[Ends Today!] Lifemiles Award Sale: Save Up To 40% On Star Alliance Domestic And International Coach And Business Class Awards From Just 4.5K Miles!

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Avianca is a Star Alliance member and their Lifemiles program is an interesting one. Lifemiles can be used to book travel with partner airlines like United and Air Canada within North America.

Lifemiles is one of the rare mileage programs that doesn’t collect any fuel surcharges. Note that Avianca Lifemiles require earning activity every 12 months in order to stop your miles from expiring. Transferring points to Lifemiles will extend the points validity for 12 more months.

They have a hidden award chart, which I cracked in this post for the domestic portion.

They are having an award sale for select routes booked by 10/28 for travel anytime. Mileage rates below are each way.

Sample routes on sale in coach:

• Chicago to/from Newark, was 7,500, now 4,500
• Chicago to/from LaGuardia, was 7,500, now 4,500
• Cleveland to/from Newark, was 6,500, now 5,600
• Washington/IAD to/from Newark, was 6,500, now 5,600
• Detroit to/from Newark, was 6,500, now 5,900
• Chicago to/from Houston, was 10,000, now 6,000
• London to/from Newark, was 20,000, now 18,000
• Los Angeles to/from Tokyo, was 47,000, now 32,900
• JFK to/from Tokyo, was 47,000, now 44,700
• JFK to/from Bangkok, was 47,000, now 44,700

Sample routes on sale in business:

• San Francisco to/from Chicago, was 12,500, now 10,700
• JFK to/from Singapore, was 78,000, now 66,300
• Los Angeles to/from Bangkok, was 78,000, now 66,300
• San Francisco to/from Singapore, was 78,000, now 66,300
• Los Angeles to/from Seoul, was 85,000, now 72,300
• Los Angeles to/from Tokyo, was 85,000, now 72,300
• Los Angeles to/from Taipei, was 85,000, now 72,300
• San Francisco to/from Seoul, was 85,000, now 72,300
• San Francisco to/from Tokyo, was 85,000, now 72,300
• San Francisco to/from Taipei, was 85,000, now 72,300
• JFK to/from Bangkok, was 90,000, now 76,500
• JFK to/from Seoul, was 90,000, now 76,500
• JFK to/from Taipei, was 90,000, now 76,500
• JFK to/from Tokyo, was 90,000, now 76,500

For example if I needed a last minute ticket to NYC on Thursday, I’d need to spend $305 for a cash ticket:

Using United miles, I’d need to spend 14.9K miles for the close-in saver award ticket.

But using Lifemiles, it’s normally just 6.5K miles or 5.6K miles with this sale. I book last-minute flights to NYC fairly often, and being able to use miles is a lifesaver!

If someone wants to fly United one-way from NYC to London on Thursday, it would cost $794 in coach or $5,227 in business class.

Using United miles, it would cost 32.3K miles in coach or 62.8K miles in business class for the close-in saver award ticket.

But using Lifemiles, it’s just 20K miles in coach, or 18K miles with this sale. Business is 60K miles.

Will you take advantage of this promo?

HT: yelped, via DDF