How To Redeem TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go Miles

How did you get the no stopovers rule? On the Star Alliance award chart terms and conditions it says “Maximum of one Stopover per Ticket, only available for roundtrip journeys. Stopover is not available for one way flights”

For the number of segments, it says “ Return ticket (adults and children): maximum 6 legs.
One-way ticket (adults and children): maximum 3 legs”

I’m wondering, does it not work this way in practice or do the multiple charts say different things?

One thing to note, non star alliance partner reward flights can only be booked as return flights, one way is not possible.

@ G -- I'm sorry, I wasn't clear on that. That was referring to TAP flights specifically. I updated the post to reflect the different rules for TAP vs. partners.

@ EIRE -- Hmmm, are you sure that's still the rule? I don't see anything in the terms regarding that, and when I called to ask about Emirates availability, the agent quoted me the one-way cost, and confirmed that one-way awards are allowed. I think the roundtrip requirement used to be a rule, but isn't in any more. If more people have data points on this, I'd certainly appreciate it, as I want this to be as accurate as possible.

@ BEN it was definitely still the rule mid October. I made 2 seperate bookings on Emirates and on both occasions was told by seperate agents that one way was not possible and that i would be charged the return price for a one way booking

Thanks for the write up lucky!

I am especially intrigued that they do not separate South America into 2 zones like so many programs do.

Do they allow mixed partner awards or only single partner like alaska?

For example if I wanted to fly:

LGA-FLL - United
FLL-CNF - Azul
CNF-SDU - GOL

Is that a valid award or only one partner?

A few notes:
. On RTs, you can have more than 3 segmentes each way, as long as the total is 6.
. Sometimes there are fuel surcharges on AC, TP and others.
. You can only mix other airlines partners redemptions with TAP, but not with Star Alliance companies.
. Redeeming miles to fly Azul is tricky and difficult, even if it is available when searching on United.
. Since 09/15 you can book one-way tickets for half the price of roundtrip on Star Alliance and other partners.
. RTW business tickets are 350k points. Not bad for those who can accrue points with ease.

@ CARLOS have you any idea why they do not allow first class reward bookings with Emirates using TAP miles?

@ EIRE - Certainly because Emirates doesn't want that.

@ Carlos -- This is extremely helpful, thanks! Updated the post to reflect some of those points.

@ EIRE -- Keep in mind that Emirates is cutting off most partner first class awards as of 2021, so this won't be unique to TAP:
https://onemileatatime.com/emirates-eliminating-partner-first-class-awards/

There's definitely fuel surcharges when booking with Air Canada with TAP M&G.
Also, another good usage is to use TAP miles to book Emirates tickets (No fuel surcharge).
You can also use TAP miles to book on Azul Airlines.

TAP has been very aggressive on miles selling.
There have been many recurrent promotions targeting brazilian users, normally offering up to 120% bonuses from credit card programs.

One can currently buy Livelo points at around BRL 0.035 and have 120% bonus on top of that, reaching final cost of BRL 0.0159 (About USD 0.003!!!) Cents per mile.

TAP has been on a very complicated economic situation, so buyer beware.

@ Emerson Gomes -- Whoa! Is this something that those outside of Brazil are eligible for? Because at 0.3 cents per mile...

@Ben: Unfortunately I think currently these promotions are targeted to Brazilians only (You need a Brazilian Tax Number to be linked both on Livelo and TAP M&G subscriptions).

@Ben Only if you have a CPF number...

Just got the platinum subscription although I've only received silver status. Was wondering if other people had a delay in getting their status.

Don't. Been dealing with a refund from TAP for months. Still processing and trying to get it. Getting ahold of them is almost impossible.

Hi @Ben,

Connecting this and your previous article about TAP Black Friday deal.

I am Gold with TAP for more than 10 years. I have asked myself the question of changing to another program *A, but being based in Lisbon and after doing some simulations with other *A programmes, this is still the right program for me, specially since earning 50% more miles more than the distance travelled (only on TAP flights) makes it easy to maintain status.

By the way, I maintain Platinum with Flying Blue (KLM/AF) too.

In my case, flying long-haul to Africa, upgrades to business vary from 600 to 750 Eur each way or 50k miles. With the right promotion, I was able to get 160k miles at 700 Eur back in April and now getting 132k at 718 Eur (Club Platinum even if I am Gold already) and also buying 20k*5 miles at 700 Eur --- which makes my 50k upgrades costing between 219 Eur to 350 Eur each - definitely a good deal.

And you said it well - in some routes it is very wise to pay and redeem miles with them as long as fuel surcharge is not there.

Hey Pedro can we link up please, I run a business class travel agency we might be an interest to each other. Thank you looking forwarrd. [email protected]

Be aware fuel/Tax charges now HUGE. I was just on the TAP site looking at HND-BKK the ANA flight had approx 250euro charges, used to be trivial.
TLV-HND on turkish had approx 280 euro charges last time I looked and few months ago and now it is 530 euro.

Of course like most other programmes there is hardly any avaliability anyway at present