Though I did not want to post in these forums, I felt I should atleast thank Down_The_Back for a nice post.

1. My Fiancee has been travelling to Europe, Russia for the last three years. Only this year did she register for Skywards. Had she registered during her first international flight, she would have had a Gold card long ago. Her company manages her flight bookings and hence we had not bothered with FF programmes.

2. Owing to this lack of knowledge in FF programmes, I was of the thought that one Skywards member can gift his existing miles to another Skywards member. The Skywards peronnel I spoke to first time was rather misleading in this regard and it added to my confusion.

3. Assuming that existing miles can be gifted, I searched online to see if such transactions have occured elsewhere and I chanced upon this forum where I saw few members mentioning that their miles are going to lapse and they dont know what to do.

4. As it were, their miles were not being used so I thought I can request them to gift their miles. Mind you, I was not aware that gifting miles will also mean purchasing them and then gifting. So I accept what I requested was silly and one would have felt I am scamming others.

5. When I spoke to Skywards again, then I realised what gifting miles was all about and I also told Skywards that if a Travel Co-Ordinator can redeem miles on behalf of the member, then he should be able to purchase miles too. I find the lack of this feature rather silly.

6. Then my Fiancee's colleague who is in Dubai told he wont mind gifting miles for her (the cost of which will of course be repaid to him in cash whatwith me not being Nigerian scamster and all).

7. Thanks to those miles, the ticket was upgraded to Business class and I posted the same here too.

8. Rather strangely, few members took my posts negatively and commented that everyone knows Skywards miles can be used for upgrades etc etc. I was taken aback by the strong repelling replies I got given that I was a newbie here and also I had lack of knowledge in this aspect. In my opinion, communities and forums are where people go when they want some advise online. Probably I did not read rules here. But does that make reason enough to call me a scamster? Atleast one could have informed me what exactly this gifting business is (few did albeit a bit late). My Fiancee not having a credit card is her own business. That was termed as being a 10 year old.

After all those posts, I wrote in a new thread that she has got a business class upgrade and since its her first trip on Business class (I didnt even know it was called J class), I asked some suggestions from members, for as Down_The_Back said, for some, a few things will be special. Here in India, traveling by flight is still a luxury. Only because of the recent low cost airlines that it is becoming a bit common. Given that fact, traveling by business class is quite something. My Fiancee is not a Corporate Honcho, yet. At these times of recession, all companies are cutting down on costs. And when the company had paid for her economy ticket and she could upgrade to Business class for a relatively small amount, it was quite nice and it was chance to make the best out of it. Obviously, when I asked that what souvenirs can be asked for in the flight, I did not mean stealing salt pepper shakers (no offence to Down_The_Back). She is not going to steal beer cans or beverages from the lounge. Probably the Lounge invitation ticket or some Business class memorablia was all she is interested.

But asking all that was too much I suppose. Anyways, I wanted to make these things noted and done.

Thanks again, Down_The_Back and Congratulations. Being Up There will be certainly nice