How to spend Aeroflot Bonus miles. How to buy a ticket with Aeroflot miles: how many bonuses are needed, how to spend them Where can you spend Aeroflot bonuses

Many airlines run bonus programs, and Aeroflot is no exception. Program "Aeroflot Bonus" has been operating since 1999, and, according to the company itself, in 2009 the number of participants exceeded one and a half million. The bottom line is that for each ticket purchased and the use of services of partner organizations, the passenger is credited with points - miles - to his bonus account. The number of points varies depending on the class, flight distance and other factors. You can also earn Aeroflot miles for making purchases in certain stores, subscribing to printed publications, purchasing insurance, etc. Using bonus points, you can purchase award tickets and receive a discount on accommodation in hotel rooms partners of this air carrier, upgrade your ticket class, take advantage of privileges when issuing a Sberbank Aeroflot Bonus card

Any passenger over the age of two can become a participant - since 2003, Aeroflot Bonus Junior has been operating especially for children from 2 to 12 as part of the main program. It is noteworthy that this subroutine is subject to the same conditions as the main one.

Note! Participation is individual for each passenger.

Before you can earn Aeroflot Bonus miles, you must submit an application for participation. The easiest way to do this is on the airline’s website at http://www.aeroflot.ru/ru-ru/afl_bonus/entry. When you go to the page, you must first check the box, thereby agreeing to the terms of the program. Next, you can proceed to participant registration.

The program provides 2 types of bonus accruals: qualifying And unqualified. To add points, you must purchase a ticket for one of the regular flights of Aeroflot or the company’s partners. Qualifying miles can be exchanged for awards: award air tickets, class upgrades, or obtaining the status of a more prestigious member.

Non-qualifying miles are additional points that are awarded for using the services of airline partners, but they are not taken into account when upgrading your membership status.

Sberbank clients who have become members of Aeroflot’s loyalty program are awarded a different number of points depending on the type of card. Card holders Aeroflot Classic For every dollar or euro spent, one mile is added. The same number of bonus points is provided for every 50 rubles. For owners of plastics Aeroflot Gold for the same amounts you get 1.5 miles. Welcome miles are also provided for new members: Classic – 500, Gold – 1000.

Samples of Aeroflot Bonus program participant cards

How to find out the number of points?

There are several ways to check Aeroflot Bonus miles:

  • in a letter;
  • through the Internet;
  • by phone.

Every year, the airline sends letters to program participants informing them of the total number of points collected. To check Aeroflot Bonus miles in real time, go to the loyalty program website https://rewards.aeroflot.ru/. Please note that you only need to log into your account and you will immediately see the number of bonus points in the top right corner. If you are visiting the site for the first time, you must register. Enter your last name, first name and middle name, email address. Within a few minutes you will receive an email with a link. You need to click on it to verify your account and be able to use it.

You can also find out how many miles Sberbank has accrued under the Aeroflot Bonus program by phone. Dial a federal number 8-800-444-55-55 . Calls are free within the Russian Federation. The operator needs to provide your passport details and program participant card number.

We recommend using the bonus points calculator, which is located on the page http://www.aeroflot.com/cms/calculator of the carrier’s official website. There you will find out how many miles you will receive for a ticket that has not yet been purchased.

Plastic card of Sberbank and Aeroflot

How to spend miles

What Aeroflot Bonus miles can be used for has already been discussed above. The full catalog indicating the cost in bonus miles is on the main page of the site bonus program. To pay with Aeroflot miles for purchasing a ticket, when booking on the website, check the appropriate box. If you want to upgrade your flight class on an Aeroflot plane directly from economy to business using bonus points, you can do this at the check-in counter. In the case when you are flying by plane from one of the alliance companies "SkyTeam"(partners), you must register for an upgrade in advance at any pre-sale ticket point.

Just imagine, the first frequent flyer program dates back to 1972! I wasn't even alive then. A few years later, American Airlines “finished” this project, and a system for recording and accumulating miles appeared, which is known to everyone today. Even Russian Railways recently introduced a similar system for passengers railway transport, and miles are awarded not only for flights, but also for spending on a bank card.

I have been using the Aeroflot mileage program at my bank for a long time, but as of February 1, they have changed the conditions for accruing bonus miles on debit and credit cards. If previously one mile was awarded for every 30 rubles, now the rate has increased to 60 rubles. It's sad, but it's clear why.

I have long wanted to write about miles and this system, and then an opportunity presented itself. The guys from Tinkoff Bank approached me with an offer to advertise them and provided financial analytics of current offers for mileage cards on Russian market. This is very interesting data that shows the real situation in terms of the profitability of certain cards. Let's figure out what miles are, how they are awarded and spent.


The essence of miles

For airlines, it's simple. You fly, you are credited bonus miles. After a few flights, you can spend these miles on tickets or services: upgrade to business class, extra luggage or something else. At banks, bonus miles are awarded not for flights, but for purchases using the card. Miles can be used to purchase tickets, book hotels and other services, depending on the bank.

What's the point of banks doing this? When you buy something with a card, your seller pays a commission to the bank: on average, from 2% to 4% of the purchase amount. This commission is the economic basis of the card payment system. Everyone makes money on it: your bank, your merchant’s bank and the payment system. It is beneficial for the bank that you use the card as often as possible. It is advisable for the card to become your main payment instrument. Even if you have a credit card, it is not so important for the bank to receive interest from you as to encourage you to make purchases as often as possible. Banks make money not from you, but from sellers.

Essentially, miles are a certain type of cashback, the return of part of the funds spent for regular use of a bank card.

Miles accrual

If airlines award miles based on flight distance, class of service, etc., then miles on a bank card are accrued based on the amount of your payments. The Tinkoff Bank All Airlines card earns 2% on any card purchases. Other cards have the same mechanics. When you spend using your card, you receive a percentage of your spending in the form of miles. But the rates for accruing miles for purchases themselves are different. Different amounts of miles will be returned for the same purchases from different cards.

Let's say you spend 70,000 per month - that is, 840,000 per year. Let's take popular mileage cards and see how many miles you get back:

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

Miles value

Everyone has the same principle: first you accumulate miles, and then they turn into money. But each bank has its own conversion rate from miles to rubles. For example, 1 mile in Vanguard is 36 kopecks. For Russian Standard, 1 mile is equal to 50 kopecks. In the All Airlines card program, 1 mile is equal to 1 ruble. That is, 100 miles is 100 rubles.

Let's say you want to buy a ticket to Barcelona and back for 14,500 rubles. Here's how many miles you need to get such a ticket:

So far, it turns out that the most profitable cards are VTB24 Transaero Platinum (connected to the Transaero Privilege program) and All Airlines. Both cards are ahead of all other major competitors in terms of benefits, given the same initial data.

But there are a few more important points that need to be mentioned.

1. Taxes and fees. Not all bonus programs allow you to pay the full cost of a ticket with miles. The fact is that the ticket price consists of two components: the fare and taxes/fees. Typically, taxes and fees range from 20 to 50% of the ticket price. Ticket sites immediately show us the final prices, but on airline websites you can find out more about this. With almost all airline programs, you only get reimbursed for the fare. You will have to pay service fees and taxes yourself. At All Airlines, service costs are reimbursed in the same way as the air ticket itself. You won't have to pay extra.

2. Annual maintenance cost. Essentially, this is a subscription fee for using the card. Here again we have to turn to the data:

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

3. Selection of flights. Almost all bonus programs on the list have a significant limitation. The fact is that you cannot buy any ticket with miles. You will encounter restrictions on countries, dates, airlines or method of purchase. With cards linked to Aeroflot, you will only be able to fly with Aeroflot and partners. With Transaero cards (including VTB24) - only Transaero and its partners.

There are no such restrictions on ALL Airlines. You can use miles to buy any ticket of any airline in any direction, on any date, in any place and through any search engine or agent. Including low-cost airlines (Ryanair, Pobeda, etc.). The only conditions are payment for the ticket with an ALL Airlines card and the ability to compensate the cost of the ticket with miles only in full. There is no partial surcharge, as in some other banks.

But you will be able to “accumulate” miles after purchasing a ticket - no one else has this option. While with other banks you need to know in advance whether to use your miles, with All Airlines you can redeem your ticket within three months of the flight. During this time, you can accumulate more miles.

4. Miles validity period and miles “activation”. Everything is simple here: for all cards on the list, inactive miles expire every 2 years. If you didn’t have time, you lost your accumulated miles. ALL Airlines miles expire only once every 5 years. “Not being on time” will be difficult. In addition, in order to use Aeroflot bonus miles, you must first fly somewhere with Aeroflot at your own expense. This will “activate” the miles. You understand that this flight will also cost you money.

5. Accrual of miles for the bonus flight itself. For an ALL Airlines bonus flight, you will also receive miles from the airline itself, since for airlines this is a regular ticket purchased with your own money. There are no restrictions placed on it. It's a double benefit: you continue to earn airline miles on your flights while at the same time earning ALL Airlines miles on your purchases.

Bonuses

Each mile program has its own perks. These could be welcome miles, increased miles accrual on a birthday, discounts from partners, etc. In the case of All Airlines, you will be given increased mileage cashback for spending in the travel sector. For example, for purchasing air tickets through travel.tinkoff.ru you receive not 2%, but 5%, and for booking hotels and cars 10% is returned.

Example: you buy an air ticket for 28,000 rubles, which you are going to compensate with miles. The ticket is free for you, but the bank will still return you 5% - that's 1,400 miles. They can be used to compensate for the next flight. Spending 70,000 rubles per month on the card and 100,000 per year on tourist category, you are approximately 21,000 miles away. 21,000 miles is, if anything, free ticket to Singapore and back.

Let's summarize.

The case is this: you spend 100,000 rubles a month on your card and are going to fly to Tel Aviv for 14,500 rubles. The ticket price consists of the fare (8,000 rubles) and airline fees and taxes (6,500 rubles).

Conclusions from the table:

Additional payment for fees. With most cards, you will have to pay a significant additional amount for tickets - airline fees and taxes.

How many of these tickets can you buy in a year? Some cards may not allow you to fly for free. You will have to accumulate miles for more than a year (or you will have to spend more than 100,000 rubles per month from the card). With All Airlines you will definitely get any ticket for free, and in the first year of use. Once you've spent 15,000 on your ticket, you'll still have 10,000 miles left. You can fly anywhere with them if the ticket costs less than 9,000 rubles.

How many miles will you get for purchasing a ticket? All Airlines takes the lead here: when you buy a ticket, you'll earn an additional 1,200 miles that can be used on your next ticket.

All Airlines is a profitable product for travelers or those who regularly fly on vacation. I fly often and will most likely continue to use both my bank card and the All Airlines card. There is a little trick here: the guys from Tinkoff Bank suggested that All Airlines does not interfere with using other bonus programs.

For example, I can continue to spend Aeroflot bonuses, and with the help of All Airlines I can offset service fees for which I previously had to pay extra separately. Or I can compensate for the purchase of an air ticket with the help of All Airlines, and Aeroflot bonuses will help me upgrade my flight to business class.

In addition, the card has a rich range 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 with the card);
— free travel insurance (will be used for obtaining a visa);

You can fill out the application form to receive an All Airlines card

Aeroflot is considered one of the largest air carriers in our country. The company was founded in 1923 as JSC Dobrolet. Today the company is equipped with 120 modern aircraft. Passengers can enjoy lucrative discount offers and many benefits. Aeroflot offers a bonus program to its clients. How to spend miles and airline bonuses? This will be discussed in the article.

What bonuses does the company offer?

Miles from Aeroflot is a company program offered for regular customers. To register for it, you need to fill out a form on the official website or on the plane itself. This can also be done by designing a special bank card partner banks. The number will be indicated on the plastic, which is very convenient. After receiving the card, you must take it with you everywhere.

You must indicate your participation in the program when registering your card, otherwise the bonuses will not be used. If you often use the services of partner companies, you will accumulate many miles. After that, they are available for various expenses.

Advantages

The program is very popular among the company’s clients, and it is valued for its advantages:

  • bonuses are awarded for private and business flights;
  • makes it possible to return a ticket;
  • you can choose any partner company;
  • You can buy a ticket with miles;
  • you can purchase goods using miles;
  • the program is free.

The service allows you to regularly take advantage of discounts, since bonuses are intended to pay for a certain part of the tickets.

Differences between a temporary card and a permanent one

Upon joining the program, the client receives a temporary card. Usually a printout is issued indicating the account, number and surname. A little later, the company sends the permanent card to the client. But often, to obtain it, you need to meet several conditions, for example, accumulate 2,000 miles.

A temporary card is practically no different from a permanent one, since it also provides the opportunity to accumulate bonuses. The main thing is that you must indicate the number correctly when purchasing a ticket from a cashier or online.

Kinds of miles

It is necessary to take into account that miles are:

  • qualifying;
  • unqualified.

The first type of miles is credited for each flight on Aeroflot flights. The number of bonuses is determined by the flight range, as well as the fare. Each participant has the opportunity to join an elite club, which provides additional privileges.

What can you spend Aeroflot miles on? Non-qualifying points are earned through purchases from partners. These could be hotels, online stores, car rentals. Such bonuses do not count towards member status.

Who can participate?

Anyone can register for the program. This is not affected by age or citizenship. Children under 12 years old can take part in the Aeroflot Bonus Junior subprogram. The terms and conditions are no different from the adult bonus system.

Accumulation of bonuses

Bonuses are provided in the form of miles for regular flights. They can vary in size, it all depends on the tariff and distance. If you use economy class, then bonuses will be provided in the amount of 25-75%. When choosing business class, up to 150% is credited. If you have accumulated Aeroflot miles, you can find out how to spend them on the airline's website.

Bonuses are also provided by partners who are part of the SkyTeam alliance: 25-100% for economy class, and up to 300% for business class. In order for miles to be credited, you must provide your card number when purchasing a ticket or when checking in for a flight. If you do not do this, you can receive bonuses within 6 months. To do this, you must send printed tickets and copies boarding passes to the Aeroflot Bonus system.

Partners

Miles are awarded to clients of partner banks. It is enough to be the owner of a debit or credit card. Such organizations include:

  • Sberbank;
  • Bank opening";
  • "Alfa Bank";
  • Citybank;
  • "SMP Bank"

Usually 1 mile is issued for every 60 rubles, although prices may vary slightly. There are conditions for participation in the program: at least 1 flight must be made in 2 years, otherwise the bonuses cannot be used.

Additional miles

If you accumulate many qualifying miles, you will receive additional benefits. Among them:

  • visiting business lounges;
  • convenient check-in for flights;
  • more luggage space;
  • ticket upgrade.

Where can I find out about the number of miles?

Each airline has a “Personal Account” for users, where you can view all the necessary information. There you can find information on where to spend Aeroflot miles. Each time you log in, you must enter your number and password. There is information on flights and number of miles. You can find information on where to spend Aeroflot miles, for example, to buy a ticket.

Buying and selling miles

There is an exchange that works with many companies. It is used for selling and purchasing bonus miles. Many people use this service so that their accumulated points do not disappear. After all, if there have been no flights for 2 years, then the miles cannot be used. It turns out that to receive discounts you need to use the services regularly.

Donating miles

If Aeroflot paid out a lot of points, how to spend miles? They can not only be sold, but also donated. But in the second case there will be no reward for this.

If points have accumulated, they should be reissued for any person who would like to give such a gift. The procedure is performed 2 days or earlier before departure.

Using bonuses

A member becomes a full-fledged member only when at least 2,000 miles are credited to his account. After this, a plastic card is issued with a number and last name. Now you can actively use the accumulated bonuses.

The number of miles is determined by distance and class of service. All participants in the bonus program receive a certain status, according to which the amount of bonuses is approved. Conditions change frequently, and to accurately determine how you can earn miles, there is a special calculator.

How to spend Aeroflot Bonus miles? To do this, you must present your card every time you travel or use various services. Many companies have joined the program. Sberbank offers special services for this. Bonuses will be received for opening a new card.

If Aeroflot has received a lot of bonuses, how to spend miles? They are spent in the classic way: when flying with partner companies, to obtain a higher client status, for hotel reservations, car rentals. The program works in almost all countries.

Other ways to spend miles

The question arises with the accumulation of bonuses from the Aeroflot company - how to spend miles profitably. You can take part in charity by sending points to those in need. Miles are used to purchase award flight tickets. All fees are paid by the passenger.

If you purchase an economy class discount ticket, you will receive business class benefits. Clients of the program can pay bills from partners.

Aeroflot provides its customers with many advantages. If you regularly use the company’s services, you will always have privileges in the form of discounts. And how to spend bonuses is up to everyone to decide for themselves.

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Hmmm... A lot of time has flown by, it’s already 2019, a lot has changed, but not Aeroflot, his mother... The article was written in 2014 or even earlier, practically nothing has changed, if you don’t take into account the fact that during this time more worthy bonus offers. I mean the collection of bonus miles through funds “passed” through a bank account, for which bonuses are awarded. For example, “Map of the World” from VTB24 or bonuses from Tinkov.

But, be that as it may, if you often fly with Aeroflot or Sky Team, then you earn bonuses in any case, so you still need to spend them somehow, so you can glean something from the article. I'll probably leave it as it is.

Surely you have already heard something about the Aeroflot Bonus program. If you are not yet aware that Aeroflot has become generous and is distributing gingerbread, then it’s time to read the details on the official Aeroflot website. Well, if you are already a participant in this bonus program and already often look into Personal Area on the Aeroflot website and watch how points are credited to your account, then sooner or later you begin to think about how to spend them :) Now we’ll talk about how to spend points (Aeroflot miles) accumulated by a member. Or rather, I’ll just tell you a very short story from my personal life :)

We became a participant, or rather, participants (all members of our family, including children, have accounts in the Bonus) of the program a long time ago, as soon as we learned that Aeroflot miles can be received not only by flying flights of this airline, but also for participating in partner programs () , or rather, using a credit card from Sberbank. It so happened that we had been using credit cards from Sber for a long time, so joining the program consisted of obtaining a new Aeroflot-Bonus credit card and “linking” it to the main account. They will tell you how to do this in any branch of Sberbank, if you wish :) I can give only one piece of advice: if you “pass” a fairly significant amount per month through your card, for example from 50-70 thousand rubles, then feel free to open Golden Aeroflot , then for every 30 rubles spent you will be credited with not one, but 1.5 miles, plus you will enjoy the benefits of owning a gold card, for example, you will have a 20% discount on car rental at Hertz and a number of other “goodies” :)

But let's get back to the topic... Let's assume that you have already accumulated a certain number of miles and it's time to spend them. You can spend miles in different ways. We considered it the most profitable option to exchange miles for air tickets. Since we were planning to fly to Paris in October, it was decided to purchase air tickets for the Moscow-Paris flight. One such ticket (round-trip) can be obtained in exchange for 30,000 miles. We had to buy three tickets, but we only had 80,000 miles accumulated. Unfortunately, Aeroflot does not allow spending all the miles and paying the missing amount in cash, such a trick is not profitable for them, I think you can guess why :) Therefore, we had to exchange 60 thousand points for two air tickets and immediately buy another ticket for the same flight.

Now, pay attention! One not very pleasant nuance... You exchange miles for the ticket itself, but You will have to pay extra for the so-called fuel surcharge! So keep in mind, Aeroflot remembers and cares about you :)

The second point (unverified) has already been verified: you need to exchange miles for tickets in advance, otherwise “either there will be no tickets at all, or for the most inconvenient flights.” What I bought for is what I sell for :) Our trip was planned in advance, we purchased tickets three months before departure, no “obstacles of this kind” were noticed, we chose and bought tickets for exactly the flight that suited us most . Indeed, I have already encountered a couple of times that only the most inconvenient flights or only business class on more convenient ones are available for miles. And the closer to the departure date, the worse the situation.

Regarding the Bonus, I can say one thing: chasing miles, as some comrades on the forums do, coming up with another “scam” to get an extra 100 miles, I personally don’t see much point. But as a nice addition - why not? If you fly Aeroflot planes or Sky Team alliance flights, then not becoming a member of the Aeroflot Bonus program is a crime! And if you constantly pay with a credit card, then why not get extra bonuses that you can later spend for your own pleasure? So...

 

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