star alliance rewards through miles & more
 

My recent redemption experience is with Aeroplan where you can of course choose between Aeroplan and *A awards, which is fantastic. My UK-based son has 40,000 miles expiring July 1st. Seems he cant get 2 tickets from this under M&M other than FlySmart but is it possible to get *A rewards - which my chart says would be 20K miles for Europe1? - with M&M miles?

I searched both FT and Lufthansa but only came across one link to a Lufthansa page (on a previous thread). This has now been deleted from the site - are Lufthansa trying to hide something?

Fly smart is only offered for flights operated by fully integrated M&M partners (LH/OS/LOT).

Hi

What should they hide? Don't understand what you mean.
Maybe the link you used was just not valid anymore.

Go on Miles-and-more.com - go into spend miles / flight awards and then fly smart. There you find what you are looking for. Easy isn't it :-)

Fly Smart on all flights operated by Lufthansa, the Austrian Airlines Group, LOT Polish Airlines and starting January 1st, 2005 also by Condor. Only online and 15000 miles for a ticket. Booking period between 2 weeks and 2 days before departur. Earliest return is Sunday after start of journey and ticket valid only 30 days.

After booking no change possible.

By PEM

I think the OP is looking for non Fly Smart awards on *A? The link is on same page as the link to Fly Smart. Posted below for your convenience.

http://portal.miles-and-more.com/cda...dia_305792.pdf

apologies for lack of clarity. yes we want to use the miles next year so fly smart no good. and kiwiflyer's helpful link has shown me that I was obviously working with an outdated star alliance chart which distinguished between Europe 1 and 2. so it seems that my assumption that there are mileage discrepancies between *A awards and M&M awards is wrong - correct?

correct, except the following execeptions:

fly smart
companion award
mix award

cheers,

ben

sorry. but what is a mix award ?

flying different classes each way (e.g. business outbound / first inbound).

ok, thanks for the answer.
I assume you have to pay also the average miles of the different award classes ?
Is it possible to change to that system after having ticketed e.g for the return flight F award opens meantime ?

yes, you have to pay the usual 40 euro changing fee, though. most agents are not aware of that rule but it definitly works - just did that yesterday.

remember: mix awards are not possible for companion/star awards.

great news, many thanks for the information. I assume there is no hint on the lufthansa homepage somewhere.
Is the best way to do it via the SEN hotline ? If they say no, does the supervisor know about this rule ?
Unf. this time I have paper ticket as the outbound flight is Condor. I hope that doesn't make a difference
Sorry for that many questions :-)

for me, it always were etix. but it should work with paper, too.

Sorry.. I posted similar response to this other HERE