Buy Etihad Guest Miles With 25% Bonus (1.6 Cents Per Mile)

Buy Etihad Guest Miles With 25% Bonus (1.6 Cents Per Mile)

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25% bonus on purchased miles September 21, 2025 September 30, 2025
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Buying miles & points strategically can represent a great value, especially for luxury travel. The Etihad Guest program has just launched a promotion on purchased miles. While I wouldn’t say this is a slam dunk, some people might still find this to be worthwhile, so let’s go over the details.

Promotion on purchased Etihad Guest miles

Through Tuesday, September 30, 2025, Etihad Guest is offering up to a 25% bonus on purchased miles. The offer is tiered, and you get a bigger bonus the more miles you buy, as follows:

  • Buy 25,000-49,000 miles, receive a 20% bonus
  • Buy 50,000-200,000 miles, receive a 25% bonus
Etihad Guest is selling miles with a 25% bonus

How much does it cost to purchase Etihad Guest miles?

Etihad Guest ordinarily charges 2.0 cents per purchased mile, and there are no further taxes and fees. That’s before any bonuses or discount. With the 25% bonus, if you maxed out this promotion you’d receive a total of 250,000 Etihad Guest miles at a cost of $4,000, which is a rate of 1.6 cents per Etihad Guest mile.

Etihad Guest is selling miles for 1.6 cents each

When we see promotions on purchasing Etihad Guest miles, they’re typically in the range of 25-40%. So while this is better than nothing, it’s not among the better offers we see from the program.

How many Etihad Guest miles can you purchase?

Etihad Guest limits members to purchasing 200,000 Etihad Guest miles per account per calendar year, before any bonuses. The exception is Etihad Guest Platinum members, who can purchase up to 300,000 miles per year, before any bonuses.

If you do buy Etihad Guest miles, it can take up to 72 hours for them to post to your account, but they ordinarily post much faster than that.

Redeem miles for Etihad business class

Which credit card should you buy Etihad Guest miles with?

Etihad Guest mileage purchases are processed by points.com, meaning they don’t count as an airfare purchase for the purposes of credit card spending. Therefore I’d recommend using a card on which you’re trying to reach minimum spending, or otherwise a credit card that maximizes your return on everyday spending.

See this post for more on which credit cards are best for buying points.

Is buying Etihad Guest miles worth it?

There are lots of ways to redeem Etihad Guest miles. While the airline doesn’t belong to one of the major alliances, there are many ways to redeem the miles on both Etihad and on partner airlines.

Below you can find the award chart for travel exclusively on Etihad. As part of the Etihad Guest overhaul for 2024, we’ve actually seen redemption rates on Etihad reduced in many markets, which is pretty cool. In reality, the program’s pricing was just too unattractive before, so this just makes it a bit more competitive.

The pricing is based on the one-way distance of travel. Note that these redemption rates are specifically for situations where there’s GuestSeat availability, which is Etihad’s capacity controlled, saver award space. If you see higher award pricing than what’s listed below, that means there’s not saver award space, and redemptions won’t be a very good deal.

Etihad Guest award chart for travel on Etihad

Etihad Guest has a separate award chart for travel on partner airlines, which is also distance based, and you can find that below. This is based on the one-way distance, and you can’t mix airline partners on a single award.

Etihad Guest award chart for travel on partner airlines

The main reason to consider collecting Etihad Guest miles is because the program has access to a lot more Etihad award space than partner programs do. Partner programs, like American AAdvantage and Air France-KLM Flying Blue, typically only have access to a subset of premium cabin Etihad availability.

There are two other major catches when it comes to Etihad Guest:

I’d really only recommend buying Etihad Guest miles with a very specific use in mind, if you know what you’re doing.

Etihad Guest miles are best for Etihad redemptions

How much are Etihad Guest miles worth?

Everyone will value mileage currencies differently, but personally I value Etihad Guest miles at ~1.1 cents each. I tend to value points pretty conservatively, and there are many ways to get more value from Etihad Guest miles than that.

Do Etihad Guest miles expire?

Etihad Guest miles don’t expire as long as you have at least some account activity once every 18 months. Note that you can only reset the expiration of your miles by crediting a flight to the program every 18 months, so other activity wouldn’t help in that regard.

What other ways can you earn Etihad Guest miles?

The cost to purchase Etihad Guest miles here is really attractive, though I’d note that there are many other ways to earn these miles. For those with credit cards in the United States, Etihad Guest is transfer partners with Amex Membership Rewards, Capital One, and Citi ThankYou, so those are some great alternatives for earning Etihad Guest miles.

However, at a reasonable cost, some people may prefer just outright buying miles, rather than transferring them.

American Express® Gold Card
  • 4x points at restaurants worldwide, on up to $50,000 in purchases annually
  • 4x points at U.S. supermarkets, on up to $25,000 in purchases annually
  • 3x points on flights booked directly with airlines or through amextravel.com
  • $325
American Express® Business Gold Card
  • Access to Amex Offers
  • Redeem Amex Points Towards Airfare
  • $375
American Express Platinum Card®
  • Earn 5x points on flights purchased directly from airlines or through Amex Travel (up to $500k/year)
  • $200 Annual Uber Credit
  • Amex Centurion Lounge Access
  • $895
The Business Platinum Card® from American Express
  • Earn 2x on purchases of $5,000 or more in a single transaction on up to $2MM per calendar year
  • Redeem Points For Over 1.5 Cents Each Towards Airfare
  • Amex Centurion Lounge Access
  • $895
The Blue Business® Plus Credit Card from American Express
  • 2x points on purchases up to $50k then 1x
  • Access to Amex Offers
  • No annual fee

For those who don’t have access to lucrative credit cards and/or who would rather pay 1.43 cents per mile than transfer points, buying Etihad Guest miles could represent a good deal.

Redeem miles for Etihad first class

Bottom line

Etihad Guest is selling miles with up to a 25% bonus, which translates to a cost of 1.6 cents per mile. That could be a good deal for premium cabin redemptions. However, I’d recommend only buying miles with a specific use in mind, especially given how this currency has been devalued.

Does anyone plan on buying Etihad Guest miles with this offer?

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  1. BB Guest

    Hey Ben, are you going to write about the cyber attacks on airports in Europe?

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BB Guest

Hey Ben, are you going to write about the cyber attacks on airports in Europe?

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