If you are a little more careful, you can find a lot of opportunities that will allow you to save significantly. So, for example, with Aeroflot miles, which are included in the price of tickets, but not everyone knows how to use them. Therefore, if you like to travel and do not know how to get Aeroflot miles, then be sure to read this article from beginning to end.

First, let's deal with the mile program of one of the largest airlines in Russia - Aeroflot Bonus. We will understand how to become a member, what advantages it gives and whether it is so profitable.

Step 1. Who can become a member of the Aeroflot Bonus program

Aeroflot Bonus program member can become:

• a passenger over 12 years old can become a member of the Aeroflot Bonus program.
• for passengers from 2 to 12 years old, there is the Aeroflot Bonus Junior program, and upon reaching the age of 12, the passenger switches to Aeroflot Bonus with the preservation of the account number.

Participation in the Aeroflot Bonus program is absolutely free and you can register in it only once

Step 2. How to become an Aeroflot Bonus member

There are several ways to become an Aeroflot member:

• register online at Aeroflot website, receive an Aeroflot Bonus program member number and 500 welcome miles.
• find a temporary card with an Aeroflot Bonus membership number in logbook aircraft and assign it to you through the airline's website when the Internet appears.

It is better to do this at the beginning of the month, when new issues have just been put in the pockets of the chairs. Of course, you can try your luck on other days, but there are no guarantees to find the coveted card.

• register through a Partner Bank by contacting an Aeroflot Bonus program partner.

Per self-registration in the Aeroflot bonus program through the site you get 500 welcome miles

Step 3. Enter personal data

• personal data
• passport details
• Contact details
• preferences (home airport of departure, meals on board, participation in other loyalty programs)

the data must be entered correctly, because after collecting 2,000 miles, a letter will be sent to the specified address from Aeroflot with a membership card

Step 4. How to receive Aeroflot miles

Perhaps this is the most important step in the history of accumulating miles, which can be earned in several ways:

• register in the Aeroflot Bonus program online through the airline's website and receive 500 welcome miles.
• new members can enter data on flights taken within 6 months before the date of registration in the Aeroflot Bonus program. Remember that you can enter data no later than 3 months from the date of registration.

For example, if you signed up for the Aeroflot Bonus program on October 02, 2018, and before that you flew with Aeroflot on June 15, 2018, then you can earn miles for this flight.

• buy tickets for regular flights Aeroflot Group.

Miles are not earned on O, X, F, G, V fares, ID, AD, GA and GC service and subsidized fares.

• Aeroflot is a member of the SkyTeam international alliance, which gives you the opportunity to earn extra miles on flights with 20 of the world's leading airlines.

Aeroflot, Aerolineas-Argentinas, Aeromexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China Airlines, China Eastern, China Southern, Czech Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Garuda Indonesia, Kenya Airways, KLM, Korean Air, Middle East Airlines, Saudia, TAROM Airlines Vietnam Airlines,XIAMEN AIR.

• issue co-branded cards in banks and receive miles for the money spent.

Sberbank, Alfa Bank, SMP Bank, Citibank

• use services partners

M.Video, Delimobil, Crossroads, etc.

Step 5. How to enroll Aeroflot miles

You can earn miles in different ways:

• enter the Aeroflot Bonus membership number when purchasing a ticket
• ask to enter it at the front desk
• credit miles in your personal account after the flight (not earlier than 3 days and not later than 3 months from the date of the flight).

Step 6. Aeroflot elite club or the opportunity to enjoy privileges

Aeroflot Bonus has an elite club:

• Silver (silver level)
• Gold (gold level)
• Platinum (platinum level)

Getting into it is easy if you fly a lot.

Step 7. How to get into an elite club

To get into the Elite Club, you need to accumulate during the year ( from January 01 to December 31) required amount qualifying miles or flight segments:

• Silver - 25,000 qualifying miles or 25 flight segments
• Gold - 50,000 qualifying miles or 50 flight segments
• Platinum - 125,000 qualifying miles or 50 Business class flight segments

The obvious question is what are qualifying miles and flight segments.

Qualifying miles are miles earned for flights on scheduled flights of Aeroflot Group or program partner airlines throughout the year (from 01 January to 31 December).

Additional miles earned for elite tier members and special promotions programs, as well as miles awarded by program partners, are non-qualifying.

A flight segment is a section of the route from the point of departure to the point of arrival.

For example, a flight on the route St. Petersburg - Krasnodar is one flight segment, and St. Petersburg - Krasnodar - St. Petersburg is already two.

We hope it has become clearer how to get Aeroflot miles and that you need to fly a lot to get an elite level. But if you often fly for work, then you can combine business with pleasure and enjoy all the privileges that are provided to the participants elite club .

On January 01, the number of earned qualifying miles and flight segments is reset to zero and in order to confirm the elite status, you need to earn the required number of qualifying miles or flight segments

How to spend Aeroflot miles

Spending miles is easier than earning them, so let's figure out how to spend Aeroflot miles and make yourself even happier:

• issue an award ticket

For example, a round-trip ticket from St. Petersburg to Krasnodar will cost you 20,000 miles and 4,458 rubles for a fuel surcharge.

• upgrade service class (Economy -> Business)
• redeem goods from the Rewards Catalog for miles
• spend miles with partners
• transfer miles to dad, sister, friend
• participate in the Mercy Miles program

The minimum possible number of miles to send is 100.

• to book a hotel

All these actions can be done through your Personal Area by going to the Spend Miles tab.

Validity of Aeroflot miles

On the one hand, everything is very clear, but not as simple as it seems. Miles earned have an expiration date and may expire. Miles are valid for 2 years.

For example, if within two years after the last flight, you do not make a single flight with the Aeroflot Group or its partners, then after two years the miles will expire. Therefore, check in your personal account until what date you can use the earned miles.

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In this article I want to talk about the so-called "mile" bank cards ah, with which you can get a free air ticket. Let's see if it's realistic to save up for a free flight, how long it will take to accumulate enough miles and which card is still worth getting. The information in this article is current as of September 2018.

What are miles cards, what are they for and how to use them to fly more often

A "mile" card is a co-branded bank card issued by one or another bank, for purchases on which you are credited with "conditional units" - miles, which you can later spend on a free or shareware flight. Usually the card is used in addition to flights with certain airlines in order to accumulate miles faster (often flying with an airline for a certain period - one or two years - is a prerequisite when buying a ticket for miles). Each card and each bank has its own conditions for earning miles and buying free air tickets. It should also be said right away that in most cases the flight will not be free, but shareware, that is, fees and taxes will still have to be paid (as a result of this, some flights become completely unprofitable).

Which airlines have such bonus programs?

Most airlines have similar programs (with the exception of low-cost companies). You can earn miles by flying with this airline and paying with a co-branded bank card.

There are a lot of good programs, participation in which really allows you to save up for a free flight, even for fairly long distances, and this will actually be profitable. Basically, these are European airlines, for example, they praise Lufthansa's loyalty program very much, as well as Swiss Airlines. And if residents of Moscow can join these programs (it makes sense for them to do this) and earn miles from European airlines, then residents of the regions have to choose from what they have. And there are mainly our Russian carriers - Aeroflot, S7, Ural Airlines(I strongly do not recommend the loyalty program of the latter). This is what I will talk about today.

Bank card All Airlines - Tinkoff

The first card (and, looking ahead, in my opinion, the most profitable) that allows you to accumulate miles and spend them on buying tickets from ANY airline is the Tinkoff All Airlines card. The essence of the program is as follows. Paying with a card, you get miles, which you can use later compensate purchase any ticket.

That is, you buy tickets through any site, paying with a card for All Airlines, and then write off miles in your personal account and the cost of the ticket is compensated (I wrote how to use miles). The main “minus” of this system is that miles are deducted in multiples of 3,000. For example, when buying a ticket for 11,500 rubles, you need 12,000 miles to compensate, and when buying a ticket for 12,500 rubles, you will need 15,000 miles to compensate. Therefore, you need to select tickets very carefully.

All the details of using this card have already been described in. You can find more detailed information there.

Bank card Tinkoff – All Airlines

It seems to me that the All Airlines Tinkoff card is the most beneficial of the miles cards. In the review, I calculated how many miles you need to accumulate, and it turned out that it is quite possible to accumulate, especially if you use a credit card and pay off your debt on time.

How to order a Tinkoff All Airlines card

If you want to order a Tinkoff All Airlines credit card, then you can do this on the official website Tinkoff.ru, and when ordering an All Airlines debit card using this link, you will receive 500 miles as a gift.

All Airlines bank card from Alfa-Bank - AlfaTravel.

To begin with, Alfa Bank's Alfa Miles program for September 2018 was replaced by another similar program - AlfaTravel, which allows you to accumulate miles and compensate with them for the purchase of any air tickets purchased through the website https://travel.alfabank.ru

The block of information placed below regarding the accrual of miles in the Alfa miles program is no longer relevant. My attempt to carry out the same detailed analysis new card was not crowned with success, tk. the Alfa Bank website contains a minimum of information that I personally would not have had enough to make a decision on ordering this card. If you figure it out and decide to order this card, you can do it at the link.

The main principles of this card:

• Increased cashback is credited when buying air, railway tickets and booking hotels through the website travel.alfabank.ru
• Airfare is higher than when searching through aviasales and skyscanner aggregators
• The cost of the hotel is higher than when booking on booking.com
• When applying for a VISA Signature card, the privileges are Priority Pass (free or reduced access to airport business lounges), unlimited Internet in roaming for 14 days, free baggage packing 4 times a year, up to 35% discount on car booking, personal travel assistant, who, according to Alfa-Bank, will book you a table in a restaurant, help with the development of the route and visa processing. Whether all Alfa Travel cards are issued as Visa Signature or not is not clear.

The information on accrual of miles and the cost of service that I could find is in the plate:

I did not see interest rates on credit cards, a grace period, penalties for non-payment on the site. What and how to spend the accumulated miles - too. Dear representatives of the bank, if you get to this page, please tell us in detail about the operation of this card!

What is the programAlphamiles

The essence of the program is that when making purchases with the Alpha Miles card, you get miles that you can later spend only on alfamiles.com on:

• Flights
• Train tickets
• Hotel reservation
• car rental
• Charity

If you buy on the site alfamiles.com for money, then you are credited with an increased number of miles.

Alfa Miles cards are standard debit and credit. Debit is issued in any of the three currencies, credit - only in rubles.

Debit card Alfa Bank - All Airlines (VISA)

Credit card Alfa Bank - All Airlines (VISA)

To open a Signature card, you need the “Maximum” service package, for Signature Light, the “Comfort” package is enough! See the descriptions of all packages at the link https://alfabank.ru/everyday/package/

How many milesAlphaMiles can be earned in one year

Let's count again. I take a family as an example (2-3 people who fly on vacation once a year, use a card at the Classic tariff, and spend 40,000 rubles a month.

Buying tickets not onalphabets for 50,000 rubles will bring 1,666 miles. Hotel payment (60,000 rubles) - 2,000 miles, car rental on vacation (15,000 rubles) - 500 miles. Also, when spending 40,000 rubles per month, we get 1,333 miles, that is, 16,000 miles per year.

In total, you can earn 20,200 miles in one year.

Is it profitable to buy tickets, book hotels and cars on the site alfamiles.com

Let's see how much it costs air ticket on the alfamiles website and on the aviasales website. For example, let's take the flight Moscow - Barcelona from 5.09 to 10.09. When buying on alfamiles, a ticket costs 17,633 rubles (+ 1,032 miles will be credited for the purchase). Exactly the same ticket for air sales costs 16,486 rubles, that is, 1,000 rubles cheaper. I will not attach screenshots, I hope you believe me anyway :)

Hotels. A hotel in Barcelona for two from September 5 to 10 (the first Mellow Barcelona hotel that came across) costs 16,410 rubles when ordering on alfamiles (1235 miles in the piggy bank), on booking it costs exactly the same.

Rent a Car from 05 to 08 September in Barcelona when booking through alfamiles costs from 1892 r (199 miles will be credited). The same car (Fiat 500) in the same rental office (Firefly Espagne) when booking on rental cars will cost more - 2,360 rubles.

That is, in fact, if you need to accumulate miles faster, then you can book on alfamiles, and sometimes it’s even a little cheaper.

How many miles do you need to get a free flight

In order to buy a ticket on the Moscow-Barcelona route in September, you will need 27,915 miles and 10,229 rubles (taxes and fees), and the same ticket costs 16,500-17,500 rubles “for money”. I would not say that it is very profitable. Let's see more options. Buy a ticket foralfamiles is possible without additional payment in rubles! But for the same ticket, you need to pay 38,567 miles extra! That is, the total cost of the ticket will be 66,482 miles. It will be difficult for an average family to accumulate such an amount.

For a flight on the route Yekaterinburg - Barcelona, ​​also in September, you will need only 18,780 miles, but taxes need to be paid 16,506 rubles. The flight is operated by Turkish Airlines, and the same ticket when purchased through aviasales will cost only 3,000 rubles more, namely 19,800 rubles. Doubtful economy.

And here's another option. On the alfamiles website, you can book not only tickets, but also car rentals. Completely for miles, you can order a car in Barcelona for 3 days from 7,133 miles. The downside, which I managed to find, for some reason, is not looking for rent for all dates.

Perhaps if you look for options, you can find a suitable, and economical one. The main thing is to know what you are looking for. There will also be a benefit if you order not the simplest card, but at least Signature Light - and miles will accumulate faster, and even various “buns” as a gift. Especially important for those who fly is access to airport business classes and travel insurance. The Signature Light card is issued as part of the Comfort package, and it is quite affordable - when spending on the card from 40,000 rubles per month (or a minimum balance of 300,000 rubles), its service is free, then you only need to pay for the card service. Otherwise, the package maintenance costs 499 rubles per month.

How to order an Alfa Miles card

If this card suits you, then you can order it on the bank's website. You can also consider a cashback card from Alfa-Bank (), by which you can get cashback in rubles - 10% for refueling at a gas station, 5% from a bill in a cafe or restaurant, and 1% for all purchases.

Bank card Travel bank "Opening"

Another card, thanks to which you can buy a free ticket - map Travel from Otkritie bank. At its core, this is an ordinary cashback card, cashback is accumulated in the form of bonus rubles that can be spent on hotels, air and railway tickets only on travel.open.ru(Let me remind you that you can compensate with miles for an air ticket bought on any site) . This card is similar to the Alfa-Bank card. The main advantage of the Travel card is that with bonus rubles a ticket (or hotel) can be pay in part or in full, no minimum amount and without a "step" of 3,000 rubles, as, for example, with Tinkov.

The site travel.open.ru, apparently, works on the basis of the onetwotrip.ru service. The service, in principle, is reliable, I use it, but the price is not always the best. For example, I compared the price of the same ticket through aviasales and travel.open.ru. A ticket worth about 20,000 rubles on the Otkritie website is about 500 rubles more expensive. The same hotel on travel.open and on booking (which I compared at random) costs exactly the same. The minus of the site travel.open.ru is the incomprehensible work of algorithms, in order to find a suitable ticket you have to “dig around”.

I will move on to the tariffs so that you can calculate the benefit of using this card for you. There are two tariffs - Optimal and Premium. As far as I understand, cards of both tariffs - debit.

I will write the "pros" and "cons" of the cards in my opinion.

• It is possible to pay for a ticket or hotel with bonuses in part
• No minimum payment threshold
• Ability to use bonuses 1:1
• A fairly high percentage of bonuses (3-4%)
• The price of air tickets is not much higher than for air sales, the price of hotels is commensurate with the price of booking.
• Free insurance
• Business Lounge Access for Premium Rate
• Normal (medium) requirements for free lounge access
• Unlimited complimentary business lounge access for two (if, as I said, normal average requirements are met)

• Expensive service
• High minimum requirements for the "Optimal" tariff
• The insurance of the “Optimal” tariff does not cover many popular tourist countries, for those who travel not only within the Schengen area, it becomes almost useless.
• Most of the bonuses for the Premium fare seem far-fetched to me (transfer, baggage packing)

Co-branded card Aeroflot - Sberbank

I would call this card the most patriotic))) I think you can guess why. Nevertheless, jokes are jokes, namely, I had such a card before I started using it. I must say that it was with the help of this card (+ Alfa Bank's Aeroflot card) that I managed to save about 40,000 rubles on flights over several years.

When choosing a card, be guided by your conditions, calculate which card will be more profitable, because even just using the “correct” bank card, you can save a lot of money.

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• Qualifying Miles charged for each flight.
• How many miles will be credited, depends on such factors as: air ticket price, flight class and flight distance.
• Each airline has its own table and scale followed by the accrual of miles.
• Some airlines count segments or miles per year, after which they give a higher status, thereby opening up new privileges (a business lounge becomes available, priority in boarding and check-in for a flight, an increase luggage space, upgrade when flying business class).
• Most often, airlines show the status of their customers with cards., which have a platinum, gold or silver color.
• With the help of accumulated miles, not only you can fly, but also to your friends and relatives, during the flight only fuel is paid, or the flight is completely free, depending on the rules of the company.
• You can use miles to pay for fuel surcharges in business class at the price of economy class. But there are cases when it is more expensive to fly in business class due to the fact that the business elite is served, most often this happens when flying from Great Britain to another country.

Not only air tickets help in earning miles, there are other options.

The easiest and fastest way is a profitable plastic card from the partner bank of the airline, where miles will be credited for each purchase on a monthly basis.

Such miles can be used, but they will not be considered as qualifying miles, that is, they will not help in purchasing one of the cards issued by the airline.

Miles can also be earned from airline partners such as hotels, car parks.

Miles are spent both on air tickets and on other goods and services provided by the airline.

The partners of the airline have catalogs available from which you can choose a product or service for the accumulated bonuses.

Popular Aeroflot destinations

What are airline bonus programs?

Many airlines offer a bonus program to their customers.

Depending on how often you fly, miles are accumulated, which can then be spent on any airline service up to purchase free ticket, that's the whole point.

Even in those cases when you are not a frequent guest on the plane, you still need to issue a card. You can issue it on the company's website, while you will not owe anything to the aviation service.

To receive bonuses when ordering a ticket, you just need to name your bonus card number and miles will be credited automatically.

Benefits of the program:

Program disadvantages:

• From time to time the miles burn out, this occurs after two calendar years of not using the card.
• Most often, the ticket cannot be completely free.. In any case, you will have to pay fuel costs, and this is approximately 20% of the ticket price.
• Accumulated miles are not converted into cash.

How to become a member of the bonus company?

In order to become a member of the bonus program, you must fill out an electronic or paper form, which can be done directly both on board the aircraft and through the official website of the airline.

The bank in which the combined branding card is issued automatically opens an account in this bonus program.

What is a temporary card and how is it different from a permanent one?

As soon as the participant enters the bonus program, he receives a temporary card.

Most often, you will be given a printout showing your account number, membership number, and last name.

The airline sends a plastic permanent card a little later by mail, but sometimes you need to meet certain conditions to receive it, for example, to receive such a card from Aeroflot-Bonus, you need to collect about two thousand miles.

Practically, a temporary bonus card is no different from a permanent one; you can also accumulate miles with it.

The main thing is to indicate the correct number when you purchase a ticket personally from the cashier or on the airline's website.

How to earn miles for a flight?

Earning miles per flight is very easy. To do this, you just need to enter your card number, regardless of whether it is temporary or permanent, when purchasing a ticket, whether it is done via the Internet or directly from the cashier.

It is also possible to enter the card number when checking in for a flight.

If you did not enter the card number immediately and did not do this during check-in, you can do it later by restoring your flight after it has been completed.

To do this, you must send all the necessary documentation to the airline, and in case of purchase electronic ticket, you just need a ticket from registration.

Each airline makes a "Personal Account" on its website for all participants of the bonus program. All you need to get into it is to enter your personal number and password.

The "Personal Account" will display all the information on your flights and how many miles you have on this moment on the bonus account.

What miles do Aeroflot-Bonus have?

After a temporary or permanent card, the accumulation of miles starts.

The Aeroflot-Bonus program has two types of miles accumulation: qualified and non-qualified.

Qualifying miles are acquired during the purchase of a flight ticket directly by the company or partner companies. These miles can be used to earn an award flight. But that's not all, qualifying miles are also required to upgrade your status in the rewards program.

When registering with Aeroflot-Bonus, only a standard membership card is issued.

In order to move to the next level - the Silver member, you need to collect about 2,500 bonus miles in one calendar year.

With the increase in status, the level of service also increases: more space for baggage, better attitude at check-in and baggage check-in, there is also the possibility of priority selection in business class or a seat in first class.

Level up to Gold by purchasing more favorable conditions you can for 50,000 bonus miles.

Using the services of program partners, you can purchase non-qualifying miles, with a unique opportunity to receive special offer, which is sent to the mail, or it can also be seen in the "Personal Account" in the "Special Offer" section.

Such miles are spent on awards.

How to earn and how to spend miles?

The fastest way to earn miles with the Aeroflot-Bonus program is by flying constantly on flights of this company or partner companies.

Miles per flight are awarded depending on which class the flight is made, distance, and your status is standard, silver or gold.

There is also a decent mile accumulation system. You can get a number of miles equal to the distance between your city and Moscow, but it should not be less than 500 miles.

Conditions in bonus programs may change from time to time, so there is a special calculator for calculating bonus miles.

You can also earn points with regular daily purchases.

The Aeroflot-Bonus affiliate program includes seven banks, including Sberbank.

You can use miles for flights, hotel reservations, parking, shopping, and you can simply donate them to charity.

In order to spend Aeroflot miles, go to your personal account at this LINK.

When purchasing tickets for award miles, only the fuel surcharge is paid, which is usually 20% of the total ticket price.

Buying or selling bonus miles from Aeroflot

There is an exchange that cooperates with many airlines. It is through such an exchange that you can sell or purchase bonus miles.

Many people use such exchanges in order to prevent their accumulated miles from burning out. How to upgrade the class of service? How many miles do you need to earn for this?

In order to upgrade from economy to business class, you must use a ticket.

It happens very often that the miles for the purchased economy class ticket are not enough to improve the level of service.

Aeroflot-Bonus miles are credited in in large numbers if you fly on an Aeroflot flight from Moscow or St. Petersburg to the Europe 1 and Europe 2 zones in the amount of 20,000 and 25,000 for the round trip.

You can also buy tickets from partner companies, you can issue them both in one direction and in both. You can get more miles for such a flight.

Gifting award and bonus miles to Aeroflot

Many are interested in the question of whether it is possible to give miles?

It is possible, the procedure is similar to buying or selling bonus miles.

The only difference is that during the donation they do not receive a reward.

When receiving an award ticket, the owner of bonus miles must issue it to the person to whom they want to give.

The procedure is carried out at least two days before the expected date of departure.

What to remember when you earn Aeroflot miles?

Be aware that miles can burn out.

When do the accumulated miles expire?

Accumulated miles under the Aeroflot bonus system expire within two years.

Miles expire when there is no flight. Non-qualifying miles do not count.

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How much is a mile worth?

Price per mile depends on distance, ticket price and fuel surcharge.

The price per mile does not include the fuel surcharge, as this surcharge is payable upon receipt of an award ticket.

On average, when paying for an air ticket in miles, 1 mile = 1 ruble.

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Many airlines provide a cumulative loyalty system, thanks to which you can get a very profitable bonus. This program may be of interest to those whose activities involve frequent flights due to business trips. In fact, miles are the units by which the air carrier evaluates customer loyalty.

These programs are very similar to storage systems many large supermarkets, where points ("miles") are awarded to the customer for the purchase of goods (tickets). In the future, they can be spent on other goods (exchanged for another ticket or book a hotel, rent a car).

Bonus "miles" from low-cost airlines are 2 and status. The first are the category of bonuses that can be spent on purchasing a ticket or upgrading the class of service. These bonuses have an expiration date, after which they expire. They are valid from 20 to 36 months, during this period they must be completely spent. Status "miles" can also be exchanged for various awards. They affect the status of their owner. The more such "miles" on the client's account, the more important person he becomes. "Miles" of this category are reset to zero after a year.

A little history of the program

This system of gaining advantageous advantages originated in the company 15 years ago, in 1999, but Aeroflot is not a pioneer in this bonus program. For the first time, loyal customers of Transaero airlines got the opportunity to enjoy benefits from participation in it 4 years earlier.

In the last decade, there has been a rapid development of the bonus program, new relevant opportunities have appeared in it, because of this, it was possible to attract 500 thousand customers. The opportunity to participate in it was provided not only to Russian citizens, but also to foreigners who used the services of this airline.

Brief description of the bonus system

The essence of the program to support loyal customers is as follows: for each flight on comfortable aircraft companies will receive certain bonuses. After purchasing an Aeroflot airline ticket, "miles" are credited to the member's account. Their number depends on a number of the following factors: the total flight distance, the selected class of service, the current status of the program member.

Who can be eligible to participate in this bonus system?

Registration in the Aeroflot Bonus system is a simple procedure, age and citizenship do not matter. Children under the age of 12 must declare their participation in a similar subprogram "Aeroflot Bonus Junior". Apart from the name, it has no special differences. Aeroflot's rules on how to spend "miles" and accumulate them change periodically. In order to have these bonuses, you need to declare your participation in the system.

Program Participation Rules

It is very easy to become an official Aeroflot Bonus member. There are 3 convenient ways, you can use any of them:

• submit the completed application form to the nearest Aeroflot representative office or an authorized point of sale;
• fill out an online application on the official website of the company;
• become the owner of any partner card of the program, for example, Sberbank issues "miles" for Aeroflot. How to spend them is described below.

Any of the listed methods requires the submission of the passport data of the future participant, his detailed contact and personal information. After registration, an individual number is issued in the system.

The client becomes a full-fledged member of the bonus program in the event that more than 2000 "miles" are accumulated on the account. Upon reaching this level, a plastic card of the official participant with an individual number is issued, it also contains the full name. owner. The card is delivered by mail to the specified address. After accumulating the required number of award points, their owner will already know exactly how to spend "miles". "Aeroflot Bonus" is really a very profitable and convenient system.

Varieties of bonus "miles"

Now it is very important to understand the questions of how to spend Aeroflot "miles" and accumulate them, as well as what varieties there are.

This company has two main types of points:

• "Miles" of a qualifying type, which are credited directly for completed air travel. The client receives these bonuses not only for the purchase of tickets for existing Aeroflot flights, but also for the purchase travel documents from partner companies. Each declared partner has its own restrictions and certain rules, each Aeroflot client needs to familiarize themselves with them. How to spend "miles" wisely? This question worries every participant. With the help of qualification-type bonuses, it is possible to make a free flight by exchanging them for the desired ticket, upgrade your class of service or status level in the program itself.
• Bonus miles of a non-qualifying type, which are credited for the purchase of various goods and the use of services from partner companies. For this type of promotion, the conditions and procedure for their accrual are constantly changing. How to spend the accumulated "miles"? Aeroflot offers only one way for this type of bonuses - obtaining various benefits during registration and during the flight. In order to spend premium bonuses, you must first accumulate them over a certain point in time.

Accumulation methods

The main ways to get the coveted "miles":

• It is necessary to fly on flights of the same airline or with the help of its partners. This is the easiest way to save, it is ideal for those who often travel due to business trips or visit relatives. This method is also relevant for fans of a particular country for recreation. For such tourists, you can choose the most optimal bonus program, which allows you to significantly save money without changing your plans.
• Purchase of goods and services from the main partners of the program (payment for hotels, car rental, restaurant meals). They are much more profitable to rent a car or stay in a comfortable hotel from the list presented. Additional "miles" are assigned to the card for purchased services.
• Use of special bank cards. Many large banking organizations offer favorable debit or credit cards for the convenience of their customers. credit cards which help to fly profitably. By making purchases, a certain percentage of the amount spent is credited to the client's personal "mile" account. For example, for every dollar or euro spent, 1 "mile" is added to the account. These "miles" are premium, they can be exchanged and spent, but they do not affect the upgrade of the status.

Additional sources of accumulation

Many companies reward their customers with extra "miles" in the following cases:

• during the initial entry into the program, welcome "miles" are accrued;
• holiday "miles" are issued to reward loyal customers on their birthday;
• you can get "miles" for activity in social networks - for writing reviews, participating in various contests, games or quizzes from the airline;
• additional "miles" are issued for subscribing to the company's newsletter;
• "miles" purchased on the website of the air carrier or from other holders of bonus cards.

Many customers accumulate "miles" in the hope of receiving certain benefits. Aeroflot also has a similar support program for its loyal customers. With the help of bonuses, it is possible to get real benefits for those who fly frequently. When accumulating bonuses, many people have a question about what Aeroflot miles can be spent on. Let's try to answer it.

Where to use bonuses?

These "miles" are credited by Aeroflot for regular flights, their amount depends on the distance traveled by the client by air, as well as on the class of service. Each member of the reward program is given a certain status, which also affects the amount of bonus "miles". The conditions of the program are subject to frequent changes; for a more accurate calculation of possible savings, Aeroflot offers a "miles" calculator.

You can spend bonuses at your discretion. It is also offered to accumulate them in the course of making purchases, when the payment is made using a card of a partner bank. Many leading financial institutions of the country are actively involved in this program. Sberbank also offers special "Airport bonus". Bonuses are awarded for opening a new card, each dollar spent adds one bonus "mile" to the card.

Everyone can take advantage of all the benefits of cooperation with Aeroflot. How to spend "miles" from Sberbank, all holders of bonus cards also need to know. Bonus units are spent in a standard way: for a free flight by this airline or its official partners, for the next increase in client status, for booking hotels or renting a car. Moreover, these conditions apply almost all over the world. Now another direction has become popular. How to spend "miles" of "Aeroflot" for the benefit of others? With their help, you can participate in a special charity program, helping those in need.

What are qualifying bonuses used for?

The "miles" of the qualifying type accumulated on the account must be spent in one of the proposed ways, otherwise the client risks losing all the benefits from their use. What you can spend "miles" "Aeroflot":

• Become the owner of an award ticket on an operating flight of one of the partner companies that is part of the SkyTeam group. All commission fees are paid by the passenger.
• Optionally upgrade your current class of service. By purchasing an economy class discount ticket, it is possible to use all business class privileges when paying with bonus "miles".
• Pay bills of partner companies.

This is the main thing you need to know for those who have an Aeroflot accumulative bonus card. How to spend "miles" and what they are for, we examined in detail.

Privileged statuses of program participants

The client receives a full right to participate in the program at the time of the initial accumulation of 2000 bonus "miles". After fulfilling this condition, he is issued a basic member card. There are 2 more privileged statuses - silver and gold. They are called SkyTeam Elite and SkyTeam Elite Plus.

To obtain a SkyTeam Elite Silver Card, a client needs to accumulate 25,000 miles in a calendar year, and 50,000 miles to acquire Gold status. When a client reaches a new level, his card is automatically replaced with an individual one of the appropriate design and color. Such programs are beneficial for those customers who fly regularly throughout the year. For those who travel by plane from time to time, it will not be easy to accumulate the necessary points. When registering for participation in the airline's program, it is important to know where to spend the bonuses. Aeroflot offers to use "miles" in different ways.

Ability to buy and sell premium bonuses

Of course, in the literal sense, bonuses are not subject to sale and purchase. But there are times when a client has accumulated the required number of "miles" to purchase a ticket, but for some reason he cannot use them. In this case, you should agree with another person so that the ticket is not lost. This way you can redeem your accumulated points. This is another option available to Aeroflot customers.

How to spend "miles" if the trip fell through? Look for someone to sell a ticket to. Points in this case do not burn out, but appear in the form of a cash equivalent. But there is one more nuance here: in order to avoid fraud, it is advisable to carry out all operations in special sales centers of the air carrier.

The procedure for donating award miles from Aeroflot

How to spend "miles"? You can give them to your loved ones, relatives. The whole procedure takes place according to the scheme described above, only the owner does not receive any remuneration, and the ticket is issued free of charge. The ticket goes to the addressee. You will also need the personal passport details of the person to whom the award ticket is addressed. You also need to present the card and provide all the data of the donor. There is one limitation here: the client can give away his accumulated points no more than 10 times a year. This is perhaps the most recent answer to the question of where to spend bonuses. Aeroflot distributes "miles" to the most active and loyal customers.

How to understand the system of miles and accumulate them as efficiently as possible?

The shortest answer to this question is just be able to count quickly and correctly. All airline loyalty programs are somehow built on mathematical models, so only numbers rule the show here.

The behavior model should be the following:

Choose the international air alliance that suits you. There are three of them - Skyteam, Oneworld and Star Alliance. The first two are represented in Russia by Aeroflot and S7 Airlines, the third in Russia does not have a partner airline. An alliance is a kind of association of several dozen airlines, flying with which you can not only earn bonus miles, but also spend them). It's comfortable. In Russia, the majority votes for Aeroflot, which means they prefer Skyteam airlines (Air France, Delta, KLM and others), but if flights from Russia with transfers or directly are not critical for you, then Oneworld (American Airlines, British Airways, Cathay Pacific and others) and S7 Airlines deserves attention.

Having chosen an alliance, and with it a specific airline and its loyalty program, calculate how many flights you will have per year and in what classes. This is important for several reasons.

First, you will understand how many miles you can earn and what you can spend them on. The game is simple - than more expensive ticket, the more bonus miles. But this does not mean at all that it is advisable to buy the most expensive ticket. Often fares slightly cheaper can be more interesting in terms of mile/price. Some even like to fly at the cheapest fares, since some airlines, such as Aeroflot and S7 Airlines, still accrue the minimum number of miles, regardless of the flight distance (minimum 500). By the way, in order not to go to the websites of a bunch of airlines, there are convenient services for checking the number of miles per flight, like Wheretocredit and 30k.

Secondly, you will understand if you are getting elite status. You can treat it differently, but it provides many benefits - from saving time on check-in at the airport (due to dedicated counters for business, for example) to saving money due to the possibility free transportation baggage or access to business lounges. Given the trend among airlines to introduce baggage-free fares, an extra piece of luggage is definitely not superfluous today.

Don't forget bank cards. Many airlines in Russia have co-branded cards with banks that allow you to earn additional miles for purchases. For every 40-50-60 rubles, depending on the bank and the loyalty program, you can get one bonus mile. Whether you're a frequent flyer or not, the card is needed simply because it will earn you miles every month, which comes in handy when you're missing a few thousand miles for an award ticket. Choose a bank and open a card. For many, this is a real gold mine - they fly little, but spend a lot on bank cards.

Take advantage of additional features. Many loyalty programs provide extra miles for hundreds of different services, from online shopping to hotel stays and car rentals. Do not forget to check the information about this on the website of your loyalty program. Moreover, some partners make it possible to score points not for money, but for reviews. So Tripadvisor gives Aeroflot or S7 Airlines miles for hotel and restaurant reviews, HolidayCheck gives Miles & Smiles miles for hotel reviews, and Turkish Airlines miles can be earned by leaving a hotel review on the Gezi website. This is a very simple and easy way to earn the required number of miles for a year without getting up from your computer. award ticket. Agree - great, go flying from your own sofa.

Spend wisely. As I said above, miles are mathematics, and at any time the model may change and not for the better. Therefore, among those who often use bonus miles, there is an unspoken rule to constantly use them - at least once a year, or even more often. Of course, you can try to save up for a bonus ticket to Australia in five years, but who will guarantee that during this time the rules of the program will not change for the worse and you will have to accumulate miles for several more years? So set goals for earning miles each year and reward yourself with tickets for your summer vacation or the May holidays, for example. Do not forget that many loyalty programs, Aeroflot or Air France have special sales when you can buy bonus tickets with a significant discount, up to 40%. Subscribe to the airline's newsletters and follow the special forums so as not to miss such promotions.

Remember that a bonus ticket is not free - you always need to pay part of the fees and taxes. Unfortunately, they are often slightly higher or approximately equal to the cost of a paid air ticket, so always check the cost of a regular ticket before buying. Sometimes the difference is so small that it is easier to buy a ticket for money, and leave the bonus miles until the next time.

That's actually all. If you fly more than a couple of times a year, are ready to use bank cards and write reviews, and most importantly, you know how to count and know where you want to spend your award miles - this game is for you. It's not worth it to do everything else - waste your time in vain. Pleasant and profitable travel!

Anyone can register in the Nordavia Airlines Reward Program by filling out an application for participation on the official website of Nordavia Airlines www.nordavia.ru. When registering for the program, each member receives 500 welcome miles as a gift. To register in the program, you must provide passport data. After registration, a personal account is automatically opened for the participant and a card number is assigned in the Nordavia reward program.

The program member earns miles as a percentage of the actual distance in miles between the airports of departure and arrival and depending on the fare indicated in the ticket. Accumulated miles can be redeemed for award tickets. So, for example, for a flight from Moscow to Murmansk at the "Light" fare, 474 miles will be credited to the bonus account of a program participant. According to the "Discount" tariff, 711 miles are already accrued.

All miles accrued under the Nordavia reward program are valid during the year in which the flight was made and the next 2 (two) calendar years. If the member is active during the current year (at least 1 flight has been completed), miles that expire at the end of the current year are extended for the next calendar year.

An award ticket can be issued for any Nordavia destination. At will, the participant can issue an award ticket both for himself and for any other person specified by him. Miles can be redeemed once a member has accumulated enough miles in their account to purchase an award ticket.

At the request of the client, when buying a round-trip ticket, a one-way ticket can be paid for with bonus miles, and the second, in reverse side, for money.

It is not difficult to take part in the airline's bonus program, it is enough to go through a simple registration. But getting real benefit from it is not easy. You really need to fly a lot in order to eventually exchange bonuses for free ticket. In my case, frequent flights are a feature of the profession. Recently, we filmed miners for two months. There were frequent flights from Moscow to Khabarovsk and Vladivostok. In two months, 40,000 bonus miles have been accumulated. And for these miles, under the Aeroflot bonus program, I purchased a free ticket to Cyprus. My wife has a bank card with the Aeroflot Bonus program. We did repairs and bought all the necessary materials and interior items from this card. And miles were earned for every purchase. As a result, we flew to Cyprus for free with the whole family back and forth.

But it is worth noting that if a person lives on a salary, does not build a house, does not repair an apartment, flies to rest once, twice a year, then for the most cheap ticket he will have to accumulate bonuses for quite a long time. Keep in mind that airlines change their rules all the time. So three years ago a ticket to Cyprus cost 20,000 miles, and this year it has risen in price to 40,000 miles. And next year, I'm sure it will cost all 50,000. There is only one conclusion. The bonus program is beneficial for people of certain professions, such as designers who make a lot of purchases with their card, as well as those who often fly on business trips. After all, even if the employer pays for the ticket, bonuses are accrued directly to the passenger upon check-in for the flight.

Anyone can become a member of the S7 Priority frequent flyer program. To do this, just fill out a form on the airline's website.

Miles are credited to the program member's account for flights operated by S7 Airlines and other global airlines. aviation alliance oneworld, including American Airlines, British Airways, Airberlin, Iberia, Qatar Airways, JAL, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas and others, as well as Emirates airlines. To earn miles, you must indicate your program membership number when purchasing a ticket or checking in for a flight. Also, the member can recover miles for already completed flights within 365 days after the flight.

You can earn miles faster by paying with co-branded cards of partner banks - Alfa-Bank, UniCreditBank or Promsvyazbank. For any purchases made on joint map, the passenger is credited with bonus miles. Bonus miles do not bring the member closer to earning elite status, unlike the qualifying ones received for flights, but they can be used to issue award tickets.

Bonus miles are also credited for using the services of numerous other partners of the program - hotels, car rental companies, insurance companies, retail chains, online stores and others.

Miles have an expiration date. Until the end of the year in which the flight was made, and for two more calendar years. If a passenger stops flying with S7 Airlines, then after this period the miles will expire. But S7 Priority specialists usually remind the member in advance that the miles will expire soon, and then the passenger can fly and keep his miles. If a passenger flies frequently, then his miles do not burn out. Miles also do not expire if you accumulate at least 5,000 miles per year on a co-branded card.

in general, 4 miles are credited on VTB for every 35 rubles spent from a debit card (for example, 1 mile for 50 rubles in savings, in general, the most disgusting and inconvenient conditions in savings). On credit plus another 6,000 welcome miles and double miles on birthdays and abroad. For understanding, a Moscow-New York ticket (round-trip) costs approximately 74,000 miles (you need to spend 647,500 rubles).

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