S7 payment methods. How to exchange S7 award miles for a flight ticket. Reclaiming miles from previous flights

S7, like most major air carriers, has its own bonus program, which allows you to receive bonus miles for using the services of the airline and its partners, which can then be spent on buying tickets for regular flights, which allows you to fly almost free of charge. The procedure for accumulating miles and purchasing tickets is quite simple and transparent, however, there are some peculiarities.

S7 Airlines is a member of the Oneworld international alliance, which, in addition to S7, includes 15 other airlines. In addition, the airline's partners are other companies, mainly operating in the tourism business, selling tickets, car rental, accommodation booking services, and so on.

For using the services of companies, customers receive bonuses called miles. In addition, there are special co-branded cards of several banks, for which bonuses are awarded for purchases. If you accumulate enough on your account, you can spend them on the purchase of award tickets and other purposes.

They are status and bonus. The former affect the increase in the status of the client, so you can get increased silver, gold and platinum statuses. When a new level is assigned, privileges are opened, for example, an increase in service at airports, and an increased number of miles for flights is also accrued.

How to accumulate them

There are several options. Among the most popular and profitable are flights with Oneworld alliance airlines, as well as the use of joint partner bank cards. To date, such cards are issued by the Bank of Moscow, Alfa Bank and UniCredit Bank.

For participation in the program and the opening of the card, welcome miles are accrued, in addition, they are given by the airline as a gift for a birthday, as well as for some flights. For example, children are credited with 1,000 miles for their first flight. In addition, they can be bought on exchanges or transferred from one account to another, and even as a gift.

Another interesting option offered by S7 is the purchase of a package bonus miles in the event that they are not enough to purchase the desired flight, a maximum of 15,000 can be purchased per year, provided that during the last 365 days there was at least one non-award flight by the airline.

In addition, they are also accrued for using the services of other S7 partner companies, in addition to Oneworld airlines. For example, you can rent a car or book an accommodation and earn miles for it, which you can then spend as you wish.

Miles accrual system

S7 company accrues bonuses for each flight. With a standard client status, a minimum of 500 miles is credited for each flight. And the maximum number will depend on the distance of the flight and the selected fare, they will be calculated as a percentage from 50 to 250%.

How can you spend miles

It is important that they cannot be cashed out. You can spend, depending on your own desire, for the following purposes:

• Flight on regular flights of S7 and 15 other air carriers.
• Upgrading the class of service on the flight.
• Transfer to the account of another client (there are exchanges where miles can be sold).
• Transfer for charitable purposes.

The cost of a one-way ticket on the airline's flights is from 7,500 miles one-way. The same amount is needed to purchase an award ticket from partner airlines. But the increase in the cash desk from "Economy" to "Business" will cost 3,500 miles.

An important nuance: you can pay with miles only for the main cost of the ticket, but fuel, airport and service fees will have to be paid at your own expense when booking an award ticket.

How to buy an award ticket with miles

In fact, the instructions for buying a ticket with miles are quite simple and do not differ much from buying a regular ticket.

Registration in the program

To get started, to start accumulating bonuses, you need to become a member of the program. There are several ways to do this:

• Register on the S7 website in the S7 Priority program.
• Issue a co-branded card in the partner bank.
• Register at the Service Center of the S7 Priority program by calling the hotline 8-800-100-77-11.

Then you just have to accumulate the required number of miles. You can check their status in your personal account on the S7 website, or by calling the Service Center. If the required number of bonuses has been accumulated, you can proceed to purchase a ticket.

Online purchase

1. Go to the s7.ru website by logging in to your Personal Account.
2. Send a booking request in the "Order a Reward" section in your Personal Account.
3. Fill in the information about the planned flight: directions, dates, fare, airline, passenger details, and so on.
4. If availability is available for the selected dates, the booking will need to be confirmed.
5. To pay service fees, you will need to pay through the site in any way convenient for you.
6. If the operation is successful, a purchase confirmation will be sent to the e-mail specified during registration, as well as an electronic ticket.

Purchase through the Program Service Center

An alternative option is to purchase a ticket through the Service Center of the S7 Priority program. To do this, you need to call the free hotline at 8-800-100-77-11 and inform the company's specialist about your intention to buy an award ticket using S7 bonus miles.

S7 has introduced a new service - payment for air tickets through Euroset stores.

Now tickets for all S7 flights booked on the www.s7.ru website, on the s7.ru mobile website or in the airline's Contact Center can be paid in cash at the Euroset retail network.

It has already slipped, but now specifically about the Euroset.

After booking a flight, the passenger receives an alphanumeric code (booking number), which must be presented at the Euroset salon when making a payment. After payment, an itinerary receipt is sent to the passenger's email address. electronic ticket, confirming payment and the right to fly. The itinerary receipt also contains all the details of the flight. At the project start stage, no commission is charged for paying for Euroset tickets.

“Cooperation with Euroset has become the next stage in the implementation of the S7 electronic services development program. We strive to make the purchase and payment of air tickets as convenient and affordable as possible for passengers. According to our forecasts, 30% of cash payments for S7 tickets will be accepted at Euroset,” said Dmitry Chuiko, S7 E-Commerce Director.

“We already have a successful experience of cooperation with airlines, for example, in the volume of all payments for tickets for some of them, Euroset took up to 70%. Euroset today is no longer just a network of communication salons. Euroset today is the second most important cash desk in Russia. The company's stores are visited by more than 40 million people a month, and at least 10% of them fly on S7 flights. Expanding the number of air carriers with which we work will make the life of our customers more convenient and easier,” says Alexander Malis, President of Euroset.

Currently, S7 tickets can also be paid in cash through QIWI instant payment terminals (QIWI)*, through the Yandex.Money payment system** or using a bank card***.

* QIWI (QIWI) is a retail brand of the United System of Instant Payments (OSMP) company.

** Yandex.Money is a payment system that allows you to make payments on the Internet and store information about credits and payments.

*** For payment on the S7 website, VISA, Master Card, American Express, Dinners Club and JCB (Japan Credit Bureau) bank cards are accepted.
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Euroset (www.euroset.ru) is the largest company operating in the cellular retail market and a leading dealer of major telecom operators. The main activities of the company are the retail trade of cell phones, digital cameras, DECT phones, personal audio, accessories, connection to telecom operators and provision of information services to customers.

Currently, the company's network includes more than 4.3 thousand stores located in 1385 cities of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus.

According to a Deloitte report (January 2009), in the period 2002-2007. Euroset has become the fastest growing retailer in the world. According to the results of work for 2008, Euroset was included in the Forbes rating of 200 non-public Russian companies (21st place).

Today, commercial competition has reached high altitudes. In almost all areas of life, you can successfully find an alternative to a product and service in terms of price, quality and characteristics. The Soviet principle of "take what they give" is long gone. Goods and services (from airline tickets (S7) to tape recorders), domestic and imported, flooded the Russian market, as well as the world market. Products today need not just be released on high level, but also skillfully serve to consumers, and then also skillfully sell.

Miles (bonuses)

The new situation, which is quite difficult for manufacturers and distributors, makes them actively look for more effective ways to attract consumers. In the field of air travel, the mile becomes a reflection of the latest methods. Many airlines have similar bonus reward programs. Of course, it is more profitable to apply the same preferential offers from entire aviation alliances, which include a number of carriers at once. This makes it possible to collect miles faster, and then spend them more efficiently. A striking example of such an organization is S7.

But how to use S7 miles? Today we will look at how to accumulate bonuses and how to spend them. There are many ways, as they say, for every taste and budget. You can earn bonuses not only directly for flights, but also for the purchase of goods and services in partner companies. You can spend miles to upgrade your passenger status (this gives you additional privileges in the form of better service), expand the available list of services, pay for some services at the airport, and so on. This is just a brief overview, we'll talk more about each way to "earn" miles later.

What it is?

A mile in this aspect is not a measurement of space, but serves as a unit of bonus. The amount of bonuses makes it possible to use certain services for free - from buying a ticket for a flight to various benefits. The cost of a mile, benefits characteristics, the process of obtaining and other parameters are developed separately for each airline, so passengers should ask employees about the specifics of the benefits program in this particular organization. This allows you to work very diverse. Next, we will look at how to spend S7 miles?

Preferential policy S7

S7 Airlines (better known as Sibir in previous years) is one of the largest airlines in Russia in terms of the number of flights. Nearly ten million people a year fly on its planes. The main production points of this company are Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo and Moscow Domodedovo. Of these places, there are flight routes to 83 destinations, including regions of Russia and 26 states outside our country.

S7 has a solid technical base that allows it to pursue a vigorous flight policy. To date, the company has fifty-eight aircraft, of which the oldest is over twenty years old, and the newest is not yet five.

S7 is currently a direct member of the Oneworld alliance, which, in addition to S7, includes fifteen more major airlines. In addition, other companies became partners of this organization, usually covering the tourism sector, selling tickets, car rental, hotel booking services, and so on. This gives you more options on how to use your S7 miles.

S7 bonuses

S7 Airlines, like a significant number of major air carriers, of course, has its own bonus client program, which makes it possible to receive bonus miles for using its services and the services of official partners. How to spend S7 miles? They can be spent on the purchase of passenger tickets for regular flights, which allows you to travel almost free of charge. The process of earning miles and buying tickets is quite primitive and transparent, but there are some peculiarities.

The airline accrues S7 bonus miles for any air flight. With a regular customer status, about five hundred miles are recorded for any paid flight. And then everything will depend on the passenger himself, his activity while traveling. The more the client uses the services of the company, fly more often and over long distances, the faster the bonus miles will be accumulated.

Categories

Usually miles are divided into two categories: qualifying (status) and non-qualifying (bonus). The first are issued for flights in the company's aircraft. How to spend S7 miles of this level? These bonuses make it possible to improve the level of the passenger up to the highest level, offering the largest amount of services.

Non-qualifying miles are issued for using the services of companies that are partners of the airline (these are various commercial service organizations). For example, a passenger makes various purchases with the help of an airline's partner bank. This will earn non-qualifying miles. Usually such bonuses have truncated rights, for example, they do not change the status of the owner, etc. Most importantly, without having non-qualifying miles, it is impossible to use qualifying ones.

At S7 Airlines, bonuses are also divided into two categories. At the same time, qualifying miles for S7 flights affect the increase in passenger status. So, you can earn more preferential silver, gold and platinum statuses of the airline client. When you get a new level, privileges expand. In particular, the functions of the service at airports are becoming more diverse, as well as an increased number of bonuses for flights. Such miles at the same time provide an opportunity to raise the status of preferential participation in the S7 Priority program to the most elite one. The higher the passenger class, the greater the amount of benefits allocated to the client.

Accumulation of miles

How to earn S7 miles? There is only one way to increase the amount of available bonuses in this category: to constantly fly passenger flights of your member airlines Alliance OneWorld.

The "noble" level contributes to the expansion of passengers' opportunities to accumulate bonuses and, accordingly, the growth of privileges:

• Silver - increases the number of qualified miles earned for air travel by 25%.
• Gold - by 50%.
• Platinum - 100%.

To acquire one of the privileged statuses, you need to accumulate a set number of qualifying miles for a chronological period of one year: 20,000 - to receive a silver status, 50,000 - to receive a gold status, 75,000 - to receive a platinum status.

Time of existence

The validity of S7 miles of all existing elite statuses is limited in time. All of them have a period of implementation within one year, following the year of the flight, after which the assignment of this level was made. But if the passenger is under the age of twelve, his bonuses do not expire until the age of majority.

How to earn miles

Let's look at how to earn S7 miles? Immediately after registration in the existing program, all its next members are provided with five hundred bonuses. There are several ways to increase their number.

Firstly, miles are earned for participating in flights with S7 airlines and all friendly partner organizations. Miles earned are affected by the distance travelled, the fare used and the flight class. For example, a promo fare gives 0.25% of the miles earned, an economy class allows you to increase the number of real miles by 50%; the standard doubles the amount of such bonuses, and the business class increases this figure at the rate of two bonus miles for every actual mile flown.

When do S7 miles expire? When you purchase a ticket or check in for a flight, you must mark your Benefit Program ID. This is a significant point, because otherwise you can be left without miles. If the passenger, due to some circumstances, did not mark his identification, the required benefits must be renewed within three months after the flight. To do this, you must submit to the appropriate site received e-tickets and originals of the remaining boarding passes or send documents through your Personal Area on the airline's website. By the way, you can restore bonuses for flights made within six months before registration and recorded in the program.

You can also open a new account with Russian financial institutions: Alfa-Bank, UniCredit Bank or Bank of Moscow. There are bonuses for this too. How much do S7 miles cost?

• For example, Alfa-Bank gives from 1 to 1.75 miles (the amount of bonuses depends on the type of bank card received) for every 60 rubles that have left the card and gives from 5600 to 1000 welcome miles.
• UniCredit Bank guarantees 1-1.5 miles for spent 60 rubles, but transfers from 2,000 to 6,000 welcome miles.
• The third financial institution, the Bank of Moscow, allocates miles for every 40 rubles (from 1 to 1.75) and gives from 1,000 to 3,000 welcome miles when you apply for a card. Such bonuses are automatically transferred to your checking account once at the end of each elapsed month. In this case, you do not need to constantly indicate the membership number when making a payment by card.

How to earn S7 miles with personal services? Bonuses are also accrued in case of accommodation in partner hotels, among which there are real "pearls". A significant part of these hotels transfers guests 500 miles for 1 night of stay. When booking a hotel, as well as at the next check-in, you should indicate the number of participation in the S7 Priority program for the corresponding accrual of miles.

Miles will be transferred to the account of a member of the S7 affiliate program when buying goods in stores of various well-known grocery chains, which mainly exist in the capital, but are gradually moving around the country. Miles can often be earned through special special promotions that appear from time to time on the airline's own website. In particular, 1,500 miles are credited upon purchasing YotaPhone 2.

Renting a car is also a way to earn miles. It should be pointed out that there are several serious popular car rental companies in this area. Using their services, you can increase the amount of bonus miles, and significantly. Another original and interesting, albeit in many ways difficult, way is to create reviews on TripAdvisor. These listed and other mileage earning levels can be found directly on the personal page on the airline's website.

Implementation

The passenger must remember that the received bonuses cannot be cashed out. However, do not forget that they can be spent depending on personal tastes and needs for various purposes:

• Purchasing S7 tickets. There may be a discount or even a free flight to some destinations. How many miles do you need for a free S7 flight? With the cheapest award tickets on S7 airlines, you can make round-trip flights within the country and take advantage of some close flights abroad. The only caveat: at airports, all payments are always made in "live" cash, so such cheapness can be deceptive at times. The "cost" in miles of a ticket of the Russian airline S7 can be seen on the organization's own website.
• Change passenger status. By flying continuously, a passenger can upgrade services for a certain number of miles. True, if the ticket has already been purchased for bonuses, then such changes are not possible.
• Travel long distances in business class. When many miles have already been accumulated, it is useful to apply them in the regions of Russia and the world at a great distance. At minimal cost, you can fly to the Far East or other places.
• How do I pay with S7 miles when traveling with other OneWorld airlines? The accumulated bonuses allow you to pay for a flight for one of one hundred and fifty air flights operated by fifteen airlines that are members of the OneWorld international alliance. This helps to save money both in Russia and abroad, in places where S7 does not operate.
• How to spend S7 miles for charity? The non-profit Tomsk Foundation "Ordinary Miracle" solves the problems of children. He helps Russian families with a seriously ill child. The miles earned can be transferred to a relief fund - they will be used to purchase air tickets for children who need to move to another locality or even the state for treatment.

Registration

To start working with the S7 Priority program, in order to start accumulating bonuses, you need to try one of the existing methods:

• register on the S7 website in the S7 Priority program section;
• get a branded card in the required financial institution;
• note this fact on the company's website.

Then the client needs to fly a lot and collect a large amount of benefits. The more you fly, the more miles you earn. How can I find out how many miles have already been accumulated? You can check their volume on the website or find out by contacting an employee of the center. He will provide detailed information regarding this issue. When the required number of bonuses is collected, you can proceed to purchase a ticket.

Online Purchase

To do this, you need to go to the airline's website, then in the "Order a Reward" section of the website, you should send a request to book a ticket through your personal account. After that, you need to fill in the data about the future flight: destination, time, fare level, airline, passenger information, and so on. If there are available seats for the selected time, the booking will need to be confirmed. You can pay for the ticket and all related fees through the website. When the transfer goes through in the regular mode, a purchase confirmation will be sent to the e-mail marked during registration, as well as the necessary electronic ticket.

Specialized centers

Another way is to purchase the desired product (ticket) through the service center of the S7 Priority member program. By means of communication, you can notify a company employee of your desire to buy a ticket at the expense of existing S7 benefits. Then you need to act according to the instructions received by the operator, who will help you find a ticket for the required dates, and also independently implement the operation of eliminating the accumulated miles on account of purchasing the ticket. How to find out how many miles S7? The specialist can suggest this.

I want to tell you one very interesting and exciting story.

How I bought air tickets from s7.
So, I'll start with the fact that I previously preferred to use the services of this particular company. The service was no worse and no better than others, but the fleet consisted only of European aircraft. It pleased. When buying tickets via the Internet, sometimes there were difficulties, but previously they were always solved.
More than a year ago, I decided to join the s7-priority program and started earning miles. The moment has come when the number of miles was enough to buy a ticket. From this moment on, an exciting show begins.

It is impossible to find instructions, a link, and any mention of the possibility of buying a ticket for miles on the s7.ru website. There is a "spend miles" page containing textual information that they can be spent.
After spending 10 minutes searching, using all the options of search queries on the s7 website and Google, having studied the faq section and not finding anything, I called the call center.
After waiting 10 minutes and explaining the situation to the specialist, I received an offer to record the call center phone number s7 priority. He asked me to connect with a new call center. After waiting another ten minutes and talking about my problem, I received a question verbatim: "Have you ever been to our site?!" After some time, they nevertheless helped me and oriented me: we buy tickets for miles on the "Order an award" page.
OK. No problem. Already at this stage, suspecting something was wrong, I asked the specialist in detail about my further actions.
Gentlemen, sit back and listen :-) you will not find this information anywhere on the Internet.
Steps on how to buy a ticket for miles with s7:
1. Enter the interface for buying tickets to the s7 website in the usual way
2. Find the flights you need
3. Call the call center (here it is very useful to write down the direct phone number of the call center. :))
4. Find out if there are tickets under the s7 priority program for the flights you need. If they are not, it is better not to hang up :)
5. Next, go to the site in the section S7 priority to the page "Order a premium"
6. On the page, enter everything manually about the route and the passenger (are you tired yet? Everything is just beginning :))
7. Within 24 hours you will receive a mail containing your details and the cost of the ticket to be paid. Yes! You heard right :) According to experts, this is the cost of airport taxes. In my case, the amount of 1980 rubles was written in the letter. OK. The letter also includes an offer to choose a payment method. There are few options: Call the service center and announce the details of your bank card, or pay the payment in the Svyaznoy salon or at the Qiwi terminal.

I decided not to tempt fate with voicing details over the phone. This method of payment caused me concern.
8. Send an email back with a payment option. Wait for a response with the payment ID.
9. We are trying to pay for tickets through the qiwi wallet website. S7 --> booking payment. Result: System error.
10. We call technical support. We find out that payment via the qiwi Internet service is impossible. Only through the terminal.
11. We go to Svyaznoy. The employee of the Svyaznoy at the checkout is trying to make a payment. Function S7--> booking payment. Result: no connection with the provider. I ask the employee to read the letter. He searches for a long time at the checkout for an opportunity to pay. Booking ID and payment ID contains letters. All Qiwi services support the introduction of only digital identifiers. In the end, he finds an interface where you can enter a payment identifier and announces the cost of the payment 880 rubles. The system interface does not issue any more details. We compare together the cost of the payment from my letter (1980 rubles) and decide that it is not worth paying.
12. I go to the S7 office. 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, 28. There are no signs, banners with a combination of the cherished S and 7 on the house.
13. I am looking for an office phone number on the site - they explain to me that I need to find a store selling kitchen utensils, go through the store hall to the second floor. The s7 office is one of 5 tables from different airlines in a small shabby room.
14. I start communication with an employee of the company s7. The employee genuinely wants to help me. In her system, it can be seen that the cost of a ticket is 880 rubles. But the letter says something else. This embarrasses her, and we call the call center. In the call center they explain to us that they cannot accept payment to the s7 office, because this ticket of the s7 company is a priority.
I have a strong feeling that someone does not understand something. I insist on making a payment. To which an s7 employee who sincerely wants to help me explains to me that s7 airlines is a large holding. She has an s7-tickets company that sells tickets, she has an s7 priority, and there is also a company that transports animals. And "s7 tickets" can not deal with the transportation of animals, and tickets of the company "s7 priority". OK.
15. I go to the messenger to try my luck. I hope for a miracle. Alas. Attempts by Svyaznoy sellers to accept payment fail. ISP connection error.
16. In another office of the Messenger, the situation repeats itself.
17. Last attempt - Qiwi street terminal: Pay for tickets --> Air carriers --> S7 --> I enter a phone number (the call center confirmed this method of payment). 3-minute wait and transition to the main page of the service. I make 3 attempts. All end badly.
The curtain.

I want to believe that our wonderful airline has problems only in this process.
Results: 5 hours of wasted time, no tickets purchased.
I'm afraid to use the second payment option - it would be very reckless on my part to dictate the details of a credit card to someone from THIS company by phone.

S7 Airliners booking- an online service of the airline, which is in high demand among passengers. With this option, you can buy in advance travel document and save money, because pre-purchase almost always brings additional benefits to customers.

Booking S7 tickets online - instructions

Online booking of S7 airline tickets takes place in several stages. Each of them requires increased attention and the introduction of correct data. First you need to go to the official website of the carrier, and then enter the necessary information in each of the sections.

Flights

The first stage of booking tickets on the S7 official website is going to the tickets tab. Here you need to specify the direction of the flight (from where and where). In special columns, you can enter the IATA code, the name of the country or the city of interest. After that, a list of available directions appears, from which you need to select the appropriate option. The advantage is that the system recognizes the input data for any keyboard layout (Russian or English).

To open the list of flights that are available for the flight, you can click on the list icon located on the right side of the screen. Here, for the convenience of booking tickets, sorting by country or city is available. Thanks to this feature, it is possible to quickly find the direction of interest.

If you have difficulties with choosing a flight, you can go to the flight map and choose the appropriate direction, taking into account the options given. If the point of departure and arrival are confused, just click the special arrows between the windows to enter information. If something distracted you from the process of booking S7 Airlines tickets, after a while you can go to the official website and use the option to receive data on previously viewed flights.

If you wish, you can find cheap flights, for which you need to use the flexible search function. The choice of location can be carried out in a wide range of "plus or minus" a month. Please note that when using the flexible search option, you will not be able to select a class of service.

Popular destinations of airline S7

The next column is the number of passengers, children and infants (up to 2 years old). Please note that the age of the passenger is taken into account on the day of departure of the aircraft. For example, if the child was 11 years old when booking a ticket, and 12 years old on the day of flight departure, then it is worth booking an adult ticket for him. Otherwise, problems are inevitable at the registration stage. But there is a nuance here. If the travel document is taken back and forth, if the child is 12 years old during this period, he still flies at the children's fare.

Booking seats on the plane has a limit on the number of passengers - there should be no more than nine people. In some cases, there may be a limit on the number booked tickets for economy or business class. At the final stage of the procedure, it is necessary to determine the class.