Members of the American Airlines loyalty program, HoseFinally you can exchange miles in the South American airline partner, Jetsmart.
Jetsmart of the Chilean airline in Chile adds dozens of new destinations in South America, and the American map, and Aadvantage’s, including the Andres Sabella Galvez International Airport (ANF) in Chile, Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CuZ) at the International Airport of Peru and Governor Francisco Gabrielli (MDZ) in Argentina.
Aadvantage members Miles and loyalty points began to win on Jetsmart flights from September 2024. However, the functionality to exchange miles was delayed Due to technical challenges.
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Estuardo Ortiz, the JetSmart CEO based in Chile, announced the long -awaited expansion of the airline association to include loyalty loyalty reimbursements.
“This is not just miles,” he wrote. “It’s about breaking barriers and bringing people closer to the wonders of this continent we love.”
American and Jetsmart presented their association for the first time in 2021. The budget airline was a unique option for the US full service airline. But after his sudden break with fellow Latam Airlines in 2019, few other carriers rivaled the Jetsmart network in South America outside Brazil.
The pact, which included the American purchase of 35% of Jetsmart, saw the discount Adopt Aadvantage as your own loyalty program. The measure expands the usefulness of the program in South America, where it already has many members thanks to the State of American such as the largest American airline in the region.
American is also associated with goal in Brazil.
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The channels are initially only available on the JetSmart website
The ability to reserve flights using Aadvantage miles is limited, for now. Jetsmart flights are only available to book with points on their own website and not on the American site. This requires that anyone who travels, for example, of Miami, is Cusco at points to reserve two separate awards reserves.
The American website shows an error page when looking for a first leg using Lima to Cusco points on Friday, June 20.
The same search on the JetSmart website returns multiple options, with flight reimbursements that begin in just 5,200 miles plus $ 19.61 in taxes and rates.
As in most discounts, the redemption of the announced award is the basic reserve option only for seats. Reserve options that include more services, for example, priority shipping or reviewed bags, require additional miles to book.
An American spokesman said that the functionality to reserve Jetsmart flights with points on the American website would be available in the “next weeks.”
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