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Lifemiles sale is back with 125% bonus

Buy Lifemiles at 1.47 cents per mile.

Lifemiles are on sale again from now till 30 May with a 100% base bonus.

Depending on how much you buy, you enjoy an additional bonus that can be as high as 125%

  • 1,000-50,000 LifeMiles, 100% bonus (1.65 cents per mile)*
  • 51,000-100,000 LifeMiles, 115% bonus (~1.535 cents per mile)*
  • 101,000-200,000 LifeMiles, 125% bonus (~1.467 cents per mile)*

*all prices above in USD

Is this the best deal Iโ€™ve ever seen? Nope. in recent memory, Lifemiles have gone at sale with bonuses as high as 140%

  • December 2016- 140%
  • November 2016- 140%
  • September 2016- 140%
  • May 2016- 135%

So 1.467 cents per mile isnโ€™t a terrible price to jump in, but if youโ€™re willing to wait there will be better deals. To put things in perspective, a one-way business/first class award ticket to the USA costs 78K/99K miles, so the savings if you wait for a 140% sale would be $72/$91 respectively. Actually, now that I say it aloud, it doesnโ€™t sound like that big a saving.

If you want to buy, login to your Lifemiles account and click on Buy Miles. Youโ€™ll see this screen. Click on โ€œotherโ€ to enter the amount you want to buy, and youโ€™ll see the summary of the transaction on the RHS.

A few points to remember

  • You can buy a maximum of 200,000 LMs a year, before bonus. So, if you havenโ€™t bought any now, you could buy 200,000 LM and get a total of 450,000
  • Lifemiles purchases will code as airline purchases (Avianca), so if you use your DBS Altitude card you will earn 3 mpd. Or you could use your DBS Womanโ€™s World/ HSBC Advance, both of which will get 4 mpd.
  • Lifemiles cancellation fees have recently increased up to 4X what they were previously. It used to be that you could cancel a Lifemiles ticket for US$50, now itโ€™s as high as US$200 depending on route. This makes booking LM tickets as a precaution more expensive
  • Hereโ€™s the Lifemiles award chart for your reference
  • Lifemiles does not charge fuel surcharges on award tickets

Iโ€™m also gonna copy pasta some advice Iโ€™ve given in previous articles

You should not be buying Lifemiles if your goal is to fly with SQ. This is because

(1) Lifemiles (and other *A partner programs) does not have access to SQโ€™s long haul First and Business class space. You will at best be able to book SQโ€™s regional business class seats on the A330

(2) SQ awards are cheaper to redeem through the Krisflyer program than via Lifemiles

Itโ€™s also not a good idea to buy Lifemiles speculatively.

That said, if youโ€™re cognizant of all the potential shortcomings of Lifemiles and have a place in mind to head to, why not give it a shot?

Aaron Wong
Aaron Wong
Aaron founded The Milelion to help people travel better for less and impress chiobu. He was 50% successful.

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rtw

How about buying Lifemiles for SQ J RTW (via *A)? Is it worth it?

Leo

Off my mind.. Annual cap is 200k.. If I buy 101k now.. Next round of promo Iโ€™ll suffer as I can only buy 99k..

Another off my mind, can take part in the promo twice? DBS altitude card got 6 miles promo now.. But capped at 5k spending

Leo

Haha.. I wasnโ€™t thinking out of the box.. Tks Aaron.. Btw, then if I were to buy some miles now and then by end May buy more miles, is it eligible? Donโ€™t seem to see this in the tnc.. Tks bro

S

Hi Aaron, by SQ regional flights, do you mean for Asia and SEA?

Iโ€™m planning on Japan later half of the year, but Iโ€™m not sure if a 7 hour flight needs business class travel ?

S

Ahhaha thanks for your replies and info! Iโ€™ve looked around Lifemiles and alas, there are no good business class tickets to Tokyo thatโ€™s on ANA or SQ. Would ticket availability be better if I had been looking for a year end flight?

And thanks for your site, itโ€™s been immensely helpful as Iโ€™m wading through the โ€œearning milesโ€ scene. And itโ€™s been pretty eye opening!

XT

Hi Aaron, how you check which SQ 777-300ER flight routes have the refreshed seats, and which havenโ€™t got it yet? Thanks!

SCM

Interesting! My email says 1-50k-10%, 51K-100K-25% and 101k-200K -35% bonus.

Leo

Would have bought it if it came a few weeks earlier.. Flying to Tokyo Tmr on economy ticket.. Bought tickets just 2 weeks ago

Ang

what good airline to redeem through lifemiles? ANA? or other loyalty airline?

Ant

hi Aaron,

iโ€™m considering flying to western europe over the new year period. was trying my luck with london but seems like the only option i got for j class is via turkish airlines. any recommended country to fly to with good j class flights?

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