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Aegean has announced a 50% bonus on the purchase of miles through October 31, 2018. With the promotion, you can purchase a maximum of 50,000 miles on which you will receive a 25,000-mile bonus.
Key Terms
- Promotion is valid on purchases through October 31, 2018
- You need to log into your Aegean account to view the promotion
- Promotion is valid on the purchase of award miles
- Receive a 50% bonus on the purchase of miles
- Maximum number of miles you can purchase per calendar year is 50,000
- If you have no flights posted to your Aegean account, the maximum number of miles you can purchase is 30,000
- Miles are sold in 1,000 miles increments and cost €25/~$29
Is It Worth It?
If you are looking for a Star Alliance partner award, the Aegean award chart has some solid redemption options. A roundtrip from North America to Europe will set you back 90,000 miles in Business class.
A one-way ticket will set you back 45,000 miles. If you purchase 30,000 miles with the promotion, it will earn you a total of 45,000 miles for ~$870. That is enough for a one-way Business class award with a Star Alliance partner. The same ticket could cost at least a few thousand dollars, some substantial potential savings to be made.
Our Take
Purchasing miles speculatively isn't something you'll see us recommend, however, if you are making some upcoming travel plans it is well worth your while checking out the promotion to see if you can make it work for you.
Source: One Mile At A Time
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There are continuous promotions offered by Aegean if you look at their site also. But for 2019 they have launched also another campaign that is worth to look into. For every ticket bought you can take part in a daily competition and you enter automatically for the bigger prize which is a number of Business tickets. For more check here: https://en.aegeanair.com/plan/offers-competitions/golden-ticket/
I just bought some and they will be great for visa runs from Thailand.
I just often purchase miles, but I will keep this in mind. Thanks for the tip!
Has anyone scored any uber premium SQ awards with the Aegean miles?
Nice bonus! Thanks for the tip.
You mostly buy miles instead of flying for aspirational awards nowadays. That’s the way it is 🙂
thanks for sharing, I am going to top up my account asap
They are still a nice program for reasonbla reward charts and Gols status, so these promotion only adds to that (and no mimimum spend requeirement to get the bonus!)
It sound like that Aegean is the “hack” for the premium Star carrier business class awards 🙂
Never have any luck with online award availability on Aegean.
Not bad if you need to top off miles.
Nice reminder about business class option
When I tried to buy Aegean miles last time, I just couldn’t get the payment system to accept my credit cards.
I tried many different ones and they all failed, so I eventually gave up.
can you hold an award without miles in the account?
No, you need award miles to be able to book the award!
There are quite a few good redemption possibilities where you pay very low surcharges. I booked KUL-TPE-LHR for 55,000 miles and only € 46.70. That’s just under 22 hours of Business Class with Eva Air. Excellent value!!
Remind me again how Aegean deal with surcharges on airlines such as Lufthansa?
You’ll pay them.
Thank you!!!