Imagine the first program of encouraging frequently flying passengers Azh in 1972! I was not even in the world. A few years later, American Airlines "finished" this project, and a system of accounting and accumulation of miles, which today is known to everyone. Even Russian Railways recently introduced a similar system for railway transport passengers, and miles are credited not only for flights, but also for spending on the bank card.

I have long been using the Mili Aeroflot program in my bank, but from February 1, they have changed the conditions for the accrual of bonus miles on debit and credit cards. If one mile accrued earlier for every 30 rubles, now the course has increased to 60 rubles. It is sad, but it is clear with what is connected.

I have long wanted to write about miles and this system, and here I have introduced a convenient case. To me, the guys came from Tinkoff Bank with a proposal to advertise them and provided financial analytics of current proposals on the mile cards on the Russian market. These are very curious data that show the real position in the profitability of certain maps. Let's figure out what a mile is how they are credited and spend.

The essence of miles

Airlines are simple. You fly, you are accrued bonus miles. After a few flights, you can spend these miles for tickets or services: upgrade to business class, additional luggage or something else. Banks bonus miles are accrued not for flights, but for shopping on the map. Mile can be spent on buying tickets, booking hotels and other services, depending on the bank.

What is the point of doing this to banks? When you buy something on the map, your seller pays the bank commission: on average, from 2% to 4% of the purchase amount. This Commission is the economic basis of the card payment system. All earn it: your bank, the bank of your seller and the payment system. The bank is beneficial for you to use the card as often as possible. It is desirable that the card becomes your main payment instrument. Even if you have a credit card, the bank is not so important to receive interest from you, how to stimulate you to make purchases as often as possible. Banks make not on you, but on sellers.

In essence, miles are a certain kind of cachek, the return of a part of the tools spent for regular use of a bank card.

Mille Accrual

If the airline is credited by miles based on the flight of the flight, service class, etc., then miles on the bank card run on the basis of the amount of your payments. On the map All Airlines Bank Tinkoff is charged 2% of any shopping on the map. Other cards have the same mechanics. We spend from the card, get a percentage of spending in the form of miles. But here yourself the courses of charge miles for purchases are different. For the same purchases from different cards will return a different number of miles.

Suppose you spend 70,000 per month - i.e. 840,000 per year. Let's take the popular mile cards and see how many miles will return:

As we see, the most miles brought bank cards Sberbank, Russian Standard and Raiffeisen. All Airlines from Tinkoff Bank returned the owner of only 16,800 miles. Against the background of other cards - not a very remarkable result. But let's figure it out: 40,000 miles are a lot or a little? In the United States for some programs you can get 50,000 welcome miles. Here we come to an important point - the real value of miles.

Value of Mil

The principle of all is one: first you copy miles, and then they turn into money. But the conversion rate from miles to rubles has its own. For example, 1 mile in the forefront is 36 kopecks. The Russian standard of 1 mile is 50 kopecks. In the program, All Airlines 1 mile card is 1 ruble. That is, 100 miles are 100 rubles.

Suppose you want to buy a ticket to Barcelona and back for 14,500 rubles. Here, how much miles need to get such a ticket:

So far it turns out that the most favorable cards - VTB24 transaero platinum (connected to the Transaero Privilege program) and All Airlines. Both cards are ahead of all other major competitors from the point of view of the benefit with equal source data.

But here there are some more important points that you need to speak.

1. Taxes and fees. Not all bonus programs allow you to pay for the full cost of the ticket Miles. The fact is that the price of the ticket consists of two components: tariff and taxes / fees. Typically taxes and fees range from 20 to 50% of the ticket price. Ticket sites show us immediately final prices, but on the websites of airlines you can learn more about it. Almost all programs with airlines you compensate only for the tariff. Service fees and taxes will have to pay for itself. In All Airlines, service costs are compensated as well as the air ticket. You do not have to pay extra.

2. The cost of annual service.In essence, this is a subscription fee for using the card. Here we will have to turn to the data again:

VTB24 Transaero Platinum costs 11,050 rubles per year - this is practically the cost of a whole ticket.

3. Choosing flights.Almost all bonus programs from the list have a significant limitation. The fact is that you can't buy for miles any ticket. You will encounter restrictions on countries, dates, airlines or a purchase method. With cards tied to Aeroflot, you can fly only by Aeroflot and partners. With transaero cards (including VTB24) - only Transaero and its partners.

There are no such restrictions on All Airlines. You can buy for Miles any ticket any airline in any direction, to any date, anywhere and through any search engine or agent. Including Looc Sources (Ryanair, Victory, etc.). The only conditions are the payment of the ticket of all Airlines and the ability to compensate for the cost of a ticket miles only completely. Partial surcharge, as in some other banks, no.

But you will be able to "roll" miles after purchasing a ticket - there is no one else option. If in other banks you need to know in advance whether you can use miles, then with All Airlines you can compensate for a ticket for three months after the flight. During this time it will be possible to accumulate miles.

4. The term of the miles and "activation" miles. Everything is simple here: all cards from the list of inactive miles burn out every 2 years. Did not have time - lost the accumulated miles. Mile All Airlines burn only once every 5 years. "Do not have time" will be difficult. In addition, in order to use the Aeroflot bonus miles, you first need to fly somewhere Aeroflot at your own expense. It "activates" miles. You understand that this flight will also cost you money.

5. Accrual miles for the bonus flight itself. For the Bonus Flight of All Airlines you will also get miles of airline itself, as for airlines, this is a regular ticket purchased for your funds. No restrictions on it imposed. Double benefit is obtained: you continue to receive miles of airlines for the flights and at the same time coping with all Airlines for purchases.

Bonuses

Each mile program has its own buns. It can be welcoming miles, increased miles per birthday, discounts from partners, etc. In the case of All Airlines, you will give an increased mile cachex for spending in the tourist sector. For example, for the purchase of air tickets via travel.tinkoff.ru you get no 2%, but 5%, and 10% return for booking for hotels and cars.

Example: You buy ticket for 28,000 rubles, which are going to compensate for miles. For you, the ticket is free, but the bank will still return to you 5% - it's 1,400 miles. They can be used to compensate for the next flight. Having spent 70,000 rubles on the map and 100,000 per year on a tourist category, you are about 21,000 miles. 21,000 miles are, if that, a free ticket to Singapore and back.

Let's summarize.

The case is such: you spend 100,000 rubles from the card a month and are going to fly to Tel Aviv for 14,500 rubles. The cost of the ticket consists of a tariff (8,000 rubles) and airline and tax fees (6,500 rubles).

Conclusions Table:

Supplement for fees. In most cards, tickets will have to pay a tangible amount - charges of airline and taxes.

How many such tickets can be bought for the year. For some cards you will not be able to fly for free. Mili will have to save more than a year (or you have to spend more than 100,000 rubles per month from the card). With All Airlines you exactly get any ticket for free, and in the first year of use. When you spend 15,000 to compensate for the ticket, you will have another 10,000 miles. They can fly anywhere if the ticket costs less than 9,000 rubles.

How many miles will receive a ticket purchase. Here All Airlines leads: for the purchase of a ticket you will get another 1200 miles that can be spent on the next ticket.

All Airlines are a profitable product for travelers or those who regularly flies on vacation. I fly often and most likely to continue to use my bank card, and the All Airlines map. There is a small trick: the guys from Tinkoff Bank prompted that All Airlines do not prevent the use of other bonus programs.

For example, I can still spend the bonuses of Aeroflot, and using All Airlines compensate for service fees for which I used to pay extra. Either I can compensate for the purchase of air ticket with All Airlines, and Aeroflot bonuses will help me to profite flight to the business class.

In addition, the card has a rich set of banking services:

- credit limit up to 700,000 rubles;
- interest-free period up to 55 days;
- 1000 miles as a gift (you need to make one purchase from the card);
- Free travel insurance (will go for a visa);

Fill out the form for receipt of the ALL Airlines card

Tatyana Solomatina

Aeroflot Bonus Program: How to accumulate and spend miles?

Hello, dear readers and guests of my blog! How often do you fly by plane? If this happens at least two or three times a year, then this information will be not only interesting, but also useful. Because today I will introduce you to the loyalty program - Aeroflot Bonus, which on certain conditions allows you to save well. However, this proposal, unfortunately, is not suitable for everyone.

How profitable to participate in the program you are? Look for the answer in this article. It contains comprehensive information on the topic: what is the program, what privileges and opportunities, it opens, how to become a member, who and under what conditions will be saved in this way, and how to spend the Aeroflot bonus mile. I am sure that everyone will find something useful for themselves here.

Aeroflot Bonus is a loyalty program that is the development of the Russian Aeroflot Airlines. This cumulative system is not so banal as those that offer us supermarkets or boutiques. Here the opportunity is much wider, and the result is much more pleasant.

Accuming a certain amount of miles, you can:

1. Tool all the charms of flight in business class.
2. It is not worse on board the aircraft than in a luxurious restaurant.
3. Take advantage of the additional benefits of business class service.
4. It is profitable to book a hotel.
5. Purchase useful products, as well as partner services or choose them from the "Prize catalog".

What do you want? Risotto with seafood in the sky on the way to Italy or an interesting thing for your own pleasure? Or maybe you want to live in a chic hotel at a more interesting price? With the program "Aeroflot Bonus" your travels will become bright and memorable. Believe! Verified not by one client of Aeroflot. And this is not a joke!

How to get involved?

The participant of the loyalty program can be every passenger over 12 years old. But the airline takes care of their tiny clients. Therefore, for them there are similar privileges - Aeroflot Bonus Junior (for children from 2 to 12 years). With the participation in this program, the flight for your baby will be a fascinating adventure that the sea will give positive emotions. Sweets, toys, children's clothing and other goods, profitable offers from airlines - what a child can get using "miles". Very tempting offer, isn't it?

How to get involved? To do this, you do not need to stand in a tedious queue and spend precious time. It is enough to go to the official website of Aeroflot and go to the Aeroflot Bonus tab, or just click here. Then fill out an online form. No internet access? In this case, the next flight by plane by the company, ask the stewardess of the paper version of the questionnaire and fill it up directly on board. You can also register with the program by visiting the Aeroflot Representative Office or contacting partners of the Program, for example, banks: Sberbank, Alpha Bank, Opening, Citi, SMP. Further, copy miles and waste them with pleasure!

Attention! Remember that on board the aircraft and partners are given a temporary card, which must be activated on the site in the Personal Account.

Why are miles are accrued and how can you use?

To begin with, it is necessary to clarify that a specific partner will accrue you a certain number of virtual bonuses. For example, removing the room at the Minor Hotel, you will receive 500 miles in one night stay, or making purchases to Moskhoztorg, will be credited to 1 mile for every 40 rubles for each spent. These are the favorable conditions of accrual. It turns out that it is not so difficult to accumulate miles. Rather, the opposite. Well, very easy.

So, did you register in the program and are ready to save miles? Do not quite understand how they are accrued? I clarify. Get the cherished miles you can:

• For flights by flights Aeroflot, as well as partner airlines (see the full list here), miles are credited depending on the class of ticket booking and flight range. If the range is less than 500 miles, then you will receive 500 miles to your personal account. Do not forget to make a map of Aeroflot Bonus when booking / buying or checking on the flight. In addition, miles are accrued and when making a flight on the airline's website. You only need to specify that you are a member of the program by making the card number.
• For services, goods, works proposed by Aeroflot partners. Their huge set. These are restaurants, boutiques, and supermarkets, hotels, and online shopping. Want to know whether your favorite clothing boutique is partner? Here you can make a search by category and see how much miles are credited. Go on the link, do not hesitate. I think you are a regular customer at least one partner for sure. And this is already a number of accrued miles.
• Also copy and waste miles with more than 500 thousand hotels worldwide. Find out in detail how it works by you can go here.

I open a small secret: there is a special calculator on the Aeroflot website, with which you can count how many miles you pick up when you have a flight, or you can spend you already accumulated, enjoying traveling in business class. To design a premium ticket, or an increase in the service class, you need to have a minimum of 15,000 miles, which are easier to accumulate with partners.

I want to warn you about one piquant moment - miles are charged for all tariffs. Only by participating in the loyalty program. How not to guess? According to group tariffs (GV), special (FX, BRV, MED), subsidized (SO, GO, MFRF, GC, GA), as well as premium and decorated in O, X, F, G classes, mile accrual is not provided. It is a pity, of course, but these are the conditions of the program. In addition, the airline is not stupid on nice bonuses for their customers. Agree?

Terms of use of accumulated miles

How to spend miles to describe it in detail. I think, from the read above, it became clear - copy miles and get premiums. The only thing worth paying attention to: In addition to the presence of the required amount of miles, to get premiums, you must earn at least 1 paid flight on the regular flight of Aeroflot at the tariff, which is involved in the accrual of miles. This is the "hard" condition puts forward the airline.

To spend miles from the partners of the loyalty program, you need to provide Aeroflot Bonus card and enter a PIN code that can be generated in the "Personal Account". Everything is quite simple and understandable.

Do not know how much miles have you accumulated? Account information is available in real time on the airline's website in your personal account. Or you can refer to the consultants of the Aeroflot Call Center.

Enjoy shopping, culinary masterpieces, travel comfort! With the program "Aeroflot Bonus" fly by aircraft not only available, but also nice.

How to raise the level and become a member of the Elite Club?

Basic member card you will receive after a set of 2000 miles. It is manufactured for 2 weeks and is automatically sent to the postal address specified by you during registration. Delivery is made by Russian Post. Approximate waiting time is about 6 weeks.

But the Aeroflot Bonus program provides for something interesting - the transition to elite levels where you get more steep privileges. For example, additional discounts from partners or various pleasures in the flight.

To go to the level above, you need to dial the required number of qualified miles during the calendar year. What is it?

• Qualification (hereinafter primarily) - those you are dialing by traveling on regular flights as Aeroflot, so partner airlines.
• Nequalification (Next N-Mile) - those that you additionally type for services of partners, special offer offers and additional elite miles received in the elite club. These miles are available for use solely to get premiums. However, consider that they do not affect the transition between levels.

I wonder how to become a member of the Elite Aeroflot Airlines Club? I will not tomorrow. In addition to the basic level, there is still silver, gold and platinum, the transition conditions between which are quite real for execution. See, everything is simple:

1. You can go to the silver level by typing 25 thousand k-miles over the calendar year or performing 25 flights with regular flight rates participating in the accumulation of miles (this is called flight segment).
2. On gold - 50 thousand k-miles or 50 flights for 1 calendar year.
3. On platinum - 125 thousand k-miles or 50 flights in business class for 1 calendar year.

That's how! Agree, to travel very cool and receive additional privileges in the form of miles, which can be spent only for the services of the airline itself, but at its own discretion, thanks to the variety of proposals of the program partners. What do you think?

How else can you use miles?

Optionally, you can give your award in the form of an increase in the class of service, a free ticket or partner services to another person. Who? Yes, anyone! Mom, sister, grandfather, girlfriend.

In addition, it is possible to make a useful case that will add a million advantages to your karma - to make a donation to charitable funds, which are partners of the Aeroflot Bonus loyalty program. The minimum amount of donations is 100 miles. But it is possible to make such a good deed only if 3 thousand miles have already accumulated on your account. All the details are in the section "Mile Mercy". Do not be lazy to go. The only nuance that such possibilities are not provided for the participants of Aeroflot Bonus Junior.

I also want to draw your attention to the fact that participation in the program is exceptionally individual. That is, if your grandmother is going to visit Paris, then her miles cannot be accrued to your account.

An important point is that if you bought a ticket, but did not go on board, the miles are not accrued.

Who benefits to participate in the program?

So, if you often travel by plane and want to get a maximum of advantages from this, be sure to register in the Aeroflot program. Why not? No risks, no minuses, nothing bad. This is not a credit card! It is much coolest than the usual discount program and much more pleasant than a simple 10% discount in any boutique. It seems that the Aeroflot Bonus card is almost omnipotent. Seriously speaking, it is certainly not the case, but you will undoubtedly appreciate her privileges.

If you do not fly on airplanes, then there is no sense from participating in the Aeroflot loyalty program. However, life is unpredictable. And maybe in a month you want to get acquainted with the culture of Laos and buy your first plane ticket. Then do not forget to register with Aeroflot Bonus. It does not take a long time, but it will give a lot of positive emotions!

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Friends called in Barcelona to the metallic concert.

Already, everyone bought and booked. Satisfied with the way they saved on tickets: fly for the miles of Aeroflot Bonus. I have been in the program for ten years, so I do not pass by the details.

Grigory Yaroshenko

persons Mili

For nothing, it shines a friend - only 30,000 miles and fees.

Check on the Aeroflot website confirms my doubts: this is the case when it is better to buy for money. I'll tell you why.

What is mile "Aeroflot-bonus"

Miles are units that airline evaluates passenger loyalty. This scheme acts here as in stores: you buy goods - you get bonuses - spend them on other goods. In this case, you buy tickets - you get miles - spend on other tickets, hotels or rental cars.

The Aeroflot-Bonus program encourages the loyalty of frequently flying passengers, accrueming miles for the use of the company's services. They do not have official cash equivalent, but when used can be considered the price, because you will change a certain amount of miles to the service with a certain value. And just like when exchanged currency, you can hand over your accumulated bonuses-miles at a favorable and disadvantageous course.

The more often you fly, the more you get bonuses and the higher your status. The program has three elite levels: silver, gold and platinum. Participants of such elite levels can receive additional miles for each flight by Aeroflot or Airlines - a partner of the program.

For which miles are accrued

Loyalty program "Aeroflot Bonus" It offers two ways to accumulate miles: fly by Aeroflot flights and use the services of partners.

These miles are called - qualifying. To switch from the baseline to the next, silver, you need to recruit 25,000 qualifying miles for the year or fly away somewhere "Aeroflot".

Miles in the Aeroflot-Bonus program are charged for flights on regular flights "Aeroflot" or airlines that have become partners of the program. When buying tickets, you need to pay attention to the tariffs: not all tariffs are involved in the accrual of miles.

Miles in the program are given on the basis of the distance in miles between the airports of departure and arrival and the tariff specified in the ticket. Miles get only for the perfect flights.

Miles are charged for each cut path. Such segments are called flight segments. If you fly in flight Moscow - Istanbul - Delhi, you will have two flight segments. If you took a ticket at some of these tracks on the tariff that does not participate in the accrual of miles, you are not charged for this flight segment.

For flights to a distance of less than 500 miles to the participant's account, 500 miles are credited. If you flew by a partner airline, calculate miles can be different. This is when the agreement between Aeroflot and the partner involves another procedure for calculating. Find out how in this case miles will be accrued, you can in the "Partners" section.

If you have already played regular flights of Aeroflot and only time later registered in the loyalty program, you will be charged by qualifying miles for all flights that happened within 6 months before the date of registration in the program, if tickets were bought on tariffs participating in miles accrual.

To take into account these flights in the program, make data about them in the Personal Account in the "Candle Mile" section or direct "Aeroflot Bonus" Flight documentation is a copy of the route receipt and originals or copies of the boarding pass. You have for 3 months from the date of registration in the program.

If a forced transplantation occurs from one Aeroflot flight to another or on the flight of the partner's airline and the new route will differ from the initial, the miles are charged with the actual flight. If the flight is canceled and you will be transferred to another airline that is not included in the program, you do not charge miles.

Miles for the purchase of goods or services of the program partners. If the work is not related to business trips and on vacation it turns out to get out a couple of times a year, it is interesting to save the unqualified miles. They get them, using the goods and services of the program partners: hotels, car rental services, restaurants, banks. These miles can only be spent on a premium ticket, to qualify for the elite level they are not taken into account.

Miles for partner products are charged by the participant after registering in the program. Goods and services purchased before registration, miles do not participate in the set. Not all products of partners involve the accrual of miles. You can find out what is involved in the program, and what is not, directly from the seller.

Miles will automatically go to your account - it takes up to 60 days from the date of payment of the product or service of a partner if you charged the program of the program. And to do it before you form a check. Restore miles after the fact of payment will not work.

If you are all done correctly, but the miles on your account were not displayed within the prescribed period, direct "Aeroflot Bonus" Application for restoring miles and a copy of the document confirming the receipt of the service. You have a year from the date of the service partner. Exception - if the conditions for cooperation between Aeroflot with this company suggest a different period.

Miles for booking hotels. One of the partners of Aeroflot is a booking service of Booking.com. Booking hotels on this site you can get miles. Please note: they will be accrued only when moving to Booking.com from the Aeroflot site. Miles are accrued automatically no later than 60 days after the hotel is completed.

When booking, specify the program member number "Aeroflot Bonus". If you forget or enrich incorrect, you can update the data when booking confirmation.

If you book a room for multiple program participants "Aeroflot Bonus"Miles are only charged to someone alone.

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In which cases, miles are not accrued

If you acquire something for miles, the simultaneous accrual of new miles for the purchase will not be. Or accrual, or write-off, but not both together.

Miles are not charged for lost, unused or expired flights. Also, miles are not charged at premium airfares, free tickets from charter flights, tickets paid by special tariffs.

It is easier to not understand what type of tariff is, but to determine before buying, whether miles will be given for your ticket. To do this, on the Aeroflot website, enter the city of departure and the city of arrival and click "Find".

How to check the number of miles

You can see the number of miles in your personal account on the airline website or call the Aeroflot Call Center.

Is there a miles price

Miles get free. This is a loyalty premium. On the other hand, they can pay for tickets. Miles become a means of calculating between the passenger and the airline, such a surrogate of the currency. Like any currency, Mile has a course. It may be profitable and not very.

When you sell currency, for example, the euro after a trip to the conditional Spain, you carefully choose the exchanger. It is unprofitable to change 68 rubles, if they take 70 on the next street. With miles the same thing: buying a premium ticket, you sell Miles Aeroflot. To sell mile more expensive, you need to know how to evaluate it.

How to count the price of miles

My friends every ticket cost 30,000 miles and 5880 rubles of fees:

By choosing the usual payment method, in the same dates and the same economy class in Barcelona can be flown for 14,465 rubles:

If you deduct the amount of fees from the full cost of the ticket, and then divide the result by a mile rate, you will get a course of miles:

(14 465 − 5880) / 30 000 = 0,286

Friends sold 30,000 miles of 28.6 kopecks for Mile. Is it expensive or not so?

To understand, compare with another flight. A ticket to Havana costs 46,816 p:

But the conditions of the premium ticket in the same direction:

70,000 miles in exchange for 33,796 rubles. This option is better - now mile costs 48 kopecks.

To use Aeroflot-bonus to complete, you need to make the habit of considering miles and their cost. It will help not only more expensive to sell miles, but also faster their accumulation.

How to save miles if you rarely fly

The easiest way to type miles, using the services of the program partners. The list is dozens of companies, from Sberbank to the store "Moskoztorg". Principle one: spend money - you get a bonus.

For example, every 30 rubles left in any of Novikov-Group restaurants, bring one mile to account. And the order of food through the Delivery-Club service is the same mile for every 23 rubles. With Internet services, the condition is valid: you need to go to the partner's website from the Aeroflot Bonus program.

Aeroflot Bonus and Partner Banks

It is easiest to recruit miles, using a partner bank card. Many banks offer joint programs: credit and debit cards. Pay your usual expenses - in return you get miles. For a certain amount spent on a map for a month or other period set by the Bank, you will charge a certain amount of miles.

Partners are changing, and it is better to follow this. When a new bank appears in the program, miles on its cards usually dripping more than on bank cards - program veterans.

Usually, the mile cards have several status. The higher the status, the more miles it generates. The mid-level map gives more miles than the usual, premium - even more.

At the cost of cards can be saved. In banks regularly pass shares, you just need to ask. Here as a discount: you will not receive, until you ask. Platinum banknotes brought me a 60,000 miles of Aeroflot last year. The grace period is over, and I closed it without loss.

What to do if the banks do not offer interesting conditions. First, remember that miles have the price - we will define it in the area of \u200b\u200b38 kopecks on the results of two examples. Then estimate the monthly expenses that are ready to pay for the card. Finally, compare how much miles will get a map for the year.

How much I save miles per year if I spend 140,000 rubles per month

Basic

Service per year

1000 R.

Mph 60 p

Miles per year

Average

Service per year

3500 R.

Mph 60 p

Miles per year

Premium

Service per year

8000 R.

Mph 60 p

Miles per year

The average card will bring 14,000 miles more than the basic. On our exchange rate, it is 5320 rubles that cover the cost of annual card maintenance. It makes sense to take. But the premium does not reach: you need to spend more or choose another card.

How many miles live

The shelf life of miles depends on the conditions of the loyalty program. For example, Miles All Airlines live 5 years, and the Miles of Aeroflot burn, if not flying for money at least once every 2 years.

In order not to lose the received miles, find out how much they will act and what needs to be done so that they do not burn.

When and how to spend

The program is designed so that the cost of mile depends on the amount you spend on the flight. The higher the price of the ticket, the more expensive you can sell the "Aeroflot" mile. So it was both in the example above with Barcelona and Havana.

The highest price for Mile will be released while raising a class with an economy to business. We will have to buy economy premium - with tariffs below it does not work - and spend the same mile as needed to a premium ticket. But the value of mile will be above one ruble - it turns out to be decently saved on the flight in the business class. But you need to understand that you pay extra for comfort, and not for extra kilometers in the sky.

If not ready to spend money on economy premium, you need to catch special offers. Interesting vacation options or a short trip are found in the Light Award shares when the mile of flights falls on a quarter. The action takes place several times a year and includes popular directions. ON THE START "Light-Eward" notifies the airline mailing.

Cheaper than all miles are evaluated in the online store "Aeroflot-Bonus". There you can buy a suitcase, tenth iPhone or cinema. Before you think about buying, remember our lessons of mile arithmetic. Consider where it is more profitable to buy.

How to translate mile to another person

The program "Aeroflot-Bonus" exists a service "Translation Mil". With it, you can pass your mile to another person. The prerequisite is the presence of a participant in the account that conveys bonus miles, at least one flight "Aeroflot" over the past 24 months, for which miles gave. To translate miles, you must be registered in the program "Aeroflot Bonus" Not less than 90 days before the date of translation miles.

You can translate no more than 50,000 miles per calendar year and no more than 5,000 miles per transaction. The translated amount of miles should be multiple 500.

The recipient will be able to take no more than 50,000 miles from one or different people. This quantity should meet 10 transactions within one calendar year.

Translated bonus miles will be unqualified for the recipient and will not affect the transition to the elite level or the preservation of the elite level in the program.

For the translation of the mile "Aeroflot" takes the commission. You will see it in the participant's personal account in the "spend mile" section when placing translation. This is a fixed amount - 600 rubles for each transaction. Payment is made in rubles.

Participants in elite levels are allowed to translate miles with a commission in miles in the amount of 20% of the number of translatable miles. For translations with the Commission in miles such limits are operating:

• participants of the Silver Level can translate no more than 10,000 miles per calendar year;
• participants of the "Golden Level" - no more than 20,000 miles per calendar year;
• participants of the "platinum level" - no more than 30,000 miles per calendar year. For other translations, the Commission will be in rubles.

Cancel Decorated Translation Miles It is impossible: Return the bonus miles translated from the account and the commission will not work.

Can I buy or sell the mile "Aeroflot"

Aeroflot prohibits selling bonus miles, including with the help of transferring them for remuneration. If you find out that someone sold or bought miles, Aeroflot has the right to cancel the missed miles, cancel or block an account for any time, cancel the elite level of the seller and the buyer. Costs will not compete.

Remember

1. To fly for miles, you do not need to be an avid traveler.
2. Pay miles - it means to pay money.
3. With the help of a bank card really fly for miles once a year. Choosing a map, it is useful to consider miles and their cost.
4. Vacation is reasonably planning with Light-Eward Light.
5. Aeroflot Bonus is not the best place to buy the tenth iPhone.

Olga Stepanova

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About such a term as the "airline loyalty programs", today heard everything you have to fly by airplanes. Such a program is a kind of encouraging that air transporters please their regular customers for their choice. Each flight brings the client "points", with which you can subsequently become the proud owner of a free air fare page.

What is mile, with which they are "eating", and are they profitable?

What are bonuses, loyalty programs and miles accumulation programs - we are determined with the concepts

Of course not!

Each airline is looking for its benefit, which, in this case, is to return the client to the salon of his aircraft.

Of course, there are no excessive generosity to wait - flights, thanks to which you can save bonuses, are strictly regulated (by one flight - a limited number of bonus tickets, especially in the season), and use miles only under certain conditions. Nevertheless, miles are beneficial for those who are forced to constantly fly, and from loyalty programs can be beneficial. Unless, of course, follow the range of your accumulated miles, for shares, and regularly improve your status.

Mile - What is it, and why are you needed?

The term "mile" today is customary to call a unit into which air carriers estimate our client loyalty.

Bonus programs of companies similar in their scheme with similar programs operating in large trading networks: bought products (ticket), received bonuses (miles), spent on other products (airlows, car rental and so on.).

Miles are classified as follows:

1. Premium. You can spend these bonuses directly on tickets or on how to improve the service class. The shelf life of such miles - 20-36 months, after which they are simply burning.
2. Status . And these miles can be changed on the awards. In addition, you can increase the level of service. Than you miles will be more, the more you will be an important person. For example, you will be able to register on your flight without a queue or start free in the VIP Lounge Zone. Zeroing status miles occurs on December 31.

Bonus programs are beneficial ...

• With constant flights. At least more than 3-4 per year. Permanent flights on work and business issues very significantly demonstrate the benefits of bonus programs.
• When flying by airplanes of one carrier (carriers included in 1 Alliance).
• With steadily frequent and high spending and large number of bank cards (approx. - Most carriers are partners of banking organizations). The more shopping and cachek, the more miles.

Where do miles come from?

The number of miles that you can scope depends on ...

1. Your status on loyalty card.
2. From the route and distance (than it is more, the more bonuses).
3. From the class of booking.
4. And from tariffs (on some tariffs, miles are not provided at all).

All information is usually provided on the websites of carriers, where you can even count - how many miles will give you for a particular flight.

Types of bonuses and airline loyalty programs

The participant of the loyalty program you become through ...

1. Registration on the carrier's website. You get your personal number and then track - how many miles you have, where you spent them and how much you need.
2. Carrier office. Fill out the questionnaire, get your number and loyalty card.
3. When making a bank card consisting in partnerships with the carrier. With such a card, you pay for the purchase, and at the same time miles copies.
4. During the flight . Separate companies can issue loyalty cards and in the aircraft cabin.

What are bonus programs?

In IATA - about 250 air carriers, most of which offer their programs and different algorithms for miles accruals.

The largest air-alliances - and their bonus programs:

• Star Alliance. Consists of 27 companies, including Lufthansa and Swiss, Turkish Airlines and Thai, United and South African Airways. These companies have key BP (approx. - Bonus Program) is Miles & More.
• Skyteam . The composition of the Alliance is about 20 companies, including Aeroflot and KLM, Air France and Alitalia, China Airlines, and others. Main BP - Flying Blue.
• Composition - 15 air carriers , including S7 Airlines and British Airways, American Airlines and Airberlin, Iberia, etc. Each company has its own program.

Considering that each carrier has its own program (most often), list all types of programs simply does not make sense - you can familiarize yourself with the official websites of companies.

for example, BP S7 Airlines is called S7 priority, BP Aeroflot - Aeroflot Bonus, and "UTair" offers several programs at once - for business, family trips and ordinary.

How to choose the program and save mile?

Choosing a bonus program for yourself, consider the main thing:

1. Where you most often fly . For flights around the country, it is better to choose Aeroflot Bonus, and when traveling to Asia, you can approach Qatar Airways.
2. The purpose of participation in the program. Why do you need points? They can be exchanged for a free ticket (once) or on bonuses (for example, registration without queue).
3. - Or still achieve comfort when flying? The type of miles accumulated miles depends on this answer.
4. Business class - or economy? The first option is more profitable in miles.

How to smoke miles?

Take from major sources. Namely:

• Fly by companies of one alliance - or by the planes of one company, if it does not enter any alliance.
• Use the services of the carrier partners.
• Use bank cards with "Milny" Cashbek.

And you can also get miles for ...

1. Entry into the program.
2. Holidays and birthdays.
3. Participation in surveys, quizzes, carriers contests.
4. Subscription for the newsletter.
5. Active writing reviews.

And even additional miles can ...

• Buy on the carrier's website.
• Buy from other owners of such cards. Card holders often sell miles that they do not have time to take advantage if the validity period comes to an end, and the trips are not expected.
• Choose indirect flights. More transplants are more miles.
• Get through the use of coobrading cards.
• Get using the services of partners. For example, the night in the hotel partner carrier can bring up to 500 miles.
• Search for "Every N-Flying - Free" programs (if you fly often in one point).

And do not forget to spend miles until they burned out!

The maximum "shelf life" mile does not exceed 3 years.

Remember, that…

1. There are prohibitions on bonuses when flying according to special routes.
2. Miles are not charged for tickets purchased on hot sale or on specialtarphs.
3. Tickets acquired for "miles" are most often irrevocable.

How to use mile airlines to save on the tickets - Tips

How is the most profitable to spend your accumulated miles?

• Learn the calculators and the programs themselves on the sites.
• Fly by long routes.
• Pay attention to family and comprehensive offers with improved service class.
• Carefully choose the alliance companies so that even international flights become more profitable.
• Learn the catalogs in which services and goods for miles are offered. They can also pay the hotel room, and rent a car. It is more profitable to pay only part of goods or services.
• Sell \u200b\u200bmiles if their term expires, and the trips are not expected.

How much miles will you get a free ticket?

The price of one premium ticket starts from 20,000 miles. Some carriers - from 9000 miles.

But remember that miles will be covered at the rate of the tariff, but the fees will have to pay independently (and they can be up to 75% of the ticket price). There are companies that allow you to pay miles even fees, but such carriers are rare (for example, Lufthansa).

Be sure to check before the exchange of miles to the ticket - whether this exchange will be in your favor.

Comparison of loyalty programs of various airlines

The program selection primarily depends on the "clause b". If you live in the capital, and you are usually flying, for example, in Krasnodar, then you will be suitable for the BP of Aeroflot (BP Aeroflot Bonus) and transaero (BP Privilege), Ural Airlines ( Wings), S7 ( Priority) and Utair ( Status) And the status of the family.

Remember that programs for comparison it is worth choosing from the carriers of one alliance! There is a BP and in Loocoles, but for membership will have to pay.

Special Internet services will help you to get involved in the BP, allowing you to choose your program - and compare it with others.

What is mile and what are they?
MILA - a passenger binding tool to a particular airline or a steamer associated with airlines (called the Alliance). Aeroflot is not beneficial your flights on the side of the S7 competitor. S7 loses money when you fly Utair. Etc.

Miles are ordinary and quasi. To whom both species and match are interesting - we read the entire article.
Those who do not like Longrides can immediately read about the most favorable way of accumulating and using miles in the opinion of Travel Radar

How to make you prefer Aeroflot in the same direction in the same direction in the same date, and not Utair?
It is necessary or give the price to the ticket down, or offer something else that you will be interested. Something that will give you and remind you buy a new ticket for the same airline. What? Airlines are fed roughly the same, the set of services provide similar, do not lure all this. But to catch a free flight - you can. Free is not now, and someday later, when you get the right amount of Aeroflot miles or a mile of any airline from the Alliance, which includes Aeroflot.

And now you are already registered in Aeroflot Bonus. And continue to pay for tickets only Aeroflot, because you make a copy of 20,000 miles for a free ticket from Moscow to Ekaterinburg and back.
The price of such a ticket in both ends for money (at the time of writing the article) - 8140 rubles tariff + 3366 rubles fees.
For 20000 miles according to the rules, you "buy" only the tariff of 8140 rubles, fees will have to pay money. Yes, in many loyalty programs for miles you only get the tariff, fees from your pocket.
We will remember these numbers and let's turn to the fact that this 20 miles of Aeroflot actually and how to dial them.

Consider the basic options

Option 1: A set of miles of flights

In general, to gain 20,000 miles by Aeroflot, you must fly a distance of 20,000 miles. Affected business, not at a time, but nevertheless.
For example, the distance in land miles from Moscow to Yekaterinburg - 887 miles. So you have to fly about 11 times from Moscow to Yekaterinburg and back to get 20,000 miles and free ticket yours. This will be a ticket from Moscow to Ekaterinburg and back, or in another route, which is also not more expensive than 20,000 miles.
Once again: you need to pay 11 * (8140 + 3366) to accumulate 20,000 miles (and this is not a fact, the details in the paragraph below).
Miles with flights can be gained and faster, there are many details and nuances.
For example, booking tariffs. More expensive tariffs give more miles for the same land distance. That is, instead of 887 miles you charge 1330 or even 1774 miles, if instead of the economy you bought a business class.
The same feature is also working in the other side - the cheapest (discount) tariffs either do not imply a mile accrual, or the charge of miles will be in smaller number: 50% or even 25% of the amount of land miles of distances.
In other words, you can fly and then find out that in order to overpaid precisely by the Aeroflot ticket, because the tariff was unlikely and you did not get anything.

Output: A great way when you fly very often and you can choose some one airline. In other words - business trips. In the other common cases, the received miles for flights rarely overlap the benefits of buying a cheap ticket to another airline. Once again we repeat that the described is true for any program of any airline or the alliance, and Aeroflot is simply as an example.

Option 2: Miles for payment of goods and services by bank cards.

Different banks produce credit or debit cards in partnership with airlines. Cobrand is called. Mechanics of obtaining miles using such condes are the same everywhere: you spend some rubles, paying different goods or card services, and the bank is credited to your account in the airline loyalty program as a mile.
And again take for example Aeroflot. He cooperates with any banks, which is most famous for the Cobrand with Sberbank. Everyone spent using the Sberbank-Aeroflot card 60 rubles will give 1 mile to Aeroflot Bonus.
If the map is not ordinary, but "golden" - conditions even better: they spent 60 rubles, they received 1.5 miles. If the card is not gold, but the highest category (Signature) - 2 miles for every 60 rubles.
But we are right again in Ekaterinburg for free, and for this we want to get 20,000 miles. How much do we need to buy goods card Sberbank to get the desired? We diligently multiply 20,000 to 60 and we get 1 million 200 thousand rubles. There are no errors: to earn 20,000 miles of Aeroflot through payment of the Sberbank card, you need to be able to spend 1.200,000 rubles on it. Well, or 800,000 rubles, if the co-branding card of Sberbank "Golden". And all this for saving 8140 rubles, because about so much the tariff from Moscow to Yekaterinburg and back, which we will buy for 20,000 accumulated miles.

Output: For a long time and unprofitable (why it is unprofitable - read below in the section about Quasimili). If you decide to save Mile in this way, carefully approach the study of the issue not about how to save them, but how rationally spend them.
For example, spend miles to fly from Moscow to Yekaterinburg stupid, however, spend a mile on the flight of a business class in far abroad it is often more profitable than to buy the same ticket for money. Carefully see the mile calculator required for flights (exists in one or another of each loyalty program), and consider thoroughly. Of course, it is best to do that before you opened a bank card, not after.

Option 3: Purchase miles.

Immediately make a reservation that the direct purchase and sale of miles is prohibited by many loyalty programs. If we talk about Russian programs, it is prohibited in all. But people often use the mechanism of transferring mile to other participants permitting the rules, bypassing this restriction. And if you find a man with a miles, he can write you a ticket for them in return for material thanks. The rules of the program are not violated, the ticket received.
Since there are no such exchange services officially exist, they will not discuss them in this article.
We only mention that a ticket from our example worth 200,000 miles will cost this method of about 12,000 rubles when buying miles + will have to pay extra charges (they were written above). So saving on the selected example with Ekaterinburg went into a negative zone.

Output: The method saves money (sometimes) and time, but requires experience and verified vendors. The Internet is chicted by fraudsters who sell either stolen miles (with hacked accounts), or tickets purchased by stolen cards, under the guise of tickets issued for miles. Do not fall into all these gray schemes.

We described three basic accumulation of airlines miles. Let's summarize the pluses and minuses.

Pluses of miles airline:

• weak, but still the ability to make a flight business class is significantly cheaper than for money or quasimili. Strictly speaking, Mili Aeroflot must be spent solely on the purchase of tickets business class for long distances. Only in this case the accumulation of these miles acquires meaning.
• the ability to obtain status in the loyalty program, which will give additional advantages. There are many such advantages and they are very different. Depend on the status itself (silver, gold, platinum ITP) and from a specific program. Typical examples of the advantages of "Cattags": Additional Luggage Provider, free Paste to business lounge airport, priority board, etc.

Minuses miles airlines:

• the average traveler with three flights per year is difficult to gain sufficient mile for ticket with the help of flights or coordinates.
• necessity Additional to "Free" ticket to pay fees money
• tickets for miles to the next flight or date as a rule, usually either, either will not be enough (there are always quotas on board). If the flights fall on peak dates (for example, summer in Barcelona), flying for miles is often extremely difficult, there are simply no places.

Now let's go to another way to reduce the flight

Quasimili

Quasimili cannot be taken by flights and they are not a customer binding tool to some particular airline and an alliance. As a result, quasimili do not treat any program of loyalty or airline.
This is a flexible way to buy airline tickets almost any airline as if this ticket is bought for money.
The accumulation option Quasimille is only one: find a bank card with the desired quasimile program and try to use only her purchases to pay all your purchases. At the moment, there are many such programs, for example:

• "Airbonus" from Bank Avangard
• "All Airlines" from Tinkoff Bank
• "Alfa Miles" from Alpha Bank
• Multi-card from VTB24 Bank

Mechanics of programs are the same: you spend money, and the bank charges you quasimili to his open at his own bill. Accrual is performed according to the algorithm set by banking conditions. After accumulating the amount of miles to the value provided for by the rules, you buy for them the ticket of any airline as if it were not miles, and rubles.
Example: under the conditions of the Multi-card program from VTB24 for purchases will be accrued 4% of their value in the form of miles. They spent 80,000 rubles for a month with the card, received 3200 miles. Let's go to your personal account and bought any ticket to any airline worth 3200 rubles. And that's it.

Quasimili deprived of all the advantages of a mile of any airline. But there is good news: they are deprived of all their minuses.

• Accumulate quasimili slightly easier. For example, to gain quasimili to a ticket from our example (Moscow-Ekaterinburg-Moscow), you need to spend about 640 thousand rubles on the bank of the bank Avangard. It is not at all 800,000 and not 1200,000, as in the example with Sberbank.
• Buying for quasimili equivalent to buying for money, so fees are already in price, separately you do not need to pay.
• The ticket can be bought regardless of the presence of good places (as it would be with miles of airlines). Have tickets for the desired dates for money? You buy them for quasimili. No quotas, restrictions and uncomfortable dates.

Of course, quasimyl programs have their drawbacks. For example, under the conditions of some banks, it is necessary to first get some minimum quasimil. There are still restrictions on the number of purchased tickets per year, for example, no more than 10 tickets.

General conclusions

• If you fly several times a year and choose tickets on the principle of "convenient and most cheap" - you are suitable for quasimili.
• If you fly very often and have the opportunity to buy only one airline tickets - choose a mile of that airline that you fly most often and copy them.
• If you like to use bank cards and want to spend money with profit - Quasimili again.
• If you read and do not understand anything - throw this business and come up with how to make more money. And already traveling to them cheaply.