Emirates Skywards: The Complete Guide To Earning & Redeeming Miles

If you are a member of a selected partner loyalty program, you can also convert points into Miles to boost your balance. If you choose a partner, see list below, you can take advantage of your Emirates Skywards membership to use any current special offers that will help you earn bonus Skywards Miles or give you extra value for your Miles when you exchange them for rewards.

Skywards partner airlines include:

See Emirates for a list of their updated partners.

If you own an American Express Membership Rewards^®, Capital One Rewards and Marriott Bonvoy™ card, you can transfer your points to your Skywards account. This is the only credit-card-earning option for US travelers.

You can earn Skywards Miles every time you travel, spend, stay, dine, and enjoy with Emirate Airlines partners all over the world from hotels, airlines, and car rentals.

See full list of partners.

If you don’t have enough Skywards Miles in your account, you can buy more Miles. Whether you’re within touching distance of a reward flight or you’d like to splash out on a flight upgrade, get there faster.

$30 equals 1,000 Miles and you can buy up to 100,000 or 200,000 Skywards Miles in a year, based on your membership tier. So you’ll be paying $0.03 per mile, which is much more than what we value Skywards miles ($0.012 per mile) at redemption.

If you choose to redeem you Skywards miles towards award flights, you can use the Miles Calculator to price out routes. Keep in mind that, Emirates charges tax and fees on award flights, be sure to add that in your cost.

Partner awards are also an option for your Skywards miles. Each partner carrier has its own award pricing and eligible routes.

Skywards partner airlines include:

• Air Mauritius
• Alaska Airlines
• Bangkok Airways
• Copa Airlines
• easyJet
• GOL
• Japan Airlines
• JetBlue
• Jetstar
• Korean Air
• Malaysia Airlines
• Qantas
• S7 Airlines
• South African Airways
• TAP Portugal

See Emirates for a list of their updated partners.

Please note, you can only book Qantas and EasyJet awards from the Emirates website, but for other partners, you’ll need to call Emirates Skywards or submit a form online.

Moreover, you can also use your Skywards miles for upgrades starting from 9,000 miles. Please note that pricing depends on route and fare type. However, most tickets can be upgraded in advance, except:

With Skywards’ My Family you can pool your Skywards Miles into one account and reach rewards faster. You can invite up to seven additional members of your family to join, including children.

Whenever you fly with Emirates or flydubai, you can choose to contribute some or all of the Skywards Miles you earn into your My Family account. Any remaining Miles will go into your individual Emirates Skywards account.

With Multiply Miles, you can double, triple or quadruple your Skywards miles. You can also pay only $20 for every 1,000 miles you want to multiply, for up to 50,000 miles every year.

 If you’re part of a company, club, or charity, you can earn Business Rewards Points every time your employees or guest travelers fly. With Emirates Business Rewards, your organization earns Points on all your business travel, which you can spend on future flights or upgrades on Emirates.

Any rewards you earn with Business Rewards, you can choose spend any fare type, on any flight, in any class. Please note that the number of Points you’ll need for a reward will depend on seat availability and the fare on that day.

There’s no limit on how many employees can join the program and no minimum travel spending to join.