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Added to the Sticky :
Additional miles required for z1/2 awards involving connecting flights
If your trip involves a connecting flight, and the origin and destination are both in zone 1 or zone 2, then there is an additional charge (return : 7,500 miles-only, or 4,500/£30 miles+cash) for the connecting flight.
The connection charge does not apply when either the origin or the destination are outside z1/z2, for example LHR-FRA-JFK
That means the charges, for economy returns are :
Zone 1 to Zone 1 (example LBA-LHR-FRA)
Miles only : 16,500
Miles + Cash : 8,500 + £100
Zone 1 to Zone 2 (example LBA-LHR-LIS) and
Zone 2 to Zone 2 (example LIS-FRA-FCO)
Miles only : 19,500
Miles + Cash : 10,000 + £100
The usual multipliers apply, multiply the miles and the cash by 0.5 for a one way journey, and multiply by 1.5 for a business class jorurney.
So for example, the charge for a one-way business class trip LHR-ZRH-FCO is
Miles only : 19,500 x 0.5 x 1.5 = 14,625
Miles + cash : (10,000 + £100) x 0.5 x 1.5 = 7,500 + £75
The connection charge makes these sorts of trips poor value unless the revenue fares on your dates of travel happen to be very high.
Last edited by Oxon Flyer; Jan 6, 2009 at 6:54 am