Avianca LifeMiles – Bookings and Discussion

[Jacques Vert]

I guess i will lose my last 10k miles when they expire soon.

Just make a refundable booking for a hotel on points, wait a few days and then cancel it. The points go back to your account and within a few hours your expiry date will reset. I've done it a couple of times.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Just make a refundable booking for a hotel on points, wait a few days and then cancel it. The points go back to your account and within a few hours your expiry date will reset. I've done it a couple of times.

brilliant! thanks! I had completely forgotten about that!

 

[Gold Member]

Just make a refundable booking for a hotel on points, wait a few days and then cancel it. The points go back to your account and within a few hours your expiry date will reset. I've done it a couple of times.

No need to wait a few days. You can cancel it immediately without affecting your points reset.

 

[Jacques Vert]

No need to wait a few days. You can cancel it immediately without affecting your points reset.

True. However I feel it will look more genuine in the extremely unlikely event that my account is audited. (Yeah, I know I'm a bit paranoid.)

 

[boomy]

Another successful redemption today.

MUC-IST-HKG TK J 75k miles plus $US147 taxes.

Booked in July which is a tricky month for award seats.

Couldn’t find TK seats on UA or SQ. In fact there was nothing in J on *A and OW for the dates I needed. As shocking as it might sound LM had the best award availability on this occasion!

 

[Gold Member]

@boomy I expect a full and detailed TK champagne analysis on both legs.

 

[boomy]

@boomy I expect a full and detailed TK champagne analysis on both legs.

Was planing to drink only water and keep hydrated but if you insist then I’ll take one for the team

 

[margouille]

I've never tried redeeming via Lifemiles before. Can you redeem for flights from Australia to Europe and how many miles would that be? The redemption chart doesn't show Oceania/Pacific at all. I know there are flights to Europe available for my travel dates but Lifemiles only finds them when I look for them as 2 separate bookings instead of connecting flights. Do I need to call them?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I've never tried redeeming via Lifemiles before. Can you redeem for flights from Australia to Europe and how many miles would that be? The redemption chart doesn't show Oceania/Pacific at all. I know there are flights to Europe available for my travel dates but Lifemiles only finds them when I look for them as 2 separate bookings instead of connecting flights. Do I need to call them?

IIRC australia is classified as ‘others’?

You can only book what you see on line, And the call centre has the exact same booking engine we do. So they will not be able to combine the flights into a single ticket as a ‘through’ fare for the lower number of points.

LM is an extremely difficult program to be getting in to. Best avoided!

You may have success if you can find flights which don’t have long layovers or transits. You might need to search from all aussie gateways, and select different european ports until you find something.

 

[boomy]

Very hard to find AU to EU these days. TG is your best bet and must be same day connection as LM system doesn’t seem to allow overnight (even <24h) layovers.

There was short period of time few weeks ago with very good availability from various EU ports to SYD (not vv) on TG for 85k miles but unfortunately all gone now and replaced by phantom AI awards.