Buy LifeMiles With 160% Bonus & Fly Lufthansa/Swiss Business Class to the Middle East for €540 o/w

Avianca’s frequent flyer program, LifeMiles, offers a very interesting opportunity to fly in the Star Alliance‘s premium cabins for cheap prices. To do this, you don’t need to collect miles, you can just buy them. Currently, LifeMiles is selling its award miles with a 160% bonus.

Buying Miles With up to 160% Bonus

Until December 3, 2025, there will be a bonus of 160%, as long as you purchase at least 21,000 miles (i.e. 54,600 miles, including the bonus). Otherwise, you’d only get a 140% bonus. You can buy the miles here:

For this promotion, a maximum limit of 520,000 miles (incl. bonus) has been set. Therefore, you can buy up to 200,000 miles + 160% bonus. The bonus makes the price drop to USD12,70 per 1,000 miles, or 1,27 USD-cents/mile.

Redemptions

Unlike many other frequent flyer programs, LifeMiles doesn’t pass on fuel surcharges. This makes flights with e.g. Lufthansa or Swiss attractive, where surcharges of several hundred euros per direction would otherwise be charged.

Here are a few examples of what award flights currently cost, after the devaluation in spring 2025. In parentheses, you’ll find the effective prices if you previously purchased the miles for 1.08 euro cents. All prices are one-way:

• Business Class:
  • Lufthansa: Frankfurt – Riyadh for 42,000 miles + €95 (effective €549)
  • Lufthansa: Munich – Delhi for 45,000 miles + €112 (effective €607)
  • Lufthansa: Stockholm – Frankfurt – Bangalore for 45,000 miles + €73 (effective €559)
  • Lufthansa: Budapest – Frankfurt – Detroit for 69,000 miles + €50 (effective €796)
  • Lufthansa: Dublin – Frankfurt – Houston for 80,000 miles + €58 (effective €922)
  • Lufthansa: Almaty – Frankfurt for 45,000 miles + €11 (effective €497)
  • Swiss: Hamburg – Zurich – Dubai for 42,000 miles + €78 (effective €540)
  • Swiss: New York – Zurich – Berlin for 69,000 miles + €42 (effective €801)
  • Swiss: Prague – Zurich – São Paulo for 72,500 miles + €38 (effective €821)
  • United: Frankfurt – Newark for 80,000 miles + €160 (effective €1,024)
  • United: Denver – Frankfurt for 80,000 miles + €25 (effective €889)
  • United: Barcelona – Newark for 80,000 miles + €55 (effective €919)
  • EVA Air: Hong Kong – Taipei – Fukuoka for 22,500 miles + €52 (effective €295)
  • EVA Air: Hong Kong – Taipei – Seoul for 22,500 miles + €52 (effective €295)
  • THAI: Bangkok – Sydney for 40,000 miles + €40 (effective €480)
  • Egypt Air: Accra – Cairo – Addis Abeba for 33,000 miles + €147 (effective €504)
  • LOT: Frankfurt – Warsaw – Tokyo for 75,000 miles + €123 (effective €948)
  • Turkish Airlines: Paris – Istanbul for 27,000 miles + €134 (effective €426)

Redeeming Miles at LifeMiles

The collected or bought miles can simply be redeemed online at LifeMiles:

When searching for a flight, you can select specific airlines. That tends to lead to a more specific result.

Special terms

There are a few special terms at LifeMiles that one should be aware of:

• You can check the required miles for each airline online.
• There’s no fuel surcharge
  That means: the taxes & fees are always quite low, compared to e.g. Miles&More
• You can mix classes
• No stopovers allowed
  You can’t add a stopover to your trip. Layovers are also limited to a maximum of 8 hours.
• No official award chart
  Prices may vary depending on the route, even within the same region. They can only be determined by trial bookings.
• High cancellation fees
  LifeMiles charges cancellation fees ranging from US$50 (~€43) to US$200 (~€172). For international long-haul flights, the full US$200 (~€172) is usually charged. The exact amount is displayed at the time of booking.

Cover Picture: Ditmar Lange