MilesBuzz! - the BEST frequent flier award you've heard of

what's the best award that you've ever heard of given away? someone once told me that a flight on a Russian MiG was once awarded... but I don't believe that.

The bad news what that it was during the war against Afganistan... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

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Great Reply. I laughed out loud.

Off the topic, but you can purchase a ride on a MIG.
http://www.incredible-adventures.com/migs/program.html
http://yellowairplane.com/yellow_airplane_store/T_Other_Adventures.html

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jaguar:
Great Reply. I laughed out loud.</font>

Ditto-- very, very funny!!!

I think this one goes to virgin and the award of richard bransons island. If you want to rent it, I think the price is around GBP 350,000/week

A group of us could POOL out points and have a trip of a lifetime, while cleaning out the account of hoarded miles!

re: Necker Island... Yes, I am SO ready to go there. Have you seen the Travel Channel "Islands" special with the footage of that place?

I believe they said it was $16K US per night.
They'll make/create/serve/cook/do just about anything your heart desires there.

Is there a way to use FF miles to get a stay there? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jetsetter777:
re: Necker Island... Yes, I am SO ready to go there. Have you seen the Travel Channel "Islands" special with the footage of that place?

I believe they said it was $16K US per night.
They'll make/create/serve/cook/do just about anything your heart desires there.

I think you can do it with VS Flying Club (Vigin)

Is there a way to use FF miles to get a stay there? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif</font>

Richard Branson bought Neckar for about 175,000 pounds...

I thought there is/was an award in Virgin's program for renting the island? Was that a one time special or is it a regular award?

The Necker Island reward does exist, it is the ultimate reward in the Virgin FF scheme, Flying Club.

It is 1 million Flying Club miles, which will get you and another to Necker for a Week. I think it is only during one of the 4 Celebration weeks though, this is where the island is made available to around 10 couples for about 15k per couple.

Quite easy to get to if you spend a lot on your AmEx, $1m in charges will get you enough points, so would 40 Upper Class returns from London to Tokyo.

I'm over a third of the way there, which is good progress seen as I need to find a partner first, but then it will be a cheap honeymoon for me when I do get married http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

But then for 1 million miles, I could get 10 Upper Class return reward flights, and these have a much higher value than the weeks break in Necker.

Thanks,
Richard

Not a regular award, but the best promotion I've ever enjoyed was the SAS Fly 5 Get 5 a few years ago. One flight on each of the five founding members of Star Alliance during a few months earned a free trip for two systemwide on each of the five airlines. Between a creative routing on a transatlantic trip I was taking anyway and a "carrier run" in Europe over a weekend I spent about USD 1,200 to qualify. The free flights I got would have required something like 1.2 million EuroBonus points if they had been booked as regular award trips.

As far as "best" goes, are we talking best value, or best experience? It seems like the Virgin award above (now THAT would be something http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif ) may not be a good value.

Hilton has some good awards - 100,000 points for 6 nights at hotels world-wide. However, the one that I would like to save up for is 250,000 points for a 6 night Kenya safari. (Hilton points are roughly 1/2 the value of airline miles.)

So you could conceivably earn the Necker award without ever having flown Virgin? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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