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Star Alliance

bmi-star-logo-150dpiThere has been much discussion over the past year about what would happen to the UK Based airline bmi and their Frequent Flyer program, bmi Diamond Club, since they are now a subsidiary of Lufthansa.

Last week bmi made some announcements regarding the removal of Business Class from flights from London Heathrow within the UK and to Ireland, as well as some changes to their Diamond Club frequent flyer program.

Today I just received an email from bmi Diamond Club, indicating that my account has been credited with 3000 status miles to make up for the elimination of the Blue Plus tier in their program.

This totally makes sense, as Diamond Club resets your status miles, and your qualifying year every time you cross a new threshold. The threshold for moving from their lowest level of status Blue, to Blue Plus was 3000 miles, so basically with the elimination of the Blue Plus level they are giving you back the 3000 status miles they have taken from your account, and are saying keep collecting to get to the next level, which is Silver.

Below is a copy of the email I received from them today...

Dear Darren

Dividend MilesIn keeping with today's theme of buying Loyalty Program miles or points, US Airways is currently running a promotion that actually is a great value. Basically they are offering to double the number of miles you buy from them, up to 50,000 miles.

So if you buy 50,000 miles at 2.5 cents per mile for a total of $1250 plus a $30 transaction fee, you will get another 50,000 miles for no cost. US airways is not the most lavish of airlines out there, but you can also redeem these miles for flights on other Star Alliance Airlines, making these miles a great value.

100,000 miles are enough to travel from North America to South America in First Class, or 80,000 miles ($1000) will get you from North America to Europe in Business Class on a premium airline like Swiss or Lufthansa.