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NOTE: This thread has been superseded by the thread entitled LM F and J routes (and the occasional trick-it) Rebooted v2.0. Please follow the discussion there.
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
Cash & Miles redemptions: buying the max (60%) isn't always the best deal (unless you're purchasing all miles right there). Check here for the best CPM.
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).
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
Cash & Miles redemptions: buying the max (60%) isn't always the best deal (unless you're purchasing all miles right there). Check here for the best CPM.
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).
LM F and J routes (and the occasional trick-it)
#1966
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: DTW
Posts: 322
All I could find were just other people using these terms without any context as well. Now people are referencing some bloody chainsaw....
Could someone point me in the right direction?
#1967
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Valencia, Spain
Programs: Pascal and Python, no C++
Posts: 738
Obviously nobody at Lifemiles really cares about the chainsaw or the gummybear, because otherwise it would have been very easy to rezone them.
No, there is some sort of new filtering happening either on LM or on *A side (or both) that makes a lot of routes from, to or through C1 hubs disappear. Or someone massively throttles availability, which - together with the already thin availability on those routes - makes them seem non-existent.
But flights to and from our favourite airports to other unexpected airports work.... Yet simple, straight flights that should have tons of availability every day, e.g. EWR-IAH fail, too....
And, as I said, it seems to be a C1 problem, if anybody sees a similar behavior on other continents, I'd be interested to know.
#1968
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: BZG
Programs: LH FTL, PC Plat,Hilton Gold
Posts: 128
Looks like there is a new C1 - C2 F connection for 35 k miles, you can find it on august 31. Forget LH.
#1969
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 6,384
Speaking of LH... is it just me or can I not see any more F more than T-14?
#1970
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: ZRH
Programs: SEN
Posts: 137
At the gate I called and cancelled my connecting flight. Needless to say that this second ticket was not booked with lifemiles...
#1975
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 88
Let me get this right?
Chainsaw = Irish pub to statue of liberty and back to oktoberfest (for example)?
Gummybear = C1 to misplaced airport in C3?
And does these trick below have any name?
1. C3 via oktoberfest to C3 for "C3 miles". Works in C and F.
2. C2 to C2 via LG/Samsung.
These are the 3 tricks I know about. How many more are there?
Many of the tricks shows phantom though which is quite sad.
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Chainsaw = Irish pub to statue of liberty and back to oktoberfest (for example)?
Gummybear = C1 to misplaced airport in C3?
And does these trick below have any name?
1. C3 via oktoberfest to C3 for "C3 miles". Works in C and F.
2. C2 to C2 via LG/Samsung.
These are the 3 tricks I know about. How many more are there?
Many of the tricks shows phantom though which is quite sad.
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Last edited by LH630; Apr 21, 2014 at 10:46 am
#1976
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: madam's organ
Posts: 269
1 wrong.
2 wrongish
3 no
4 819 other ones.
No need to spell them all out next time
2 wrongish
3 no
4 819 other ones.
No need to spell them all out next time
Let me get this right?
Chainsaw = Irish pub to statue of liberty and back to oktoberfest (for example)?
Gummybear = C1 to misplaced airport in C3?
And does the trick below have any name?
C3 via oktoberfest to C3 for "C3 miles". Works in C and F.
These are the 3 tricks I know about. How many more are there?
Chainsaw = Irish pub to statue of liberty and back to oktoberfest (for example)?
Gummybear = C1 to misplaced airport in C3?
And does the trick below have any name?
C3 via oktoberfest to C3 for "C3 miles". Works in C and F.
These are the 3 tricks I know about. How many more are there?
#1977
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 88
Many of the people on flyertalk are egoistic douches. There are a few nice people here that shares. I myself always share (in PM) when I find something but you hardly get anything back. Guess that's how the world works in 2014.
Did I really spell them out 'that bad'? I could have written out exact airport to be more specific.
So are there someone here that want's to share what gummybear and chainsaw is if non of these above?
Oh, I remember one more: C1 to C4 via C2.
Is that what you call chainsaw over here?
Did I really spell them out 'that bad'? I could have written out exact airport to be more specific.
So are there someone here that want's to share what gummybear and chainsaw is if non of these above?
Oh, I remember one more: C1 to C4 via C2.
Is that what you call chainsaw over here?
Last edited by LH630; Apr 21, 2014 at 10:56 am
#1978
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: madam's organ
Posts: 269
More like starving and waiting in line at chipotle.
Your ideas are all good though, just wrong names. Never said they didn't work
Your ideas are all good though, just wrong names. Never said they didn't work
#1979
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 88
There are at least three tricks that I don't know about that are written in this thread.
First that guy who wrote C1 to C2 in F for 35k miles and then also something called the Saudi trick and then the gummybear trick whatever that is.