Status miles s7. How to spend S7 bonus miles. Additional features of S7 Priority

Large banks and airlines are fighting for the attention of consumers, luring them with various carrots. From literal sweets to other freebies, they try to get you on their side, and s7 is no exception. Thus, there are special s7 miles, identical to bonus programs that are available at almost every major bank. But there are some features in their acquisition and use that can mislead an untrained user.

The company itself is a member of the international alliance “Oneworld”, and we will tell you below what this is and what advantages it brings for you. It already includes more than 15 different airlines, but, in addition to them, C7 also has other counterparties around the world, most of them travel agencies.

By paying for the services of the company itself or its counterparty, you receive a small percentage deduction - bonuses, which, in essence, are cashback for each transaction performed by the user. It can be combined with bonus cards and get even greater benefits, but such credit cards also have their drawbacks. Let's figure out what this bonus program is and how to get the maximum benefit from it.

Free air travel by s7

Allows you to get a free flight by paying the full cost of the ticket using cashback. However, this is not the only use for the accumulated funds. And there is a small nuance here, because you can only pay 99 percent of the ticket price using miles; the rest will be debited from your card.

Air ticket oneworld + Emirates

But why do you need a bonus program that will limit you to a single airline, if you can get a card from a bank, with the ability to spend bonuses as you wish?

First, mileage deductions are made at much higher rates than you'll find with C7's competitors. Secondly, bonuses can be spent on all airlines and counterparties of the Oneworld program. There are flights to more than 100 countries around the world, as well as 14 other airlines that can be used as a connecting point.

As a result, you get the opportunity to accumulate and use points all over the world and on any air travel. Thus, you can pay for air travel not only within OneWorld, but also within the Emirates program, which allows you to travel almost anywhere in the world.

Upgrade from Economy Class to Business Class

Surely, many people do not like to fly economy class for many reasons, but they have to do it because paying a few thousand extra for business class seems like a pointless waste of money. However, you can give away part of the bonuses received from flights, namely 6.5 thousand, and increase the class indicated on the ticket. This allows you to fly home on vacation and buy tickets back in comfort.

This feature of the program will be especially convenient for those who need to travel frequently at the expense of an employer who pays only for economy class.

Such a system greatly simplifies life for clients, because the ability not only to buy air tickets, but also to pay for services within the airline, allows you to literally immediately try out the program.

The higher the class of ticket you buy, the more bonuses status you will receive for purchasing it. But miles are calculated as 10-15 percent of the purchase amount, and are equivalent to 1 ruble in value. That is, all your miles can be conditionally converted into rubles, and in this case, operations performed with their help will be much easier to calculate and control.

In addition, you can spend bonuses on any actions within the airline and airport, which allows you not only to pay for your food on the flight, but also to improve the conditions of the flight.

Transferring miles to a friend or charity

However, if for some reason you don’t need bonuses or the employer takes on all the expenses without any questions asked, then the miles you receive can be transferred to another card and to a friend. And for those who are concerned about the prosperity of other people and want to do a good deed, it is proposed to transfer cashback to a charitable organization, because it is still money in some sense.

You shouldn’t treat miles as something ephemeral and incomprehensible, because these are literally the same rubles as on your debit card. They are simply presented in the form of other units, through which the airline provides cashback from the amount of your spending.


Miles expire if the client is inactive for a long time, but they can always be transferred to a friend’s bonus card. And if this function is not needed, then you can simply donate the saved money to charity, thereby giving it to those for whom even a couple of hundred rubles would be a gift. All this allows the client to somehow manage the funds received so that they do not burn without purpose.

C7 itself cooperates with dozens of charitable foundations, including the Red Cross. Therefore, if you delve very deeply into the topic of charity, then in the comments to the translation you can choose what exactly the money should be used for. It is worth noting that the funds themselves are not delivered to charitable organizations, but only purchases made with them. This allows both customers and the airline itself to be sure that money will not be stolen or spent on unnecessary things.

Additional features of S7 Priority

When enough bonuses accumulate, you can either spend them in one of the partner companies. c7 cooperates, among other things, with services for booking accommodation and car rental, so free air travel is not the only thing you can count on. The bonuses themselves are of two types:

  1. Status. They affect your conditional level, and the higher it is, the better service and flight conditions the client will be provided. Naturally, the highest level also affects the percentage of bonus payments under the miles program.
  2. Miles. Cashback itself, which allows you to spend coins equivalent to 1 ruble in any airline-related services. There is only a small nuance - you cannot pay the full cost of a product or flight using bonuses, as this will prevent you from concluding a sales contract. Therefore, with miles you can only pay for 99 percent of the cost of your purchase, and the rest will need to be paid from your wallet.

Status points increase your priority as a company customer. The higher it is, the better quality service is offered to the client. Millies can be used to extend if you have not used S7 services for a long time, or to increase it for a short period in order to experience all the delights of a full-fledged business class in one or two flights and understand whether you need it or not.

Now I’ll tell you how to fly business class and not pay crazy money for it. As you know, almost every airline has bonus programs where passengers are invited to accumulate miles, which can then be exchanged for tickets. So, if you approach the savings process wisely, you can fly several times a year in comfort and practically for free.

First you need to decide with whom to fly and earn miles.

Airlines have miles, and banks have miles. For example, Alfa-Bank and Tinkoff Bank offer their clients bonus programs where they also accumulate miles, which can then be exchanged for tickets. But in fact, this is a type of cashback with a fixed rate.

Airline miles are much more interesting. There are qualifying and non-qualifying miles. The first ones are awarded to you directly for flying with this airline, and they affect your status. Each airline has different membership levels (silver, gold, etc.). The higher your status, the more privileges you receive. It all depends on the airline. For example, Aeroflot offers you check-in at business class counters, the ability to choose a front-row seat with increased legroom at no extra charge, and access to business lounges. Also, high status will sometimes allow you to get business class seats without additional payment. For example, if the flight is overcrowded, some passengers may be transferred from economy to business. As you guessed, such a gift awaits the one whose level is higher. I was transferred from economy to business several times.

Some airlines have even more privileges. American Delta upgrades elite passengers to business class for free if there are available seats. This rule applies only to domestic flights, but still nice ;)

Major airlines form alliances. There are three major ones: SkyTeam, OneWorld and Star Alliance. Respectively, bonus miles you will receive money for flights on all alliance airlines, even if you do not have their bonus program. For example, if you have an Aeroflot bonus card, then you will receive miles and privileges for flights on all airlines of the alliance.

Here you need to choose an airline, bonus program which you should open. There is no point in having cards from both Aeroflot and AirFrance, since they are part of the same alliance and have essentially the same bonus program.

If you live in Russia, then first of all open an Aeroflot card, since the national carrier has almost monopolized the air transportation market in the country. If you plan to fly frequently, for example, around the States, then you can consider the Delta bonus program (they are also part of SkyTeam) instead of Aeroflot. The remaining cards also need to be opened. The OneWorld Alliance in Russia represents S7. In Star Alliance Russian airlines no, but it includes, for example, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and many other popular airlines.

Now you need to accumulate miles. The most obvious way to earn miles is to fly on the airlines you want. As I wrote above, in addition to receiving bonus miles, you will increase your status and have various pleasant bonuses. But you can't accumulate much like that. If you do not fly regularly, then you will have to save for a normal bonus ticket for several years.

To more actively accumulate miles, you can contact partners. For example, many banks have joint projects with airlines. For every dollar you spend on your bank card, you will earn a certain number of miles.

In addition, many hotels give miles. For example, if you have an Aeroflot bonus program, you can earn 500 miles for staying at Radisson or Kempinski hotels and up to 2 miles for every dollar spent at Marriott or Intercontinental. Rental companies also give miles. For example, Eurocar and Avis give 1,500 miles each for renting a car. Each airline has dozens of partners, so carefully study who gives bonuses for what.

So, you've collected your miles and now it's time to spend them. You need to spend miles to buy bonus tickets! And this is where the fun begins. You must not only be able to save miles, but also spend them correctly.

The task for all participants in the competition is this: we are trying to fly in economy class to Omsk and New York at the end of May for one day (departure on May 28, return on May 29)*. If someone is not able to offer economy class, we take the most cheap ticket. Then we try to figure out how many miles we need to spend on the same trip.
*Prices were measured in April, when the exchange rate was slightly different and tickets were available.

Let's start with Aeroflot! Miles under the "Bonus" program accumulate quite quickly, especially if you buy expensive tickets. But you need to understand whether they are easy to use.

For example, at the time of the proposed purchase, you can fly to Omsk and back to Moscow for 20,000 miles in economy class.

I hope that the designer of Aeroflot, who came up with the idea of ​​writing in blue on a blue background, has already been given to the crocodiles.

Now let’s uncheck the “Pay with miles” box. We see that the cheapest ticket to Omsk costs 10,000 rubles, and from Omsk to Moscow - 9,000 rubles. That is, the rate comes out to be approximately 1 to 1, but they decided to round up the miles to tens of thousands.

Let's see how things are going with New York:

In economy, the total cost of tickets is 37,042 rubles, fees are taken into account. Business class is much more expensive, 135,637 rubles.

If you try to buy a ticket to New York using economy bonuses, the mile rate drops sharply.

We spend 70,000 miles on round-trip tickets at once! Moreover, you will have to pay fees separately in the amount of 16,477 rubles. For the purity of the experiment, let's calculate the exact course. The fare to New York and back without taxes is 18,055 rubles. It turns out that when paying with miles, for every ruble you will have to pay 3.88 miles!

One of the secrets of flying with miles: the higher the class of service, the more profitable it is to spend them. As we have already found out, a business class ticket to New York and back costs 135,637 rubles. The bonus ticket will be worth 110,000 miles. We subtract the fees from the ruble price and find out that the Aeroflot mile rate in this case is 0.92 miles per ruble, this is an excellent indicator. The problem is that such a ticket is very difficult to buy with miles.

You see, business class miles in both directions are sold out.

I was just trying to find business class tickets for the summer and found that there was nothing...

Just in case, I checked the Aeroflot mileage rate for flights to other cities in Russia and neighboring countries.

A flight to St. Petersburg on the same days costs 7,500 rubles (this is economy). Bonuses – 20,000 miles. And don't forget about fees, which in the case of miles are always paid separately. But you only need to pay 30,000 miles for business. The rate could be around 1.5 miles per ruble, but the tickets, again, are already sold out.

In general, in almost all cases the same rule applies: the mile rate is extremely unfavorable when buying economy tickets, and quite favorable when paying with business class miles. Okay, everything is clear with Aeroflot. Let's see what others offer.

In addition to Aeroflot, among Russian carriers, only S7 Airlines (a member of oneworld) is included in one of the three largest international alliances. S7 has a Priority bonus program.

Well, let's try to fly to Omsk. Economy round trip for 16,200 rubles, very good.

S7 has a table that allows you to find out how many miles tickets for direct airline flights will cost. Omsk, for example, is part of the Russia 2 award zone, and a one-way ticket to it will cost 15,000 miles in economy and 25,000 miles in business class.

We choose to pay with miles. 30,000 miles + another 3.5 thousand rubles in fees. It turns out that the rate is 2.3 miles per ruble.

A ticket to Omsk and back in business class for the same dates will cost 49,200 rubles.

For the same tickets you can give 45,000 miles and pay an additional 3,560 rubles. Let's calculate the course. We remove the fees and find out that when flying in business class, the rate can be 0.98 miles per ruble. This is very good course! The rule of cheap business class also applies here.

The catch is that we are talking about the Business Optimum mileage fare, which implies that the number of available seats on the flight is limited. Airlines only have a few seats available on flights that can be purchased with miles. But this is still a good option if you are used to planning your trips in advance. After all, if you pay in rubles, business (using the example of the same tickets to Omsk) costs 3 times more than economy, and if in miles, then less than 1.5 times.

Now New York. The ticket to New York is expensive, and the return transfer is inconvenient.

What about miles? You must pay 75,000 miles at once, and pay an additional 23,495 rubles in fees. The exchange rate in this case is 2.05 miles per ruble. There were no business class tickets at all, so I don’t even know what the prices are now.

Okay, we understand something about Russian carriers. Let's find out what Aeroflot's SkyTeam friends offer.

The American airline Delta has a bonus program called SkyMiles, which is combined with the Pay with Miles program. The latter has a clear policy in its rules: it allows you to reduce the cost of a ticket by $50 for every 5,000 miles.

That is, 100 miles cost 1 dollar, or 1 mile is equal to 1 cent. The dollar exchange rate is now fluctuating around 70 rubles/$1 (rounded for convenience). It turns out that one cent, also known as 1 mile, will cost 70 kopecks, and a ruble = 1.43 miles. A very good indicator, it’s just a pity that Americans also have restrictions on dates and destinations when paying with miles.

In reality the situation is like this. A ticket to New York and back in economy will cost 33,350 rubles, in business class - 142,973 rubles.

Here is the price in miles, below is the surcharge for fees. The current rate for economy will be 4.73 miles per ruble, for business - one to one. That is, the story is approximately the same as with Russian airlines.

U Air France a flight to New York and back on the same dates costs 37,542 rubles.

The Flying Blue bonus system miles calculator (used by Air France and KLM) claims that standard economy will cost 50,000 miles.

Like other airlines, Flying Blue's rules state that all additional charges The program participant pays himself. This means that you need to add 19,487 rubles to these miles. The tariff without taxes is 18,055 rubles, exactly like Aeroflot. That is, the real rate of a mile will be 2.77 miles per ruble.

Business class will cost 143,168 rubles.

The calculator says 125,000 miles. Since the tariff without fees is 109,115 rubles, the mile rate will be 1.15 miles per ruble.

Let's sum it up results:

The maximum mile course in this study was found in "Aeroflot". It will work if you take business class to New York and back. It is likely that you can also get into business class on other international flights at a favorable rate. But Aeroflot has a too vague line for a low exchange rate. It’s practically non-existent, and the worst situation is with economy on domestic flights: maybe 4 or 5 miles per ruble - try looking for it yourself. In this case, you can stumble upon 1 to 1, as in the case of Omsk. In general, be careful.

U Air France and the “brotherly” KLM rate will vary from 1 to 3 miles per ruble; flying in business is expected to be more profitable. In general, nothing surprising when it comes to international flights.

In the case of SkyMiles from Delta you need to be on your guard, because you can get either a very favorable rate or a completely unprofitable one. About the same story as with Aeroflot. In general, if you fly to the USA, it is better to get a Delta card, and maybe more than one - more on that below)

U S7 there are very favorable offers for business class, and the threshold for a disadvantageous rate is lower than that of Aeroflot. But, again, I don’t know what the situation is like in other cities. We have to dig. In general, the offer is similar to that of Air France, although it would probably be more appropriate to compare with oneworld partners.

Enjoy it for your health! But don’t forget about a bunch of restrictions when buying air tickets with miles. Sometimes it makes more sense to spend it not on tickets, but on upgrades and other perks, as well as simply on transfers from the airport.

In general, in the West, and in particular in the USA, accumulating miles is much easier than here in Russia. My friend levik from New York told me that the most convenient way to do this is with the help of co-branded credit cards.

There, banks and airlines do not skimp on bonuses if you spend a certain amount on your card. For example, if you get a Delta Gold SkyMiles credit card from American Express and spend more than S1,000 on it in the first three months of use, you can get 30,000 bonus miles. Moreover, in the first year of using the card, the service will be free (hereinafter – $95), and you can safely use it.

The secret is that when you're like this credit card close, all the miles you received do not expire, but remain on your bonus account with the airline. If you carefully follow various promotions and offers, you can get 100,000 miles quite easily. Americans even have a special website to monitor all kinds of card bonuses.

You can open several cards during the year, close each of them after six months, and the miles continue to live and accumulate.

Each major airline there is a partner bank. Delta is friends with American Express, American Airlines is friends with Citibank, and United Airlines is friends with Chase. Leva is subscribed to all possible loyalty programs, and when he needs to fly somewhere, he simply searches through the partners of these airlines to see what would be the most profitable way to spend his miles. For example, he flew to China with Cathay Pacific, which is a partner of American Airlines.

Leva spends his miles most willingly on first-class flights (he says he gets them on average three times a year). It turns out that this is more profitable: if in money business class is half the price of first class, then in miles the difference is only 20-30%.

No, Lyova was not flying in this aircraft compartment. This is a photo from.

In addition to purely “aviation” credit cards, there is a reason to get regular ones from airline partner banks. For example, with American Express or Chase cards, you can accumulate “multi-use” bonus points, and when you see Delta or United selling tickets for miles, you can immediately convert those points into miles and buy what you need.

Leva advises starting with the cheapest credit card (often it is “free”). Here is his procedure for earning miles:

1. Take a cheaper card, with a free first year.
2. Spend the required amount on it on time and receive a bonus.
3. Keep it inactive until almost the end of the year.
4. Call and cancel right before your anniversary.
5. After a year (or 18 months) you can try again.

In general, if you have the opportunity to get American mileage cards, feel free to get them, just don’t forget to close them. Have a nice flight!

I want to tell you one very interesting and exciting story.

How I bought air tickets from s7.
So, let me start by saying that I previously preferred to use the services of this particular company. The service was no worse or better than others, but the fleet consisted only of European aircraft. This made me happy. When purchasing tickets online, sometimes difficulties arose, but previously they were always resolved.
More than a year ago, I decided to join the s7-priority program and started accumulating miles. The moment came when the number of miles was enough to purchase a ticket. From this moment on, an exciting show begins.

It is impossible to find instructions, a link or any mention of the possibility of buying a ticket with miles on the s7.ru website. There is a “spend miles” page containing textual information that you can spend them.
After spending 10 minutes searching, using all the search query options on the s7 website and Google, studying the faq section and finding nothing, I called the call center.
After waiting 10 minutes and explaining the situation to the specialist, I received an offer to write down the phone number of the s7 priority call center. He asked to connect me to the new call center. After waiting another ten minutes and talking about my problem, I received a question verbatim: “Have you ever been to our website?!” After some time, they finally helped me and gave me some guidance: we buy tickets for miles on the “Order an award” page.
OK. No problem. Already at this stage, suspecting something was wrong, I asked the specialist in detail about my further actions.
Gentlemen, sit back and listen :-) you won’t find this information anywhere on the Internet.
Steps on how to buy a ticket for miles from s7:
1. Go to the interface for purchasing tickets on the s7 website in the usual way
2. Find the flights you need
3. Call the call center (here it is very useful to write down the direct telephone number of the call center. :))
4. Find out whether there are tickets under the s7 priority program for the flights you need. If they are not there, it is better not to hang up :)
5. Next, go to the website in the S7 priority section on the “Order a premium” page
6. On the page, enter everything manually about the route and the passenger (not tired yet? It’s all just beginning :))
7. Within 24 hours you will be sent an email containing your details and the cost of the ticket that you need to pay. Yes! You heard right :) According to experts, this is the cost of airport taxes. In my case, the amount in the letter was 1980 rubles. OK. The letter also includes a proposal to choose a payment method. There are few options: Call the service center and provide the details of your bank card, or pay the payment in the Svyaznoy salon or in the Qiwi terminal.

I decided not to tempt fate with voicing the details over the phone. This payment method caused me concern.
8. Send a letter in response with a payment option. Wait for a response with the payment ID.
9. We are trying to pay for tickets via the qiwi-wallet website. S7 --> payment for reservation. Result: System error.
10. Call technical support. We find out that payment via the qiwi online service is impossible. Only through the terminal.
11. Let's go to Svyaznoy. The Svyaznoy cashier employee is trying to process the payment. Function S7--> payment for reservation. Result: no connection with the provider. I ask the employee to read the letter. He spends a long time looking for a payment option at the cash register. The reservation ID and payment ID contain letters. All Qiwi services support the introduction of only digital identifiers. In the end, he finds an interface where he can enter the payment ID and announces the cost of the payment, 880 rubles. The system interface does not provide any more details. We compare together the cost of payment from my letter (1980 rubles) and decide that it is not worth paying.
12. I’m going to office S7. 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, no. 28. There are no signs or banners with the combination of the treasured S and 7 on the house.
13. I look for the office phone number on the website - they explain to me that I need to find a store selling kitchen utensils, go through the store hall to the second floor. Office s7 is one of 5 tables different airlines in a small shabby room.
14. I start communicating with an employee of the s7 company. The employee sincerely wants to help me. Her system shows that the cost of a ticket is 880 rubles. But the letter says a different amount. This confuses her, and we call the call center. The call center explains to us that the s7 company office cannot accept the payment, because this s7 company ticket is priority.
I have a strong feeling that someone doesn’t understand something. I insist on making the payment. To which an s7 employee who sincerely wants to help me explains to me that s7 airlines is a large holding company. She has a company called s7-tickets, which sells tickets, there is s7 priority, and there is also a company that transports animals. And “s7 tickets” cannot transport animals, and tickets from the company “s7 priority”. OK.
15. I’m going to the messenger to try my luck. I hope for a miracle. Alas. Attempts by Svyaznoy sellers to accept payment end in failure. Error communicating with the provider.
16. In another office of Svyaznoy the situation is repeated.
17. Last attempt - Qiwi street terminal: Pay for tickets --> Air carriers --> S7 --> Enter the phone number (the call center confirmed this payment method). Wait 3 minutes and go to the main page of the service. I make 3 attempts. All end unsuccessfully.
A curtain.

I want to believe that our wonderful airline has problems only in this process.
Results: 5 hours of wasted time, no tickets purchased.
I’m afraid to use the second payment option - dictating credit card details to someone from THIS company over the phone would be very reckless on my part.

S7 Airlines, like most major air carriers, has its own bonus program, which allows you to receive bonus miles for using the services of the airline and its partners, which can then be spent on purchasing tickets for regular flights, which allows you to fly practically for free. The procedure for accumulating miles and purchasing tickets is quite simple and transparent, however, there are some peculiarities.

S7 Airlines is a member of the Oneworld international alliance, which, in addition to S7, includes 15 other airlines. In addition, the airline’s partners are other companies, mainly operating in the field of tourism business that sell tickets, car rentals, accommodation booking services, and so on.

For using company services, clients receive bonuses called miles. In addition, there are special co-branded cards from several banks, for which bonuses are awarded for purchases. When a sufficient number is accumulated in the account, they can be spent on the purchase of award tickets and other purposes.

They are status and bonus. The first ones influence the increase in the client’s status, so you can get increased silver, gold and platinum statuses. When you assign a new level, privileges open up, for example, improved service at airports, and an increased number of miles for flights is awarded.

How to accumulate them

There are several options. Among the most popular and profitable are flights with airlines of the Oneworld alliance, as well as the use of joint partner bank cards. Today, such cards are issued by Bank of Moscow, Alfa Bank and UniCredit Bank.

For participating in the program and opening a card, welcome miles are awarded, in addition, they are given by the airline as a birthday gift, as well as for some flights. For example, children are immediately awarded 1,000 miles for their first flight. In addition, they can be purchased on exchanges or transferred from one account to another, and even given as a gift.

Another interesting option offered by S7 is the purchase of a package of bonus miles in the event that there are not enough of them to purchase the desired flight; a maximum of no more than 15,000 can be purchased per year, provided that during the last 365 days there was at least one award flight on airline flights.

In addition, they are also awarded for using the services of other S7 partner companies, in addition to Oneworld airlines. For example, you can rent a car or book accommodation and get miles for it, which you can then spend at your discretion.

Miles accrual system

S7 company awards bonuses for each flight. With standard customer status, a minimum of 500 miles is awarded for each flight. And the maximum number will depend on the flight distance and the selected fare; they will be calculated as a percentage from 50 to 250%.

How can you spend miles?

It is important that they cannot be cashed out. You can spend, depending on your own desire, on the following purposes:

  • Flight on regular flights of S7 and 15 other air carriers.
  • Upgrading the class of service on a flight.
  • Transfer to another client's account (there are exchanges where miles can be sold).
  • Transfer for charitable purposes.

The cost of a one-way ticket on the airline's flights starts from 7,500 miles one way. The same amount is required to purchase an award ticket from partner airlines. But upgrading the service desk from “Economy” to “Business” will cost 3,500 miles.

An important nuance: you can only pay with miles for the main cost of the ticket, but you will have to pay fuel, airport and service fees at your own expense when booking an award ticket.

How to buy an award ticket with miles

In fact, the instructions for buying a ticket with miles are quite simple and are no different from buying a regular ticket.

Registration in the program

First, to start accumulating bonuses, you need to become a member of the program. There are several ways to do this:

  • Register on the S7 website for the S7 Priority program.
  • Apply for a co-branded card at your partner bank.
  • Register at the S7 Priority Program Service Center by phone hotline 8-800-100-77-11.

Then all you have to do is accumulate the required number of miles. You can check their status in your personal account on the S7 website, or by calling the Service Center. If the required number of bonuses has been accumulated, you can proceed to purchasing a ticket.

Online purchase

  1. Go to the s7.ru website by logging in Personal account.
  2. In the “Order an Award” section in your Personal Account, send a reservation request.
  3. Fill in information about the planned flight: directions, dates, fare, airline, passenger details, and so on.
  4. If there is availability on the selected dates, you will need to confirm your reservation.
  5. To pay service fees, you will need to pay through the site in any way convenient for you.
  6. If the operation is successful, a purchase confirmation, as well as an electronic ticket, will be sent to the email specified during registration.

Purchasing through the Program Service Center

An alternative option is to purchase a ticket through the S7 Priority Program Service Center. To do this, you need to call the toll-free hotline 8-800-100-77-11 and inform a company specialist about your intention to buy award ticket for bonus S7 miles.

S7 Airlines began selling additional miles for miles paid services: Now S7 Priority program members can spend miles on choosing a regular or comfortable (Extra Space) seat, as well as additional baggage. Other Russian airlines do not have this opportunity: additional services are sold only for money, but this practice is common, for example, among the airlines of the oneworld alliance, which includes S7. So here are the details:

The cost of choosing a regular seat is 1,000 miles, and seats increased comfort- 2500 miles. One piece of luggage costs 5,000 miles. How much is this approximately in money? It’s very simple: for money, choosing a seat costs 350 rubles on the website and 500 rubles at the airport, Extra Space - 1000 rubles, and excess baggage, depending on the destination, 2000-3000 at the airport or 1600-2400 rubles on the website, respectively.

That is, one mile is equivalent to approximately 32-36 kopecks; to pay for baggage on long flights, its “nominal value” reaches 48 kopecks. This is close to the cost of S7 Airlines miles on the “black market”: officially the airline does not allow the sale of miles and, if such actions are detected, it will cancel membership in the bonus program, but it allows. However, the cost of transferring miles is 75 kopecks per mile, which makes transferring them to purchase additional services pointless. There is even less point in buying miles: in this case, one mile costs from 1.30 to 2 rubles.

But it makes sense to spend bank miles on additional services: they are not qualifying, that is, giving the opportunity to obtain status, and in some cases you can get them in a fairly large quantities, “scrolling” money through . However, with high turnover on a number of cards, S7 gives free silver status, and with it you can choose luxury seats and take one piece of luggage for free - including on baggage-free fares.

Interestingly, if the listed services are purchased for money, this brings additional miles - from 50 to 400 depending on the cost of the service (or from 1000 miles for a paid upgrade to business class). You can also earn 50 miles for free when you register online.

You can buy seat selection or S7 baggage with miles during check-in, both at the counter and on the website. In this case, you must have at least one S7 Airlines flight (at a fare that is included in the accrual of miles) in the current or previous year. Miles will be debited from your account at the time of registration of the service automatically. Miles from other oneworld airlines cannot be used.

Purchasing additional services with miles is intended for those who do not fly enough to save up for a mile ticket or do not need it, since they still fly at government expense on business trips. “New opportunities will allow passengers to quickly see the benefits of participating in the S7 Priority loyalty program. Even if you haven’t accumulated enough miles to purchase an award ticket, you can already use your miles and get Additional services, making your trip even more comfortable. Participation in the loyalty program is beneficial even for those participants who have only 1,000 miles on their account,” notes S7 Priority loyalty program development director Natalya Nikolaeva.

Under a similar sauce, I recently modernized my bonus program Utair airline: in it, and not accumulate until complete. However, additional services can still be paid only with money.



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