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Compare Airline Credit Cards in Germany for frequent flyer miles

Travelling home once a year or flying regularly for business, it always helps to collect flyer miles for that free trip, upgrade or status for that lounge access. One of the ways to collect those miles are by using a Airline credit card which also allows you to earn miles when you spend. Co-branded airline credit card with perks like priority boarding, waived bag fees, and so on also allows you to higher earning potential and greater flexibility.

Unlike the US, the choice of airline credit cards is limited in Germany, but there are still plenty of frequent flyer programs and credit cards to choose from.  This page lists the frequent flyer programs and the best airline credit cards in Germany

Airline Alliances

There are three airlines in Germany offering frequent flyer programs. Miles and More from Lufthansa, Boomerang miles from Germanwings and topbonus from Airberlin. In addition, you can also get credit cards from other airlines and earn miles such as Avios from British Airways or Skymiles from Delta. As you would know, there are three major airline alliance worldwide, Sky Team, StarAlliance and OneWorld. Airlines within an alliance allow you to collect miles in one airline of the alliance and use them on another airlines. So you can choose a credit card which gives you miles for the alliance in which the airline you frequent fly with in is a member of.

• Star Alliance – Lufthansa, United and others
• One Wold – American Airlines, British Airways, Quantas, Air Berlin and others
• Skyteam – KLM, AirFrance, Delta and others

Comparison of Airline credit cards

Here is a comparison of credit cards from Lufthansa Miles & More, British Airways Avios, Air Berlin topbonus and German Wings: