LifeMiles's New Distance Based Award Chart For The United States & Canada

Dfw - yyz 1,199miles!

Would love to see a comparison post on how this compares to the Aeroplan rates which also has a distance based chart, seems very similar.

Love this program, came in handy for me so many times over the past few years.
Ben, any chance they can provide an extra bonus for OMAAT on purchasing miles with their current sale?

How refreshing! This is really great, I have definitely been using them more in the last 1-2 years.

Waiting for airlines to start devaluing their awards under the guise that there's too much redemption happening from partner airlines.

Considering the majority of the value is dependent on airline partner awards, the partners may get fed up with so many awards being acquired by LifeMiles members.

When one airline mints and redeems at a great rate on a partner airline, it tends to go away sooner or later. Cough, cough, Emirates via Alaska.

There's an elephant in this room. When Aeroplan changed last week, nearly all useful/popular redemptions on AC metal became unavailable to LifeMiles. I have a feeling that this change is related to that. Colour me skeptical, but if you can't actually use LifeMiles to book, altering the price doesn't solve the problem.

Obviously I didn't mean last "week". But errors herein can't be edited.

I don’t know how start alliance members but up with LifeMiles who’s only official business is selling miles to customers at the expense of redemptions at other members airlines.

Sadly the "new" Aeroplan is significantly worse than the old plan.

In the past the Business fare to Cape Town was 75,000 points and South America less. Now you get a variable rate that depends on each leg. I booked a Santiago flight that required a transcontinental flight to Toronto. The best fare (87,000?) was PE YVR-YYZ and then J to Santiago. In the old fare structure it would have been cheaper to start and the YVR-YYZ would be upgraded to J for free, space available.

Today I was informed that my flight in February has a last minute emergency change in schedule so I have been changed to a ROUGE ;-( flight from Kelowna in economy, not PE. Rouge economy? As a substitution for PE on a 787? 30" pitch cramped seats? Are you kidding? Three months ahead? Thanks, new Aeroplan but no thanks.

So probably the lifemiles won't be vary valuable after all.

The $25 redemption fee sucks a lot of value out of this, unfortunately.

We made some comparisons here and for the most part AC was better in the couple of routes we checked https://blog.rewardscanada.ca/2021/11/avianca-lifemiles-potentially-becomes.html

That was the first thing I looked at. My gut tells me they will somehow try to book it for 1201 miles.

How has lifemiles redemption value improved within Canada when there is not a single seat available intra Canada. Indeed no AC availability system wide through lifemiles. Did you ask about that in your conversation with the company representative Ben? If lifemiles continues to block saver availability on AC and is holding itself out as offering improved value to win canadian customers, then that is bad faith and articles like this are fake news and assist LM in their pursuits.

@Abey and @Too Many
Partner airlines are allocated a varying number of seats to sell, and once all sold, that's it!
In fact LM can miss out entirely on some seats you can see on other *A programs.

There have been multiple leaks pointing out that airlines actually pay an amount of revenue when they use a reward seat on another carrier. Ultimately, rewards are a way of selling seats (that might go unsold) at a low price without cheapening the public image and perception of a pricey item.

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I doubt LifeMiles is "blocking Saver availability". AC broke "Saver availability" when they reinvented pigs and lipstick last year. More choice!

Ben, what happened to United's search system? It's a real mess!

If only Chase UR would transfer to Life Miles.

You are wrong.

AC continues to release significant X class availability and modest I class availability. This is not an AC availability issue. It is a LM issue. It si au clear whether AC or LM are currently (since July 2021) preventing access by LM members.

As it stands, LM is uniquely useless domestic Canada, the authors of this blog I’m sure are very aware of this yet continue to vaunt the Lm value proposition. This is what happens when commercial interests prevail over independence. Fortunately many other blogs (which do not have commercial relationships with LM) are addressing this issue in reporting this news.

I don't find any availability from domestic Canada also in in ConnectMiles or MileagePlus.

Is Business Class still available on SYD/BKK route with Lifemiles ?