[Expired] Avianca LifeMiles Credit Cards 40,000 & 60,000 Miles Bonuses After $1,000 (Last Days)

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Update 9/23/19: Deal has been extended and will be available until December 31st, 2019

Update 8/27/19: Offer still available as new e-mails with the same promo code have been sent out. Hat tip to reader Pahanin

Update 7/28/19: Looks like you need to spend $1,000 to get the extra 20,000 points.

Update 7/27/19: Minimum spend requirement has been reduced from $1,000 to a single purchase. Hat tip to reader Rich D

The Offer

Direct link to offer (note this shows the bonuses as 20,000 & 40,000 miles. You must enter the promo code SB4060 to receive the higher bonus. Click apply now and then on the first page there is a section to add this code)

  • Banco Popular has increased the sign up bonuses on the Avianca LifeMiles credit cards. They are offering the following:
    • Avianca LifeMiles Vuela Visa credit card: 60,000 miles after $1,000 within the first 90 days
    • Avianca LifeMiles Vida Visa credit card: 40,000 miles after $1,000 within the first 90 days

Card Details

You can read our full reviews of these cards here.

Avianca Vida Visa 

  • Sign up bonus of 40,000 Avianca LifeMiles after $1,000 in spend within the first 90 days
  • Annual fee of $59 is not waived first year
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 2x LifeMiles per $1 spent on Avianca purchases
    • 1x LifeMiles per $1 spent on all other purchases
  • 15% discount on purchases of miles with Multiply Your Miles

Fine print for Multiply Your Miles can be found here.

Avianca Vuela Visa Card

 

  • Sign up bonus of 60,000 Avianca LifeMiles after $1,000 in spend within the first 90 days
  • Annual fee of $149 is not waived first year
  • Card earns at the following rates:
    • 3x LifeMiles per $1 spent on Avianca purchases
    • 2x LifeMiles per $1 spent on gas stations and grocery stores
    • 1x LifeMiles per $1 spent on all other purchases
  • Free additional piece of baggage for travel between the United States & Central America
  • A 50% discount on an award ticket redeemed for travel to Central America or Colombia from the United States after $12,000 spent each year
  • An additional 50% discount on an award ticket redeemed for travel to Central America or Colombia from the United States after $12,000 spent each year
  • 15% discount on purchases of miles with Multiply Your Miles

Our Verdict

Some things to note:

I will be adding this bonus to our best credit card bonuses. You can view the full award chart by clicking here. There is currently an award sale as well.

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Jack
Jack (@guest_1077022)
October 21, 2020 15:30

Called in today and got AF waived with no need to transfer to a manager or another agent. They did say that the credit will come with the next billing cycle so I will have to pay the bill.

Jack
Jack (@guest_1081159)
October 28, 2020 21:12

Despite what the agent said, the waiver posted to my account before the next bill.

Drew R
Drew R (@guest_1057677)
September 18, 2020 19:59

Called two days after AF posted, no retention offer and after cancelling was then told I was still responsible for paying the AF.

I found an old thread here and someone had success emailing them so I tried that. Got a response pretty quick that it should be able to get refunded but it had to be done over the phone. Called again, and was again denied a refund. When explaining that another cust service rep said it should be possible, was put on a ten minute hold and the verdict was: send them a fax containing that email…..what?

Can’t wait to see what they want me to do next.

HolyTiger
HolyTiger (@guest_1073314)
October 15, 2020 11:01

They did the same thing to me. Whats the email?

Drew R
Drew R (@guest_1076315)
October 20, 2020 16:52

[email protected]

I ended sending multiple faxes, letters, and emails – just in the hopes at least one would end up in the hands of someone who gave a crap. I couldn’t say which tactic actually got the job done, but two weeks later I got a an email then eventually a letter saying that they refunded the whole fee.

One piece of advice is to send them all of your account info no matter how you contact them. If I didn’t provide my full name, address, last four, full card number, phone, email, they would ALWAYS say I must call a phone rep. Then the phone rep would ALWAYS say that phone reps cannot refund fees. So i just started putting it on all my responses and nobody pushed back anymore. The fax number I used was 706-644-0670 so I’d recommend giving that a try too. Good Luck!

James Bond
James Bond (@guest_1073387)
October 15, 2020 12:54

LOL, looks like they a clamping down on waiving the annual fee

Elaine C
Elaine C (@guest_1138228)
February 2, 2021 16:50

I am also having trouble with getting them to refund the annual fee. They waived it in Dec 2019. A new annual fee was assessed in Dec 2020, and I cancelled the card three days after that. CS put in a ticket to waive the fee again, but it was denied. I called and had a second ticket put in and I am also filing a complaint with the CFPB. No idea where this is going to land

Megan
Megan (@guest_1046416)
August 31, 2020 19:35

AF posted on 8/7, today I called to see if I could get a retention offer or was going to cancel. First rep I spoke with said there was no retention offer, then transferred me to an account specialist to cancel.

Account specialist gave me the whole speech but I said go ahead and cancel. He said he would proceed and then told me there were retention offers either a sub 6% APR on balance transfers OR AF waived.

Took the waived AF, so will have another year with the card.

HoKo
HoKo (@guest_1045562)
August 30, 2020 15:03

Does anyone know what the official policy is for getting a fee refund if you cancel the card (for example: you need to call within 30/45/60/etc. days from the date the AF posts if you want to close the card and request a refund)?

James Bond
James Bond (@guest_1045613)
August 30, 2020 17:31

Call when it hits the stmt.

HoKo
HoKo (@guest_1048370)
September 3, 2020 17:40

Right, but lets say they refuse to waive the fee. Can I still say “ok cancel the card and refund me the annual fee then” ?

James Bond
James Bond (@guest_1048452)
September 3, 2020 20:10

Yes

HoKo
HoKo (@guest_1080803)
October 28, 2020 14:53

FYI – Spoke to a rep a couple days ago. They said they would waive the annual fee this time (as a one-time courtesy) but that next year there would be no waiver and even if you cancel the account you still wouldn’t receive a refund if the fee had already posted to your account.

Of course the rep may be misinformed but she seemed pretty firm/confident in what she was saying…So consider this a PSA to close this card before the fee hits unless you want to run the risk of getting stuck with the fee.

James Bond
James Bond (@guest_1081555)
October 29, 2020 11:52

Good to know. Most banks will refund the fee after it posts. With this bank, it looks like a gamble: must wait for the AF to post and then request a refund. The best bet is to cancel the card before the annual fee posts.

Jay
Jay (@guest_1027653)
August 1, 2020 13:10

Retention DP: Just called in an got the AF waived (due end of Aug) with no spend requirements.

Kalei
Kalei (@guest_898432)
February 4, 2020 14:12

I was approved for the bonus 40k, used the code, made the spend, in fact well over the $1k spend, and I only got the 20,000, not 40K? this happened to anyone else? How likely is it for them to approve the extra 20K?

Josh J
Josh J (@guest_897348)
February 3, 2020 11:40

I wish there was more here about just how terrible this bank is. Requires an unending wave of documentation even after approval (utilities, IDs, bank statements, etc.) before you can use your card, it takes about 45 minutes to talk to any customer service rep, and their service reps speak so quietly you can just about never hear them, not to mention that their phone system disconnects in the middle of conversations 100% of the time.

Wouldn’t be worth 150K miles to deal with this, not to mention this bonus, and I haven’t even been able to start to use the card yet… it’s been 2 months since applying and being immediately approved!!

Gerald
Gerald (@guest_880862)
January 18, 2020 22:19

Got my 60,000 miles by using the temporary credit card they showed when my application was approved. I still haven’t received the card. Lifemiles is great. A flight from IAH to LGA is 10k in coach vs 15k United miles, and 15k in first class vs 28k United miles. I’m flying first class.

JC
JC (@guest_883615)
January 21, 2020 14:18

I only received 40k after spending $2000, did you receive 60k or 40k+20k?

Joe S
Joe S (@guest_863335)
December 31, 2019 16:21

P2 and I both applied today and approved (mine took 3 tries till I didn’t get that error message), hopefully they don’t cancel the card a couple weeks after like they’ve done to some people. Going to start trying to get under 5/24 so figured mine as well get the last few decent consumer cards we haven’t gotten yet.

culdeus
culdeus (@guest_863205)
December 31, 2019 11:13

was never able to get them to validate my information, entered exactly as it appears in transunion as instructed by the phone reps. Sucks.