TAP Miles&Go program: How to earn and redeem miles, elite status and more

21.11.2024 - 23:55 / thepointsguy.com

If you're a U.S.-based traveler, Portugal's flag carrier, TAP Air Portugal, may not be on your radar. However, its frequent flyer program, TAP Miles&Go, is a transfer partner of several credit card rewards programs, so you can easily earn and redeem miles. But, should you?

Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about TAP Air Portugal's Miles&Go program and whether it should become a new loyalty program option in your points and miles tool kit.

TAP Miles&Go is the loyalty program of TAP Air Portugal, based at Portugal's Lisbon Airport (LIS), with a secondary hub at Porto Airport (OPO). The airline uses an all-Airbus fleet to transport passengers to more than 80 destinations across Europe, Africa, North America and South America.

The airline is a member of Star Alliance, so you can earn and redeem TAP Miles&Go miles on the following airlines:

The program also partners with the following nonalliance airlines:

Note that there may be restrictions regarding the flights you can earn or redeem miles with within these partnerships. Review the airline's partner page on the Miles&Go website before you plan your travels so you know what to expect.

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All members joining the program start as base-level Miles&Go members. The program then offers three elite status levels: Silver, Gold and Navigator.

Silver status is achieved by earning 30,000 status miles or taking 25 flights on TAP annually. Retaining the status requires 20,000 status miles or 15 flights annually. Silver status benefits include:

Gold status is achieved by earning 70,000 status miles or taking 50 flights on TAP annually. Retaining the status requires 50,000 status miles or 40 flights annually. Benefits include everything for Silver status, plus:

To achieve top-tier Navigator status, you must earn 125,000 status miles or take 70 flights on TAP annually. To retain the status, you must earn 100,000 status miles or take 70 flights annually.

The perks include everything listed above, plus:

You can qualify for Miles&Go elite status by earning status miles each time you fly on TAP and flights that are part of the Star Alliance, which are separate from redeemable miles (sometimes called bonus miles in the program) and only count toward your elite status in the program. You can alternatively earn status by taking a certain number of flights on only TAP Air Portugal each year.

Unfortunately, crediting flights on the nonalliance airline partners (Azul, Emirates, Gol and Azores Airlines) will only earn redeemable miles and will not earn status miles.

You cannot earn status just through credit card spending. You must fly with TAP and/or Star Alliance partner airlines. However, you can earn 1 status mile for