Vietnam Airlines’ Lotusmiles program is turning 30 years old.

On this occasion, all rewards on international Vietnam Airlines flights are discounted by at least 30% during off-peak periods – on some routes even by 50 or 75%. These bookings must be made by May 31 for flights until December 31.

At the same time, the program increased award prices as of April 01 though – only slightly on Vietnam Airlines, but catastrophically on partner airlines. Since awards in Business Class were already quite expensive before on Vietnam Airlines, they are not really interesting, even with a 30% discount.

However, things look differently in Economy Class, where you can now fly roundtrip from Vietnam to Australia for 56,000 miles or to Europe for 63,000 miles. And if you choose, for example, the new Hanoi-Milan route, the roundtrip with a 75% discount costs only 22,500 miles in Economy Class (or 80,000 miles in Business Class).