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Business Class to/from Europe for 25.5k Avianca Lifemiles
Currently, LifeMiles is offering up to a 40% discount on specific Star Alliance partner flights that operate between select city pairs here in the US and on international economy and business class routes.
- Book by end of today, October 28th, 2022
- Full details found here
The most interesting of all the redemptions is between Brussels and JFK for just 25.5k miles
The most award space I’m seeing is in the late winter – Feb/March time frame. You’ll want to search on United.com in calendar mode with the following specific search query BRU to JFK. Look for dates with 75k and $5.60 as the result and choose nonstop with business selected. A weird thing is happening where United shows award space on the JFK to BRU to fly Brussels Airlines business class, but unfortunately Avianca Lifemiles isn’t showing the award space.
You’ll then go to Avianca Lifemiles and do the following search on corresponding days. They won’t always align, but Nick at FM found that using Star Alliance worked best to find the space.
New York JFK to Europe and Asia
Lax to Asia
Within the US discounted Economy flights:
Here’s the full chart showing the discounts – images are straight from the LifeMiles website
- Note that many of these are actually flights within the United States on United Airlines.
- You can fly in either direction
How to earn Avianca Lifemiles?
You can transfer from Amex, Citi, and Capital One
Both issuers offer instant transfers ( although some have reported it taking over night to complete – this hasn’t been my experience )
American Express
Capital One
Citi Thank You
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Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card
Welcome Offer
Earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
Annual Fee
$95
Points Earned
Transferrable Chase Ultimate Rewards
- 5x on all travel purchased through Chase Travel℠
- 3x on dining, including eligible delivery services for takeout & dining out
- 3x on select streaming services
- 3x on online grocery purchases
- (excluding Target, Walmart and wholesale clubs)
- $50 Annual Chase Travel Hotel Credit via Chase Travel℠
- The begins immediately for new cardmembers and after your account anniversary for existing cardmembers
- 2x on all other travel
- 10% Anniversary Bonus
- Every year you keep the card, your total spend will yield a 10% points bonus. If you spend $10k in a year, you’ll get 1k bonus points
- Chase Sapphire Preferred continues to redeem at 1.25c in the Chase Travel℠ and the slew of other benefits remain in tact including Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver ( primary ), purchase protections, etc.
- Points are transferrable to 14 Ultimate Rewards partners
- Redeem in Chase Travel℠ for 1.25 cents per point
- No foreign transaction fees
- Suite of Travel and Purchase Coverage
- Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver is my favorite
- Get complimentary access to DashPass which unlocks $0 delivery fees and lower service fees for a minimum of one year when you activate by December 31, 2027.
- $95 Annual Fee
We keep an up to date spreadsheet that lists the best ever offers: You can find that spreadsheet here.
Historically 80k is a very, very good offer and hit in both 2022 and 2023. In 2021, we saw the offer hit an all time high of 100k. Who knows if that will ever come back.
Main Cast:
Cards that earn flexible points and should be used on the bulk of your purchases.
Supporting Cast:
Cards that earn fixed points in the currency of the airline/hotel and can not be transferred at attractive rates. These cards yield benefits that make it worth keeping, but not necessarily worth putting a lot of your everyday spend on.
The Chase Sapphire Preferred® is exceptional starter card and offers transferrable Ultimate Rewards, and pairs well with other Chase cards.
If you carry this card alongside Chase’s cashback cards like the Chase Freedom Flex® and Chase Freedom Unlimited® or the business versions: Ink Business Cash® , Ink Business Unlimited® you can combine the points into Preferred account and transfer into hotel and airline partners
Annual fee is quite low at $95 a year + you get a 10% anniversary bonus on points + $50 hotel credit in Chase travel.
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