{"id":19803,"date":"2017-11-29T03:05:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T08:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/?p=19803"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:16:34","slug":"transfer-citi-points-avianca-lifemiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/news\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/transfer-citi-points-avianca-lifemiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Citi Adds LifeMiles as a Transfer Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>This post is being retained as originally published for historical reference of when Citi added Avianca LifeMiles as a transfer partner. See our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/credit-cards\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/citi-transfer-partners\/\" rel=\"noopener\">full guide to Citi ThankYou transfer partners<\/a> for the latest information.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/credit-cards\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Citi ThankYou<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Rewards<\/a> has announced the addition of a new transfer partner, Avianca LifeMiles. You'll need to have the Citi Prestige<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Card, or the <a data-ccid=\"520083\" href=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/credit-cards\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/citi-strata-premier\/\">Citi Strata Premier<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Card<\/a> (<a data-ccid=\"520083\" href=\"https:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=a3pDkecFgAg&offerid=1978593.4328&type=3&subid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rates & Fees<\/a>)\u00a0to be able to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/credit-cards\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/how-to-transfer-citi-points\/\" rel=\"noopener\">transfer ThankYou<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Points<\/a> to LifeMiles.<\/p>\n<p><img data-aspectratio=\"1220\/227\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19805 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LifeMiles-TYP-Transfer-Partner.png\" alt=\"LifeMiles TYP Transfer Partner\" width=\"1220\" height=\"227\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LifeMiles-TYP-Transfer-Partner.png 1220w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LifeMiles-TYP-Transfer-Partner-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/LifeMiles-TYP-Transfer-Partner-1024x191.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1220px) 100vw, 1220px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"The_Value_Of_LifeMiles\">The Value Of LifeMiles<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Remember that Avianca is a Star Alliance carrier, so you can redeem your LifeMiles on any of the member airlines. Checking out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifemiles.com\/eng\/inc\/starredawards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">redemption rates<\/a> there are some solid values.<\/p>\n<p>Some routes worth pointing out (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifemiles.com\/eng\/inc\/starredawards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full Star Alliance award chart<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Flights to\/from the US to Europe will set you back no more than 63,000 miles one-way in Business, or 87,000 miles in First.<\/li>\n<li>A US to Japan routing will set you back 78,000 miles one way in Business, or 102,000 in First.<\/li>\n<li>A one-way transcon flight from New York to LA will set you back 25,000 miles in Business, or 35,000 miles in First.<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind that LifeMiles does not tack on any fuel surcharges like many other frequent flyer programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-aspectratio=\"870\/318\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19808 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/US-Europe-Award-Chart-Avianca-LifeMiles.png\" alt=\"US Europe Award Chart Avianca LifeMiles\" width=\"870\" height=\"318\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/US-Europe-Award-Chart-Avianca-LifeMiles.png 870w, https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/US-Europe-Award-Chart-Avianca-LifeMiles-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"Our_Take\">Our Take<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>It is good news whenever a new transfer partner is added to any points program. With the recent <a href=\"\/news\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/turkish-transfer-bonus\/\">additions of Turkish Airlines<\/a>, and before that <a href=\"\/news\/citi-thankyou-rewards\/transfer-citi-points-jetblue\/\">JetBlue as transfer partners<\/a>, Citi is enhancing the value of their points by making them more flexible, which is key to the value of any points program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ftoc\"><div id=\"toc_container\" class=\"toc_light_blue no_bullets\"><p class=\"toc_title\">Page Contents<\/p><ul class=\"toc_list\"><li><a href=\"#The_Value_Of_LifeMiles\">The Value Of LifeMiles<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#Our_Take\">Our Take<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citi ThankYou\u00ae Rewards has added Avianca LifeMiles as a new transfer partner. While this may not be exciting at first, there is some solid value in the program to be had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":19804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[12069],"tags":[12707,12625],"coauthors":[36383],"class_list":["post-19803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-citi-thankyou-rewards","tag-partners-and-alliances"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19803"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255067,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions\/255067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awardwallet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}