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Avianca’s LifeMiles program sells miles – often with generous bonuses – which are redeemable for flights across the Star Alliance network.Avianca’s LifeMiles frequent flyer program has some outstanding specials on buying miles. These deals can unlock some extraordinary value on Star Alliance Business Class flights when you buy LifeMiles.Unfortunately, dealing with the LifeMiles program can be unnecessarily complicated and redeeming LifeMiles can be a challenge. Award availability out of Australia using LifeMiles is limited at the moment, with no Business Class and no First Class seats currently available on Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways out of Australia (for example). There are some options on other Star Alliance airlines to/from Australia but to get maximum usefulness from LifeMiles, you might need to start your trip outside of Australia.It’s also worth pointing out that Avianca, the airline affiliated with the LifeMiles program, is currently in the process of exiting bankruptcy protection. LifeMiles itself is not in administration and should be unaffected. Also beware that LifeMiles expire if you don’t earn at least one new mile every 12 months.Nonetheless, great value can be found if you understand the intricacies of this wonderful yet frustrating frequent flyer program, are flexible and are prepared to take on some risk.Avianca typically offers very generous discounts every 1-2 months when you buy LifeMiles. It’s not uncommon to see up to 150% bonus LifeMiles during promotions – and occasionally even higher bonuses!This guide explains how to buy and redeem Avianca LifeMiles for discounted premium travel across the Star Alliance network.How to Buy LifeMilesYou can buy LifeMiles directly on the LifeMiles website. (If the website appears in Spanish, you can select the English language option in the top-right corner beside the log-in button.)How to change the language setting on the LifeMiles website from Spanish to English.Avianca LifeMiles cost USD33 per thousand at full price, although the regular promotions can bring the price down to around USD13.20 per thousand (or occasionally even less).As you’ll be buying miles from a Colombian airline, we recommend calling your bank before the credit card payment is processed (so that your card doesn’t get blocked,

Avianca LifeMiles has launched yet another sale to buy miles with a 150% bonus until the 25th of February – this time without any thresholds to max out the purchase bonus.LifeMiles members can buy up to 200,000 miles yearly (before bonus) and the standard bonus under this sale is 150%.You can access this offer on the LifeMiles website here.The price to purchase miles under this promotion is as follows (example 10,000 miles):The price of a LifeMiles under this offer is 1.32 cents each which is rather high considering in recent sales Avianca has sold miles with up to 200% bonus.Difference is that during previous sales you often had to buy a high minimum amount of miles in order to qualify for the higher bonus. This isn’t the case here.It is however noteworthy that Avianca is still under administration:Avianca Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy ProtectionSo far this didn’t have any impact on LifeMiles but that doesn’t mean it won’t in the future. Keep in mind right now pretty much all you can do is buy buy buy and give them money due to the limited travel options.Once people can start widespread redemptions again there might be a certain risk involved. LifeMiles could suddenly and without warning devalue their award charts again like they did before. Or something could happen to the program altogether. Nothing definitive at this point that would suggest this to be the case but maybe good to have it in mind before investing money into miles these days.ConclusionThis sale price is on the low end but definitely not the lowest that Avianca LifeMiles has sold their miles for so far. LifeMiles can come handy for premium cabin redemptions and are currently the cheapest Star Alliance miles that one can buy.I would not buy any LifeMiles right now as Avianca has filed for bankruptcy protection unless it’s on very short notice.Here are the terms and conditions of this offer:Miles must be purchased in multiples of LM 1,000The minimum miles to purchase per transaction is LM 1,000The maximum amount of miles to receive by a member per calendar year is

Should your bank suspect fraudulent activity). To save on credit card surcharges, we recommend using a credit card with no international transaction fees.There is an annual purchase limit of 200,000 LifeMiles, excluding bonus miles. However, you only need to buy 40% of the miles needed to redeem for an award flight in advance. You can later purchase the other 60% at a good price when booking your flights. So the annual purchase limit is not all that limiting.To be eligible for the promotions on buying miles, you’ll need to already be an Avianca LifeMiles member before the current offer was announced. Some offers are targeted. Join now for free to avoid missing out on future offers!Special Deals on Buying LifeMilesWith Avianca’s current Black Friday promotion, you’ll receive up to 160% bonus LifeMiles on purchases, depending on how many miles you buy:Buy 1,000 to 20,000 LifeMiles to receive a 140% bonusBuy 21,000 to 50,000 LifeMiles to receive a 150% bonusBuy 51,000-200,000 LifeMiles to receive a 160% bonusPlus, you can get an additional 10% bonus by using the One Mile at a Time link. That’s a bonus of up to 170%!The current sale is running from 21 November until 11.59pm (El Salvador time) on 2 December 2022.At the moment, LifeMiles seems to be running promotions around once every 1-2 months. The last promotion was a flash sale in early November 2022 and offered up to 150% bonus miles.If you were to purchase the maximum 200,000 LifeMiles during this promotion, you would receive 520,000 miles (including 320,000 bonus miles) at a cost of USD6,600 (~AU$9,968).You can find discussion about LifeMiles offers on Australian Frequent Flyer’s Avianca LifeMiles forum.Redeeming Avianca LifeMilesIn theory, you can book award travel on any Star Alliance airline (plus Iberia, Aeromexico & GOL) using the LifeMiles website. In practice, it’s often not quite this simple.There are no stopovers allowed on LifeMiles award bookings, and transits cannot be longer than 8 hours. But mixed-class award bookings are possible.There are no fuel surcharges on LifeMiles awards – just a USD25 ticketing fee per booking. But, for some reason, award flights originating in