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 member - 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 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, and 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 bonus program website. 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.

In the Aeroflot airline loyalty program, the main unit of payment is the mile. This is a non-monetary unit that can be exchanged for a certain amount of services.

How are miles awarded?

When calculating them, the distance between the point of departure and arrival is taken into account and exclusively for completed flights. If a program participant has flown a distance of less than 500 miles, then 500 bonus units will be credited to his account.

The accrual is made when flying on regular flights; on codeshare flights, certain restrictions apply. Miles can also be credited for flights made on Aeroflot flights six months before registration in the program, but you must enter data about them in your personal account no later than 3 months after registration. But flights with partner airlines participate in the program immediately from the moment of registration. Bonus units are credited within 10 days. Program participants who reach the elite level receive additional miles for each flight on flights of the airline and its partners:

  • Silver level - +25% to standard accrual;
  • Gold level gives +50% to standard accrual;
  • Platinum level gives +75% to standard accrual.

For self-registration in the program on the company’s website, 500 non-qualifying units are immediately credited to your account.

Bonus units are not awarded for flights on premium, free, special tickets, as well as on tickets for charter flights or included in special tour packages.

Aeroflot bonus calculator

Miles- These are bonuses from the Aeroflot Bonus frequent flyer reward program.

You can earn miles in two ways:

  • Air travel. Miles are awarded only for flights made on regular flights at fares that include the accrual of miles (can be found out when booking a ticket). Tariff prefixes that do not participate in bonus calculations are GV, FX, BRV, MED, SO, GO, MFRF, GC, GA, O, X, F, G.
  • Purchasing goods and services at Aeroflot. The airline works with 165 partners in various fields of activity - banks, car rental, insurance, household goods and construction, household appliances, toys and clothing for children, fashion clothing and accessories boutiques, restaurants and cafes, hotels and inns, etc.

Ways to spend Aeroflot miles

Any product or service that can be purchased with miles is called. How you can spend miles:

  • Acquisition award air ticket . The minimum cost is 10,000 miles. You can calculate it using a special miles calculator.
  • Upgrade. The service is available for certain fares in Economy and Comfort classes (prefixes for which upgrades are allowed: WF, SF, AF, YF, BF, MF, UF, KF, HF, LF QF, TF, EF, NF)
  • Booking a hotel. Search for hotels and apartments around the world on the website aeroflot.hotelbook.ru.
  • Purchasing goods in the premium catalog. The website rewards.aeroflot.ru contains more than a thousand products of different categories and brands; purchases can only be paid for with miles.
  • Transfer of funds to charitable foundations. Partner organizations: “Give Life”, “Life Line”, “Rusfond”, “Spivakov International Charitable Foundation”. The minimum amount for transfer is 100 miles.
  • Products and services of partner companies. List:
    Globus-Gourmet grocery chain, Skyshop online catalog, Rendez-Vous chain of stores, Novotel Sheremetyevo hotel, Family Team loyalty program, Samson Pharma pharmacy chain, Avenue VIP boutiques, Euroset communication stores, Trajectory sports goods, French Kiss chocolate boutique, delivery service in-flight food Aeromenu, pharmacy chain 36.6, luggage packaging Pack&Fly, online drug catalog OVita.ru, beauty salons My Fair Lady, aesthetic cosmetology center Telo's Beauty, Sensavi Beauty Institute, handmade jewelry UNOde50, Pulkovo taxi, Denta-El dentistry , Glavkhimchistka, excursions from local residents Tripster, Kukumber restaurant.

Miles calculator

The most common way to spend accumulated bonuses is to purchase an air ticket (both one-way and round-trip). . You can find out the price of an award ticket by using the calculator on the page www.aeroflot.ru/ikm.


In the form provided, you need to go to the “Spend miles” tab and enter the point of departure and arrival. The system displays a table with the required number of miles to purchase or upgrade an air ticket.

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 bank card.

I have been using Aeroflot’s mileage program at my bank for a long time, but from February 1, they 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 with a proposal to advertise them and provided financial analytics of current offers for mileage cards on the 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 you 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 everyone bonus programs There is a significant limitation from the list. 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 make it in 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 funds. 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 the tourist category, you will get approximately 21,000 miles. 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'll have to earn miles 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

To use Aeroflot Bonus program miles, you must first obtain a PIN code in the program participant’s Personal Account (the “Get PIN code” item in the Settings section), and when visiting, present your Aeroflot Bonus program participant card and enter the PIN code.

Terms of using Aeroflot Bonus program miles:

  • Availability of the required number of miles, as well as the presence on the member’s personal account of miles for a paid flight with Aeroflot (code SU) over the past 24 months.
  • Presentation of the original membership card at the checkout. The information on the front of the card should be easy to read.
  • Availability of a PIN code to confirm the operation. You can generate a PIN code in the program participant’s Personal Account (the “Get PIN code” item in the Settings section).
  • You must present the original card and indicate your intention to issue an award before generating a check for the cost of goods/services. The number of miles that will be debited from your member account must be communicated to you by the cashier and verified by you using the Calculator located on this page. If you do not agree with the specified number of miles to be debited from your account when you issue an award, you do not have to confirm the debit of miles in the manner specified below.
  • Miles are written off with confirmation of the transaction by entering a PIN code. By entering your PIN code, you confirm that you understand and know the number of miles that will be debited from your account when issuing the corresponding award, and you agree with this.
  • Upon successful completion of the operation, a receipt is printed and sent to the program participant.
  • If the conditions described above are not met, as well as other conditions stipulated by the program rules, the award will not be issued. In this case, the goods (services) received are paid for in cash.