What are Life Status Points?

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JAL de kariteco has been added to the services eligible for earning Life Status Points. (August 29, 2024)

Life Status Points are lifetime activity points that are credited for using eligible services, and are used as the metric for JMB elite benefits, JAL Global Club enrollment, and other services and benefits.

  • Unlike miles, Life Status Points cannot be redeemed for awards.
  • Life Status Points are credited separately from miles and FLY ON Points.
  • Life Status Points accumulate over your lifetime for as long as you maintain your JAL Mileage Bank membership and do not expire.
  • Life Status Points are credited to an individual's Life Status Points account. Points cannot be combined or inherited by family members.
  • For JAL NEOBANK, JAL Payment Port Co. Ltd. acts as the bank agent with SBI Sumishin Net Bank as its affiliated bank.
  • JAL asset management is a service available to customers with an intermediary account for JAL Payment Port's financial products.

Services eligible for earning Life Status Points

When you meet the crediting criteria established for eligible services, that qualifying activity will be automatically converted to Life Status Points - which will then be credited to your account.

When you fly

Crediting of Life Status Points is based on the number of flights traveled for domestic flights and the sector miles traveled for international flights.

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Life Status Points credited Service
Service Metric Life Status Points crediting criteria Life Status Points credited Crediting date
JAL domestic flights Flights 1 flight* 5 points Automatically credited by the following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL international flights Sector miles 1,000 sector miles* 5 points
  • Flights traveled on fares eligible for earning miles and the associated flight miles must be credited to your JMB account.
    JAL international miles are calculated as 100% of sector miles, regardless of the mileage accumulation rate for flight miles.
  • Handling of Japan domestic flight sectors included in international tickets
    Japan domestic flight sectors included in international tickets will be handled as JAL international flight activity only when traveling on Jetstar Japan (GK) - operated flights with JAL flight numbers.

When you use lifestyle services

Crediting of Life Status Points is based on the miles earned for using eligible services or other relevant metric.

What are lifestyle services?

Lifestyle services refer to the wide variety of services offered by the JAL Group for everyday situations other than flights.

Life Status Points are credited for earned miles that are reflected on/after January 1, 2024.

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Life Status Points credited Service
Service Metric Life Status Points crediting criteria Life Status Points credited Crediting date
JALCARD Miles 2,000 miles*1 5 points The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL Pay Miles 500 miles*2 1 point
JAL Mall*3 Miles 100 miles*4 1 point
  1. JALCARD shopping miles (including miles credited for JALCARD contract stores and JALCARD Shopping Miles Premium as well as add-on miles) will count toward Life Status Points. Flight bonus miles are ineligible for Life Status Points.
  2. JAL Pay shopping miles will count toward Life Status Points. Bonus miles credited via JAL Pay promotions are ineligible for Life Status Points.
  3. Purchases made through JAL Mall’s Post-flight Inflight Shopping (Japanese only) are ineligible for Life Status Points.  
  4. The standard 1 mile credited for every JPY 100 spent on JAL Mall purchases will count toward Life Status Points.
    Bonus miles credited via JAL Mall promotions are ineligible for Life Status Points.

Life Status Points are credited for service transactions reflected on/after April 1, 2024.

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Life Status ポイント積算対象サービス一覧
Service Metric Life StatusPointscrediting criteria Life StatusPoints credited Crediting date
JAL Wellness & Travel (available in Japanese only) Registration period 1 month *1 1 point By the end of the following month after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL Denki (Electricity) (available in Japanese only) Miles 1 mile or more 1 point(maximum 1 point per month)
JAL inflight sales Miles 100 miles *2 1 point The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JALPAK tours: Japan domestic tours (available in Japanese only) Tours 1 tour traveled *3 1 point By the end of the second month after the tour departure date
JALPAK tours: International tours (available in Japanese only) 3 points
opens in new windowJAL Furusato Nozei (hometown tax donation) (available in Japanese only) Donation amount JPY 50,000 *4 1 point End of February of the following year
For those living outside Japan opens in new windowJAL USA CARD opens in new windowAEON Card JAL opens in new windowJAL Shinkong Bank Card JAL SPDB Co-Branded Credit Card Miles 1,500 miles *5 5 points The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL Pay currency exchange (available in Japanese only) Currency exchange miles 300 miles *6 1 point
JAL ABC opens in new windowJAL Airport Luggage Delivery Service (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowJAL TEBURA Hands-Free Luggage Service (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowWiFi Rental Service for Outside Japan (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowMobile Phones Rental Service for Outside Japan (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowPocketalk Rental Service (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowLuggage Storage Service (available in Japanese only) opens in new windowCoat Storage Service (available in Japanese only) Miles 200 miles *5 1 point
JAL Home Loan (available in Japanese only) Loan executed Loan executed *7 20 points Two months after loan execution
JAL asset management (available in Japanese only) New account opened 1 account *8 1 point The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL Hikari (available in Japanese only) Miles 1 mile or more *9 1 point (maximum 1 point per month) The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
JAL de kariteco (rental service) (available in Japanese only) Miles 1 mile or more *10 1 point (maximum 1 point per month) The following day after meeting the crediting criteria
  1. Must be registered (enrolled) with JAL Wellness & Travel between the first to the final day of the month. Free trial period is also eligible for earning Life Status Points.
  2. From April 1, 2024, miles earned from shopping on JAL Mall's Post-flight Inflight Shopping (Japanese only) will also count toward Life Status Points.
  3. The following services are eligible for earning Life Status Points:
    ・JAL Dynamic Package (Japan and international)
    ・International package tours booked via JAL e Travel Plaza
    ・Study abroad language programs with JAL flights (Japanese only) 
  4. Donation amount from January to December every year (including January through March 31, 2024) will count toward Life Status Points. Donation amounts less than JPY 50,000 will not be carried over to the following year’s total donation amount.
  5. Bonus miles credited via promotions are ineligible for Life Status Points.
  6. JAL Pay currency miles will count toward Life Status Points. Bonus miles credited via promotions are ineligible for Life Status Points.
  7. New loans executed in/after April 2024 are eligible for Life Status Points.
    JAL Home Loan is a SBI Sumishin Net Bank service in which JAL Payment Port acts as the bank agent.
  8. Service launched on May 14, 2024. Customers who open a new account after service launch are eligible for earning Life Status Points.
    JAL asset management is a service available to customers with an intermediary account for JAL Payment Port's financial products.
  9. Service launched on June 19, 2024. Customers who open a new subscribers after service launch are eligible for earning Life Status Points.
  10. Service launched on August 29, 2024.

Participation in JAL Green Life Miles (available to customers living in Japan only)

The JAL Group is working to help solve social issues through its business activities in the aim to contribute to building a sustainable society. As part of this initiative, customers who participate in JAL's environmentally friendly actions and earn Green Life Miles will receive 1 Life Status Point.

  • Up to 1 Life Status Point will be credited per customer per year.
  • After Green Life Miles are earned, the associated Life Status Points will be credited around the end of January of the following year.

Crediting of Life Status Points to shareholders who exercise their voting rights

Japan Airlines Co. Ltd. shareholders *1 who exercise their voting rights at the annual Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders will be credited Life Status Points based on the number of shares owned. More information can be found on the page below.
  1. Individual shareholders owning at least 100 shares as of March 31 who exercise their voting rights at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders and retain the same shareholder number as of September 30 of the same year will be eligible for Life Status Points.