Renewal of s7 miles. How miles are accumulated

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Many major airlines provide their customers with bonus programs. S7 Airlines, which created . This is a program that is based on the principle of accruing bonuses in the form of "miles" for air services. A great opportunity opens up for users, as miles can be accumulated and used as payment for air tickets. Thus, it turns out that you can fly to anywhere in the world for free.

How many miles do you need and priority destinations

approximate cost one ticket is 6,000 miles. It may increase depending on the flight distance. Buying an award ticket will cost the airline's customers the same amount. You can issue it, both for yourself and for your relatives or friends. To upgrade the service class from Economy to Business, you will need to pay 3,500 bonus points.

All new users who open cards and become members of this program receive starting miles. They are also awarded for some flights, and sometimes even as a birthday present. Another example is the provision of 1,000 miles to children who are flying for the first time. Received bonuses can be transferred to other accounts or donated.

What you need to do to earn extra miles:

S7 Airlines customers can receive the first 500 bonuses for completing online registration in the S7 Priority program.
Another 2,000 will be credited to those users who perform the first operation.
A large amount of bonuses, in the amount of 6,000, is given for paying for purchases in the amount of 15,000 rubles / month. Under the terms of this promotion, the payment must take place within a year and must be done with a Visa card.
Another way to get 4,700 miles for free is to buy a ticket on the route Ufa - Surgut - Ufa.
300 bonuses are given for renting vehicles from I'way. In this case, the car must go from the airport or to it.
One of the easiest ways to fund your account is to write a trip review. You can do this on the website tripadvisor.ru.

As mentioned above, the most cheap ticket worth 6,000 miles. If we take the starting point of Moscow as an example, then this amount is enough for a flight to St. Petersburg, Krasnodar, Kazan or Yekaterinburg. If you accumulate more than 8,000 miles, you can visit Sochi, Simferopol, Tbilisi or Baku for free.

In order to go even further, for example, to such European cities like Berlin, Barcelona, Alicante or Vienna, you will need to have at least 10,000 bonuses on your card. If you have accumulated even more miles on your account, for example 12,000, this is enough to fly to a city in central Russia, such as Tomsk, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk or Krasnoyarsk.

How to buy a ticket with miles

In fact, the buying guide in this bonus program is very simple and does not differ much from the acquisition in the classical way.

How to become a member of S7 Priority?

First of all, you need to register on the official website of the company.
Issue your own card from a partner bank.
Call 8-800-100-77-11 and register. This is the phone number of the S7 Priority program service center. Calls to hotline are free.

The next step in buying a ticket with miles is to accumulate the required amount of bonuses. To find out how many bonuses are in your account, you need to call the service center or visit your personal account. In the event that the required amount has already been collected on the card, you can proceed directly to buying a ticket. You can buy it in two ways.

The first way is to order online:

You need to visit the official website of the S7 company and go through authorization.
In find the section "Order a Prize". It will contain an item that will allow you to send a request to book a ticket.
Enter the date, e-mail, direction, passenger information and select the desired airline.
Pass confirmation if the selected number is free.
Pay the service fee. You can do it on the website
Upon successful completion of the operation, an electronic ticket will be sent to the e-mail specified during registration.

The second way is to purchase through the S7 Priority Service Center. To do this, you need to call 8-800-100-77-11 and inform the company's employees about the intention to exchange bonus miles. Follow the instructions given by the operator.

Is it possible to partially pay for a ticket with miles?

Unfortunately, the system of the bonus program is designed in such a way that it excludes the possibility of paying in installments. This means that you cannot use the existing part of the miles, and pay the missing amount with real money.

Large banks and airlines are fighting for the attention of the consumer, enticing him with various gingerbread. From literal sweets to other freebies, they try to win you over and s7 is no exception. So, there are special s7 miles, identical to the bonus programs that almost every major bank has at its disposal. But in their acquisition and use, there are some features that can mislead an unprepared user.

The company itself is a member of the Oneworld international alliance, and what it is and what advantages it brings for you, we will describe below. It already includes more than 15 different airlines, but, in addition to them, c7 also has other counterparties around the world, most of them travel agencies.

When paying for the services of the company itself or its counterparty, you receive a small percentage deduction - bonuses, which, in fact, are a cashback from each operation performed by the user. It can be combined with bonus cards and get even more benefits, but such credit cards there are also disadvantages. Let's figure out what kind of bonus program it is and how to get the most out of it.

Free airfare by s7

Allows you to get a free air ticket by paying the full cost of the ticket at the expense of cashback. However, this is not the only use of the accumulated funds. And here there is a small nuance, because you can pay only 99 percent of the ticket price using miles, the rest will be deducted from your card.

oneworld + emirates ticket

But why do you need a bonus program that will limit you to a single airline, if you can get a card at a bank, with the ability to spend bonuses as you wish?

First, mileage deductions come at much higher rates than you'll find with c7 competitors. Secondly, you can spend bonuses in all airlines and counterparties of the Oneworld program. These are flights to more than 100 countries of the world, as well as 14 other airlines that can be used as a transfer point.

As a result, you get the opportunity to accumulate and use points all over the world and on any air flight. Thus, you can pay for air travel not only within OneWorld, but also within the Emirates program, which allows you to travel almost all over the world.

Upgrade from economy class to business

Surely, many people do not like flying economy class for many reasons, but they have to do it because paying a few thousand extra for business class seems like a waste of money. However, you can give away part of the bonuses received from flights, namely 6.5 thousand, and increase the class indicated on the ticket. This allows, having flown on vacation and bought tickets back, to fly home already in comfort.

Especially this feature of the program will be convenient for those who need to travel frequently at the expense of the employer, who pays only for the economy class.

Such a system greatly simplifies the life of customers, because the ability not only to buy air tickets, but also to pay for services within the airline, allows you to literally immediately try out the program.

The higher the class of the ticket you buy, the more status bonuses you will receive for purchasing it. But miles are calculated as 10-15 percent of the purchase amount, and are equivalent to 1 ruble in value. That is, all your miles can be conditionally converted into rubles, and in this case, the operations performed with their help will be much easier to calculate and control.

In addition, you can spend bonuses on any actions within the airline and the airport, which allows you not only to pay for your food on the flight, but also to improve flight conditions.

Transfer miles to a friend and charity

However, if for some reason you don’t need bonuses or the employer takes all the expenses on himself without any questions, then the received miles can be transferred to another card and to a friend. And for those who are worried about the prosperity of other people and want to do a good deed, it is proposed to transfer cashback to a charitable organization, because it is still money in a sense.

You should not treat miles as something ephemeral and incomprehensible, because these are literally the same rubles as on your debit card. They are simply presented in the form of other units through which the airline provides cashback from the amount of your expenses.

Miles expire when the client is inactive for a long time, but they can always be transferred to a friend's bonus card. And if this function is not required, then you can simply donate the saved money to charity, thereby giving it to those for whom even a couple of hundred rubles will be a gift. All this allows the client to somehow dispose of the funds received so that they do not burn out without a purpose.

C7 itself cooperates with dozens of charitable foundations, including the Red Cross. Therefore, if you go deep into the topic of charity, then in the comments to the translation you can choose what exactly the money should be spent on. It is worth noting that the funds themselves are not delivered to charitable organizations, but only the purchases made on them. This allows both customers and the airline itself to be sure that the money will not be stolen and will not be used for unnecessary things.

Additional features of S7 Priority

When enough bonuses accumulate, you can either spend in one of the partner companies. c7 cooperates, among other things, with services for booking accommodation, as well as car rental, so free air travel is not the only thing you can count on. The bonuses themselves are of two types:

Status. They affect your conditional level, and the higher it is, the better service and flight conditions will be provided to the client. Naturally, the highest level also affects the percentage of bonus deductions under the miles program.
Miles. The cashback itself, which allows you to spend coins equivalent to 1 ruble in any services related to the airline. There is only a small nuance - you cannot pay the full cost of the goods or the flight with the help of bonuses, as this will interfere with the conclusion of the sales contract. Therefore, only 99 percent of the value of your purchase can be paid with miles, and the rest will need to be laid out from your wallet.

Status points increase your priority as a company customer. The higher it is, the better service is offered to the client. Milli can also be used to extend if you do not use S7 services for a long time, or increase it for a short period in order to experience all the delights of a full-fledged business class in one or two flights and understand whether you need it or not.

I want to tell you one very interesting and exciting story.

How I bought air tickets from s7.
So, I'll start with the fact that I previously preferred to use the services of this particular company. The service was no worse and no better than others, but the fleet consisted only of European aircraft. It pleased. When buying tickets via the Internet, sometimes there were difficulties, but previously they were always solved.
More than a year ago, I decided to join the s7-priority program and started earning miles. The moment has come when the number of miles was enough to buy a ticket. From this moment on, an exciting show begins.

It is impossible to find instructions, a link, and any mention of the possibility of buying a ticket for miles on the s7.ru website. There is a "spend miles" page containing textual information that they can be spent.
After spending 10 minutes searching, using all the options of search queries on the s7 website and Google, having studied the faq section and not finding anything, I called the call center.
After waiting 10 minutes and explaining the situation to the specialist, I received an offer to record the call center phone number s7 priority. He asked me to connect with a new call center. After waiting another ten minutes and talking about my problem, I received a question verbatim: "Have you ever been to our site?!" After some time, they nevertheless helped me and oriented me: we buy tickets for miles on the "Order an award" page.
OK. No problem. Already at this stage, suspecting something was wrong, I asked the specialist in detail about my further actions.
Gentlemen, sit back and listen :-) you will not find this information anywhere on the Internet.
Steps on how to buy a ticket for miles with s7:
1. Enter the interface for buying tickets to the s7 website in the usual way
2. Find the flights you need
3. Call the call center (here it is very useful to write down the direct phone number of the call center. :))
4. Find out if there are tickets under the s7 priority program for the flights you need. If they are not, it is better not to hang up :)
5. Next, go to the site in the section S7 priority to the page "Order a premium"
6. On the page, enter everything manually about the route and the passenger (are you tired yet? Everything is just beginning :))
7. Within 24 hours you will receive a mail containing your details and the cost of the ticket to be paid. Yes! You heard right :) According to experts, this is the cost of airport taxes. In my case, the amount of 1980 rubles was written in the letter. OK. The letter also includes an offer to choose a payment method. There are few options: Call the service center and announce the details of your bank card, or pay the payment in the Svyaznoy salon or at the Qiwi terminal.

I decided not to tempt fate with voicing details over the phone. This method of payment caused me concern.
8. Send an email back with a payment option. Wait for a response with the payment ID.
9. We are trying to pay for tickets through the qiwi wallet website. S7 --> booking payment. Result: System error.
10. We call technical support. We find out that payment via the qiwi Internet service is impossible. Only through the terminal.
11. We go to Svyaznoy. The employee of the Svyaznoy at the checkout is trying to make a payment. Function S7--> booking payment. Result: no connection with the provider. I ask the employee to read the letter. He searches for a long time at the checkout for an opportunity to pay. Booking ID and payment ID contains letters. All Qiwi services support the introduction of only digital identifiers. In the end, he finds an interface where you can enter a payment identifier and announces the cost of the payment 880 rubles. The system interface does not issue any more details. We compare together the cost of the payment from my letter (1980 rubles) and decide that it is not worth paying.
12. I go to the S7 office. 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 28. There are no signs, banners with a combination of the cherished S and 7 on the house.
13. I am looking for an office phone number on the site - they explain to me that I need to find a store selling kitchen utensils, go through the store hall to the second floor. Office s7 is one of 5 tables different airlines in a small shabby room.
14. I start communication with an employee of the company s7. The employee genuinely wants to help me. In her system, it can be seen that the cost of a ticket is 880 rubles. But the letter says something else. This embarrasses her, and we call the call center. In the call center they explain to us that they cannot accept payment to the s7 office, because this ticket of the s7 company is a priority.
I have a strong feeling that someone does not understand something. I insist on making a payment. To which an s7 employee who sincerely wants to help me explains to me that s7 airlines is a large holding. She has an s7-tickets company that sells tickets, she has an s7 priority, and there is also a company that transports animals. And "s7 tickets" can not deal with the transportation of animals, and tickets of the company "s7 priority". OK.
15. I go to the messenger to try my luck. I hope for a miracle. Alas. Attempts by Svyaznoy sellers to accept payment fail. ISP connection error.
16. In another office of the Messenger, the situation repeats itself.
17. Last attempt - Qiwi street terminal: Pay for tickets --> Air carriers --> S7 --> I enter a phone number (the call center confirmed this method of payment). 3-minute wait and transition to the main page of the service. I make 3 attempts. All end badly.
The curtain.

I want to believe that our wonderful airline has problems only in this process.
Results: 5 hours of wasted time, no tickets purchased.
I'm afraid to use the second payment option - it would be very reckless on my part to dictate the details of a credit card to someone from THIS company by phone.

Regular customers Russian airline S7 Airlines can travel even more by becoming members. Having accumulated enough bonus miles on the card, they can be exchanged for tickets, services of the airline and partners (car rental, hotel reservations, purchases). In this way, the company expresses gratitude to passengers for the fact that they constantly give preference to it.

Can I buy a plane ticket using status miles on the S7 official website?

One of the frequently asked questions is, can I redeem miles when I buy an award flight ticket in economy or business class? The answer is yes!

However, in addition to their required number, at least one flight with S7 must be made in the current or past year.

Ticket purchase cost depends on the chosen tariff– “Optimum”, “Priority” and “Promo”.

2. Optimum redeemable redeemable redemption miles for an award flight, but seats are limited.
"Priority" has no such restrictions, but its bonus value is three times higher than the "Optimum" tariff.
"Promo" is valid for economy class flights. Its cost is the lowest, but does not include a ticket refund, regardless of the reason.

In addition to tariffs, premium zones are also taken into account.

Further on the site, you can pre-calculate the amount that will be charged using the service " Miles Calculator". You can find it in the S7 Priority tab in the Earn Miles section. Suitable for calculating S7 flights and partner airlines.

Can I buy miles for money on the S7 Airlines official website?

Traveling again soon, but there are not enough bonuses for an award ticket? Do not be upset: there is a purchase of C7 miles (S7). Only passengers registered in the loyalty program who have made at least one flight with S7 Airlines in the current or last year at the fare included in the miles accrual can buy them in addition. A maximum of 10,000 miles can be purchased per year. The minimum purchase amount is 500. The service is irrevocable, that is, the transaction cannot be canceled. The fee is also non-refundable.

In addition to the official website, there are specialized forums and exchanges where you can buy or sell unnecessary miles at a reasonable price. In such places, the unit cost may be identical to the air carrier's official exchange rate. Sometimes miles are cheaper.

In any case, the transfer of miles is carried out only on the S7 website.

The rules stipulate that you can transfer miles to anyone. So, this way to part with the accumulated bonuses is also suitable.

Miles recovery

If you forgot to show your loyalty card or indicate your account number, and for this reason the flight was left unaccounted for, then you can restore miles on the S7 Airlines website. To do this, you need to go to your personal account, fill out the proposed form and send a request. It is important that the personal data in the ticket match those specified in the member's profile.

The passenger has 6 months to restore the miles if the flight was made on an S7 Airlines flight. A year - in the event that he used the services of a partner airline.

Transfer S7 miles to another person

Registered users have the option to transfer miles to another person. You can transfer up to 10,000 miles from account to account during the year.

The cost of the service for transferring the minimum number of miles (this is 500 miles) is 375 rubles.

To do this, you must have the required number of them on your account and make at least one flight at that moment as a registered member on an S7 flight at a fare participating in the bonus program. The service is non-refundable and cannot be cancelled. The fee for it is non-refundable.

How to donate bonus miles to charity?

You can donate miles to charity in the following ways:

Online form option. In the "S7 Priority" tab, select the "Charity" section. Next, indicate the charitable foundation, the number of miles and click the "Perform transfer" button.
Call the Program Service Center at 8 800 700-90-10.

Miles validity period

The accumulated miles are valid until the end of the year in which the flight was made, and two subsequent ones.

If they are not used or renewed, they will burn out.

If you become an active member, then the validity period is extended for another year.

How to become an active participant?

Take at least one flight with S7 or Oneworld alliance partners at a mileage eligible fare during a calendar year.
Earn at least 5,000 miles (welcome miles do not count).

Miles of members aged 2 to 12 are stored according to different rules - they do not expire and remain on the account when the member stops using children's mile card and begins to be serviced on a general basis.

How to check your miles?

Each S7 Priority member can find out how many miles are on his bonus account. Perhaps they have accumulated enough to use them. The remaining miles on the S7 Priority card can be seen in the profile of your personal account. Below the block with personal information is the block "My miles", which indicates the card number, its type, as well as the balance of miles.

How long does it take to earn miles?

Accrual in progress automatically after flying on S flights 7, if the passenger presented the card or provided the account number during checkout. Some airports are not equipped with an automated passenger departure system. In this case, bonus miles will be credited within 45 days. A prerequisite is that the flight must be made at a fare that is included in the accrual of bonus miles, and the passport data on the ticket must fully match the data specified in the S7 Priority program.