Once again we bring you the latest set Miles & More “Meilenschnaeppchen”
discounted
mileage awards! This month we see the return of Lufthansa Business Class options while we see the continuation of last
month’s offer of a 50% discount
on economy class travel on Austrian
Airlines between Toronto and Austria. The Business Class offer is for travel this July which is awesome as that is the high season for travel (more so economy class but still you should look into this offer!) The Austrian offers are good for booking and travel by March
31st.
You can redeem Miles & More miles for round trip tickets from
Montreal or Toronto to Europe for only 55,000
miles in Business Class. This is nearly a 48% discount off the
normal Business Class award ticket price of 105,000 miles. As mentioned
before the Austrian Airlines option is a full 50% discount on economy
class which means an award ticket price of only 30,000 miles. Granted
all
these tickets will also have fuel surcharges but this is still a pretty
good deal when you look at it as a whole in terms of miles+cash outlay.
The crazy thing is that you can actually get the round trip Austrian Airlines ticket for
only $5,000 in credit card spend (and a $120 annual fee). How so? As we
usually mention in this post you can boost your Miles & More account
with the Starwood Preferred Guest Credit Card from American Express.
If you read our blog regularly you’ll know that right now the card
comes with a 20,000 Starpoint sign up bonus. When you convert those
20,000 Starpoints to Miles & More SPG will award you an additional
5,000 miles. Which gives you 25,000 miles but if you spend $5,000 on the
card you’ll have 25,000 Starpoints and the 5,000 Miles bonus giving you
the 30,000 miles required for this flight. Of course fuel surcharges
and taxes are extra.
Simply book by March
31st. Full details on this offer can be found here