Airline loyalty programs

ANA Mileage Club

All Nippon Airways' program within Star Alliance. Miles for redemption; annual Premium Points decide Bronze, Platinum, and Diamond status.

ANA Mileage Club is the frequent flyer program of All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest airline and a Star Alliance member. Members earn miles on ANA and Star Alliance partners for award flights and upgrades. Status, Bronze, Platinum, and Diamond, is set by Premium Points earned within a single calendar year.

ANA Mileage Club All Nippon Airways Japan

Operator: All Nippon Airways (ANA) ↗
Country: Japan
Alliance: Star Alliance ↗
Program currency: ANA miles; Premium Points for status ↗
Status: Bronze, Platinum, Diamond via annual Premium Points ↗
Alternative status route: Life Solution Services: reduced Premium Points on ANA-operated flights, combined with seven or more Life Solution Services and ANA Card or ANA Pay spend ↗
Qualification period: Calendar year; Premium Points do not carry over ↗

ANA Mileage Club is the frequent flyer program of All Nippon Airways, Japan's largest carrier and a Star Alliance member. Members earn miles on ANA and alliance partners, redeemable for award flights and upgrades, with ANA's own award chart still fixed rather than dynamic, a design increasingly rare among large carriers.

Status is governed by Premium Points, a separate measure from redeemable miles. Members reach Bronze at 30,000 Premium Points, Platinum at 50,000, and Diamond at 100,000, each with a portion required specifically on ANA-operated flights. Premium Points are counted within a single calendar year and do not carry over, so the status race resets cleanly every January. A second route exists for heavy users of ANA's Life Solution Services, which lowers the Premium Points bar in exchange for using seven or more of those services and meeting an ANA Card or ANA Pay spend threshold, though it still requires flying ANA.

The lesson for an enterprise operator is in the discipline of a fixed qualification window. By counting status progress within a strict calendar year and requiring part of the effort on its own flights, ANA keeps the meaning of each tier stable and predictable. For operators weighing rolling versus calendar qualification, ANA shows how a hard annual reset, paired with an own-airline minimum, keeps elite tiers tied to sustained, recent engagement with the core brand.

Listings are editorial, compiled from public sources. Program details change; verify with the operator.

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