Loyalty programme
Miles. One Mile is one cent.
| Tier | How you reach it | Miles back | What else |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traveller | Everyone, from your first order | 5% | Standard support |
| Silver | After $150 of purchases | 6% | Priority support, early access to new destinations |
| Gold | After $500 | 7% | Free Orbislo Number, which is $3.89 a month on its own, priority support under 30 seconds |
| Platinum | After $1,500 | 8% | Dedicated support, lounge passes, first access to Lifeline Sky |
Spend is counted across a rolling 12 months, and a tier is held for 12 months from the day you last qualified.
No expiry, and no second exchange rate
Most loyalty currencies in this category quietly expire, which turns a reward into a deadline. Miles do not expire, and neither does the data you spend them on. Tier status is held for 12 months from the last purchase rather than reset every calendar year, because travel is not evenly distributed and neither should your status be.
There is also only one exchange rate. A Mile is worth $0.89 when you earn it and $0.89 when you spend it, and that is written into the terms rather than the marketing. Programmes that issue at a flattering rate and redeem at an unflattering one make their money in the gap between the two. We would rather not have a gap.
Where we sit against the others
The category has converged on 5% and it differentiates nobody. Airalo starts at 5%, Holafly starts at 5% and tops out at 7%, and Nomad pays 25 points for every $5 then redeems 100 points at a dollar, which is 5% with extra arithmetic. We match it. We do not beat it, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
Airalo reaches 10% at its top tier, after $200 of cumulative spend. We stop at 8%. Airline and hotel programmes can afford to be generous because they give away seats and rooms that would have gone out empty anyway. We have no empty inventory: every gigabyte we hand back costs real wholesale money, so a headline rate we cannot fund would come straight out of the price, and the price is the part you actually buy.
What you can do with Miles, and what the others block
| What you want to do | With Miles | Elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| Spend Miles on a renewal or a top up | Yes | Airalo blocks redemption on plan renewals |
| Spend Miles on a subscription | Yes | Holafly excludes subscriptions and Business products from HolaCoins |
| Use Miles and a promo code in the same order | Yes | Holafly does not let HolaCoins stack with a promo code |
| Pay the whole order in Miles, with no card | Yes, there is no minimum | Ubigi requires at least $1.89 of real money on every redemption |
| Keep the Miles you have not spent | Yes, they never expire | Nomad points expire 6 months after you earn them |
| Give Miles to another traveller | Yes, free, up to 25,000 Miles every 30 days | No major rival lets you transfer at all |
| Earn on an order you got a discount on | Yes, on what you actually paid | Varies, and is usually not written down anywhere |
Competitor restrictions read off their own published terms on 28 August 2026, and rechecked whenever the price index is rebuilt.
Orbislo Pass, a subscription that gates a discount
Orbislo Pass is $4.89 a month. It includes 1 GB that comes back every 30 days, it takes 15% off every country pack, regional pack and unlimited pass for as long as it is live, and it earns at the Silver rate of 6% from the first day whatever you have spent so far.
Here is the honest arithmetic. The included gigabyte is worth $5.89 at our own wallet price, which is -$0.11 short of the fee, so the data on its own does not quite pay for the Pass. -$5.11 of anything else in the same month does. And the discount stops the day you cancel, which is the whole mechanism, so it belongs on this page rather than buried in a terms document.
The three subscriptions
| Plan | A month | What you get | Miles rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orbislo Pass | $4.89 | 1 GB every 30 days, 15% off every pack and pass | 6% |
| Orbislo One | $20.89 | 10 GB a month that rolls over, an Orbislo Number, 15% off every pack and pass | 7% |
| Orbislo One Pro | $50.89 | 50 GB a month, pooling for eight, lounge passes, 20% off | 8% |
A subscription enters the ladder at a named tier from day one. Spending your way there earns exactly the same rate.