Members of American Airways’ loyalty program, AAdvantage, can lastly redeem miles on the airline’s South American companion, 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 began earning miles and loyalty points on JetSmart flights starting in September 2024. Nevertheless, the performance to redeem miles was delayed on account of 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 boundaries and bringing individuals nearer to the wonders of this continent we love.”
American and JetSmart first unveiled their partnership in 2021. The funds airline was a singular selection for full-service airline American. However following its sudden break with long-time companion LATAM Airways in 2019, few different carriers rivaled JetSmart’s community in South America outdoors of Brazil.
The pact, which included American shopping for 35% of JetSmart, noticed the discounter adopt AAdvantage as its personal loyalty program. The transfer expands the utility of this system in South America, the place it already boasts many members because of American’s longtime standing as the biggest U.S. airline within the area.
American additionally companions with GOL in Brazil.
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Redemptions initially solely out there on JetSmart’s web site
The power to ebook flights utilizing AAdvantage miles is proscribed, for now. JetSmart flights are solely out there for reserving with factors by itself web site and never on American’s website. This requires anybody touring from, for instance, Miami to Cusco on factors to ebook two separate award reservations.
American’s web site exhibits an error web page once 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 costs.
As at most discounters, the marketed award redemption is the essential, seat-only reserving possibility. Reserving choices that embrace extra facilities — for instance precedence boarding or checked baggage — require further miles to ebook.
An American spokesperson stated the performance to ebook JetSmart flights with factors on American’s web site could be out there within the “coming weeks.”
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