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Just days after announcing its best-ever buy LifeMiles promotion, LifeMiles has launched another tempting promotion. For a limited time, LifeMiles members receive up to 20% off award flights on select Star Alliance partner award flights. Members must book by September 25, 2020. However, you can book awards for any flights currently available.
Discounted Routes Included in This Promotion
LifeMiles only includes a few routes in this fairly limited promotion. However, the routes that are included in the promo are highly sought after international award travel redemptions. The promotion includes popular routes between the United States and Asia. A full list of the routes included in this LifeMiles promotion with pricing is available below:
Transpacific Flights
Los Angeles (LAX) to Tokyo-Haneda (HND)
- Economy Class: 30,000 LifeMiles (discounted from 35,000 LifeMiles)
- Business Class: 60,000 LifeMiles (75,000 LifeMiles)
- First Class: 76,500 LifeMiles (90,000 LifeMiles)
Los Angeles (LAX) to Seoul (ICN) or Tokyo-Narita (NRT)
- Business Class: 64,000 LifeMiles (75,000 LifeMiles)
- First Class: 76,500 LifeMiles (90,000 LifeMiles)
New York (JFK) to Tokyo-Haneda (HND) or Tokyo-Narita (NRT)
- Business Class: 64,000 LifeMiles (75,000 LifeMiles)
- First Class: 76,500 LifeMiles (90,000 LifeMiles)
San Francisco (SFO) to Tokyo-Haneda (HND) or Tokyo-Narita (NRT)
- Economy Class: 29,000 LifeMiles (35,000 LifeMiles) — only available to/from Haneda
- Business Class: 60,000 LifeMiles (75,000 LifeMiles)
- First Class: 72,000 LifeMiles (90,000 LifeMiles)
Vancouver (YVR) to Taipei (TPE)
- Business Class: 64,000 LifeMiles (75,000 LifeMiles)
Intra-Asia Routes
Seoul (ICN) to Taipei (TPE)
- Business Class: 14,500 LifeMiles (17,000 LifeMiles)
Taipei (TPE) to Tokyo-Narita (NRT)
- Business Class: 18,000 LifeMiles (22,500 LifeMiles)
As part of this promotion, LifeMiles members can redeem miles for travel in top business and first class cabins. This includes ANA’s new first-class product, The Suite, on-board the airline’s Boeing 777-300ER. Travelers can also experience EVA Air’s solid business class product between Vancouver and Taipei.
This promotion ends on September 25. However, travel can be booked months in advance, assuming award space is available. That being said, all future travel booked as part of this promotion must be booked by the end of the day on September 25. For additional information and the terms and conditions of this promotion, be sure to visit LifeMiles’ website.
Purchase LifeMiles and Receive Up to 200% Bonus Miles
As mentioned above, Avianca launched a promotion earlier this month that allows LifeMiles members to purchase miles for just 1.1 cents per mile. Members can purchase a whopping 600,000 LifeMiles for just $6,600 USD. Without this 200% promotion, $6,600 would only buy members just 200,000 LifeMiles.
At a purchase rate of just 1.1 cents per LifeMiles, these discounted awards become an even greater deal. Even if you're starting with a zero-mile balance, you can buy enough miles to fly to Asia in business class for under $700 all-in or first class for just $850 all-in.
LifeMiles Credit Cards
In addition to LifeMiles’ phenomenal 200% bonus miles promotion and transfer partners, there are other ways that members can earn miles. Avianca currently offers US residents two co-branded credit cards, both of which earn LifeMiles and feature attractive welcome bonuses. Both of Avianca’s co-branded cards offer welcome bonuses that only require the cardholder to make a single purchase.
Avianca Vuela Visa® Card — 40,000-mile welcome bonus after first purchase ($149 annual fee)
Avianca Vida Visa® Card — 20,000-mile welcome bonus after first purchase ($59 annual fee)
- 40,000 Bonus LifeMiles after first card use
- Earn 3 LifeMiles per $1 spent on Avianca purchases
- Earn 2 LifeMiles per $1 spent at gas stations and grocery stores
- Earn 1 LifeMile per $1 spent on all other purchases
- No foreign transaction fees
- 15% discount on purchases of miles with Multiply Your Miles
- Free additional piece of baggage for travel between the United States and Central America
- A 50% discount on an award ticket redeemed for travel to Central America or Colombia from the United States after $12,000 spent each year
- An additional 50% discount on an award ticket redeemed for travel to Central America or Colombia from the United States after $24,000 spent each year
- 0% Introductory offer for 12 months on Balance Transfers
- You must be an Avianca LifeMiles member to apply
- If you are not already a LifeMiles member, create your account here: www.lifemiles.com
- Chip-enabled card provides added security
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver
- Travel Accident Insurance
- Protection against unauthorized charges
- Emergency Card Replacement
- Online Account Management
- Electronic Statements
- Auto-pay option
- 3X LifeMiles per $1 spent on Avianca purchases
- 2X LifeMiles per $1 spent on gas stations & grocery stores
- 1X LifeMile per $1 spent on all other purchases
LifeMiles Transfer Partners
In addition to Avianca’s co-branded credit cards, there are a few other top rewards programs that feature LifeMiles as a transfer partner. These programs include:
- American Express Membership Rewards Points — 1:1 transfer ratio (transfers process immediately)
- Citi ThankYou Points — 1:1 transfer ratio (transfers process immediately)
- Capital One Miles — 4:3 transfer ratio (transfers process immediately)
- Marriott Bonvoy Points — 3:1 transfer ratio plus a 5,000-mile bonus for every 60,000 Bonvoy points transferred (transfers typically take 21 hours to process)
- Earn 75,000 Bonus Points after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
- 1 Free Night Award (valued up to 35,000 points) every year after account anniversary.
- Earn 6X Bonvoy points per $1 spent at over 7,000 hotels participating in Marriott Bonvoy™.
- 2X Bonvoy points for every $1 spent on all other purchases.
- Automatic Silver Elite Status each account anniversary year. Path to Gold Status when you spend $35,000 on purchases each account year.
- 15 Elite Night Credits each calendar year.
- No foreign transaction fees.
- Earn unlimited Marriott Bonvoy points and get Free Night Stays faster.
- 6X Bonvoy points per $1 spent at over 7,000 participating Marriott Bonvoy hotels
- 2X Bonvoy points for every $1 spent on all other purchases
The Bottom Line
Combining LifeMiles’ Star Alliance award travel promotion with the program’s current bonus miles promotion is a fantastic way to score incredible awards in business or first class at a reasonable price. And the great news with this promotion is that you can book flights as far out as summer 2021 for those that might not be thinking about traveling soon.
Do you plan on taking advantage of any of the on-going LifeMiles promotions?
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Not the best promo
I still with the search functions for the website were better/faster…
The discounts included in this promo are on the weaker side.
Lifemiles used to offer bigger discount rates on awards…hopefully they will return.
Agreed that there have been better LifeMiles promotions in the past. However, this is still better than full price!
If only international travel is allowed now. Each country have their own protocol in place because of the pandemic making it hard to make plans ahead of time.
Every day I dream of the flights coming back and can take advantage of opportunities like this.
I would love to try the new ANA first class ASAP 🙂
Any sweet spots for awards to Australia and New Zealand?
This is my first time hearing about lifemiles but it sounds great!
What is people’s experience with LifeMiles like? I’ve heard of it before but I haven’t read anything about the process and rewards before.
That’s a nice offer, especially considering fairly generous cancellation terms. May have to consider this one. Thanks!
Definitely Time to take advantage of promotions, hopefully Japan will open soon!
I wish there were flights to Greece. i have never used life miles yet, but this looks very tempting!
This is a good promotion. 20% off is worthwhile. I travel Air Canada so star alliance is what I usually use.
I was not as concerned about Life Miles until last week. The Government being challenged on the legality of the anticipated and announced loan to the airline, is worrisome.
It sure is worrisome for the survival of Avianca. For what it’s worth, LifeMiles is a separate legal entity. However, as we’ve seen with Air Berlin’s TopBonus mileage program and Jet Airways’ JetPrivilege, it isn’t good for the mileage program long-term when the airline goes under.
It’s a difficult time for travel . This offers are really super and helps a lot for those who have a trip on mine, like me