Is buying LM miles still worth it ?
Sep 30, 2015, 12:22 pm
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Is buying LM miles still worth it ?
Even under the curent promo 135 % bonus, one can buy 100k for 1404 US$/1258EUR/928GBP
For a direct flight from Europe expl. (FRA-BKK-FRA) you need to pay 2426US$ / 2173EU / 1604 GBP in business or 3100 US$ / 2777EUR / 2050GBP in first class. icl. all taxes/fees.
I think, specially in business, one already get cheaper revenue tix, which aditionaly earn milage and status.
For a direct flight from Europe expl. (FRA-BKK-FRA) you need to pay 2426US$ / 2173EU / 1604 GBP in business or 3100 US$ / 2777EUR / 2050GBP in first class. icl. all taxes/fees.
I think, specially in business, one already get cheaper revenue tix, which aditionaly earn milage and status.
Sep 30, 2015, 1:10 pm
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Sep 30, 2015, 2:18 pm
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Europe to "India" in business costs 30k AA miles. First class using AA miles for the same is 40k. Just in case people want to have more options to consider.
Sep 30, 2015, 3:02 pm
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Oct 1, 2015, 9:05 am
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Oct 1, 2015, 9:09 am
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AI has been a reason I advised some to buy Lifemiles in recent weeks.
Oct 1, 2015, 3:30 pm
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(Europe's like that, too. Round-trip in Y+ on Openskies, very reasonable. One way, not so much.)
I would agree that for a lot of purposes AV miles aren't all that, and it's more of a niche product now, since competitive J pricing on roundtrips USA-Europe and Europe-Asia makes dealing with the vagaries of AV's engine and phone agents not so useful. But there are niche uses I could see for them (one ways where you don't want to start in CAI or CMB, certain zones where the pricing is good).
Oct 3, 2015, 11:22 am
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For members of Milepoint (now known as InsideFlyer), there is a LifeMiles promo where with a minimum of 100,000 miles bought, you get a 150% bonus. And a discount on Star Alliance redemptions is included. Minimum cost is about $3,900 (about 1.55 cents per mile).
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/exter...l#post25513110 starting with post #104
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/exter...l#post25513110 starting with post #104
Oct 3, 2015, 3:41 pm
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For members of Milepoint (now known as InsideFlyer), there is a LifeMiles promo where with a minimum of 100,000 miles bought, you get a 150% bonus. And a discount on Star Alliance redemptions is included. Minimum cost is about $3,900 (about 1.55 cents per mile).
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/exter...l#post25513110 starting with post #104
See: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/exter...l#post25513110 starting with post #104
The $3,900 includes tax for people buying from certain countries, probably in Latin America where Avianca is based.
So actually the 150% bonus beats the 145% bonus last month for readers of a certain newsletter that was in Spanish/Portuguese.
Sounds like AV is getting really desperate to sell. If they could just spend a little money fixing their website so it's as good as Aeroplan's, I'd buy.
Oct 7, 2015, 6:41 pm
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I can live with most F awards being blocked but if LMs would just fix their website I think they would see far more people buying the miles theyre so desperately trying to sell.
Oct 9, 2015, 10:43 am
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I agree that the AI hard product has improved a lot, the soft product is a bit of hit and miss, but the biggest problem with AI is reliability and punctualilty. The PM is visiting Canada, and a whole flight from EWR to BOM gets cancelled as they need the AI plane as back up. The AI SIN_BOM flight leaves after midnight instead of the scheduled 7 pm more times than not. So if your travel is time sensitive and you have to make quick connections, AI could put a spanner in the works.
Oct 9, 2015, 11:21 am
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