GET MILES
earn miles with us
Earn miles with speed and ease when you fly with us. Enter your EarlyReturns® number when you make your reservations, whether it's on the website, on the phone or through your travel agent to ensure that you will receive the accurate amount of miles due. Please remember to always LOGIN to your EarlyReturns account prior to purchasing your ticket online in order to receive mileage credit for your flight.
Click here to learn how you can earn even more miles under the new AirFairs system, and view sample calculations.
tier levels
We offer three tiers of EarlyReturns® benefits, as shown below. Note that you earn bonus miles when you reach Ascent or Summit status - so you can earn award flights even faster.
| Membership Benefits | Base | Ascent | Summit |
| Earn one mile for every mile flown | √ | √ | √ |
| Earn miles through partnerships | √ | √ | √ |
| *20,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from the contiguous U.S. | √ | √ | √ |
| *30,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from Alaska or Mexico | √ | √ | √ |
| *40,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from Costa Rica | √ | √ | √ |
| Free Confirmed seat on alternate flight for day of departure ($100 Economy and $50 Classic same day confirmed fee applies for Base & Ascent members) | √ | ||
| Free DIRECTV® service on all Airbus flights | √ | √ | |
| Priority check-in and boarding | √ | √ | |
| Preferred seating assignments | √ | √ | |
| Priority lines at most airport security checkpoints | √ | √ | |
| Pre-reserved exit row seats for extra legroom | √ | √ | |
| Designated Customer Service toll-free number | √ | √ | |
| Exclusive Frontier & Partner offers | √ | √ | |
| Bonus miles per flight | 25% | 50% | |
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*EarlyReturns® CHOICE+: (additional award seat option) Redeem 40,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from the contiguous U.S. |
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*EarlyReturns® CHOICE+: (additional award seat option) Redeem 55,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from Alaska or Mexico |
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*EarlyReturns® CHOICE+: (additional award seat option) Redeem 65,000 miles for a roundtrip award ticket to/from Costa Rica |
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| 2 complimentary checked bags | √ | √ | |
| Complimentary inflight cocktails | √ | ||
| Change fee waived | √ |
how we calculate miles
As an EarlyReturns® member you'll earn the actual miles computed between your origin and destination city. We calculate the actual miles using airport-to-airport air mileage distance.
Members earn actual miles flown, with a minimum of 250 miles.
On trips between an origin city and a final destination city that include a connection requiring a change of aircraft / new flight number, you'll earn mileage credit for each flight segment.
Mileage will be credited to your account within a week of final travel date. Bonus miles (applicable to Ascent & Summit members only) will be posted within 14 days of the final travel date.
If, for any reason, miles have not been credited to the Member's account, the Member may claim the retroactive mileage credit within 180 days of the flight or service concerned. Copies of the ticketed passenger receipt and boarding passes must support such claims, or receipts in case of retroactive non-air travel partner credit requests. It is the responsibility of the Member to retain receipts, boarding passes and other proofs of purchase until mileage credit is posted and appears on the Member's account statement.
