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That's why it's all about the business / first upgrades!
Airline Reward Schemes
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Soldato
But I don't class that as good value. Good value is using points to get things you'd normally buy for free/discounted, not just an unnecessary upgrade on something that's more expensive to start with. I would never normally fly business or first so for me the value is poor (especially as the taxes and fees for a business class seat are more).
I agree. Any flight or hotel I can fund from my avios points are available cheaper elsewhere. The European reward flights are hard to find availability for. I tend not to fly internationally so no real opportunity to upgrade.
Not finding much value in them at the moment. I'd happily shop them in for a new TV or something!
You only get 0.5p/pt on gift vouchers...
Hence why I sometimes buy from brokers
100k avios for £1050....
I'd say that's a pretty par valuation on the avios to be honest.
Soldato
Blue Club member and 3700 Avios here.
Do I win?
Do I win?
Soldato
Sorry that's what I meant
. I always use the Nectar website to calculate value easily (http://www.nectar.com/spend.points) but that rounds up and I didn't realise (so it says 1pt = £0.01).My overall still stands - I bought £110 of HoF vouchers for 20,000 the other week and I've bought 3x £100 Amazon vouchers in the past.
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Horses for courses.
European flights and other flights less than 2-3 hours, I generally go economy, but I find longhaul economy (which happens to be a regular necessary evil for me as my family live in the Far East) a deeply unpleasant experience and greatly enjoy being able to pay only ~30-40% more for Business Class in overall cost terms by using miles, compared to paying for Economy.
And my limited holiday time is too valuable to waste on recovering from longhaul flights.
But I recognise that plenty of people are also quite content with longhaul economy, and to them, I see that vouchers etc may well be more valuable.
European flights and other flights less than 2-3 hours, I generally go economy, but I find longhaul economy (which happens to be a regular necessary evil for me as my family live in the Far East) a deeply unpleasant experience and greatly enjoy being able to pay only ~30-40% more for Business Class in overall cost terms by using miles, compared to paying for Economy.
And my limited holiday time is too valuable to waste on recovering from longhaul flights.
But I recognise that plenty of people are also quite content with longhaul economy, and to them, I see that vouchers etc may well be more valuable.
I wouldn't say i'm mad for them but BA silver with the BA amex card and about 120k points. I'm maybe £2k off enough spend to get my companion ticket from amex too.
That's 2 business return for my 2015 cape town kiteboarding trip, so like £6k worth of flights. This year I bought prem economy and upgraded via points too
That's 2 business return for my 2015 cape town kiteboarding trip, so like £6k worth of flights. This year I bought prem economy and upgraded via points too
BA Silver and managed to get 117,000 Avios from my last flight
Saving them up for a nice honeymoon next year.
WTF?! Where did you fly?! The sun?!
WTF?! Where did you fly?! The sun?!
Haha no, 33,000 Avios for the actual flight, 84,000 because the seat was broken
Haha no, 33,000 Avios for the actual flight, 84,000 because the seat was broken
Nice... In F/CW?
Soldato
I'm based in Malaysia and collect Enrich miles with local credit cards then redeem at the end of year (50% discount on miles promotion)
Just booked return flights in Business to Aukland using miles. Next maybe save up for Business/First to London if I plan to go
Just booked return flights in Business to Aukland using miles. Next maybe save up for Business/First to London if I plan to go
F return LHR - LAX
Man of Honour
When I was flying on a regular basis I had the following:
United 1K
American Airlines Executive Platinum
BMI Gold
BA Gold
Continental Platinum (Before the merger)
Delta Gold
Points and miles became an obsession and my life is much nicer now that I don't worry about it any more. Haemorrhoids are no longer a problem, either
United 1K
American Airlines Executive Platinum
BMI Gold
BA Gold
Continental Platinum (Before the merger)
Delta Gold
Points and miles became an obsession and my life is much nicer now that I don't worry about it any more. Haemorrhoids are no longer a problem, either
Soldato
About to tick over to BA Silver. I fly quite a lot in my current role so I've racked up the TPs quite quickly. Slightly annoyingly, company policy is to only fly discounted economy and I pretty much only fly shorthaul so that's 10TP per segment - ouch!
I have 140k virgin airmiles...which are pretty useless.
About 100k Avios. I have a companion flight voucher coming soon so hoping to get enough for a first class somewhere and then add the companion.
Finally I have 320k US Airways miles which is enough to go London > Australia first class return...twice I bought these miles though as it worked out cheaper than an economy ticket from Australia....
About 100k Avios. I have a companion flight voucher coming soon so hoping to get enough for a first class somewhere and then add the companion.
Finally I have 320k US Airways miles which is enough to go London > Australia first class return...twice
I bought these miles though as it worked out cheaper than an economy ticket from Australia....