Avianca LifeMiles – Bookings and Discussion

[blacksultan]

My case, they were phantom, I checked United and Aeroplan and called LifeMiles

That's great to hear

Lots of availability for almost all days for aug - sept etc

 

[nthd_nthd]

Lots of availability for almost all days for aug - sept etc

Thanks. Not looking for those dates

 

[kpc]

Believe it or not, I recently used Lifemiles to book Avianca and have travelled:
1. ASN - BOG in J x2
2. BOG -MDE in Y x2
3. MDE-BOG in Y x2
4. BOG- LPB in Y x2

All flights were 737. Nothing special about their J class...basically middle seat blocked. Reasonable food. Y class offered a non alcoholic drink and a small snack.

 

[<MadMan>]

Believe it or not, I recently used Lifemiles to book Avianca and have travelled:
1. ASN - BOG in J x2
2. BOG -MDE in Y x2
3. MDE-BOG in Y x2
4. BOG- LPB in Y x2

All flights were 737. Nothing special about their J class...basically middle seat blocked. Reasonable food. Y class offered a non alcoholic drink and a small snack.

Yep, There's plenty of availability on LifeMiles for Avianca flights. I will never waste points to book on domestic flights. I have regularly checked and there is plenty of availability to fly J from Colombia to Europe tho.

 

[iamsuperandrew]

Is the much availability using Avianca to/ from AU in J?

 

[bcworld]

Is the much availability using Avianca to/ from AU in J?

No. You may see TG in search results...it will almost always error out on attempted booking.

Back when United still had business class award availability that could be booked too...but UA has cut that off for everyone.

 

[iamsuperandrew]

No. You may see TG in search results...it will almost always error out on attempted booking.

Back when United still had business class award availability that could be booked too...but UA has cut that off for everyone.

Are there any spots with J seats say ex- Asia? or within EU?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Are there any spots with J seats say ex- Asia? or within EU?

I have redeemed Lufthansa for intra europe. Had to get rid of some orphan miles so booked a couple of one ways in business.

it’s not a program i would be buying miles in. Choose aeroplan instead.

 

[burmans]

Yep, There's plenty of availability on LifeMiles for Avianca flights. I will never waste points to book on domestic flights. I have regularly checked and there is plenty of availability to fly J from Colombia to Europe tho.

While I agree that domestic flights may be a waste my memory from when I last looked was that intra South America flights were expensive, and Avianca points booking were definitely a viable option?

 

[Bofter]

It would be wonderful not to need to contact Avianca/Lifemiles for every minor schedule change that Lufthansa make on an award ticket. But needing to contact them, and having vivid memories of what that used to look like by phone, the WhatsApp chat method is really very much more convenient. Also does help to have some experience in what to ask (from hard lessons of others as well as self), i.e. the specifics of time changes, ticket validations, etc.

 

[Bofter]

It would be wonderful not to need to contact Avianca/Lifemiles for every minor schedule change that Lufthansa make on an award ticket. But needing to contact them, and having vivid memories of what that used to look like by phone, the WhatsApp chat method is really very much more convenient. Also does help to have some experience in what to ask (from hard lessons of others as well as self), i.e. the specifics of time changes, ticket validations, etc.

Another WhatsApp chat due to another Lufthansa schedule change (this time because they eliminated a subsidiary on zero notice, fortunately not zero notice to me).

I didn't get a schedule change notification from Lufthansa (which doesn't allow an email address to stick in their MMB) nor Avianca (whose system could see that one had happened, just not allow online processing). Also less smooth WhatsApp chat than last time, but did get through to resolution and very happy not to need call centre to do it, as at one point the auto-translate wasn't working in WhatsApp, but easier to deal with that in text than speech.

It continues to be however that if I didn't have already LifeMiles, that they like to keep devaluing, that virtually any alternative would be superior. If I didn't know that I needed to know to proactively check and proactively have things done, would be a rather awkward showing up to an outstation airport of a different airline to discover that I had.