Article: Is It Worth Buying LifeMiles in 2025?

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Is It Worth Buying LifeMiles in 2025?

You can buy Avianca LifeMiles very cheaply during a generous promotion, lilke the current 160% bonus, but redeeming them for Star Alliance flights can be difficult. Is it worth it in 2025?

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[zainman]

Maybe if you have an immediate need (like booking within the next couple of days) and there is a specific award like LH F, otherwise, no.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Not comparing apples with apples. Unless you want to travel tomorrow!

Aeroplan points with the regular 80-100% bonus will get you the same flights to thailand for the same price as Lifemiles including all taxes fees and charges.

But the aeroplan points will also get you to singapore, vietnam, laos, hong kong… anywhere else in asia. That lifemiles simply can’t do.

And if you really did want to fly tomorrow… good chance Lifemiles might block any purchase or redemption opportunities as they might flag it for mileage broker issues.

Another thing to consider is phantom availability. Sometimes seats show on LM that you just can’t book

 

[Kremmen]

I wouldn't recommend Lifemiles any more as a new plan to join, but I still find it has occasional value. LM used to be great for piecing together awards, but now you have to rely on the web site, which doesn't search as deeply as others. Generally, Aeroplan is better than Lifemiles, but there are odd quirks. I once got a Lifemiles redemption from America to Asia that wasn't available on Aeroplan. A few years before I got a Turkish award from Europe to Asia that either wasn't on Aeroplan or cost more. (I don't remember which.)

And these days the Lifemiles web site is much faster and more usable than AC! Making a booking takes about a tenth the time.

 

[drron]

Not comparing apples with apples. Unless you want to travel tomorrow!

Aeroplan points with the regular 80-100% bonus will get you the same flights to thailand for the same price as Lifemiles including all taxes fees and charges.

But the aeroplan points will also get you to singapore, vietnam, laos, hong kong… anywhere else in asia. That lifemiles simply can’t do.

And if you really did want to fly tomorrow… good chance Lifemiles might block any purchase or redemption opportunities as they might flag it for mileage broker issues.

Another thing to consider is phantom availability. Sometimes seats show on LM that you just can’t book

Our Christmas trip to BKK last year started With J awards on TG SYD-BKK.

We are flying again in just under 2 weeks with another set of J awards on TG to BKK. But we are breaking up our Bangkok visit to have 4 days in the middle in Hong Kong again j awards on TG both ways. And all on lifemiles.
Though I wouldn't buy any more as it has been a long time between drinks.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Our Christmas trip to BKK last year started With J awards on TG SYD-BKK.

We are flying again in just under 2 weeks with another set of J awards on TG to BKK. But we are breaking up our Bangkok visit to have 4 days in the middle in Hong Kong again j awards on TG both ways. And all on lifemiles.
Though I wouldn't buy any more as it has been a long time between drinks.

Agree, there are a few routes, a few flights, here and there that you can use LM on.

TG coming back online was a huge bonus, but it equally applied to Aeroplan.

For those of us with a LM balance looking to use them up, it was good. But the issue is whether you would recommend opening an account and buying more/new LM?

I had a huge difficulty using the last of my LM even when it displayed results for BKK-SIN. Multiple times I selected flights and got an error