says:

      Not sure, not gone one. Surely if you click through to the easyJet site it will show you what balance you have to spend?

      • Tom Morgan says:

        The balance is held in the family not individual, so if I log onto the easyJet site via the emirates link on my account the balance shows as zero.. I’ll have a play around.

        Alternatively can one withdraw from family account back to an individual?

        • tom morgan says:

          Answer from Emirates:

          Unfortunately both options are not possible

          As family account miles cannot be used for partner airline redemption and it cannot even be transferred to individual account.

          • Jonathan says:

            It’s like some programs are actively discouraging people to use them, when there’s hard expiry policy, and bans on allowing transfers to friends / family…
            I’m fairly sure M&M has a similar policy ?

  • Ken Nolan says:

    A guide on how to do that would be helpful too

  • Phil says:

    Is it possible to book flights to be taken by someone else or do you have to be the passenger?
    I have family member who just got made redundant and would love to give them free flights to Spain for a week

  • BlairWaldorfSalad says:

    Any ideas on where the typically cheapest Easyjet routes out of London are. I have around 5000 Skywards expiring in June and would rather use than lose.

    • Nick says:

      Jersey can be peanuts for a return ticket if the timing is right. St Helier lounge isn’t bad too.

  • Sam S says:

    That’s when you know an airline rewards scheme is a complete pointless existence when you’re having to scramble around for the cheapest Easy Jet routes just to use the points up. Their equivalent ‘family’ household account is bigger joke than the 3 year hard expiry.

  • Ian Faulds says:

    Have just redeemed 7500 expiring 28 February for a modest discount on a flight from Glasgow to Dubai. Better than nothing!!!!

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