Feb 25, 2017, 8:57 am
JetAirways Award availability
Sep 11, 2012, 3:05 pm
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JetAirways Award availability
I am looking for a flight from BKK-BOM one-way on any date from 25th Dec to 31st Dec at low level economy. I am not able to use Jet Airways online tool to check the availability. I want to avoid calling in. Any other tool which can give the Jet Airways availability? Can someone help check-in the availability?
Sep 11, 2012, 9:29 pm
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I am looking for a flight from BKK-BOM one-way on any date from 25th Dec to 31st Dec at low level economy. I am not able to use Jet Airways online tool to check the availability. I want to avoid calling in. Any other tool which can give the Jet Airways availability? Can someone help check-in the availability?
award tickets are available for 20000 miles and 3700 THB on 25th Dec...also special fare for 5000 THB...better would be buying a ticket for 5000 THB and saving ur miles
Sep 11, 2012, 10:25 pm
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^ Thanks. But as you said, seems better to buy with cash!
Sep 11, 2012, 10:28 pm
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Sep 12, 2012, 1:26 am
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Jet intl redemptions in Y are pretty low value for money..
Try to look for Jet Partner redemptions in Y if you really wanna spend your miles..
There is a separate thread in this forum on Jet partner redemptions and that will give you some idea.. Many a times, redemptions on Jet partners are cheaper and better than on Jet !! ..
CX also flies BKK - BOM route IIRC and they charge much less as fees and taxes compared to Jet..
Try to look for Jet Partner redemptions in Y if you really wanna spend your miles..
There is a separate thread in this forum on Jet partner redemptions and that will give you some idea.. Many a times, redemptions on Jet partners are cheaper and better than on Jet !! ..
CX also flies BKK - BOM route IIRC and they charge much less as fees and taxes compared to Jet..
Sep 12, 2012, 1:28 am
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Sep 12, 2012, 1:50 am
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a couple of weeks ago my cousin wanted to redeem 54k miles for a round trip in economy to london....this would have cost him about inr 38k in taxes & fees....i told him to buy a revenue ticket for inr 55k & use his miles to upgrade....this way he would earn some miles back & at the end of the day he would spend an extra inr 15k & about 10k miles more than he was initially doing & would get to travel in comfort....
similarly, my wife is traveling del-sin-del next month....economy ticket is for about inr 30k, economy redemption is 40k miles + inr 21k in taxes & fees....again, i am buying an economy ticket & spending about 60k miles to upgrade her....
Sep 12, 2012, 3:34 am
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Sep 12, 2012, 3:40 am
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domestic redemptions only make sense in economy....i don't think première redemption is good value....
Sep 12, 2012, 4:02 am
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only if the Y ticket is priced through the roof and there is an open award seat. like I won't spend 11K miles BOM-DEL if seat is available for 5K INR or so. But on BOM-UDR, where prices are generally higher, i would, if the price of a rev ticket is out of whack.
Sep 12, 2012, 4:06 am
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once on DEL - CCU, Y was full and not award availability , the cheapest other fare was 11k inr.. so used 18600 miles to book del - ccu in premiere with inr 700 as taxes.. online fare for this was 28k..
Sep 12, 2012, 5:00 am
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fair enough....i would also only use miles if the revenue ticket was on the higher side....
Sep 17, 2012, 8:17 pm
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Looking at using my UA miles to complete a journey to BOM from BAH or KWI. What is the booking code for an award ticket in premiere or economy?