Maximize Your Credit Card Points with Avianca LifeMiles
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In this video we explore the numerous ways to earn LifeMiles, including transfer options from major credit card issuers. Discover the benefits of being a LifeMiles member and how you can leverage the Star Alliance network to travel to over 1,300 destinations worldwide. We'll also dive into award pricing, showcasing competitive rates and the added value of transfer bonuses.
Stay tuned for valuable insights on how to search for award availability on LifeMiles and make the most of your points!
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - Ways to Earn LifeMiles
01:21 - Transfer Bonuses
02:48 - Book Star Alliance Airlines with LifeMiles
03:28 - LifeMiles Award Pricing
05:47 - How to Search for Award Availability on LifeMiles
6:53 - Conclusion
Great info, Max; Thank You!
💥 excellent! 🔥
You read my mind on this!
The cross-crossing, zooming, weaving graphic for transfer partners is one of those simple pleasures in your videos. Unmistakable. I see ANA on that graphic too. Will you make an ANA program video? I wanna try using them…nervous 😅 I did recently make my first LifeMiles redemption 🎉
😄thanks for watching and thanks for the suggestion!
I used Lifemiles for a last minute Europe domestic with Austrian for 5,000 back in July. It was €400+ if I were to pay in cash. Generally, I do find Avianca to have better redemption value compared to other Star Alliance.
Glad to hear you’ve had a good experience with LifeMiles! Some of those those short routes are good super good value
Lifemiles does not have the same availability as United and Air Canada. Their system often gliches and much harder to find premium cabin seats.
United sometimes doesn’t have the same award availability as LifeMiles and Air Canada and Air Canada sometimes doesn’t have the same award availability as LifeMiles and United. It works both ways. Some programs are better than others at seeing award space. For example for the past week or so Air Canada hasn’t been showing a lot of star alliance premium cabins award space that I would find on United and LifeMiles.
Love your content Max! Quick question - I am seeing the availability, but then when I go to click on the flight I want and "Continue", it pulls up an error page. Do you need to transfer your points over to LifeMiles prior to getting to the final confirmation page? I am a little nervous transferring points over before verifying that the flight and seats are truly available.
Great video Max. I have subscribed to your channel and I recently booked a flight to Asia with LifeMiles after watching this video.
Have you booked any flights with LifeMiles? After booking the flight I only received a basic email. There was no way for me to enter my TSA Precheck info, passport info or select seats and it’s been a week. Do you know what happens next with LifeMiles?
I love your editing, what program do you use?
Daily, back to back uploads!! 😁😁
haha I didn't thank anyone would notice 🫶🏼
Make sure u don’t get Ethiopian airlines! We got screwed when LifeMiles used them as connecting flight from Milan to Zurich. Our booking was not honored! We ended up paying for economy so we don’t miss our Zurich flight to OHare. We enjoyed our Swiss business class though. But the Ethiopian flight was a disaster. Filthy airline I’m sorry to say. Never again!
I try to avoid Ethiopian as much as I can 😬, so far I’ve been successful
What you think the best way to go from BKK to MIA currently with Amex points?
Thank you for the quick explanation! Would you say this is the best redemption for Capitol one miles? I’m flying this exact route
It can be! not sure which route you're referring to though. I would compare the redemption rates similar to what I did in the video and see which airlines offers the lowest points and/or taxes and fees.
They have a great program, the issue comes when you need customer service. You'll work for 3 days just to get ahold of someone. If they can fix this the program would be a no brainer.
Thanks for sharing, thankfully, I haven't had to contact their customer service before.
I had to contact their CS earlier this year while redeeming a last minute trip FCO > OKC via EWR;DEN and it went amazingly well. Way better than Turkish airlines. You can tell Avianca has a quota or time limit of some sort they're trying to hit per call, but overall they were quite pleasant and very helpful. I would call them again without any reservations.
Terrible CS experiences for me. After having flights cancelled, including connecting flights which would have left me stranded mid journey, with zero notification that the flight had been cancelled, $200 cancellation fees, it's not the best program by any means. But redemption rates are usually the lowest amongst Star Alliance. You just have to deal with terrible CS if plans change.
Thanks for the information! Great video!🫵
I’m new to the points and miles game. I’ve watched lots of videos and see that you content creators often search for a one-way flight vs round-trip. Is their a reason for this? Say I wanted to fly from Boston to Rome, using points and miles, and then fly home. Why wouldn’t I search for a round-trip flight? Is there something I’m missing? Thank you, I enjoy your videos.
This august i tried to book with Avianca, but the page errored out at checkout (with a CORS error). Have you experienced this ever and has it been resolved?
Yes Avianca LifeMiles requires alot of patience also be certain you never need customer service, a fricken nightmare.
I used them for Gol and Avianca flights until Banco Popular ended their 🇺🇸 LM partnership.
Life miles is far more glitchy than others. Can be a gamble for some!
How much do the taxes and fees differ between Life Mile, Air, Canada and United?
Good question
United always the lowest but the most expensive in points
Air Canada varies but would typically be the second lowest
LifeMiles tends to be a bit higher but not by much at all (mostly because of the $10-$25 fee they tack on)
I always compare both (air Canada and LifeMiles) options and see which one is charging what points and what taxes and fees and make a decision from there
Thanks Max! It would have been nice to cover how much Avianca charges for cancellations and changes
Thanks for the suggestion! I haven’t made any mention of award cancellation fees in any of the CZcams videos I’ve made in the last two years here on CZcams. I’ll keep that in mind for future videos
LifeMiles charges between $50-$200 depending on the route to cancel an award ticket. I think it’s $150 to change an award ticket so it’s not cheap. It’s on the higher end that’s for sure
I was told it was a $150 change fee when I tried to make a change on a booking, but didn’t ask about cancellation.
On my 7.5k redemption, I stuck with it and didn’t pay that $150
@@crammydavisjr5813 honestly I would’ve probably done the same
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Max is the man! Gonna try to search for tokyo with ANA 😊 for June 2024
You likely won’t find July but give it a shot. ANA hasn’t released much award space other than last minute close-in award space 🥲
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Bi, Max. If i am planning to fly turkish airlines from us to europe. From the cost prrspective would it be more efficient to transfer my miles feom capital 1 to turkish airlines/miles and smiles or to avianca/ life miles?
Turkish for sure! 45k in business via Turkish can’t be beat. They do charge higher taxes and fees though it’ll be around $350/$400 one way though so keep that in mind. Don’t transfer your points until you find award availability!
My wife and I are looking to take a vacation to Europe next year and we have 100k Capital One Miles saved up. We don’t know the dates of our travel yet, so would it be worth transferring them over during this 15% boost or wait? Seems like the points expire in Life Miles bank after 12 months of no activity.
I would wait, I usually don’t recommend transferring speculatively
Have you had any issues with finding award availability and then it immediately disappearing on lifemiles? That happens to me all the time and then the availability shows up again the next day
I haven't had that experience before
Yes that does happen. It has happened to me many many times. The good thing is that it comes back the next day or so.
@@brianpour292 did the availability ever disappear for you by the next day? I always get anxiety and worry I won't get the award space haha
@@shawnguo4604 yes but it usuaaly comes back within 24 or 48 hours. Lifemiles puts a hold on the resrrvation so it disappears from the search. Try not to click all the way thru until u transfer your miles.
Max your videos are useful. Thank you. However, why not also mention some of the negatives? For example, Avianca LifeMiles expire after 12 months of inactivity. And not easily extendable (can only extend by earning miles, not by redeeming). Don't you think your audience should be aware of?
Hey Mike thanks for the suggestion! Miles/points expiration for each program is something I historically have not included in the two years of making videos on CZcams. I’ll keep that in mind for future videos sponsored or not sponsored. Additionally I don’t recommend anyone speculatively transferring points to LifeMiles and storing them in their LifeMiles account so expiring miles shouldn’t be an issue
@@MaxMilesPointstotally, i wouldn't keep my lifemiles there forever. Just transfer them when ready to book and you should be good.
I found their site very buggy and sometimes doesn’t even load
Thanks for sharing your experience, in the past I have had issues of the results not loading but as of recently it seems to be working smoothly so give it another try!
May want to clear your browser cache. I've never had any issues with LM website. This sounds like a browser issue. Their site isn't super efficient with loading properties, but engineers aren't going to spend the time with reworking lazy loads in the front end code since they probably have other stuff to do internally to keep those processes functioning.
Great video. What is the highest bonus you have seen for LifeMiles transfer with Amex points? 15%?
That seems to be the highest
Thanks! I got 90k welcome bonus and now will get the 15% @@MaxMilesPoints