50,000 Lufthansa Miles & More Card Returns!

Since I missed applying for this for my husband last time, we'll definitely be applying him for it this time, here's why:

 

 

I can't tell you how many times I get requests from prospective clients for advance award bookings in Lufthansa First Class. Sorry folks–no Award Booking Service can magically get you advance awards in Lufthansa First Class for your inflexible dates using United miles. If you have Miles & More miles, however, you can indeed book Lufthansa First Class awards in advance. Yes, they do cost more miles and have fuel surcharges, but that's the price you pay for being able to lock in Lufthansa First Class in advance. 

 

Also, if you book a one way from Europe to the U.S., fuel surcharges tend to be less. For example, as I highlighted in 

 

While I'm not sure what our exact redemption will be, it would likely be an advance First Class booking on Lufthansa or SWISS.

 

 

 

Some of my clients really like this feature, and it's always possible that we may instead use Miles & More miles to book this instead. You could fly flat bed on a transcontinental United flight 3 times, using the bonus and the miles you earn from meeting minimum spend, with no fuel surcharges. That's because of the advantageous Lufthansa Miles & More Award Chart for domestic flights:

 

• Economy: 25,000 Miles & More miles roundtrip
• Business: 35,000 Miles & More miles roundtrip
• First: 50,000 Miles & More miles roundtrip

Since a nice perk is that Lufthansa Miles & More rounds down for one way flights, a one-way business class anywhere in the contiguous 48 states, for example from NYC-LAX in United BusinessFirst, is just 17,000 miles. Note that you'll pay more for US Airways, however, because it codes its domestic first class as First, not Business. So fly United BusinessFirst instead.

 

 

 

As I mentioned in 50,000 Miles Lufthansa Miles & More Card Worth It, a nice benefit for families is that awards on Lufthansa Group airlines for kids 2-11 are 75% of adult prices. It's very rare for kids to get a discount for awards booked with frequent flyer miles, so this is a nice benefit. As noted, it must be a Lufthansa Group airline: Adria Airways, Austrian Airlines Group, Air Dolomiti, Brussels Airlines, Croatia Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Luxair and SWISS. You do NOT get a child discount when booking other Star Alliance awards using Miles & More miles.

 

 

 

In my view, the 50K Lufthansa Miles & More card is one of the two best Barclaycard cards, along with the Barclaycard Arrival Card, which you can use to get reimbursed for the fuel surcharges you pay for Lufthansa, SWISS and other award flights. If you're aiming to spread your credit card applications among the different issuers, these are the first two I'd look to get from Barclaycard.

 

 

 

There are some things to know when applying for this card:

• $79 annual fee is NOT waived, unless you hold Miles & More Senator or HON Circle status
• 50,000 miles bonus is for new card holders only
• SWISS First Class awards need to be ticketed in 2013; starting in 2014 awards will be blocked for non-Miles & More elites
• This is not a great card to put spend on, unless you do a lot of paid flying on Lufthansa, SWISS or Miles & More airlines
• Barclaycard does NOT like to see a lot of recent credit card applications. If you've been churning heavily, you likely won't get approved for this card

Do you plan to apply for the Lufthansa Premier Miles & More MasterCard?

 

 

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