Avianca LifeMiles has brought back its popular transfer points promotion. You can transfer miles between member accounts with members getting 115% bonus in the process of transferring miles! New Avianca LifeMiles Transfer Bonus LifeMiles has just announced its latest promotion for the holiday season. They’re currently offering a bonus when you transfer LifeMiles to another […]
Introduction to South African Airlines Voyager Mileage Redemptions South African Voyager uses a number of different award charts. South African Airlines redemptions are accessible as Dynamic Awards and as you’d expect, the pricing goes along with the ticket prices. Typically, it is a pretty sad use of miles. Every few months, there are JourneyBlitz promotions […]
– Lufthansa Miles & More has now integrated most Star Alliance partners into their online flight booking tool The new interface has been done with German precision and is very fast (though only allows a six day view). Also you will need to have status or at least 7,000 miles in your account to access […]
– sad day for Airbus – Singapore Airlines placed firm orders for twenty 777-9 and 10 787-10 with Boeing Each Long-haul planes make between $75 million – $100 million in revenue per year – big numbers! – United now offers boarding passes in the mobile app for many Star Alliance partners – that’s great news […]
– S7 Priority is the latest program to offer a status match for topbonus account holders The status match comes with a twist as that you can re-credit any S7 flights that were previously credited to topbonus between Oct 1st 2016 and September 30th 2017 to S7. To activate the status match you will need […]
– after speculation over Lufthansa’s merger with Air Berlin the newest set of speculations is that Etihad and the Lufthansa Group would merge outright This is a bold speculation but would make a lot of sense for everyone involved. Lufthansa would consolidate the European operations as they have done very successfully with formerly ailing Swissair, […]
Delta has been busy devaluing their award chart and, at the same time, making it harder to earn miles by flying. All those actions should free up the reservations department for those tricky Skymiles redemptions – isn’t that what you’d expect? American Airlines always had great agents when making complicated award bookings (just don’t try […]
While award flights to the East Coast hubs to Europe are often easy to find the two major California hubs of San Francisco and Los Angeles have seen very little business class award availability from many airlines. Now Swiss has decided to open up award availability for Star Alliance partners again. When I checked today […]
What’s the deal with Turkish Airlines? Turkish Airlines has an unofficial status match programme and will match Star Alliance Gold, SkyTeam Elite Plus and oneworld Emerald members. We’ve written about this before, when Torsten became a Miles&Smiles elite this way earlier this year. It’s a simple process that usually only takes a few days to complete. How […]
What’s the deal with the United Mileage Plus Visa? The United MileagePlus Explorer Visa Signature card currently has a sign-up bonus of 50,000 miles instead of the usual 30,000 miles, when you spend $3,000 on purchases within the first 3 months. We’ve written about this card several times before, including when the bonus was 50,000 miles last year […]