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Frequent Traveller Programs
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Avianca Lifemiles devalues … AGAIN
Following an unofficial devaluation where the award prices for business class were raised 2,500 per segment and first class 5,000 per segment just last december, Lifemiles has just again “enhanced” its award chart. The new figures are as follows: This is actually really ridiculous, given that their original chart less than a year ago was something like…
Award Update: ANA 787 Availability
I got an award alert yesterday which showed that ANA has finally loaded award space on it’s NRT-SEA and NRT-SJC routes which are starting September 1/2. ANA flies the other 787 routes as well. Award space is pretty good (minus December peak travel/holiday season) for the NRT-SEA in business class: No business class space for…
Common Mileage Currencies (for Canadians) – Aeroplan
It’s much easier to accumulate points and miles in the states, than in Canada, unfortunately, and while we used to have the best Star Alliance FF program, it’s undeniable that Aeroplan are absolutely or even relatively worth less than they were before to other currencies. While there are still decent redemptions to be had, the…
Fuel Surcharges on Aeroplan Award Tickets
Aeroplan as many well know implemented fuel surcharges (YQ) a year or so back, which definitely catapulted them into one of the top programs to a mediocre ones. Their award chart is not necessarily stellar either, so it simply sucks the happiness out of your redemption, when you redeem for a RTW only to find $800…
Swiss Business Class Space Available in Advance!
The LH Group has been notorious for restricting premium class (especially first class space) to other Star Alliance partner airlines. I was doing a few award searches and I was definitely pleasantly surprised in finding that LX (like ANA in the past) is releasing business class space in the low season, usually February weekdays to…
Air Canada’s Updates to “Earn Your Wings”
Earlier in the week I had a post about how Air Canada’s Earn your Wings promotion might be very lucrative to mileage run on. Unfortunately it seems like they’ve changed the terms to prevent potential flyers to gaming the system. The TCA Badge and Canadian Olympic Badge are now only able to be earned once,…
Business Class to Europe for under 70,000 miles!
The Points Guy pointed out something today that I never knew which is really interesting. It seems like ANA Mileage Club (NH FF program) is not slapping YQ on Air Canada awards and United TATL business awards. This means it might be the cheapest way to get a business class ticket to continental Europe. As…
Aeroplan Transfer Promotion
Like the one they had in November last year, Aeroplan is having a transfer promotion (until May 13) with bonuses for exchanges from points into Aeroplan Miles. Unfortunately like before, AMEX Membership Rewards is excluded. Bonuses start at 5,000 points (20%), up to 26.67% when you transfer enough to receive 150,00 Aeroplan Miles. Here is the bonus…
Air Canada’s VERY Interesting Promo!
Like their FF program’s Star Challenge this year, AC has come up with a pretty clever promotion, called Earn Your Wings, with a pretty generous prize: 10,000,000 (that’s right, 10 million!) miles to be shared between the top 25 flyers with the most “wings.” What’s really interesting is that it’s not a pure racking up…
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