Other North & South America Frequent Flyer Programs - LifeMiles double miles bonus (buying miles)

Until 4th June, LifeMiles gets 100% bonus when you buy them.

2000 miles costs $30
20,000 miles costs $300
22,000 miles costs $330

20,000 miles is sufficient for a flight from BOG to LIM which would otherwise cost $700 ish

22,000 miles is sufficient for reward travel BOG to SCL RT

Until 4th June, LifeMiles gets 100% bonus when you buy them.

2000 miles costs $30
20,000 miles costs $300
22,000 miles costs $330

20,000 miles is sufficient for a flight from BOG to LIM which would otherwise cost $700 ish

22,000 miles is sufficient for reward travel BOG to SCL RT



How is their FF program to use? Are awards easy to claim?

How is their FF program to use? Are awards easy to claim?

I haven't booked anything but they seem to have good inventory and their redemption page looks very easy to use.

Judging by other comments made, the problem seems to be getting miles to be credited to your account, but bought miles post within an hour

How is their FF program to use? Are awards easy to claim?

I have had great success redeeming miles for flights. The charts allow you to see when awards are available and at what level, and the miles required seem to be a good deal compared to some of their ticket prices. I often get a $500 ticket for 14,000 miles and $35 taxes.

They also have a miles and cash combination that you can use.

This is where lifemiles seems to shine, and I am not usually a big fan of the TACA Elite experience.

I was playing around with the LifeMiles website and it looks like that award tickets on AV from mainland Colombia to ADZ start at 9,000 miles RT but go up to as much as 36K miles. I couldn't check availability without signing in and since I'm not a member yet couldn't do that.

Wondering if it's worth enrolling and buying some miles on the gamble that I can actually get redemptions to ADZ at a decent rate.

Assuming that 9,000 could be had that would make the cost of buying miles for a reward ticket about 50% of the going rate for a revenue ticket. Awfully tempting...

Any AV flyers able to comment on whether AV really clamps down hard on reward availability to the most popular tourist destinations like ADZ?

(And c'mon Avianca hurry up and join Star Alliance so I can burn some of my BD miles on you!)

How it works is thus...

There are different levels of redemption but you can choose from either one of them

Basic levels of redemption charge $150 for changes
Next level charges $50 for changes and is refundable if you decide not to go
Next two levels allow you to earn EQMs so you are burning an extra 6K miles to earn 1500 more
Earn miles with ticket flexibility
Don't earn miles have no flexibility but go in business class
etc.
There are 6 or 7 permutations but availability is good in all of them, it is not that you'd want to go to ADZ but cannot go for 9K miles because they have bumped the redemption for the same service, different levels of redemption get you different benefits.

So say BOG to ADZ is 9000 miles return or One Way? If that is return then OK, if it is 9000 miles each way then I think you can buy that cheaper, and for a million pesos (US$500) you can get a package including transfers and hotel.