Avianca LifeMiles award sale promotion: Buy 2 get 1 free to South and Central America, 20% off flights to Europe

Avianca LifeMiles members, listen up: The airline is currently offering two limited-time promotions Deals on award flights to South, Central America and Europe — but you have to book this deal before July 4th.

LifeMiles is a transfer partner of American Express Membership Rewards, Bilt Rewards, Capital One Mile, Citi ThankYou Rewards And Wells Fargo RewardsSo now might be a great time to transfer your hard-earned points to your LifeMiles account to redeem for an epic vacation this fall.

Two-for-one reward flights to South and Central America

From now through July 4, you can get a buy-one-get-one-free cashback offer on award flights to select destinations in South and Central America. That means for every two tickets you book, Miles of life will reimburse mileage for one of them.

Here are all the details:

• Applicable to LifeMiles members residing in the United States only
• You must book before 23:59 GMT on 4 July.
• Flights must take place between September 1 and October 31.
• Flights may include connections and may be one-way or round-trip, but stopovers are not allowed.
• Flights must be booked directly through the Avianca website. (You can also order through a call center or sales department, but it will cost you between $25 and $80.)

The promotion includes flights from several major cities in the United States and Canada: Miami, Orlando, New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, and Ontario. Destinations include select cities in Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Guatemala. You can see the full list of eligible flights on Avianca website.

Award flights on these routes start at 5,550 miles one-way, so you could technically pay as little as 2,775 miles per person to get to your destination with this discounted mileage deal. You’ll still have to pay taxes and fees, so be sure to use a credit card to claim the above rewards buy air.

Remember that this offer is offered as a cashback and not a discount. That means you must have enough LifeMiles in your account to book all your tickets (you can buy miles if you need more) and the airline will refund the miles you paid for every second ticket after you fly.

So if you book two tickets, you’ll get miles back for one of them; if you book four tickets, you’ll get miles back for two. If you book three tickets, you’ll only get miles back for one. The tickets must be booked together to get the discount.

Related: The best Latin American cities to use your points and miles

20% off LifeMiles award tickets to Europe

LifeMiles is also offering 20% ​​off award flights from Miami and Los Angeles to Paris, London, Madrid, and Barcelona. Again, you’ll have to pay the full price of your ticket, and 20% of the miles you paid will be refunded after you fly.

Here’s the fine print:

• Applies to all LifeMiles members (not just those residing in the US).
• Reservations must be made by 11:59pm GMT on 4 July.
• Flights must take place between September 16 and November 10.
• Flights may include connections and may be one-way or round-trip, but no transit stops are allowed.
• Flights must be booked directly through Avianca’s website. (You can also book through a call center or sales office, but you’ll be charged a fee ranging from $25 to $80.)

This deal isn’t as attractive as the BOGO deal mentioned above, but it’s worth considering if you’re considering a trip next fall. Europe. Award flights on sales route starting at 44,000 LifeMiles one-way, so you’ll save at least 8,800 miles per ticket.

Related: The most wonderful European cities in autumn

However, if you hold a Amex card – such as American Express Platinum Card® or American Express® Gold Cardthat earn Membership bonus points are transferable — between now and June 30, you can get a 15% bonus when you transfer your Amex points to Avianca LifeMiles. Therefore, 1,000 Membership Rewards points are worth 1,150 LifeMiles, meaning you can transfer 39,000 Amex points to accumulate 44,850 LifeMiles. Then, if you book a flight from Miami to London with 44,000 miles, you’ll get a miles refund of 8,800 miles for a one-way ticket.

Note that this transfer bonus is done through Avianca, so it will not be reflected in your American Express account. You should see the bonus reflected in your LifeMiles account within 24 hours of transferring the points. Again, this transfer bonus end on June 30.

Overall, if you want to take advantage of one of these LifeMiles deals, act fast—they’ll be gone by July 4.

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