Rove is running its first-ever transfer bonuses – 20% to Finnair and Air France KLM. And this isn’t just for a couple of weeks, either.
- 20% bonus to Finnair Plus runs through 11:59 p.m. Eastern on December 31, 2025.
- 20% bonus to Flying Blue runs through 11:59 p.m. Eastern on October 22, 2025.
Minimum transfer amount is 2,000 Rove Miles; thereafter available in 1,000-mile increments.
Rove is offering 500 miles instantly upon signing up. That stacks with promo code BACKTOSCHOOL for 5,000 miles with first hotel booking by October 3 on minimum $500 booking and with promo code STAYCATION for smaller $250-minimum booking that earns 2,500 bonus miles.
The CEO of Rove previosuly emailed,
You can get up to 25x miles at a bunch of hotels without needing a card, while the next best giving a flexible currency is 10x requiring a high [annual fee].
That, combined with the fact that you get the miles instantly when the stay is nonrefundable, means you can often cover your flight for free with your hotel stay. …[A] customer..did this and got 3 free biz class tickets on [Turkish] for 255k miles within 2 weeks of our launch (for about $10k hotel spend). The flights he received were likely worth more than he spent on the hotel. The amount you’d have to spend with any other program to get that is much much higher.
Rove earns miles for online shopping and travel bookings. You can spend your points through their portal or transfer them. They seem to ‘get’ that since they’re independent, and not associated with an airline or hotel brand (or bank!) they need to overindex on the value you receive to win your business. I don’t know that they’ll break through – I hope they will because I love competition – but in the meantime they’re worth paying attention to. And I love to see them entering into the transfer bonus space.
Go with FlyingBlue.
Beware. Trust Finnair at your peril; they’ll leave you stranded in HEL…
This looks like a great program so I went to signup.
It said they weren’t accepting signups from Australians when tried to enter my phone number:-<
A real shame as it shouldn't matter as long as I don't care about paying in USD which is fine for some of the amazing point earn rates.
I hope they read this and expand their acceptance. Avios, Asia Miles etc are all open to Australian members so no problems transferring the miles.
Dale.
@Dale — It’s probably little consolation, but, at least you still have Qantas (and Virgin Australia). And, I’d prefer Jetstar over any of our LCCs, any day.
Definitely re domestic travel but I want to have this opportunity to earn miles at excellent rates to put into other programs for international travel.
Qantas gets very little availability of OneWorld partners for example.
@Dale Reardon — True. I wish it were better.
You’re right. Domestic QF point redemptions can still be lucrative, if available. I recently completed SYD-ADL for about 25K QF points per person/way plus tax/fees. Those tickets would have cost 3-4x in cash.
And, as much as the international long-haul partner redemptions are few and far between these days, there used to be some sweet spots on Emirates, too. Even though I’m based in USA, I’ve transferred Amex to QF to book EK for itineraries that didn’t even involve Australia. Hope more of that returns.