So 20,000 Starwood points gets you 50,000
LAN kilometers.
Transfer Ratio: 20,000 Starpoints = 37,500
LAN kilometers.
You can transfer Starwood points into LAN, but keep in mind that 1 Starwood point gets you 2
LAN kilometers.
One - way redemptions for short flights of 500 kilometers or less on partner airlines cost only 6,000
LAN kilometers (3,728 miles) for economy.
That's worth about 32,000
LAN kilometers.
LAN kilometers are most valuable when used on short - and medium - haul flights, particularly on routes where cash tickets are expensive.
A 1,900 - km flight costs 14,000
LAN kilometers, making round - trip tickets between those locations 28,000
LAN kilometers.
Not exact matches
However, the
LAN Airlines website, where you can redeem your LANPASS miles, operates in KMS (
kilometers).
In addition to a higher sign - up bonus and annual renewal bonus, you'll get 25 percent bonus
kilometers and three annual upgrades on
LAN flights, plus a 20 percent discount on your first
LAN or TAM flight purchased every year.
Knowing that
LAN offers a particularly good exchange of 1.5 LANPass
Kilometers to 1 SPG Point, and an additional 5,000 point transfer bonus for transfers of more than 20,000 points, I knew this was a good place to start.
Unlike
LAN and some other airlines who offer 1.5
kilometers per SPG point, China Southern uses a 1:1 exchange rate for points to
kilometers.
LAN Airlines may be the worst of all since it doesn't offer lap infant awards and will charge the full amount of Lanpass
Kilometers whether or not a seat is used.
Secondly, and perhaps most impressively, Starwood points transfer into airline frequent flyer programs at a 1:1 ratio (except for Continental, which gives a sad 1:2 — ie, half — ratio) and
LAN which offers a 2:1 ratio, but that's primarily because their program is in
kilometers, not miles (read details on maximizing the
LAN transfer here).
Starwood points transfer to
LAN at a 1:2 rate (largely because
LAN's award chart is based on
kilometers, not miles).
With
LAN, remember that you're looking at
Kilometers on that chart — divide that in half to get the number of miles required.