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Originally Posted by Moderator2

Every forum on Flyertalk has a personality. A forum gains a personality through user input over time, and Lifemiles is a very definitive example of how users have developed a unique community.

While Flyertalk boards actively encourage sharing of info, the Lifemiles community has developed and thrived via obscuring of certain data elements. It may not be easy for new participants to break through the codes and gain knowledge of the program's quirks, but the overall board community has adopted this unique approach. And frankly, that is not going to change overnight.

If a FT member wants to participate on this board, then they will need to respect other users. Hence, posts that run counter to this community's standards, will be removed.

Region definitions
C1 North America
C1.5 Caribbean, Bermuda
C2 Europe
C2.5 Middle East
C3 Asia
C4 South America
C5 Africa
C6 Oceania

2X, 3X: in the context of this LifeMiles thread, 2X and 3X refer to any 2nd and 3rd legs of a one-way award ticket.

LifeMiles' Star Alliance Award Chart

LifeMiles' old Star Alliance Award Chart (before Oct 15 2014) // Table of changes

Cash & Miles redemptions: the price per mile purchased during award booking varies significantly depending on how many miles are purchased. The "sweet spots" are between 38% and 58% of the total mileage required, where miles are purchased for 1.5 cents. See here for some examples.

Beware of Cabotage: LifeMiles has been known to issue tickets that constitute Cabotage, and at least one instance of denied boarding has been reported, stranding the passenger. An easily-seen example is travel on Copa from LAX to SJU (via PTY).

Understand Cabotage: Departing country 1, transiting country 2, returning to country 1 (no stopping) *is* cabotage (example: depart JFK, connect in YYZ to return to ORD, or depart Miami, connect in Bogota, return to San Francisco). On the other hand, departing country 1, going to completely unrelated country 2, and ending up in country 3, is not cabotage. So if you fly JFK-JNB-ZRH, for instance, this is completely not cabotage.

Availability: Seeing availability for *A award seats elsewhere is no guarantee they are accessible on Lifemiles. For instance award space shown on ANA often is not accessible on Lifemiles. Similarly, finding award space on single legs doesn't mean you'll get award space on the combined itinerary. And no, there is no way to overcome that.

Screenshot Method
Send email to [email protected] with attached screenshots on Lifemiles website of each individual leg showing availability. Also, screenshot showing no availability as one booking. Include passenger names, gender and DOB and copy of passenger passport. They will either call you for payment or email the itinerary and give you 3 days to call up and make payment by CC.

NOTE: This previous thread has been closed; it can be read here LM F and J routes (and the occasional trick-it)

LM F and J routes (and the occasional trick-it) Rebooted v2.0

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May 8, 2017, 9:32 pm

#2671

ctrlf

Join Date: Feb 2013

Posts: 302

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Originally Posted by Tokyoite

new promo for using less miles within regions?
doesn't price so on the website though...
https://www.lifemiles.com/eng/tra/pr...taralltbl.aspx

Googeling this link lets me think is a never deleted promo back from 2015
http://bfy.tw/BfvJ

May 9, 2017, 3:50 am

#2672

onlysuites

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Join Date: Sep 2003

Programs: BA Silver, EY Gold, HH Diamond, IHG Plat

Posts: 12,210

I can't seem to get a simple search to work over the least few days. Anyone else facing this?

May 9, 2017, 7:56 am

#2673

iluvdoco

Join Date: Aug 2014

Posts: 3,723

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Originally Posted by onlysuites

I can't seem to get a simple search to work over the least few days. Anyone else facing this?

Yes, me.

May 9, 2017, 8:24 am

#2674

WolfvanWeen

Join Date: Dec 2013

Location: Valencia, Spain

Programs: Pascal and Python, no C++

Posts: 738

Searching works here. Didn't book though, so can't say it would go through all the way...

May 9, 2017, 10:31 am

#2675

onlysuites

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Sometimes it works but very temperamental.

Last edited by onlysuites; May 9, 2017 at 10:42 am

May 10, 2017, 2:13 am

#2676

Guvner067

Join Date: Sep 2014

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Programs: AY Platinum, UA Premier Platinum, OneWorld Emerald, VA Platinum

Posts: 558

Quote:

Originally Posted by onlysuites

I can't seem to get a simple search to work over the least few days. Anyone else facing this?

I did a random TG F SYD-BKK-SYD search today and got flights both ways and was able to get right through to Confirm Payment (whereby I closed the session).

May 10, 2017, 5:49 am

#2677

erik19283

Join Date: Aug 2012

Posts: 668

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Originally Posted by onlysuites

I can't seem to get a simple search to work over the least few days. Anyone else facing this?

I had issues as well. I would get different results for the same search and had to redo my search to get the flights I had seen before but were no longer showing. Anyway, in the end I was able to book what I wanted, but it was a bit tedious.

That was all last Friday.