Members of American Airways’ loyalty program, AAdvantage, can lastly redeem miles on the airline’s South American accomplice, JetSmart.
Chile-based airline JetSmart provides dozens of latest locations in South America to American’s — and AAdvantage’s — map, together with Andres Sabella Galvez Worldwide Airport (ANF) in Chile, Alejandro Velasco Astete Worldwide Airport (CUZ) in Peru and Governor Francisco Gabrielli Worldwide Airport (MDZ) in Argentina.
AAdvantage members started incomes miles and loyalty factors on JetSmart flights starting in September 2024. Nevertheless, the performance to redeem miles was delayed resulting from technical challenges.
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Estuardo Ortiz, the CEO of Chile-based JetSmart, introduced the long-awaited enlargement of the airways’ partnership to incorporate loyalty redemptions on LinkedIn.
“This is not nearly miles,” he wrote. “It is about breaking obstacles and bringing folks nearer to the wonders of this continent we love.”
American and JetSmart first unveiled their partnership in 2021. The finances airline was a singular alternative for full-service airline American. However following its sudden break with long-time accomplice LATAM Airways in 2019, few different carriers rivaled JetSmart’s community in South America exterior of Brazil.
The pact, which included American shopping for 35% of JetSmart, noticed the discounter undertake AAdvantage as its personal loyalty program. The transfer expands the utility of this system in South America, the place it already boasts many members due to American’s longtime standing as the most important U.S. airline within the area.
American additionally companions with GOL in Brazil.
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Redemptions initially solely obtainable on JetSmart’s web site
The power to ebook flights utilizing AAdvantage miles is proscribed, for now. JetSmart flights are solely obtainable for reserving with factors by itself web site and never on American’s web site. This requires anybody touring from, for instance, Miami to Cusco on factors to ebook two separate award reservations.
American’s web site reveals an error web page while you seek for a one-way flight utilizing factors from Lima to Cusco on Friday, June 20.
The identical search on JetSmart’s web site returns a number of choices, with flight redemptions beginning at as few as 5,200 miles plus $19.61 in taxes and charges.
As at most discounters, the marketed award redemption is the essential, seat-only reserving possibility. Reserving choices that embody extra facilities — for instance precedence boarding or checked luggage — require extra miles to ebook.
An American spokesperson mentioned the performance to ebook JetSmart flights with factors on American’s web site can be obtainable within the “coming weeks.”
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