Skip Links Navigation

This website uses cookies in order to improve user-friendliness. For more information about cookies and how to reject them, please click here.

Header

Language Selection

Meta navigation

Help

Help-Center

Search

Login

Private Customers

Exchanging award miles for status miles

Not only can you redeem SWISS Miles & More award miles for awards, but you can also exchange them for status miles. As a result, you can keep or improve your status in the Miles & More frequent flyer program and benefit from many advantages.

meilentausch-swiss-miles-and-more-cards

Award miles & status miles

Award miles

You don’t only receive award miles for your flights with Miles & More partner airlines, but also by paying with your SWISS Miles & More credit cards. You can also earn award miles with your purchases and bookings at partner hotels and companies.

Exchanging award miles

Status miles

You receive status miles for every flight with a Miles & More partner airline. Status miles can only be earned by flights. With the SWISS Miles & More credit cards, you have the opportunity to convert up to 25,000 award miles into status miles every year.

Exchanging award miles for status miles:

You can exchange from 5,000 to 25,000 award miles (not HON Circle miles) once per calendar year. The exchange ratio of award miles into status miles is 5:1. You receive 1,000 status miles in return for 5,000 award miles.

Exchanging miles is only possible for holders of these products:

SWISS Miles & More Classic credit cards

SWISS Miles & More Gold credit cards

SWISS Miles & More Platinum credit cards

This is how to exchange award miles for status miles: 

  1. Open the miles-and-more.com website and log in.
  2. Click "My Miles & More".
  3. Select the «SWISS Miles & More credit cards» menu item.

Terms and conditions for mileage exchange

  • As a Miles & More member without status or with Senator status, you can exchange from 5,000 to up to 25,000 award miles for status miles (no HON Circle miles) once per calendar year.

  • This applies to award miles that you have received for credit card spending in the respective and previous calendar year.

  • Welcome, multiple, and promotion miles etc. are not included in the exchange of miles.

  • The exchange ratio of award miles into status miles is 5:1.

  • The miles you exchanged are credited to your mileage account as status miles for the current calendar year and the award miles are deducted accordingly.

  • Once the exchange has been confirmed, it cannot be reversed.

The offers and services described are provided by third parties. Their General Terms and Conditions apply. The card issuer does not accept any liability for these offers.