Got unused Emirates Skywards Miles? Here is where you can spend them this summer

Members can use Miles for gift cards, retail purchases and airport services until Sep 30

Last updated: July 21, 2026 | 13:04

Nivetha Dayanand, Assistant Business Editor

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Got unused Emirates Skywards Miles? Here is where you can spend them this summer

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Dubai: Emirates Skywards members can convert 350 Miles into Dh10 cashback at hundreds of shops, restaurants and lifestyle outlets across the UAE under a summer promotion running until September 30.

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The offer is available through Skywards Everyday, which allows members to redeem Miles at participating brands including Careem, Costa Coffee, BinSina Pharmacy, Al Jaber Optical, The Body Shop and NARS.

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Members can use the cashback during everyday purchases, giving those with smaller unused balances an alternative to saving Miles solely for flights or upgrades.

Digital gift cards start from 2,000 Miles

Skywards members can also redeem their balances for digital gift cards through Skywards Miles Mall.

Gift cards are available from 2,000 Miles and cover participating brands including Amazon UAE, Deliveroo, Shukran, Apple and Nike.

The cards can be used online or in stores, depending on the participating retailer, allowing members to use their Miles on shopping and food deliveries.

Miles can cover airport services

The summer promotion also allows members to spend Miles at participating Dubai Duty Free outlets and the Emirates Official Store.

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Miles can also be redeemed for marhaba Airport Meet and Greet services, which are available to passengers travelling with Emirates or other airlines.

Eligible Emirates Skywards Visa cardholders in the GCC can receive discounts of up to 20 per cent when redeeming Miles for selected sporting and entertainment events through Skywards Exclusives.

The discount applies to events carrying the Co-Brand Offer label.

Five million Miles available in raffle

A separate Dubai Summer Surprises campaign gives members the chance to win 10,000 Skywards Miles when they spend at least Dh200 with participating Skywards Everyday partners or through Skywards Miles Mall UAE.

The promotion runs until August 30, with 500 winners receiving 10,000 Miles each.

Every eligible transaction provides another raffle entry, with five million Miles available across the campaign.

Members can also earn up to one Mile for every $1 spent at Dubai Mall, depending on their membership tier, and complete weekly challenges on the Skywards Everyday app to earn additional rewards.

Nivetha DayanandAssistant Business Editor

Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand. Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu. She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy. An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation. Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events. Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.