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How to Get Gift Cards With Your Points

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    Folks in our hobby collect airline miles and hotel points to get Big Travel with Small Money.  But there are times where you might have a handful of miles or points with an airline or hotel you’ll never use.

    Instead of letting them expire, you can use these miles and points to buy gift cards.

    Turn Unwanted Airline Miles & Hotel Points Into Gift Cards

    Converting airline miles and hotel points to gift cards is NOT the best use of miles and points.  But it could be useful for folks who won’t collect enough points for an award flight or hotel stay.

    Transferring Airline Miles to Gift Cards

    Link:   Points.com  

    Through Points.com you can exchange, gift, transfer, and redeem airline miles and hotel points for gift cards at many retailers.

    Turn Those Leftover Miles & Points Into Gift Cards With Points.com

    But not all miles and points can be redeemed for gift cards.

    For example, you can NOT redeem Air Canada Aeroplan miles for an Amazon gift card.  But you can with Icelandair Saga Club miles!

    Here are some examples of how you can turn your airline miles into gift cards:

    Using miles and points for gift cards is only a good idea for folks who aren’t able to redeem them for travel.  Or if they have small balances with airlines and hotels they rarely use.

    Folks with no immediate travel plans whose miles and points that are about to expire might be tempted to redeem them for gift cards.  Again, it’s not worth it unless you know you’ll never use them otherwise.

    But there are lots of ways to keep your airline miles from expiring.  And here’s how to keep your hotel points from expiring.

    How to Redeem Airline Miles for Gift Cards on Points.com

    Before you can redeem miles and points for gift cards on Points.com, you have to register your award program.

    Step 1 – Add to Loyalty Wallet

    Scroll down to your airline (or hotel) loyalty program and click “add” to add it to your Points.com wallet.

    Step 1 – Choose Your Award Program to Connect It to Points.com

    Step 2 – Register Program

    Enter your name, loyalty number, and password, then click “register program.”

    Step 2 – Enter Your Information

    Step 3 – Select Gift Card and Confirm

    Pick your gift card, denomination, and award program to redeem your miles and points for a gift card.

    Click “confirm redeem.”  You’ll be asked to enter your name and address.  And you’ll be able to confirm 1 more time in case you make a mistake!

    Confirm Your Award Program and Gift Card Amount

    Once you approve the transaction, you should receive your gift card in 5 to 10 business days.

    Gift Cards From Airline & Hotel Loyalty Program Websites

    Some airline and hotel loyalty program websites let you redeem airline miles and hotel points for gift cards:

    Redeem Gift Cards Into Miles

    Link:   MileagePlus Gift Card Exchange

    Sometimes United Airlines allows you to redeem unwanted gift cards for miles.

    Your mileage amount may vary but you could get:

    Exchange Your Gift Cards for United Airlines Miles

    Bottom Line

    You can trade your airline miles and hotel points to get gift cards through Points.com.

    Buying gift cards is NOT the best way to use miles and points.  But it could work for folks with small balances on airlines and hotels they rarely use, or for folks whose miles and points are going to expire.

    But you can keep your airline miles from expiring.  And you can keep hotel points from expiring too.

    Editorial Note: We're the Million Mile Secrets team. And we're proud of our content, opinions and analysis, and of our reader's comments. These haven’t been reviewed, approved or endorsed by any of the airlines, hotels, or credit card issuers which we often write about. And that’s just how we like it! :)