Originally Posted by
Raffles
Despite moaning about CW rates above, East Coast USA does look quite good. Club World would be 15,000 Air Miles including the £300 of taxes etc. This is £312 of Tesco vouchers which means sacrificing 75,000 BA Miles - a good deal, especially as Air Miles swallow the taxes and you may even get miles and TP's for the flight.
Indeed. Problem is you never know if you are going to get the miles and points do you? I did on my last short hop to FRA using Airmiles.
Most of the long Haul redemption with Airmiles are not great value even at double the rate, but the shorter Hauls are pretty good.