Rove Miles now offers up to a 50% bonus when you transfer miles to JAL, Flying Blue, and Qatar Airways! The transfer ratios are 1:1.5, 1:1.4, and 1:1.35, respectively—all solid offers. The best is JAL at 1:1.5. If you find the right hotel stay, you can also earn a lot of JAL miles.

Rove has increased its sign-up bonus. Sign up through our exclusive link to get 1,500 Rove miles instantly (the standard bonus is 500). Rove has a large number of transfer partners, including Virgin Atlantic (VS), Virgin Red, Japan Airlines (JAL), Air France/KLM (Flying Blue), Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, and Cathay Pacific (Asia Miles). It’s a great lineup, so sign up soon!

About Rove Miles

Rove Miles is a new loyalty program launched in 2025. It calls itself the “first universal airline miles program.” Its key feature is that you don’t need to have any credit cards to join for free. Earn Rove miles through everyday spending and travel bookings, then redeem them for flights or hotels or transfer them to a range of airline and hotel partners.

Designed for younger travelers and people with shorter credit histories, Rove combines the benefits of shopping portals like Rakuten and credit card travel booking platforms like Chase Travel. Its biggest advantage is that even without a premium travel credit card, you can earn flexible, transferable miles through a shopping-rewards-style program. Rove does not yet have a mobile app, but its website is fully functional and its browser extension makes it easy to activate shopping rewards.

Sign-Up and Sign-Up Bonus

See the beginning of the article for the sign-up bonus.

To sign up, provide your name, date of birth, email address, country of residence, primary departure airport, and destinations you’re interested in. Once registered, you can start earning miles. The 1,500-mile sign-up bonus is credited instantly.

How to Earn Miles

Online Shopping (Shopping Portal)

Shop through the Rove Miles shopping portal or browser extension. Click through to participating merchants, such as clothing, electronics, and department stores, and earn Rove miles at varying rates on your purchases.

Hotel Bookings

The hotel booking page clearly shows the cash price, the number of miles required, miles you can earn on the stay, and the estimated value per mile. Some “Loyalty Eligible” hotels let you earn Rove miles and the hotel’s own points at the same time.

  • For example, the listing below shows how many Rove Miles you can earn by paying with a credit card, as well as the redemption value if you book with Rove Miles. That’s very convenient.

Some hotels may also offer very high mileage-earning rates.

Most importantly, always compare hotel prices before booking! Rove’s rates may be considerably higher than booking directly with the hotel or through another third-party platform (after all, it offers more miles). Calculate the effective booking price after subtracting the value of the miles earned, then compare it with other available rates.

Flight Bookings

You can generally earn 1–10 miles per dollar spent; check the booking page for the exact rate. For example, an Alaska Airlines economy flight from Denver to Seattle earns just 1 mile per dollar, which isn’t particularly good value.

Redeeming Miles: Transfer Partners

Rove currently has 15 airline and hotel transfer partners, most with a 1:1 transfer ratio (Accor transfers at 1.5:1). This is Rove’s most valuable feature: you can transfer miles to traditional loyalty programs and use sweet spots to book high-value awards.

Current Transfer Partners

  • Airlines: Virgin Atlantic (VS), Virgin Red, Japan Airlines (JAL), Air France/KLM (Flying Blue), Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Cathay Pacific (Asia Miles), Finnair, Vietnam Airlines, Thai Airways, Air India, Ethiopian Airlines, SAS, Lufthansa, Aeromexico, Air Canada Aeroplan, Frontier, Qantas, Copa Airlines
  • Hotels: Accor Live Limitless

I really like this page: all the partners are listed together, and any promotions are highlighted. Japan Airlines is probably the most useful partner. Apart from Rove, only Bilt, Capital One, and Marriott transfer to JAL. Cathay Pacific, Air France, and Qatar Airways are useful too, and can be great additions to your UR, MR, and TYP points.

Limited-Time Transfer Bonuses

Rove has offered several very generous transfer bonuses in the past.

  • Aeroplan is now a transfer partner, with a standard 1:1 ratio. A limited-time 25% bonus increases the ratio to 1:1.25. The offer ends June 6.
  • Transfers from Rove Miles to Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles earn a 50% bonus. The final ratio is 1:1.5, and the offer ends June 30.
  • Transfers to Japan Airlines (JAL Mileage Bank): Get 50% bonus miles through March 31, 2026 (a 1:1.5 transfer ratio).
  • Transfers to SAS Eurobonus: Get 20% bonus miles through April 8, 2026.

Other Useful Features

Earn Points in Two Programs at Once

Book a “Loyalty Eligible” hotel through Rove to earn Rove miles and hotel loyalty points at the same time (for example, with Marriott or Hyatt). In addition, purchases on Rove made with any credit card are generally classified as travel purchases, so you can also earn the card’s travel rewards (for example, 2x points with the Chase Sapphire Preferred).

Flexible “Anywhere” Search

Rove’s flight search lets you enter “Anywhere,” making it easy for flexible travelers to find the best mileage redemptions or cash fares from their departure airport to destinations across different regions. This feature is similar to the Explore mode on Seats.aero.

No annual fee or credit card requirement

Users in the U.S. and some international regions can sign up for free, with no Social Security Number or credit check required. All you need is a phone number to register and start using the service, which is very convenient!

Is it worth using?

Rove Miles is best suited for two groups:

  1. Travelers with short credit histories or who don’t want to apply for travel credit cards: You can pay with cash or a debit card and earn transferable miles through the shopping portal and hotel bookings.
  2. Experienced travelers who already have travel credit cards: Use Rove as a supplemental tool. When booking “Loyalty Eligible” hotels, you can earn Rove miles, hotel points, and credit card rewards at the same time—a triple dip.

After using Rove myself, I found the site very smooth and the overall experience quite good. For anyone looking to earn extra transferable points, Rove is a useful additional option for filling in the gaps. You can also sign up directly without providing much additional personal information, which is much easier than applying for a card. Rove’s biggest competitor is Bilt. Bilt is also expanding into hotels, airlines, and transfer promotions, but its main focus is still rent and mortgage payments.

When Rove previously offered a 50% transfer bonus to Japan Airlines, we posted a tutorial in our community on booking hotels with high mileage-earning rates and using Boost. It’s especially useful for anyone who needs miles to book business class.

Frequently asked questions

  • Do Rove miles expire?: Under the current policy, miles do not expire as long as the account remains active, meaning at least one earning or redemption activity every 18 months.
  • Does Rove support users outside the U.S.?: Users in some countries and regions can sign up, but shopping portal merchants are mainly aimed at the U.S. market.
  • Can other points be transferred into Rove?: Rove currently supports outbound transfers only and does not accept transfers from external points programs.
  • How long do transfers to miles take?: They usually post within 24–48 hours, and limited-time bonuses are calculated automatically. In practice, most seem to post instantly!

Sign-up link

Rove Miles is one of the more innovative no-credit-card mileage programs in recent years. It lowers the barrier to entry into the points game, especially for younger travelers and people rebuilding their credit. While its flight earning rates are mediocre and it lacks a mobile app, high hotel earning rates + 1:1 transfers to useful partners like JAL make it a supplemental tool worth considering.