All types of miles at a glance

Whether it’s a flight, a hotel stay or newspaper subscription - our numerous partners offer attractive ways to earn award miles. When booking, give your Miles & More service card number at the checkout or when checking in. Your award miles will be credited to your account automatically.

With our Miles & More partners, you can redeem award miles for attractive awards such as flight awards, gift cards, hotel & car rental awards, subscriptions and much more.

Award miles are valid for 36 months and expire at the end of the quarter. For example, if you were to earn one mile on 1 February 2018, this would expire on 31 March 2021.

Members with Frequent Traveller, Senator or HON Circle status are not affected by mileage expiry, as their miles do not expire as long as they remain a status member. For members with a Miles & More credit card, unlimited mileage validity also applies depending on the type of card.

Status miles can be earned with flights from practically all our airline partners: Austrian, Lufthansa, SWISS, Eurowings, Adria, Air Dolomiti, Brussels, Croatia, LOT, Luxair - as well as with all Star Alliance partners and on some LX code-share flights operated by Edelweiss.

You can find more precise information on the partner page of the airline concerned.

Status miles cannot be redeemed. Status miles are collected to achieve frequent flyer status and, for this reason, cannot be redeemed for awards.

Status miles are calculated on the basis of a calendar year and the mileage balance is put back to zero at the start of every year.

Frequent Traveller: you must earn at least 35,000 status miles per calendar year. The status is valid for two years. Alternatively, you can achieve Frequent Traveller status with the Silver Promotion. 

Senator: you must earn at least 100,000 status miles per calendar year. The status is valid for two years.

HON Circle Member: in order to qualify for the HON Circle, you do not require status miles, but HON Circle miles. Information about HON Circle miles is available further down this page.

HON Circle miles can only be earned on Business Class and First Class flights operated by the following airlines: Austrian, Lufthansa, SWISS, Adria, Brussels, Croatia, Dolomiti, LOT, Luxair and some LX code-share flights operated by Edelweiss. HON Circle miles can also be earned with BEST fares on Eurowings flights.

HON Circle miles are collected exclusively in order to achieve HON Circle status. For this reason, HON Circle miles cannot be redeemed.

HON Circle miles are always calculated on the basis of two calendar years and the mileage balance is put back to zero at the start of the year.

In order to achieve and maintain HON Circle status, you need to earn a minimum of 600,000 HON Circle miles in two consecutive calendar years.

Frequent Travellers and Senators also earn one Select mile for every status mile earned on all flights with Austrian, Lufthansa, SWISS, Eurowings, Adria, Air Dolomiti, Brussels, Croatia, LOT, Luxair and on some LX code-share flights operated by Edelweiss. HON Circle members also earn Select miles on these flights - but not for every status mile earned, rather for every HON Circle mile earned.

You can select from a variety of Select benefits in exchange for your Select miles each time you reach one of the pre-determined mileage levels. Your Select miles will continue to be taken into account even after you have chosen a Select benefit. This means you will reach the next mileage level sooner. You can find a summary of your personal Select benefits in Status Management.

Select miles earned by Frequent Travellers and Senators are calculated based on a calendar year and the mileage balance is put back to zero at the start of every year. For HON Circle Members, Select miles are based on HON Circle miles and consequently only put back to zero after two years have elapsed.

Please note that Select benefits must be chosen within three months of becoming available in order to avoid them expiring unused. You can find more information about this in Status Management, as soon as Select benefits are available to you.

Frequent Traveller: as a Frequent Traveller, you can choose your first Select benefit with 50,000 Select miles.

Select benefits for Frequent Travellers include, for example, lounge vouchers for a companion and discount vouchers.

Senator: as a Senator, you can choose your first Select benefit with 125,000 Select miles. Select benefits for Senators include, for example, eVouchers for upgrades and Frequent Traveller partner cards.

HON Circle Member: as a HON Circle Member, you can choose your first Select benefit with 650,000 HON Circle miles. Select benefits for HON Circle members include, for example, eVouchers for upgrades and an additional Senator partner card.