Uptrip cards: frequently asked questions

This Uptrip cards FAQ gives short answers about getting and buying cards, about originals and collections, and about how this site works. Each answer links to the guide that covers its topic in more depth. For Uptrip's own rules, the Uptrip app is binding.

Basics

Can you buy Uptrip cards?

Yes. Once an owner has minted an Uptrip card as an NFT, it can be put up for sale on OpenSea, where the collection is called uptrip-cards. This site gathers the current offers for each card so you can compare them; you then pay on OpenSea, never here. Keep in mind that a bought card is a non-original in the Uptrip app. The steps are in our guide to buying Uptrip cards on OpenSea. What is on offer right now is listed under buy Uptrip cards.

How do I get Uptrip cards?

You collect them by flying. After a flight with an Uptrip partner airline, you scan the boarding pass in the Uptrip app. For every flight segment the app then offers cards made for that flight, such as the departure and arrival cities, the aircraft and the operating airline, and you pick a part of them. Now and then a special card is among the choices. Older flights can count as well, within limits around your sign-up date that Uptrip sets, so check the Uptrip app. A missing card can also be bought on OpenSea. Details: how to get Uptrip cards, step by step.

What are Uptrip NFTs?

An Uptrip card starts out inside the app and is not an NFT by default. It turns into an NFT when its owner connects a crypto wallet to Uptrip and mints the card. From then on it is a token on the Polygon blockchain under the contract 0xa59b69e1fad081af56c472c03d9b7f80af847c9c (standard ERC-721), and the OpenSea collection uptrip-cards lists it. When cards are used to redeem a reward, Uptrip burns them, so they are gone for good. Read more in our guide to Uptrip NFTs.

Are Uptrip cards free?

That depends on where the card comes from. In the Uptrip app you receive cards for your own flights by scanning boarding passes. Whether Uptrip charges anything or sets conditions for this is its own rule, so check the Uptrip app. On OpenSea, every card has the price its seller asks. In addition, the blockchain charges a network fee called gas, and paying by credit card adds a processing fee. Both ways are compared in our guide to getting Uptrip cards.

Buying on OpenSea

How do I buy an Uptrip card on OpenSea?

Start on this site: pick the card, look through its current offers and follow the link of the offer you like to OpenSea. There you click Buy now and confirm the purchase in your wallet. Check the card and the price beforehand, since a confirmed payment on the blockchain cannot be taken back. In supported regions OpenSea also takes credit cards through a payment partner, with extra fees. Afterwards the card appears among the collected items of your OpenSea profile. The full walkthrough is in our step-by-step guide to buying on OpenSea.

How much does an Uptrip card cost?

There is no fixed price. Each offer on OpenSea carries the amount its seller asks, so the same card can be listed at very different prices, and prices can change at any time. This site lists the current offers of every card group side by side and shows recent sales, so you can see what buyers have actually paid. Fees for the network and, if you pay by card, for processing are added. How to read these numbers: Uptrip card prices explained.

Which Uptrip cards are rare or valuable?

This site does not rate cards. A card can carry a rarity label in its data, and the card tiles here show that label. It describes the card; it is not a judgement of the market. What a card is worth shows in what buyers pay for it, so compare its offers with its recent sales before you decide. Rarity labels and special editions are explained in our guide to rare and special Uptrip cards.

Can I trade or transfer Uptrip cards?

Yes, as NFTs. Uptrip's help explains the route. To start, you set up a crypto wallet, link it with your Uptrip account and turn the cards you want to pass on into NFTs by minting them. A minted card can then be sent to the other person's wallet address; the transaction costs a network fee. The receiver has nothing to do: the card appears in their Uptrip account, as a non-original. Minted cards can also be offered for sale on OpenSea. Uptrip can change these rules, so check the Uptrip app before you move a card. Minting is covered in what Uptrip NFTs are and how they work.

Collections and cards

What is the difference between original and non-original cards?

An original is a card you received for a flight you took yourself. Cards you get from other collectors, whether sent to your wallet or bought on OpenSea, are treated as non-originals according to Uptrip's help. The Uptrip app decides which is which, and this site cannot change the status of a card. The difference matters for collections, because a collection may insist on a set number of originals. The details are in our guide to original and non-original cards.

Do cards bought on OpenSea count for a collection?

Often yes, though always as non-originals. A collection sets a total number of cards and may require a minimum of originals within it. Bought cards can fill the rest; if every slot must be an original, they do not help. On this site, every collection page puts both requirements next to the matching offers. The Uptrip app has the final say, so look at the collection there before buying. More in original vs. non-original cards explained.

How do I complete the Uptrip Frequent Traveller collection?

When we reviewed it, Frequent Traveller listed FTL status as its reward and wanted fifty cards, any kind allowed. Forty had to be originals from your own flights. Because the app lets you keep two cards per flight segment, twenty segments are enough for that part. Every other place accepts any card, so low-priced offers from OpenSea can close the gap. Uptrip may change the collection at any time; look it up in the Uptrip app. The whole plan is in our Frequent Traveller guide.

What is an Uptrip collection and how do I complete it?

Think of a collection as a checklist of cards in the Uptrip app. You assign matching cards to it, and once it is complete you can redeem its reward. Each collection states how many cards it needs and how many of those must be originals. On this site every collection page shows both figures, the matching offers on OpenSea and what the missing cards would cost at current prices. When you redeem, Uptrip burns the cards you used. How Uptrip collections work explains the process.

Do Uptrip cards expire?

No. Uptrip's help states that cards have no expiry. What can close is a collection, once its rewards run out or its end date passes. Cards you had placed in a closed collection are not lost; you can assign them to a different collection. Cards spent on a redeemed reward are burnt and do not come back. For the dates of a specific collection, check the Uptrip app. More in our guide to how Uptrip collections work.

Which airlines have Uptrip cards?

This site has airline pages for Lufthansa, Lufthansa City, Air Dolomiti, Discover, Brussels, Austrian, SWISS, Eurowings and ITA Airways. Each page shows the cards of that airline and which of them are offered on OpenSea right now. Which airlines earn you cards on new flights is up to Uptrip, so check the Uptrip app before you fly. Browse them all under Uptrip cards by airline.

What is Wings Play, the Eurowings game in the Uptrip app?

Wings Play is a mini game inside the Uptrip app. Miles & More runs it as a monthly competition with a leaderboard, and Eurowings provides the prizes. Adults living in the EU can take part. If you finish a game in a given week, you get one Uptrip card for that week, and it is a non-original. Whether the game is running and which prizes apply is shown in the app, and the conditions on Uptrip's help pages set the details. Cards from Eurowings flights have their own page; how a Wings Play card can help with a collection is shown in our Frequent Traveller guide.

About this site

How current are the prices here?

The offers and sales on this site are read from OpenSea and refreshed automatically; the footer says how often. Until the next refresh, an offer can be sold, withdrawn or repriced on OpenSea. The price that counts is therefore the price OpenSea shows at checkout, not the figure here. Before you sign a purchase, check the offer on OpenSea. How to read the prices on this site is explained in our price guide for Uptrip cards.

Is Uptrip Card Market affiliated with Uptrip or OpenSea?

No. Uptrip Card Market is an independent project with no ties to Uptrip or Miles & More, and none to OpenSea or to the airlines of the Lufthansa Group. The site reads public offers and sales from OpenSea and presents them for comparison. For Uptrip's own rules, the Uptrip app is binding. What else you can find here is collected in our guides for Uptrip collectors.

Does this site sell the cards?

No. Uptrip Card Market does not sell cards and never handles payments. Every offer you see here belongs to a seller on OpenSea. The Buy on OpenSea link takes you to that offer, and you complete the purchase there with your own wallet. If someone else buys the card before you, the offer is gone on OpenSea. The buying steps are listed in the OpenSea buying guide.