Sep 25 Update: The easiest route to Star Alliance Gold comes to an end, Air Miles Jiffy Lube bonus

Big bad news from Aegean Airlines Miles&Bonus!

News, Tips & Tricks

We have touched upon this topic a few times here on Rewards Canada but never fully detailed it. What is it? The easiest way to Star Alliance Gold Status via Aegean Airlines Miles&Bonus. It is was quite simple earn 1,000 miles for joining, earn another 3,000 with 12 months and get their Silver Status (Star Alliance Gold) add another 16,000 on top of that within 12 months of reaching Silver and boom you have Gold Miles&Bonus status which equates to Star Alliance Gold and you could keep that status just with one flight credited to Aegean every 3 years.. Rumours had starting going around last week that this was all about to change and the email from Aegean Miles&Bonus yesterday confirmed it. This easy way to keeping Star Alliance Gold status for life has come to an end. Well not really yet, the changes go into effect on November 24th so you could still potentially take advantage of this with one long haul Business Class flight credited to Miles&Bonus.

I myself started this challenge earlier this year but took a harder way, crediting some Air Canada domestic flights to Miles&Bonus, I got Miles&Bonus Silver already but don't know if I'll make it to Gold by the time the changes take place. I'm not happy about neither are thousands of others who have used this surefire method as a fast track to Star Alliance status but that is also the reason why this great method is coming to an end. As with most fast tracks, tricks and other ways to work the frequent traveller system, many of them meet their end sooner or later. Now they have made the qualification requirements harder but they are still not that hard to achieve when you compare to some other programs and if you achieve that status it is relatively easy to retain (especially if flying on Aegean or Olympic, somewhat harder if only flying Star Alliance.) You can find out all about the changes here.


American Airlines and El Al are ending their frequent flyer partnership on November 1st of this year. Find out more here.

Tunisia's Syphax Airlines is converting their Montreal-Tunis service from year round to seasonal as of Oct 30. If you have travel booked with Syphax this fall/winter you should check with them to see how they will accomodate your planned flights. (Source Airlineroute.net)


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