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Earning Miles

How do you earn Miles with Skywards?

Skywards® membership gives you easy and direct ways to earn Skywards® Miles:

  • Flying Emirates®
  • Flying one of our partner airlines
  • Being a customer of one of our leisure and lifestyle partners.

If you book your ticket online at emirates.com, you can earn extra bonus Miles (150% for First Class, 70% for Business Class, and 30% for Economy). And the more Miles you earn, the more rewards you can enjoy.

Emirates flights

Every time you fly Emirates®, you earn one Skywards mile for every mile flown.

Flying with Emirates®also credits your account with the equivalent in Tier Miles, which help you move toward and retain the higher status of Skywards® Silver and Gold membership.

Once you reach these tiers, you'll gain access to exclusive benefits and rewards, including a special tier bonus when earning Miles (25% bonus Miles for Silver members and 50% bonus Miles for Gold members).

Partner airlines

When you fly with one of our distinguished partner airlines listed below, you’ll also earn Skywards® Miles.

  • Continental Airlines
  • Japan Airlines
  • Kingfisher Airlines  
  • Korean Air
  • South African Airways
  • United Airlines
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Earning with our leisure and lifestyle partners

You can also earn Skywards® Miles through our leisure and lifestyle partners, hotels, car rental companies, financial institutions, or credit cards*.  Not only can you earn Skywards® Miles through our partners, you'll receive special, member-only offers and rewards, simply for being a Skywards® member.

Visit skywards.com for more details.

* Currently available to members in Bahrain, India, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE.