Avianca LifeMiles – Bookings and Discussion

[RB]

Managed a get a LifeMiles booking yesterday. CTA-MUC in July 2025 on LH. LifeMiles is no longer our 1st option so good to use up some remaining miles

 

[nthd_nthd]

the Tax and Fee looks too high for YYC-SFO Flight for 4 ppl. What does everyone think?

 

[drron]

Early this year LM had J awards SYD-BKK and return virtually every day but one day they just disappeared.

 

[bcworld]

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the Tax and Fee looks too high for YYC-SFO Flight for 4 ppl. What does everyone think?

Don't see any issue with that.

Air Canada quotes AUD512 vs USD311.64 here.

 

[nthd_nthd]

Don't see any issue with that.

Air Canada quotes AUD512 vs USD311.64 here.

Was surprised by the higher tax and fee than U.S airport/U.S Carrier charged

 

[nthd_nthd]

FYI,

I Also, found out from LifeMile agent that because my family member middle name has a dash - in their names that throw error. If I removed it I could go ahead with the booking. Which I checked and he was correct. Wish the error could have been more specific and saved me a lot of headache on that middle name.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Was surprised by the higher tax and fee than U.S airport/U.S Carrier charged

I don’t see any carrier charges there - as in fuel surcharges. I see the redemption charge of USD25 per person, that’s normal, and levied by LM for their… err… service?

 

[NDiddy]

Managed to book my FIL on YYZ-LIS-AMS return with TAP in J. 63K points +72 USD taxes each way.

 

[elanshin]

I believe one of the advantages of LM (even if its hard) is you can get some very whacky cheap bookings by using mix cabin and they'll take an average cost. So if you pair a Y with an F... It'll be cheaper than just booking the F outright.

Difficulty is of course finding these unicorns.

 

[jgm]

I believe one of the advantages of LM (even if its hard) is you can get some very whacky cheap bookings by using mix cabin and they'll take an average cost. So if you pair a Y with an F... It'll be cheaper than just booking the F outright.

Difficulty is of course finding these unicorns.

I changed my MEL-DEL-YVR-YYC aeroplan flight to BNE-SFO with LM and SFO-YYC with Aeroplan all in J. I would have preferred MEL-SFO, but the available dates didn't work. I got ~105k aeroplan points back and burnt 80k LM (and extended the expiration date). I could have burnt a few QF points, but it was better value to pay cash for MEL-BNE.

 

[BobbyFlyer]

I just redeemed 50k LM points on ANA Per-Nrt next week in J. They’ve upgraded the aircraft from a 788 to 789 so more J seats which although they released only 1 J in April this year there were lots released within 2 weeks of departure as has been mentioned here before…the day I booked for next week had 3 J available on LM…

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Interesting that Aeroplan is offering *connections* via BKK on TG for certain dates. I was looking at June for a friend and TG MEL-BKK-FRA-DBV came up as an option. TG all the way to FRA with LH connecting to DBV.

A search for MEL-BKK only yielded no results for TG.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Sadly I cannot find it today! The stools in BKK were 20 hours and FRA 21 hours, so getting bags off and skipping any last segment should have been easy enough.

I was looking on 7 and 8 June… completely gone now, Dunno about other dates.