In late 2022, Lufthansa’s Miles & More program got into the business of selling miles, with an interesting backstory. Lufthansa has just launched its latest promotion on purchased miles. This has the potential to be a good value, especially given that this is a points currency that can otherwise be hard to accrue.
However, note that starting in June 2025, Miles & More will adopt dynamic award pricing, and it’s mostly bad news. So I wouldn’t buy miles with a long term use in mind, but rather, if you want to get in a redemption before the changes kick in.
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Lufthansa Bundle&Go mileage sale
Lufthansa sells Miles & More miles. The airline isn’t flat out selling miles like most programs do, but rather is selling mileage bundles. These bundles are branded as Bundle&Go, and you can purchase an extra small, small, medium, or large bundle.
For purchases through Monday, March 31, 2025, Lufthansa Miles & More is offering up to a 50% bonus on its Bundle&Go packages. The pricing for these bundles is as follows, assuming your account is registered in the United States:
- You can buy an extra small bundle with a 50% bonus; this gets you 4,500 Lufthansa miles for $100; this comes out to 2.22 cents per mile (in USD)
- You can buy a small bundle with a 50% bonus; this gets you 15,000 Lufthansa miles for $260; this comes out to 1.73 cents per mile (in USD)
- You can buy a medium bundle with a 50% bonus; this gets you 75,000 Lufthansa miles for $1,060; this comes out to 1.41 cents per mile (in USD)
- You can buy a large bundle, but this is not eligible for a bonus; this gets you 100,000 Lufthansa miles for $1,850; this comes out to 1.85 cents per mile
So the best cost per mile would be with the medium bundle, since the large bundle doesn’t offer any bonus miles.
As you’ll see, these bundles come with extra perks, including bonus miles when you book through the Hotels&Cars platform, bonus miles with Avis, and discounts on Priority Pass memberships.
The nice thing about Lufthansa Miles & More miles is that you can use them to redeem for Lufthansa first class more than 15 days in advance, unlike when booking through partner programs. The catch is that Lufthansa Miles & More has fuel surcharges, which limits the value of the miles.
Still, it’s nice to be able to top off your Miles & More account balance, since there aren’t otherwise many ways to do that. Miles & More doesn’t partner with any major transferable points currencies, though the program does have a US co-branded credit card.
For what it’s worth, the 50% bonus is in line with the best percentage bonus we see from the program. The catch is that you’re not quite getting the best cost per mile, since the large bundle can’t be purchased with the bonus (and that ordinarily offers the lowest cost per mile).
Why Lufthansa is being creative with selling miles
Lufthansa is one of the few major airlines that hasn’t directly sold miles to consumers (at any cost) up until a couple of years ago. That’s not a coincidence, and it’s not because Lufthansa doesn’t see value in it.
Rather it’s because Germany has strict consumer protection laws. This has caused issues in the past when Lufthansa directly sold miles, since the company faced lawsuits over mileage expiration, etc.
Lufthansa is obviously being very strategic here, and is selling these bundles in a way that doesn’t assign a direct dollar value to the miles. While the added perks with Avis and Priority Pass are probably not worth anything to most people buying miles, this allows Lufthansa to avoid legal issues associated with selling miles at a specific valuation.
Bottom line
Lufthansa Miles & More has launched its latest promotion on buying miles, in the form of mileage bundles that are being marketed as Bundle&Go. With the promotion being offered at the moment, you can buy Lufthansa miles for as little as 1.41 cents each. While I wouldn’t be proactively picking up Lufthansa miles at this cost, that will definitely be worthwhile for some people, especially if they want to get in a pre-devaluation award.
What do you make of Lufthansa’s attempt to sell miles?
No mention of the already announced and impending massive devaluation?
This is just ridiculous, nobody knows how much you have to spend when booking after 3rd June (at least on LH,LX,OS). And the availability on *A partners for F or C awards are rare and also up to 40% more expensive.
Furthermore M&M restricted the purchase of the L Bundle to status owners.
Will spent my last miles with a booking before 3rd June, and the bye bye LH group.....
I’m sure the LH group will be gutted to see you go.
M&M Frequent travellers, Senators and Hon circle members are eligible to buy the large bundle with a 50% bonus - i.e get 150,000 miles for $1,850.
Soon enough, these bundles will be priced in rubles.
I want Germany to start showing more respect to America.
Don't fly to Germany. We dont want racists and facists. We got rid of them 70 years ago.
You're kidding, right? The truth is, you Maga-ots once again voted in the "racists and fascists" that you claim were gotten rid of 70 years ago. Never ceases to amaze me how oblivious, ignorant and hypocritical these Trump dupes really are....
An article in Forbes from 2019 stated that LH announced the shift of the awards' programme to dynamic pricing "in a near future", and yet it took everyone by surprise, including me.
Seeing the new offer for a bundle, though, I thought it is a joke. But who am I to tell, so go on, buy attractive bundles, buy...
As for the delay, call it the Allegris dynamic pricing update.
I guess they didn't get the memo about sell miles first, devalue second.
Im impressed how well Ben outlined the situation of M&M and for which usecase it still might make sense to buy them.
As an additional note: check if your intended itinerary is even available for booking, as the situation for this is getting worse as well.
Argentina's Peso is more valuable than Lufthansa Miles
Miles are great for Dundee award come with $1000 plus fees.
I would avoid.