Alitalia Millemiglia: six mistakes +1 not to make
Alitalia's frequent flyer program, or Millemiglia collection, boasts more than 5 million members. As with all [...]
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Alitalia's frequent flyer program, or Millemiglia collection, boasts more than 5 million members. As with all other global airlines, the "club" of the most loyal customers is one of the main assets.
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In the recent crisis caused by Covid-19 there are companies that literally mortgaged their frequent flyer program with banks against loans to survive during the lockdown period.
Any mileage collection strategy cannot fail to include an accumulation plan that also starts with a credit card that allows you to collect miles with daily spending or turn points into miles with a conversion rate that changes from card to card
Below are 6 +1 mistakes not to make with the Millemiglia program.
1) Not planning one's goal is the first fatal mistake. Getting the accumulation forecast wrong, forgetting the date on which award spots will be made available, or even worse, letting miles expire are mistakes that can cost dearly.
Did you get your flight cancelled, miss your connection, land late?
You could get up to 600€ compensation per person
2) You absolutely must not forget to enter your millemiglia code when booking a flight, not only if you fly AZ but also with partner airlines or on codeshare flights with Alitalia.
3) Don't take advantage of promotions that allow you to accumulate points and miles is red card. Promotions are continuous and make it easy to fill the piggy bank. Sometimes it's rentals that for a few euros give 10k MM, sometimes it's supermarkets that allow you to turn Coop or Carrefour points, sometimes it's signing up for a light/gas contract, etc. etc. These promotions can easily make it worthwhile to fly in business to the other side of the world at the cost of taxes alone.
4) Use miles, barring emergencies, for short to medium-haul flights or economy on long-haul. The motivation is simple, for every award flight you will still have to pay taxes and more and more often you find tickets where the real cost of travel is a few tens of euros while the rest is taxes. An example the taxes for an FCO/JFK a/r are about 330 euros, investing 40k MM (according to the current table) over taxes does not make sense when an economy ticket normally costs at most 450 euros.
Fifth, one must not never transfer points to the millemiglia card if you are not sure of wanting to detach a ticket with Alitalia, because this action is not reversible and the points if not used sooner or later expire, like milk.
6) To begin your strategy first sign up for the millemile club (click here), then you get this American Express Alitalia credit card. Thanks to this card, spending 15,000 in one year, you can receive a free companion ticket, not taking advantage of it would be a mortal sin.
E Then there is the seventh capital sin, which is the greatest of all, thanks to the alitalia green card you will be able to receive at the time you book your award tickets a miles back of 20%, it means significantly reduced fatigue for your next Alitalia trip. You don't have to forget about it!
