LifeMiles

Elite tiers

Gold confers Star Alliance Gold — the lowest tier in this programme with alliance-wide lounge access. Alliance mapping last verified 6 August 2026. Conditions beyond the threshold: Minimum 12,000 of the 24,000 qualifying miles must be flown on Avianca.; Calendar-year qualification window (1 January – 31 December).. Compare lounge access across programmes →

Every tier carries a minimum flown on Avianca's own metal alongside the total: Red Plus 1,000 of 6,000, Silver 3,000 of 12,000, Gold 12,000 of 24,000, Diamond 22,500 of 45,000 — so there is no partner-only route to any rung. The thresholds shown are the rest-of-world ladder; Colombian residents qualify on a lower one (4,000 / 8,000 / 20,000 / 45,000), which is not modelled here. Avianca Magno (top tier) requires 110,000 QM flown entirely on Avianca and is excluded here, as is CENIT lifetime recognition (1,000,000 lifetime qualifying miles for lifetime Gold, 2,000,000 for lifetime Diamond) — reported from a 31 August 2026 research read of lifemiles.com; re-verify at next capture. LifeMiles' conversion table has now been READ (31 Aug 2026), at full resolution and independently in both languages — it is published only as an image, which is why five earlier passes could not settle it. It has three rows: flights on Avianca and on GOL convert at 1 qualifying mile per mile earned; partner activity, including Star Alliance flights, at 1 per 2; and bonus miles, including the elite bonus, at 1 per 20. The partner row confirms the halved percentages already modelled here. Two named exclusions close the Iberia edge: LifeMiles' own Elite-programme terms list miles earned on Iberia and on Aeroméxico as earning NO qualifying miles at all, so both are encoded as published status zeros (the page is Spanish-only — its English locale 404s — and was updated the day it was read, 31 Aug 2026); three promotional T&C blocks elsewhere add GOL to that exclusion, which contradicts the ratios image's avianca-and-GOL 1:1 row — the programme-level artefacts govern, GOL stays 1:1, and the contradiction is recorded; and the 1-per-20 bonus row means elite and promotional bonuses are worth almost nothing for status, which this calculator does not model in any case. Avianca's OWN flights are now modelled, and they are not distance-based at all: accrual is keyed on the fare brand at a flat rate per US dollar of base fare — Basic earns nothing, Classic 5 miles per US$1, Flex 7, Business 7 — and because Avianca's own row converts 1:1, those are the qualifying rates as published. Taxes, fees and additional services are excluded, and a fare paid in another currency is converted at the rate in effect when the ticket was bought, so entering the fare in dollars gives Avianca's own arithmetic exactly. Pick a fare brand: the booking letter is not an input to Avianca's model, so a sector with no brand chosen shows an unknown rate rather than a guess between nothing and 7 miles per dollar. One unreconciled figure is recorded rather than resolved — a banner on the same page offers 'up to 10 miles for every USD' in Business against the brand table's 7, which most likely folds in the elite bonus. Verified against lifemiles.com, Aug 2026.

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