Capital One launched a new transfer bonus today, this time giving a 30% bonus when transferring miles to your EVA Air Infinity MileageLands account. Given the usual transfer ratio between the two programs, even with the bonus you’re not quite getting a 1:1 transfer ratio, but it could provide good value nonetheless.
The Deal
- Get a 30% bonus when transferring Capital One miles to EVA Air.
Key Terms
- Expires July 31, 2026 at 11:59pm ET.
Quick Thoughts
Capital One normally transfers to EVA Air on a 1,000:750 basis, so with this 30% bonus that ratio improves to 1,000:975.
A transfer bonus that still doesn’t quite make the transfer ratio 1:1 might not sound as appealing as some others, but there is value to be had here. Here’s EVA’s award chart for travel between the US and Asia:
Now, redeeming 50K or 55K for a one way flight in economy isn’t great, but 75K or 80K for business class is a solid enough redemption, especially seeing as EVA Air provides better business class award availability for its Infinity MileageLands members than it does its partner airlines. You’d need to transfer 77K Capital One miles in order to get 75K with the 30% transfer bonus, while for the 80K tier you’d need to transfer 82,100 miles (Capital One lets you transfer in 100 increments after the first 1K miles transferred; thanks to Grant in the comments for the reminder about that).
Booking award flights directly with EVA isn’t always the most straightforward, so it’s definitely worth checking out Tim’s helpful guide for booking award flights with them. It can certainly be worth the effort as EVA Air’s business class product is superb. My wife and I had a chance to experience it almost 10 years ago and it’s still one of my favorite business class experiences. Tim has a more recent business class review here for his flight from Seattle to Taipei last year.
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Doesn’t Eva have a hard expiration for miles? That would be a major factor if thinking about speculative xfer.
I was super excited when I first heard about this last night. But I do think that availability is not nearly as good before Citi released the Citi Strata Elite. I didn’t see a single seat available on any routes across multiple dates, when before I was able to find a plethora of availability.
Note that upgrade awards have additional availability, which I did see on some routes, but they are only slightly cheaper than a whole award ticket.
Also, I’ve been told that C1 transfers to EVA are instant while Citi are not (which isn’t what the FM article says btw). So C1 might be useful for that.
Capital One has a minimum transfer of 1000 but transfers in increments of 100. So for 80k you only need to transfer 82100.
Great point, I keep forgetting about that feature with Capital One. I’ll update the post, thank you!