Originally Posted by
ntddevsys
Lufthansa Private Jet is offering a five-week special, from May 1 to June 6, where each passenger will earn 50,000 miles (counts for status and HON Circle miles) per flight instead of the usual 10,000.
They are also offering a five percent discount on private jet flights booked from March 1 on routes beyond Germany’s borders.
So, 12 short hops by private jet would net 600,000 miles (and most importantly, HON Circle status). While that is obviously going to cost more than to earn 600,000 miles flying LH commercial, if it is indeed correct that each passenger earns miles then the cost could be shared between 4 passengers on the Cessna Citation CJ1+ (netting a total of 2.4 million miles and HON for 4).
It might be a world first - mileage running by private jet!
LH has a history of charging for each additional passenger on these retained private jets and of having ordinarily a maximum number of passengers on a given flight who can earn miles from the flight. Given the charges are based on distance, this could be a reasonably good deal for add-on passengers on some of the shorter distance charters within Europe.