One flight can change someone's course forever
Join us for our Million Mile Challenge, an impactful philanthropy campaign led by Deloitte’s Refugee Community of Interest (RCOI)!
In times of travel and hugs, let's help families fly to a safe place.
Contribute to an impactful philanthropy campaign led by Deloitte’s Refugee Community of Interest (RCOI)! The goal of this campaign is to collectively pledge airline miles and support legally approved refugee and migrant travel around the world.
Miles4Migrants teams up with non-profits to identify refugees, asylees, asylum seekers, and their immediate family members who have legal approval to travel but cannot afford airfare. Together, we seek to transform miles into a life-changing force for good.
About Miles4Migrants
Miles4Migrants uses donated frequent flyer miles, credit card points, and cash to help people impacted by war, persecution, or disaster reunite with loved ones and start new beginnings in safe homes.
How it works
We accept pledges from a variety of frequent flyer and rewards programs. We have direct partnerships with Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, and Air Canada so that you can contribute to our pooled accounts with only a 1,000 miles minimum. For other programs, we cannot combine pledges from multiple donors. Therefore, we have a minimum pledge amount to ensure the miles/points will cover the cost of at least a single ticket.
Miles4Migrants works with 45+ nonprofit and governmental partners – including UNHCR, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the IRC – to identify individuals who have legal approval to travel but cannot afford the cost of a plane ticket. We’ll contact you as soon as we have an individual or family who is in need of your pledged miles.
Our Booking Team consists of experts in reward travel and flight reservations. Depending on the type of miles/points you pledge, our team will either book the flight for you or work with you to book the flight yourself. Either way, you’ve just helped someone be on their way to reaching a safe home!
How it works
We accept pledges from a variety of frequent flyer and rewards programs. We have direct partnerships with Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, and Air Canada so that you can contribute to our pooled accounts with only a 1,000 miles minimum. For other programs, we cannot combine pledges from multiple donors. Therefore, we have a minimum pledge amount to ensure the miles/points will cover the cost of at least a single ticket.
Miles4Migrants works with 45+ nonprofit and governmental partners – including UNHCR, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the IRC – to identify individuals who have legal approval to travel but cannot afford the cost of a plane ticket. We’ll contact you as soon as we have an individual or family who is in need of your pledged miles.
Our Booking Team consists of experts in reward travel and flight reservations. Depending on the type of miles/points you pledge, our team will either book the flight for you or work with you to book the flight yourself. Either way, you’ve just helped someone be on their way to reaching a safe home!
How it works
We accept pledges from a variety of frequent flyer and rewards programs. We have direct partnerships with Delta Airlines, Alaska Airlines, United Airlines, Air Canada Aeroplan, and JetBlue Airways so that you can contribute to our pooled accounts with only a 1,000 miles minimum. For other programs, we cannot combine pledges from multiple donors. Therefore, we have a minimum pledge amount to ensure the miles/points will cover the cost of at least a single ticket.
Miles4Migrants works with 70+ nonprofit and governmental partners – including UNHCR, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the IRC – to identify individuals who have legal approval to travel but cannot afford the cost of a plane ticket. We’ll contact you as soon as we have an individual or family who is in need of your pledged miles.
Our Booking Team consists of experts in reward travel and flight reservations. Depending on the type of miles/points you pledge, our team will either book the flight for you or work with you to book the flight yourself. Either way, you’ve just helped someone be on their way to reaching a safe home!
Frequently
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Frequently
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Miles4Migrants fosters relationships with other nonprofits that are working ‘on the ground’ to serve refugees and asylum-seekers directly. Our nonprofit partners, both across the world and within the United States, submit requests for flight assistance to Miles4Migrants. We do not have the capacity to vet flight recipients’ finances to ensure financial need, nor do we specialize in the administrative and legal work required to ensure each flight recipient is authorized to enter their resettlement country. This is where our nonprofit partners come in – each partner is responsible for vetting flight recipients to ensure they have the necessary legal approval and documents to travel to (or, in the case of those released at the US-Mexico border or from immigration detention and legally seeking asylum in the United States, within) their resettlement country. We do not accept flight requests submitted directly from individuals without a nonprofit partner acting as an intermediary. A list of our nonprofit partners is included on our NGO partner page.
We accept miles and points pledges from almost all loyalty programs; however, based on the most frequent requests for departure/arrival locations, certain programs are used more frequently than others.
The most needed miles and points donations are:
- United Airlines
- Alaska Airlines
- Southwest Airlines
- Flying Blue (Air France and KLM)
- American Express Membership Rewards
- Chase Ultimate Rewards
- Capital One Rewards
- Air Canada/Aeroplan
You never know when your miles or points could be the exact match for a deserving individual or family, so if you have another form of miles/points, we'd still love to receive your pledge!
Yes! Cash donations are a big help in addition to miles. While frequent flyer miles cover most airfare expenses, cash is needed for each ticket to cover taxes, departure and arrival fees, and fuel surcharges. Our average cost of taxes and fees per flight booked is $33.80 per person. In certain circumstances, booking a flight with cash instead of miles/points is more cost effective, so your cash contribution may be used to book airfare as well.
All contributions to Miles4Migrants are used solely to help refugees, asylees, and asylum-seekers. No cash contributions are used to cover Miles4Migrants' operational costs, and under no circumstance will they be used for political activism or lobbying.
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*The following amounts are a general guideline of how far your miles/points pledge can go. Because different frequent flyer mile and rewards programs have varying redemption rates, please note that values may differ depending on the type of miles/points you pledge.
1,000
Miles/Points*-
Contribute to a pooled frequent flyer account to help fund part of a ticket
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Help someone start a new beginning
15,000
Miles/Points*-
Fully support 1 asylum seeker on a U.S. domestic flight
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Help someone start a new beginning
50,000
Miles/Points*-
Fully support 3-4 asylum seekers on a U.S. domestic flight OR
1 refugee on an international flight -
Reunite a family within the U.S.
100,000
Miles/Points*-
Fully support 6-7 asylum seekers on a U.S. domestic flight OR
2-3 refugees on an international flight -
Reunite a family within the U.S. or internationally
