How to earn miles for all airlines. How to get and use Aeroflot bonus miles with a Sberbank card

In addition to selling its own banking products, the leading bank of the Russian Federation cooperates with many partners, offering its customers their products. The partnership with Aeroflot, which has been offering a bonus program to air passengers for several years, has resulted in the expansion of opportunities with a VISA bank card.

Making a partnership card, everyone has the right to join the bonus program. The bottom line is that the client earns remuneration not in rubles or Thank You bonuses, as is provided for with other bank cards, but in the form of miles. This is the distinguishing feature of this plastic from all others.

Conditions for the Visa Classic card

Rules

The offer includes 3 types of Visa cards - Classik, Gold and Signature. Each next category has wider functions than the previous one.

	Type
	Classic	Gold	Signature
Account currency	rubles / dollars / euro
Annual maintenance cost	900 rub.	3500 rub.	12000 rub.
Validity	3 years
Availability of contactless payment	–	+	+
Provision of additional plastics	There is
Join the Thanks	There is

For the owners of plastic of the most privileged Signature class, special conditions are provided - a dedicated free telephone line, premium bank service areas.

Conditions for the Visa Gold card

All types of these cards offer a number of advantages:

payment for purchases in shopping centers;
payment for purchases in online stores and services online;
transfer of funds to any plastics or account;
use of Internet banking for account management.

Spending all kinds of miles can only be used to purchase air tickets, goods from companies participating in the partnership agreement, or to upgrade the class of service at international airports and during the flight. A complete list of partners can be found on the bank's website.

Conditions for the Signature card

Special abilities

In addition, the owners are granted additional rights:

use a calculator for calculations and receiving premiums;
upgrade the class of service;
you can transfer the accumulated points for charitable purposes;
earn discounts and special offers from the Visa payment system;
bind plastic to an electronic wallet.

Cooperation between the largest bank and the airline provides customers with a number of additional benefits and opportunities

How to connect a card

Having issued plastic at Sberbank, you need to activate it in order to receive miles from the airline. How to connect plastic? To do this, go to the airline's website, go to the Personal Account, and then to the "Join the Aeroflot Bonus Program" section and register in the Personal Account. After registration, you can use all the benefits of a banking product.

How Aeroflot miles are credited with a Sberbank card

Accrual occurs for air travel performed on regular flights of the air carrier. There are some credit restrictions for codeshare flights with partner airlines. Free, premium or special fare air tickets, as well as tickets for charter flights, do not receive remuneration.

To be able to use the bonuses of the program, you must follow simple rules

To earn points occurring automatically, you will need to present your program member card when booking or purchasing tickets, as well as when checking in for a flight. The reward is credited to the account within 10 days after the flight.

There are several types of award points. Qualifying points are accumulated by the participant if he uses the services of a Russian airline and partner companies. Their number depends on the ticket class and distance.

After collecting a certain number of bonuses, the status of their owner changes. Information about the transition to a new category can be found in the Personal Account on the website of the air carrier. Non-qualifying - those that accumulate for using the services of the bank's partner companies, as well as for members of the Elite Club. If a person has not used the services of the airline and its partners for more than two years, then the accumulated bonuses will expire. To avoid cancellation, they can be transferred to the account of the owner of another plastic.
To accrue and use bonuses, you must follow simple rules

Any client over the age of two has the opportunity to take part in the promotion; for this, there is a specialized program "Aeroflot Bonus Junior", it is intended for children aged 2 to 12 years. In this case, all the conditions of the main program are also valid for it.

Important! A separate participation card is issued for each passenger!

Before you start accumulating Aeroflot Bonus miles, you need to fill out an application for participation. The easiest way is to use the airline's website, which is located at the link http://www.aeroflot.ru/ru-ru/afl_bonus/entry. After visiting the page, you must agree to the terms of the promotion by checking the appropriate box. After that, you need to register.

There are two options for promotional points: qualifying and non-qualifying. Points are credited after purchasing a ticket for an Aeroflot flight or any of its partners. Achieving Prestige Membership status, Premium Flights and Upgrading your ticket class are options for redeeming qualifying miles.

And those points that are awarded for using the services of Aeroflot partners are considered non-qualifying. It is worth considering that they cannot be spent to improve your status as a member.

If you have become a participant in the promotion and are a client of Sberbank, then the accrual of points will depend on the type of card used. If your card is Aeroflot Classic, then for every dollar or euro that you spend, it is credited with a mile. A mile is also credited for spending every 50 rubles. If you have an Aeroflot Gold card, then the coefficient will be 1.5 miles per dollar or euro. For newly joined participants, starting miles are accrued: for Classic - 500 miles and for Gold - 1000 miles.

Bonus points rules

1. Basic conditions

1.1. For this program, the Mile was chosen as the main means of payment. Qualifying and non-qualifying Miles may be credited to the Member's account.

1.2. For each client, an individual account is created and only one. It is not possible to combine the accumulated bonus points of one passenger with the bonus points of another. Or with any other Aeroflot loyalty program. The client cannot transfer his individual account to another person, the sale and purchase is also prohibited. However, according to clause 4.11. , there is an opportunity to donate your points to one of the partner charitable programs.

1.3. Points are calculated for a flight on any of the flights of Aeroflot or its partner companies that participate in this fare program. All services, goods, work performed that were provided by them are also taken into account.

1.4. Regardless of the types and number of purchased goods, services, air tickets, bonus points are credited to the client's individual account only once, and only in one program. This is true for flights on flights operated by Aeroflot and all its partners.

1.5. It is not possible to use bonus points earned by a client in the Aeroflot Bonus program to purchase discounts or other rewards in loyalty programs of other companies.

1.6. To check the balance of the individual account of the participant of the promotion, you must use the cabinet, which is located on the official website of the company. The site monitors the status of the account online. The participant's personal number and his individual password allow you to access your personal account. If the SMS-informing service subscription is activated, the client can check his account balance, qualifying miles and all flight segments for the reporting calendar year. To do this, send a request "01" to the number +7-985-223-55-55.

2. Rules for earning miles for flights

2.1. Based on the distance of one airport from another in miles, bonus miles are accrued on a 1:1 basis.

2.2. Miles are calculated only on the fact of the flight.

2.3. On a pro rata basis, miles are awarded according to the ticket fare.

2.4. If the flight distance was less than 500 miles, then 500 miles will be credited to the participant's personal account. However, in the event of a different contract between Aeroflot and its partner company, a different method of calculating miles is possible and the internal procedure for calculating the number of bonus miles provided for by the rules and instructions of the partner company is applied. In a special subsection "Partners", which is located in the individual account on the program website, the rules are indicated according to which miles are calculated and credited.

2.5. For clients who have been granted the Elite level, additional non-qualifying points are provided. The calculation is made for all flights operated by Aeroflot or a partner company.

2.6. In the event that the ticket is paid for at a fare that does not participate in the promotion, bonus points are not awarded.

2.7. In accordance with the procedure determined by the program, it is possible to accrue qualifying miles for all flights performed within six months prior to the start of participation in the promotion. This condition applies to all Aeroflot flights whose fares are included in the promotion. In order for these flights to be credited to the member's balance, you need to use the "Card miles" subsection located in the main menu of the program website. Also, the participant can send copies of the boarding pass and itinerary to the address of the Aeroflot Bonus program. In this case, it is necessary to perform these operations before the expiration of 3 months from the start of using the promotion.

2.8. If the client's number was entered into the booking system, then after ten days from the date of the flight, the miles for the flight will automatically be credited to the member's personal account. This is true both for flights with Aeroflot and with its partners.

2.9. Loyalty Points Plan: Rates that do not earn miles:

Group - code GV
Special - code BRV,MED
Subsidized - code SO, GO, MFRF, GC, GA
Free - CERT code
The discount is more than half the price
When transporting to a number of destinations
SkyTeam alliance flights - SKY fare prefix
At special rates - SC, OF
Business travel card - code PASS, EPS, СPS and BPS - at the same time, accrual occurs at the rates of the Optimum group
Accrual for an Aeroflot flight booked according to the fare of another company, the calculation is based on the booking class

All the details on this issue, the exact calculation formulas and the amount of accrued bonuses can be found in the Miles Calculator subsection.

2.10. Rules for crediting miles if a partner flight was used: only miles are taken into account for flights that were made after joining the loyalty program. Award tickets, special fare tickets, charter flights and partner code flights are excluded from the program. This applies to companies that are not part of the SkyTeam alliance. There are also certain restrictions on earning miles on flights operated with partner airlines.

2.11. If the route of Aeroflot, like its partner, was canceled due to difficult meteorological, technical or other reasons, bonuses for a ticket that was not used will not be transferred.

2.12. Miles are calculated only according to the distance actually covered by the participant. This is true in cases where a passenger is forced to transfer or the final route differs from the planned one. This condition applies to partners and Aeroflot itself.

2.13. If the flight was canceled and the passenger is transferred to a flight operated by a non-participating company, no bonus miles will be credited.

In order for miles to be credited automatically, it is necessary that the date of birth and full name. in the booked data corresponded to those specified during registration in the program. If bonus points are not credited within the established period of ten days, the passenger must act in accordance with clause No. 3. 3.

Moscow-Kazan and back / Moscow-Rostov-on-Don and back / Khabarovsk-Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and back.

3. Miles refund for completed flights

3.1. Refund of miles for completed flights is provided no later than three months after the end of the flight. If miles have not been credited to the client's account, but such crediting is provided for by the fare, such a flight is considered unaccounted for. This is true for situations where miles are not credited within 10 days after the flight and is not dependent on the fact that the membership card has been submitted.

3.2. Within a period of less than 14 days, at the end of the flight, the participant is obliged to enter information about the Aeroflot flight into the "Card miles" section, which is located in the Personal Account of the program website, after which bonus miles will be credited after verification. Enrollment will be carried out automatically no later than 5 calendar days from the moment the form is filled out.

3.3. The client can use the "Feedback" form, which is available on the Aeroflot portal, or fill out an application for the return of flights that were not taken into account, and submit it at the company's office along with the documents for the flight. In this situation, bonuses will be credited to the client's account no later than 30 days. This option can also be used for flights of partner airlines.

3.4. Required documentation for calculating bonus miles upon the fact of a flight with Aeroflot

When using an electronic ticket - the original or a copy of the itinerary receipt (which indicates: ticket number, flight number, booking class, flight date), a printed booking sheet with the obligatory indication of the ticket number and originals or copies of boarding passes.

3.5. Required documentation for crediting bonus miles after flying with a partner company:

If an electronic ticket was used - the original or a copy of the itinerary receipt (which indicates: ticket number, flight number, booking class, flight date), a printed booking sheet with the obligatory indication of the ticket number and original boarding passes.
If a paper ticket was used, the original or copy of the paper ticket and originals or copies of boarding passes.

3.6. Aeroflot does not provide guarantees for crediting miles if the required flight documentation is not available.

3.7. All documents transferred under the loyalty program will not be returned to the client, it is also possible to check all original documents for flights within a year after the flight.

4. Reclaiming miles for flights taken with a partner company

4.1. All miles credited to a customer for flights or services provided by partner Aeroflot are governed by agreements between these two companies.

4.2. All miles that will be credited to the participant based on the results of flights and work performed by the partner company will be considered non-qualifying. These points can be used to earn rewards and cannot be used to advance a member to an elite level.

4.3. Any bonus miles will only be credited for flights and services that were made after the moment the passenger joined the promotion. There are categories of goods and services for which bonus points are not supposed to be accrued, you can get acquainted with their full list on the website of the program partner, at the passenger service point or in other materials.

4.4. If a member uses a product, service or flight, taking into account the use of bonus miles, then additional bonuses are not awarded for this product, service or flight.

4.5. Upon presentation of the membership card, bonus miles will be automatically credited within 60 days after the payment for the purchased services or goods.

4.6. If the partner of the promotion uses devices for reading card data for accounting and registration, it must be presented before the moment of payment for the goods or service. If this action was not performed, then it will be impossible to restore bonus miles.

3.4.7. If bonus miles for services performed by partners or goods purchased from him were not credited to his personal account, then the client must provide a document that confirms the fact that the service was provided or the goods were purchased - a receipt, a booking sheet, etc. Aeroflot will need to send an application for the return of bonus points, attaching supporting documents to it. Problem situations that occurred no later than 12 months before the client's request will be considered, with the exception of situations provided for in other agreements.

Bonus points will be transferred within 60 days after the client's application to Aeroflot, subject to the availability of all necessary supporting documents. In case of incorrect crediting of points due to the fault of a bank card, you must contact the emitter bank. In other situations, you should contact the partner company directly.

Valid if the application or request form for the return of miles is not available on the partner's website.

5. Duration of miles

5.1. If the client does not use bonus miles within 2 years from the moment of their last crediting, they are considered invalid and canceled.

Personal account verification

There are several options for checking your bonus account:

By means of a letter;
Through the Internet;
By phone.

Aeroflot sends an annual report to all members of the loyalty program, indicating all the points earned by the user. To check your account at the moment, you should use the official portal of the program: https://rewards.aeroflot.ru/. Please note that the points will be displayed in the upper right corner immediately after logging into your account. After entering the site, you need to go through a simple registration, for this you need to enter your last name, first name, patronymic; your e-mail, to which a letter will be sent to confirm your identity. Follow the link provided and registration will be completed successfully.

To check your personal account, you can use the special promotion phone: 8-800-444-55-55 . Throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, the cost of a call is not charged.

If you want to calculate in advance the number of points that you can receive for the purchase of a particular service, use the special Calculator application located at: http://www.aeroflot.com/cms/calculator.

Aeroflot's mileage bonus program was launched at the end of the last century. To date, over 1,500,000 people are its participants. Russian banks did not stand aside, having established the issuance of special cards. What are the nuances when accruing Aeroflot bonus miles to bank cards? How to calculate bonus miles and how to spend them? How to choose the best offer from partner banks?

How are bonus miles calculated?
Where is the best place to get a card?
How can I find out how many bonus miles have been credited?
How to spend bonus miles?

The word "miles" refers to bonuses. This is how the airline evaluates the loyalty of the client and provides him with a discount on the purchase of an air ticket. In fact, the accumulated miles are used as a cash equivalent. It is very similar to the bonus system of supermarkets: they made a purchase for a certain amount, became the owner of stickers, which can then be exchanged for any thing. Miles are exchanged for air tickets.

There are many air carriers in the world. Inventing a system of bonuses for each is impractical. Therefore, airlines are united in alliances. For example, Aeroflot belongs to the SkyTeam alliance.

How many miles will be credited depends on several factors:

Ticket prices.
The duration of the distance covered.
class.

The airline provides a special table that reflects the accrual of bonuses (miles).

The main advantages of the program:

Bonuses are accrued after each flight.
If the miles accumulated during the year correspond to a certain amount, the client raises his status and receives certain privileges. For him, the doors of business lounges are opened, more luggage is allowed to be carried, he has priority in the process of boarding and checking in for a flight, and others.
Bonus points are used for award flights - free flights (only fuel surcharge is paid extra).
Basically, miles are paid for air tickets. Sometimes they are spent on goods or services from airline partners. There are special catalogs that contain a lot of useful things, ranging from ordinary dishes and household appliances to exclusive leather suitcases and so on.

Holders of plastic cards issued by Aeroflot partner banks have more opportunities to increase the number of miles. They earn monthly bonuses for any purchase. In this case, it is not the distance of the flight that is taken into account, but the amount of payments. Thus, the costs are partially offset by miles.

The system of bonus miles works quite simply: a person pays with a card, miles are credited to his account.

What can be attributed to minor disadvantages:

The need to buy tickets in advance if you plan to fly during the summer holidays or holidays.
There are difficulties with popular destinations. For example, with booking award tickets for the whole family. For example, in summer it is difficult to buy tickets for flights to Nice or Barcelona, in winter - to Munich and Venice.
The stopover must not exceed 24 hours, that is, a long stay at the point chosen for the transfer is prohibited.
Overestimated fuel surcharges for individual partners of the alliance.
Miles can burn out - this is perhaps the main drawback.

Therefore, after joining the bonus program, it is important to use the services of Aeroflot at least once every two years, then every year. In the Internet resource, there are indignations of people who have accumulated bonuses for a long time and lost them. A lot of people just don't keep track. Some are lazy, some are too busy. To clarify this issue, there is a free Aeroflot Bonus line. It is enough to call the operator and get a comprehensive answer.

Aeroflot has two indisputable advantages for accumulating miles: a wide network of routes (domestic and foreign) and a large selection of partner banks.

An overview of the best cards for earning miles:

Name of the bank	Map name	Mile cost		Number of reward miles accrued when the card is activated (welcome miles)
Name of the bank	Map name	In rubles	In $/€
Sberbank	Aeroflot Visa Classic	50	1	500
Sberbank	Aeroflot Visa Gold	50 (1.5 miles)	1 (1.5 miles)	1000
Alfa Bank	S7 Priority	60	1	500
VTB 24	WORLD MAP	35 (4 miles)	1 (4 miles)	-
Tinkoff	All Airlines	50	1	1000
Gazprombank	Gazprombank - Aeroflot	30	1	500-1000
Raiffeisenbank	Raiffeisen Travel Rewards	30	1	-
Rosbank	Platinum Travel Miles	30 (1.5 miles)	1	2500

The table reflects the main parameters of the cards, although each banking organization has a lot of nuances and incentives:

Tinkoff really accrues one mile for 50 rubles spent - this is an average criterion. In fact, there is one detail: if a client spends 100 rubles on a product (service), he receives two miles. At the same financial cost, he is entitled to five miles if an air ticket is purchased. Clear benefits for frequent travelers.
Raiffeisenbank gives extra miles to those who spent more than 25,000 rubles during the month and give 1,000 miles to the cardholder for his birthday.
VTB 24 awards double miles to customers shopping overseas. People who regularly travel to other states will be interested in this option.
At Gazprombank several categories of cards, hence the different number of welcome miles and so on.
Of particular interest are the maps of Corn from Euroset, for which points are awarded for any purchase. On average 3% per ruble spent. Bonus savings can be spent in partner companies (Aeroflot is one of them). This is a ruble card. It is issued free of charge. Opens in 5 minutes. The conversion process takes place according to the exchange rate of the Central Bank. From the documents you need only a passport.

In addition, do not forget about the commission fees for issuing and servicing the card, the grace period for lending and other conditions.. That is why you should familiarize yourself with the offers of banks in detail.

The owner of the card can easily control the accrued miles. How to do it? Consider the example of Sberbank.

Aeroflot Visa plastic card holders (Classic or Gold) need to go to the Aeroflot website and register in the Bonus Program section.

According to the following algorithm:

The "Register" button is pressed.
The indicated fields are filled in (card number, owner's data, e-mail).
After these actions, an email containing a link is sent to the email address. Clicking on the link provides access to the Personal Account.
It remains to pass authorization in this service.

On subsequent visits to the Personal Account, you will need to enter the card number and password. What information is provided? Dates of flights and their frequency, as well as the number of accumulated miles.

There is an easier way (it was mentioned above) - a call to the call center of Sberbank. This service is free and available around the clock, provided that the client informs the operator of his passport data and card number. Then the specialist gives information about the number of points, tells in detail about the bonuses used, the possibility of exchanging savings for air tickets will also be announced. In addition, Sberbank of Russia offers a wide range of credit cards that will help in any situation.

How to spend Aeroflot bonus miles from the card?

Miles are collected on the account of a person participating in the bonus program.

How can they be spent with a Sberbank card:

Upgrade the class of service.
Get a ticket as a premium, i.e. free of charge.
Pay for the services of partner companies of this program (book a hotel room, rent a car, and so on) or donate to charity.

It is worth recalling that bonuses rely only on cashless payments for goods (services). The first purchase is rewarded with a bonus of 500 or 1000 miles (depending on the type of card).

If you want to exchange miles for an air ticket, you need to go to the Aeroflot website in the "Buy air ticket" section and set the "Pay with miles" option. The ticket price in miles can be found on the same website by going to the "Bonus" section. After completing all the necessary operations, bonus points will be debited from the bank card.