Lifemiles 100% promo - reactivated through 30 Sept 2014
Jul 7, 2014, 9:25 pm
#706
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Programs: Flying: VA; Buying: AA, AS, AV, BA, UA!
Posts: 2,349
Jul 7, 2014, 9:34 pm
#707
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Programs: Flying: VA; Buying: AA, AS, AV, BA, UA!
Posts: 2,349
Jul 7, 2014, 10:13 pm
#708
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: OZ *G; HH Diamond;
Posts: 1,644
OZ740
OZ333
UA850
All J with no stop that is more than 6 hours.
Jul 7, 2014, 10:24 pm
#709
Join Date: May 2005
Programs: UA Plat (1MM), AA Plat, HH Diamond, MR Plat, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat.
Posts: 655
Jul 7, 2014, 10:25 pm
#710
Join Date: May 2005
Programs: UA Plat (1MM), AA Plat, HH Diamond, MR Plat, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat.
Posts: 655
Jul 7, 2014, 10:28 pm
#711
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Programs: Flying: VA; Buying: AA, AS, AV, BA, UA!
Posts: 2,349
Jul 7, 2014, 10:44 pm
#712
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: SFO
Programs: OZ *G; HH Diamond;
Posts: 1,644
I verified each segment is available on LM, but no, the route does not come up as a whole.
I see OP has the choice of booking as two separate awards:
PNH-TPE in Y for 17.5K
TPE-LAX-ORD in BR-J + UA-J for 62.5K
total is 80K. If it can be booked in one award, it would cost 65K.
Or OP can just use 80K of UA miles.
I see OP has the choice of booking as two separate awards:
PNH-TPE in Y for 17.5K
TPE-LAX-ORD in BR-J + UA-J for 62.5K
total is 80K. If it can be booked in one award, it would cost 65K.
Or OP can just use 80K of UA miles.
Jul 7, 2014, 11:29 pm
#713
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MDE
Programs: AA EP, CM PP, AV GM, UA Silver, SPG Gold, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,002
Obviously not the case here, but worthy of mention again due to the length of this thread. "Sold out" doesn't always mean sold out. I have many times gone back the next day or more later to find previously sold out routes available on LM.
Part of it is normal airline release changes, but another part is that a failed transaction (very common on the payment page) blocks the seat as if it was purchased until a certain amount of time has passed. I know this for sure, as I have had a payment failure, gone back to try again only to find no availability. 24 hours later, the seats come back.
Lifemiles has its quirks, but it sure provides some great values if used correctly. It's a personal decision, but I find it worth a little frustration when I am not in a big hurry to book a ticket. As others have mentioned, I also use OALs to book reward tix that can be canceled if seats become available on LM. They often do as the departure gets closer.
Part of it is normal airline release changes, but another part is that a failed transaction (very common on the payment page) blocks the seat as if it was purchased until a certain amount of time has passed. I know this for sure, as I have had a payment failure, gone back to try again only to find no availability. 24 hours later, the seats come back.
Lifemiles has its quirks, but it sure provides some great values if used correctly. It's a personal decision, but I find it worth a little frustration when I am not in a big hurry to book a ticket. As others have mentioned, I also use OALs to book reward tix that can be canceled if seats become available on LM. They often do as the departure gets closer.
Jul 8, 2014, 1:07 am
#714
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: CDG
Programs: TK Elite
Posts: 1,611
Obviously not the case here, but worthy of mention again due to the length of this thread. "Sold out" doesn't always mean sold out. I have many times gone back the next day or more later to find previously sold out routes available on LM.
Part of it is normal airline release changes, but another part is that a failed transaction (very common on the payment page) blocks the seat as if it was purchased until a certain amount of time has passed. I know this for sure, as I have had a payment failure, gone back to try again only to find no availability. 24 hours later, the seats come back.
Lifemiles has its quirks, but it sure provides some great values if used correctly. It's a personal decision, but I find it worth a little frustration when I am not in a big hurry to book a ticket. As others have mentioned, I also use OALs to book reward tix that can be canceled if seats become available on LM. They often do as the departure gets closer.
Part of it is normal airline release changes, but another part is that a failed transaction (very common on the payment page) blocks the seat as if it was purchased until a certain amount of time has passed. I know this for sure, as I have had a payment failure, gone back to try again only to find no availability. 24 hours later, the seats come back.
Lifemiles has its quirks, but it sure provides some great values if used correctly. It's a personal decision, but I find it worth a little frustration when I am not in a big hurry to book a ticket. As others have mentioned, I also use OALs to book reward tix that can be canceled if seats become available on LM. They often do as the departure gets closer.
Jul 8, 2014, 7:42 am
#715
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: SIN
Programs: SQ, UA, Delta, BMI(RIP), Marriott Lifetime Titanium, Hilton Diamond (Thanks Amex) Hyatt Discov
Posts: 1,942
Jul 8, 2014, 10:44 am
#716
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: IAH
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, SPG Platinum, Hilton Diamond, A3 Gold
Posts: 601
Is Firefox the best browser to usefor LifeMiles? Is there any way to get it to remember the password?
Jul 12, 2014, 3:40 pm
#717
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: MDE
Programs: AA EP, CM PP, AV GM, UA Silver, SPG Gold, Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Plat, Marriott Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,002
For those unfamiliar with Lastpass, it has a free version that I have used flawlessly for years. It will generate super strong passwords and remember them. For an extra $1 per month, they also have a mobile add-on, but I have not tried that one. I'm still not comfortable with entering my primary password via mobile, as Laspass contains every account I access online, including all the financial ones. On the desktop, however, it's a lifesaver!
Jul 13, 2014, 10:27 am
#719
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: IAH
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, SPG Platinum, Hilton Diamond, A3 Gold
Posts: 601
I am a Mac user, and I find that Firefox works far better than Chrome or Safari when dealing with Lifemiles. I'm also a Laspass user, and the Lifemiles page is one of those that doesn't seem to work well with the Lastpass autofill feature, but it will "sometimes" fill either the account number or the password, but never both. No browser I use will fill the fields automatically.
For those unfamiliar with Lastpass, it has a free version that I have used flawlessly for years. It will generate super strong passwords and remember them. For an extra $1 per month, they also have a mobile add-on, but I have not tried that one. I'm still not comfortable with entering my primary password via mobile, as Laspass contains every account I access online, including all the financial ones. On the desktop, however, it's a lifesaver!
For those unfamiliar with Lastpass, it has a free version that I have used flawlessly for years. It will generate super strong passwords and remember them. For an extra $1 per month, they also have a mobile add-on, but I have not tried that one. I'm still not comfortable with entering my primary password via mobile, as Laspass contains every account I access online, including all the financial ones. On the desktop, however, it's a lifesaver!
Jul 13, 2014, 7:26 pm
#720
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: YYC, SFO, OAK
Programs: AS MVP 75K, AA Platinum, IHG Platinum, Club Carlson Gold
Posts: 734
Please forgive my relative newbishness with LM. My impression is that with the current promo one could buy 1,000 miles at full price into account A, with a dummy account B with 0 miles. Then one can transfer this amount successfully back and forth between accounts A and B until some constraint is reached...
There's a 75K transfer limit per account.
There's a 150K receiving limit per account.
There's no lower bound on account age at transfer, so you could transfer to/from a newly opened account.
So if you transfer A-B-A-B, you'll get to a point where you have 64,000 miles in A, 0 miles in B, and A has cumulatively transferred 21,000 miles to B, and B has cumulatively transferred 42,000 miles back to A.
At this point, what A sends to B is constrained by what B can send back to A and still stay w/in the 75K limit. In this case, that's about 32K miles (42K+32K = 74K).
So A sends B 16K, B sends back 32K, and A ends up with 64,000-16,000+64,000 = 112,000 miles, and you've tapped out the transfer limit.
On the other hand, you could have several accounts and send in a circle, getting to a maximum of 128,000 miles in one particular account.
All this assumes that one doesn't want to leave a small stray balance in another account, which would then make getting near the max easier.
And of course, the actual optimal # of miles needed isn't necessarily 150K or 112K or 128K, but whatever yields the best value at time of redemption since the remaining miles can be bought for ~1.5cpm.
Am I making sense?
There's a 75K transfer limit per account.
There's a 150K receiving limit per account.
There's no lower bound on account age at transfer, so you could transfer to/from a newly opened account.
So if you transfer A-B-A-B, you'll get to a point where you have 64,000 miles in A, 0 miles in B, and A has cumulatively transferred 21,000 miles to B, and B has cumulatively transferred 42,000 miles back to A.
At this point, what A sends to B is constrained by what B can send back to A and still stay w/in the 75K limit. In this case, that's about 32K miles (42K+32K = 74K).
So A sends B 16K, B sends back 32K, and A ends up with 64,000-16,000+64,000 = 112,000 miles, and you've tapped out the transfer limit.
On the other hand, you could have several accounts and send in a circle, getting to a maximum of 128,000 miles in one particular account.
All this assumes that one doesn't want to leave a small stray balance in another account, which would then make getting near the max easier.
And of course, the actual optimal # of miles needed isn't necessarily 150K or 112K or 128K, but whatever yields the best value at time of redemption since the remaining miles can be bought for ~1.5cpm.
Am I making sense?