Earn Miles for your Company bookings with Emirates Business Rewards

Posted on January 28th, 2013. Written by bookingbusinesstravel.

Here’s an overview of the corporate reward scheme from Emirate Airlines.

Emirates has a rewards programme, “Business rewards” which accrues points for your company in addition to your traveller’s existing personal “Skywards” accounts.

Previously, only “online-direct” bookings were eligible but Emirates has now made the programme available for bookings made via agents too.

The standard earning rate is 1 mile or point per US$ spent.

Through February and March 2013 the airline is offering double points and a 10,000 bonus for registrations before 31^st January 2013

London to Dubai return economy class costs 45,000 miles and business class costs 90,000 miles. An upgrade on the same route costs from 50-65,000 miles. So you’ll need to have booked approximately £30,000 of tickets for an economy flight and £60,000 for business. The business class redemption is by far the better deal, and equates to approximately 4% in cashback terms

This scheme is one of the most difficult to administer. Emirates seem to be paranoid about misuse so they have controls in place that limit you. For example:

• Only employees of the company (i.e. not guests etc) are eligible. This is verified by email – the traveller has to have a company domain email address
• You have to first be a Skywards member
• You need to “invite” individual members to join the scheme via an online form and those members have to respond, online.

For more information and to sign up, visit the Emirates page here

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