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Forum: The Trailer Park
May 28th 2020, 3:19 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Sometimes can be good to get some closure.
Forum: The Trailer Park
May 5th 2020, 3:33 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

To be honest I'm not currently watching things quite as closely as I used to, but will definitely report back if I see anything. I mostly keep up by following a few specialist travel bloggers on...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Apr 29th 2020, 1:50 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

I'm sitting on just shy of 160k so interested in developments too. Could convert to Hilton at 2:3 but don't feel ready to pull that trigger yet.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 22nd 2018, 6:08 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

I have, twice. Needed to get from Singapore to Budapest last June. Not much choice regarding award availability, but found SIN-LHR-BUD on BA and BUD-HEL-SIN on Finnair. By booking via AA I used far...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 22nd 2018, 5:57 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

No, I meant US (but also applies elsewhere) thanks to BA’s distance-based reward structure. Good explanation here:

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/maximizing-british-airways-award-chart/
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 20th 2018, 1:53 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Nope. All programs have their sweet (and shitty) spots. BA’s sweet spots are mainly short flights (e.g. direct domestic US flights where the number of miles required can be much less than AA) or...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 20th 2018, 1:49 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Not completely true. If you use AA miles on BA routes you’ll also get fleeced.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 1st 2018, 8:28 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

High fees also charged when redeeming AA on routes BA also fly.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Aug 9th 2017, 11:05 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

I value UR points at about 1.5c each. Both options seem expensive to me, but I'm sure you are following prices so have a much better feel for it.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jul 7th 2017, 4:01 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

You can credit Condor flights to Alaska Mileage Plan or Lufthansa Miles & More. I've found both programmes useful over time for long-haul premium award redemptions, albeit using miles earned from...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Jun 11th 2017, 11:27 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

These are very expensive methods, and I've only ever made payments that cost this much (circa 2%) once - where I had to spend a much higher than normal amount of money.

For everything else, and at...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 10th 2016, 10:46 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Cheap BOS-DUB Avios redemptions - spanner in the works

You couldn't make it up. One of the sky's best bargains is no longer:

Aer Lingus Doesn't Understand How A Distance Based Award Chart Works - One Mile at a Time...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 10th 2016, 10:43 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

IHG Q1 Accelerate programme

Bonus points again at Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts (think Holiday Inn etc.) in Q1:

Earn at Least 30,000 Points With IHG Q1 Accelerate Promotion...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 10th 2016, 10:41 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Delta status matches

Details on the airlines that Delta will status match/do preferential status challenges.

Delta Will Status Match a Lot More Airlines - View from the Wing...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 3rd 2016, 8:22 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: 999 free Lufthansa miles and a chance to practice your German!

A cheaper route to 60K points would be spending $10K on the Barclays Lufthansa card. Or $9,001 if you get the 999 free miles from the newspaper offer! You also get 2 business class lounge passes with...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 2nd 2016, 8:53 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

999 free Lufthansa miles and a chance to practice your German!

By signing up for a 2-week trial of a digital version of a German newspaper.

Details here:

Miles & More Members: Get 999 Miles For Free, Or 60,000 Miles With A Bit Of Effort - Lufthansa Flyer...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Dec 2nd 2016, 1:43 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

3x Jet Blue points at Amazon

This is a big benefit for those who shop at Amazon. Jet Blue is offering 3 points per $ spent for clicking via a Jet Blue link found here (https://trueblue.jetblue.com/web/trueblue/amazon).

This...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 10th 2016, 5:29 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Correct.
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 5th 2016, 7:53 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Unfortunately aa.com is a crappy place to search for many partner awards as it doesn't show all of them. Funnily enough, and buggy as it can be, ba.com is a better award search engine under most...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Nov 1st 2016, 10:35 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Not a 757 (single aisle) - possibly a 767?

Anyway, a plug here for the overall intent of this thread - to stop people from having to squeeze into shitty seats so often by making trips more...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 20th 2016, 3:27 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

100K AMEX Business Platinum offer

Mrs tonrob's just hopped on one of the best publicly-available AMEX offers for a few years: Business Platinum card where you get 50K points after spending $5K within 3 months but also another 50K if...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 18th 2016, 6:53 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

While I do most of my business flying with BA (for better or, increasingly, worse), I flew so much last year that I just flew BA sufficiently to get gold then focussed the rest of my attention to VS....
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 18th 2016, 10:20 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

There would be no more earning VS tier points. Don't think of miles as 'transferring', as the transaction never touches Flying Club in the first place in this scenario. Think of Virgin Atlantic (the...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 17th 2016, 5:10 pm
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

To avoid earning any more VS miles (assuming you want to) had you considered crediting your future UK flights to a different programme?

Programmes you can credit to...
Forum: The Trailer Park
Oct 16th 2016, 10:36 am
Replies: 1,018
Views: 1,220,409
Posted By tonrob

Re: Traveling cheaply and well using miles and points

Been looking into this a bit more. For now let's ignore ANA award availability (you want 5 seats, which is a lot) and focus on pricing a little.

It looks like VS doesn't publish partner award...
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