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Aug 3, 2020, 9:40 pm
#48
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast
Programs: AA CONCIERGE KEY & 1MM, HILTON DIAMOND
Posts: 11,970
Sep 10, 2020, 6:26 pm
#50
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: SJC
Programs: Hilton Diamond, Hyatt Explorist, Bonvoyed Lifetime Gold
Posts: 117
I actually noticed availability for first on Lufthansa June and Sept. 2021 I didn't try to get the award but I did notice it available. Im not sure if it was a glitch or if it would even let me book it. Im trying to be smart and look for availability before I buy the miles. I dont even know if im really going to buy the miles, lifemiles seems very difficult online to deal with.
Sep 11, 2020, 11:26 am
#51
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast
Programs: AA CONCIERGE KEY & 1MM, HILTON DIAMOND
Posts: 11,970
I actually noticed availability for first on Lufthansa June and Sept. 2021 I didn't try to get the award but I did notice it available. Im not sure if it was a glitch or if it would even let me book it. Im trying to be smart and look for availability before I buy the miles. I dont even know if im really going to buy the miles, lifemiles seems very difficult online to deal with.
Sep 11, 2020, 6:16 pm
#52
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: SJO
Programs: Avianca LifeMiles. Hilton (G), Meliá (G), Radisson (G). National Car (EE), Hertz (PC), Avis (PC)
Posts: 188
August 2019_
I tried a SJO-TLV + IST-SJO booking on LifeMiles.com, but no availability, as usual. So I tried the "screenshot method", with a SJO-SAL-EWR on AV, EWR-TLV on UA, for the outbound, and IST-BOG-PTY on TK, PTY-SJO on AV, on the inbound, plus the "no availability" images. A day later a got a email from Customer Support, telling that they got my request. The following day I got a the call from them, and we built the tickets over the phone with an EXTREMELY helpful and knowledgeable agent. I was charged with the regular $25 "online processing fee", instead of the expensive "telephone fee".
They also used the LifeMiles redemption table with the origin/destination regions prices, instead of the "per flight mileage", so the final redemption mileage was considerably lower than my initial quote. I'm very pleased with the results.
Note: the outbound and inbound tickets are separate, we couldn't make a multi-city since there was no availability TLV-IST.
I tried a SJO-TLV + IST-SJO booking on LifeMiles.com, but no availability, as usual. So I tried the "screenshot method", with a SJO-SAL-EWR on AV, EWR-TLV on UA, for the outbound, and IST-BOG-PTY on TK, PTY-SJO on AV, on the inbound, plus the "no availability" images. A day later a got a email from Customer Support, telling that they got my request. The following day I got a the call from them, and we built the tickets over the phone with an EXTREMELY helpful and knowledgeable agent. I was charged with the regular $25 "online processing fee", instead of the expensive "telephone fee".
They also used the LifeMiles redemption table with the origin/destination regions prices, instead of the "per flight mileage", so the final redemption mileage was considerably lower than my initial quote. I'm very pleased with the results.
Note: the outbound and inbound tickets are separate, we couldn't make a multi-city since there was no availability TLV-IST.
Sep 12, 2020, 2:38 pm
#53
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast
Programs: AA CONCIERGE KEY & 1MM, HILTON DIAMOND
Posts: 11,970
August 2019_
I tried a SJO-TLV + IST-SJO booking on LifeMiles.com, but no availability, as usual. So I tried the "screenshot method", with a SJO-SAL-EWR on AV, EWR-TLV on UA, for the outbound, and IST-BOG-PTY on TK, PTY-SJO on AV, on the inbound, plus the "no availability" images. A day later a got a email from Customer Support, telling that they got my request. The following day I got a the call from them, and we built the tickets over the phone with an EXTREMELY helpful and knowledgeable agent. I was charged with the regular $25 "online processing fee", instead of the expensive "telephone fee".
They also used the LifeMiles redemption table with the origin/destination regions prices, instead of the "per flight mileage", so the final redemption mileage was considerably lower than my initial quote. I'm very pleased with the results.
Note: the outbound and inbound tickets are separate, we couldn't make a multi-city since there was no availability TLV-IST.
I tried a SJO-TLV + IST-SJO booking on LifeMiles.com, but no availability, as usual. So I tried the "screenshot method", with a SJO-SAL-EWR on AV, EWR-TLV on UA, for the outbound, and IST-BOG-PTY on TK, PTY-SJO on AV, on the inbound, plus the "no availability" images. A day later a got a email from Customer Support, telling that they got my request. The following day I got a the call from them, and we built the tickets over the phone with an EXTREMELY helpful and knowledgeable agent. I was charged with the regular $25 "online processing fee", instead of the expensive "telephone fee".
They also used the LifeMiles redemption table with the origin/destination regions prices, instead of the "per flight mileage", so the final redemption mileage was considerably lower than my initial quote. I'm very pleased with the results.
Note: the outbound and inbound tickets are separate, we couldn't make a multi-city since there was no availability TLV-IST.
Sep 13, 2020, 1:24 pm
#54
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: New York, NY
Programs: Independent
Posts: 470
I just booked JFK-GVA next June to try to burn up my lifemiles. I hope they last that long! (/Swiss accepts their booking even if Avianca goes under.) Sadly it will be hard to use them before then because COVID.
Sep 14, 2020, 12:39 pm
#55
Join Date: Dec 2019
Posts: 130
Can confirm this is not real. LifeMiles is displaying 365 days of availability for LH flights and the last 5 days are fake data. Also it looks like LH is releasing business award a max of 120 days in advance, at least on the route I've been looking at.
Sep 14, 2020, 12:42 pm
#56
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast
Programs: AA CONCIERGE KEY & 1MM, HILTON DIAMOND
Posts: 11,970
Thanks for confirming. LH has always been super strict on this. Last year, MIA FRA was booked to 1/8 and they still didn't release any F award space until a couple days before departure though luckily I was able to get it.
Sep 17, 2020, 2:36 pm
#59
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast
Programs: AA CONCIERGE KEY & 1MM, HILTON DIAMOND
Posts: 11,970
Sep 21, 2020, 2:42 am
#60
Join Date: Sep 2020
Programs: AA, UA, Lifemiles, BA, MR, CSR
Posts: 14
This is dated obviously, but I successfully redeemed a BKK-IAH LM redemption in November 2019. Business class on TG BKK-NRT. First class on NH (awesome) from NRT to IAH. Booked several LM redemptions since then but all canceled thus far due to COVID, so miles accumulation keeps growing unfortunately.