@Anonymous wrote:
@lhcole77 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think the best use of these MR points is to transfer them to an airline, right? if so, I heard 25,000 was good for 1 round trip?
If your RT flight is 650 miles or less each way, you only need 9,000 avios. If it is up to 1151 miles each way, you only need 15,000 avios. Etc, etc. So, 25K MRP can actually get you potentially much more than one RT flight.
I transferred mine to British Airways. Using them for short haul flights on American and Alaska Air. 25K MR = $1,100 for me. Avios award chart below:
This is good information, one thing to keep in mind is that when you book reward flights with British Airways there are often large tax and fee portions you are required to pay out of pocket. Currently the best workaround I have found is to transfer the MR Points to Avios with British Airways (as other poster said, currently a 40% bonus until 1/31/2015) and find an American Airlines award flight (typically has far lower tax/fees for you to pay). All you do is call British Airways and tell them which flight you found with American Airlines and they will book it with your Avios.
Both the positive and the negative of award travel with British Airways is the basis on trip distance. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but on longer flights it is detrimental to a decent reward trip. As I said before, definitely look at your fees when booking with BA, I looked at a trip from EYW-LHR, 50K or 60K roundtrip but the fees were $741.xx dollars per passenger. Obviously I didn't use my Avios on this one. Same flight dates with AA was 60K AAdvantage Miles and $361.xx in fees...
just for some clarity those are mostly on international flight thru europe. If you are to use avios to fly domestically there are no fuel surcharges since you will be flying either AA or Us air.
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@lhcole77 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think the best use of these MR points is to transfer them to an airline, right? if so, I heard 25,000 was good for 1 round trip?
If your RT flight is 650 miles or less each way, you only need 9,000 avios. If it is up to 1151 miles each way, you only need 15,000 avios. Etc, etc. So, 25K MRP can actually get you potentially much more than one RT flight.
I transferred mine to British Airways. Using them for short haul flights on American and Alaska Air. 25K MR = $1,100 for me. Avios award chart below:
This is good information, one thing to keep in mind is that when you book reward flights with British Airways there are often large tax and fee portions you are required to pay out of pocket. Currently the best workaround I have found is to transfer the MR Points to Avios with British Airways (as other poster said, currently a 40% bonus until 1/31/2015) and find an American Airlines award flight (typically has far lower tax/fees for you to pay). All you do is call British Airways and tell them which flight you found with American Airlines and they will book it with your Avios.
Both the positive and the negative of award travel with British Airways is the basis on trip distance. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but on longer flights it is detrimental to a decent reward trip. As I said before, definitely look at your fees when booking with BA, I looked at a trip from EYW-LHR, 50K or 60K roundtrip but the fees were $741.xx dollars per passenger. Obviously I didn't use my Avios on this one. Same flight dates with AA was 60K AAdvantage Miles and $361.xx in fees...
just for some clarity those are mostly on international flight thru europe. If you are to use avios to fly domestically there are no fuel surcharges since you will be flying either AA or Us air.
Mongstradamus, I didn't realize the fees were much lower on domestic flights, I will run some searches and see if this works better. Most of my domestic flights aren't really expensive enough to warrant using miles to book them, but if this holds true it might make more sense. Thanks for the tip!
@Anonymous wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@lhcole77 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think the best use of these MR points is to transfer them to an airline, right? if so, I heard 25,000 was good for 1 round trip?
If your RT flight is 650 miles or less each way, you only need 9,000 avios. If it is up to 1151 miles each way, you only need 15,000 avios. Etc, etc. So, 25K MRP can actually get you potentially much more than one RT flight.
I transferred mine to British Airways. Using them for short haul flights on American and Alaska Air. 25K MR = $1,100 for me. Avios award chart below:
This is good information, one thing to keep in mind is that when you book reward flights with British Airways there are often large tax and fee portions you are required to pay out of pocket. Currently the best workaround I have found is to transfer the MR Points to Avios with British Airways (as other poster said, currently a 40% bonus until 1/31/2015) and find an American Airlines award flight (typically has far lower tax/fees for you to pay). All you do is call British Airways and tell them which flight you found with American Airlines and they will book it with your Avios.
Both the positive and the negative of award travel with British Airways is the basis on trip distance. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but on longer flights it is detrimental to a decent reward trip. As I said before, definitely look at your fees when booking with BA, I looked at a trip from EYW-LHR, 50K or 60K roundtrip but the fees were $741.xx dollars per passenger. Obviously I didn't use my Avios on this one. Same flight dates with AA was 60K AAdvantage Miles and $361.xx in fees...
just for some clarity those are mostly on international flight thru europe. If you are to use avios to fly domestically there are no fuel surcharges since you will be flying either AA or Us air.
Mongstradamus, I didn't realize the fees were much lower on domestic flights, I will run some searches and see if this works better. Most of my domestic flights aren't really expensive enough to warrant using miles to book them, but if this holds true it might make more sense. Thanks for the tip!
I believe all domestic flights have almost no fuel surcharges if you fly on delta, ual, aa etc.
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@lhcole77 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think the best use of these MR points is to transfer them to an airline, right? if so, I heard 25,000 was good for 1 round trip?
If your RT flight is 650 miles or less each way, you only need 9,000 avios. If it is up to 1151 miles each way, you only need 15,000 avios. Etc, etc. So, 25K MRP can actually get you potentially much more than one RT flight.
I transferred mine to British Airways. Using them for short haul flights on American and Alaska Air. 25K MR = $1,100 for me. Avios award chart below:
This is good information, one thing to keep in mind is that when you book reward flights with British Airways there are often large tax and fee portions you are required to pay out of pocket. Currently the best workaround I have found is to transfer the MR Points to Avios with British Airways (as other poster said, currently a 40% bonus until 1/31/2015) and find an American Airlines award flight (typically has far lower tax/fees for you to pay). All you do is call British Airways and tell them which flight you found with American Airlines and they will book it with your Avios.
Both the positive and the negative of award travel with British Airways is the basis on trip distance. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but on longer flights it is detrimental to a decent reward trip. As I said before, definitely look at your fees when booking with BA, I looked at a trip from EYW-LHR, 50K or 60K roundtrip but the fees were $741.xx dollars per passenger. Obviously I didn't use my Avios on this one. Same flight dates with AA was 60K AAdvantage Miles and $361.xx in fees...
just for some clarity those are mostly on international flight thru europe. If you are to use avios to fly domestically there are no fuel surcharges since you will be flying either AA or Us air.
Mongstradamus, I didn't realize the fees were much lower on domestic flights, I will run some searches and see if this works better. Most of my domestic flights aren't really expensive enough to warrant using miles to book them, but if this holds true it might make more sense. Thanks for the tip!
I believe all domestic flights have almost no fuel surcharges if you fly on delta, ual, aa etc.
Gotcha, I almost exclusively fly AA. I don't like to spread my flights through too many carriers or my elite qualifying miles take too long to add up. There are rarely instances where flying AA adds an extra stop and only then I will consider flying Delta, this is rare for my typical destinations.
@Anonymous wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@mongstradamus wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@lhcole77 wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:I think the best use of these MR points is to transfer them to an airline, right? if so, I heard 25,000 was good for 1 round trip?
If your RT flight is 650 miles or less each way, you only need 9,000 avios. If it is up to 1151 miles each way, you only need 15,000 avios. Etc, etc. So, 25K MRP can actually get you potentially much more than one RT flight.
I transferred mine to British Airways. Using them for short haul flights on American and Alaska Air. 25K MR = $1,100 for me. Avios award chart below:
This is good information, one thing to keep in mind is that when you book reward flights with British Airways there are often large tax and fee portions you are required to pay out of pocket. Currently the best workaround I have found is to transfer the MR Points to Avios with British Airways (as other poster said, currently a 40% bonus until 1/31/2015) and find an American Airlines award flight (typically has far lower tax/fees for you to pay). All you do is call British Airways and tell them which flight you found with American Airlines and they will book it with your Avios.
Both the positive and the negative of award travel with British Airways is the basis on trip distance. Sometimes it can be beneficial, but on longer flights it is detrimental to a decent reward trip. As I said before, definitely look at your fees when booking with BA, I looked at a trip from EYW-LHR, 50K or 60K roundtrip but the fees were $741.xx dollars per passenger. Obviously I didn't use my Avios on this one. Same flight dates with AA was 60K AAdvantage Miles and $361.xx in fees...
just for some clarity those are mostly on international flight thru europe. If you are to use avios to fly domestically there are no fuel surcharges since you will be flying either AA or Us air.
Mongstradamus, I didn't realize the fees were much lower on domestic flights, I will run some searches and see if this works better. Most of my domestic flights aren't really expensive enough to warrant using miles to book them, but if this holds true it might make more sense. Thanks for the tip!
I believe all domestic flights have almost no fuel surcharges if you fly on delta, ual, aa etc.
Gotcha, I almost exclusively fly AA. I don't like to spread my flights through too many carriers or my elite qualifying miles take too long to add up. There are rarely instances where flying AA adds an extra stop and only then I will consider flying Delta, this is rare for my typical destinations.
I can understand that but i was just trying to point out if you fly domestic carriers especially domestically there are very minimal surcharges. I believe its the same for flying domestic carrier internationally.
Another interesting use of MR points i just notice is there is an 35% virgin american transfer bonus. I find it quite interesting since Virgin America is usually vote as best domestic airline. I am still trying to decide if i should tranfer to virgin america at 35% or BA at 40 %