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Airpoints Dollar™ earn rate on eligible purchases* |
$200 spend = 1 Airpoints Dollar |
$115 spend = 1 Airpoints Dollar |
Your Airpoints Dollars won’t expire while you have a current Airpoints credit card |
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Airpoints Dollars Advance |
Access in advance up to 100 additional Airpoints Dollars |
Access in advance up to 200 additional Airpoints Dollars |
Airpoints Dollars top up – buy additional Airpoints Dollars online for a fee |
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Earn Status Points |
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1 Status Point per $200 of eligible spend* |
Built-in travel insurance1 |
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Koru membership discounts |
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Pay no joining fee and get $145 off a standard one year Individual membership. Visit airnewzealand.co.nz/koru for more information. |
Visa Entertainment |
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Visa concierge service |
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On 24 November 2021 we stopped offering our Air New Zealand Airpoints™ Standard Visa. You can find information about rates and fees of this card on our products no longer offered page.
1Built-in overseas Travel Insurance is underwritten by Tower Limited and managed by AWP Services New Zealand Limited trading as Allianz Partners (FSP758611). If you arrange your insurance through Kiwibank, you need to know that Kiwibank Limited doesn’t guarantee the obligations of, or any products provided by Tower Limited or AWP Services New Zealand Limited.
Conditions
Air New Zealand Airpoints™ Platinum Visa holders and any joint or additional cardholders get two great Koru discounts. You:
- won’t pay a joining fee on a one year Individual membership
- will get a discount of $145 on the one year Individual membership fee.
For more information on Koru Memberships please visit airnewzealand.co.nz/koru.
Please note this applies to Individual memberships only and excludes Senior and Corporate memberships.
With an Air New Zealand Airpoints™ Platinum Visa you’ll get up to 40 days built-in overseas travel insurance, including cover for any immediate family travelling with you.
Find out more about travel insurance with your credit card.
As well as earning Airpoints Dollars whenever you buy things with your Airpoints™ credit card, you’ll also earn them when:
- you fly with Air New Zealand or their Airpoints™ partner airlines
- you stay at Airpoints™ partner hotels
- you rent Airpoints™ partner cars
- you sail on Airpoints™ partner cruises.
See all the ways you can earn Airpoints Dollars.
Don’t forget, you’ll earn extra Airpoints Dollars when you buy products and services directly from Air New Zealand on your Airpoints™ credit card.
This includes flights and other services offered through Air New Zealand like rental cars, hotels and campervans. To get the higher earn rate you’ll need to buy them direct from Air New Zealand via airnewzealand.co.nz, the Air New Zealand Contact Centre or Holidays Stores.
Shairpoints™
You can only link one Airpoints™ account to a card — but if you’ve got a joint account, you can set up Shairpoints so you can both use the points you earn. You can pool points with other family members or friends, too.
Find out more about Shairpoints™.
You can use your Airpoints Dollars to pay for:
- Air New Zealand flights
- car rental
- hotels
- stuff from the Airpoints Store
You can check your Airpoints Dollars balance anytime by logging into myairnz.co.nz or by using the Air New Zealand app.
An “Air New Zealand flight” means a flight that is ticketed and operated by Air New Zealand and certain airline partner codeshare flights including across the Tasman with Virgin Australia – please check airnewzealand.co.nz/spending-airpoints-dollars for a full list of Air New Zealand airline Airpoints partners. Any applicable 3rd party taxes, levies or surcharges can’t be paid for with Airpoints Dollars, unless the fare is a New Zealand domestic fare.
Customers who purchase international fares using Airpoints Dollars will be required to pay in cash, the government and airport costs. Please note that all fares that are purchased using Airpoints Dollars are not eligible for accrual of Airpoints Dollars and/or Status Points. This includes fares purchased using Airpoints Dollars that you have purchased via your Airpoints credit card.
You get:
- up to 100 Airpoints Dollars in advance with your Air New Zealand Airpoints Low Fee Visa or Air New Zealand Airpoints Standard Visa
- up to 200 Airpoints Dollars in advance with your Air New Zealand Airpoints Platinum Visa.
The advance amount will automatically appear in your Airpoints account balance. If you have a joint account, the advance points will appear in the primary cardholder’s account – set up Shairpoints™ to share points with your family.
When you use some of the advance, any Airpoints Dollars earned after that will repay your Airpoints Advance first, then start adding to your Airpoints Dollars balance.
For more information on Airpoints Advance check out airnewzealand.co.nz.
If you’re short a few points, you can buy a top-up from myairnz.co.nz. Click on 'Airpoints Dollars Top Up', enter the amount you need and your Airpoints credit card details. Your Airpoints Dollars balance will be topped up instantly.
There’s a fee for buying Airpoints Dollars. Airpoints Dollars purchases are non-refundable, so double check your purchase before you confirm!
For more information on Airpoints Dollars Top Ups check out airnewzealand.co.nz/airpoints-credit-card-benefits
Air New Zealand Airpoints Platinum cardholders Visa and any joint or additional cardholders can enjoy exclusive personal assistance with services including restaurant and hotel reservations, event tickets, locating hard-to-find items, and buying and delivering gifts.
To arrange a Visa concierge service, please:
- Visit concierge-asia.visa.com
- Call 0800 103 407 or from overseas 0800 103 298.
If you have questions about Air New Zealand benefits or Koru memberships, please contact the Koru contact centre.
*Eligible purchases exclude fees or interest, balance transfers, credit card repayment insurance**, gambling chips, gambling transactions (including online gambling), money orders, travellers cheques or foreign currencies in cash, cash advances or cash withdrawals made from an ATM, or any transaction that is reversed, refunded or charged back.
**As of 1 April 2021, customers are no longer able to apply for Credit Card Repayment Insurance when opening a new credit card account.
An “Air New Zealand flight” means a flight that is ticketed and operated by Air New Zealand and certain airline partner codeshare flights – please check airnewzealand.co.nz for a full list of Air New Zealand airline Airpoints partners. Any applicable 3rd party taxes, levies or surcharges can’t be paid for with Airpoints Dollars, unless the fare is a New Zealand domestic fare.
Travel Insurance for Insured Cards is underwritten by Tower Limited and managed by AWP Services New Zealand Limited trading as Allianz Partners (FSP758611). If you arrange your insurance through Kiwibank, you need to know that Kiwibank Limited doesn’t guarantee the obligations of, or any products provided by Tower Limited or AWP Services New Zealand Limited.
Important terms, conditions and exclusions are set out in the Travel Insurance for Kiwibank Credit Cards Policy wording (PDF 644.2 KB).