Originally Posted by
Markieg
Hi, got 250k BMI miles but no status (am *gold though with UA).
Never redemeemed any BD miles but reading FT and common sense tells me to burn some quick.
Am looking to treat the Mrs to Gig (RIO, Brazil) in biz class from any uk airport (or will go to Europe if cheaper for taxes etc - actually Schipol (AMS) is really easy to get to from my frozen northern outpost).
Dates are fixed (school dictates this) so I'm looking at half term hol between 23rd-30th Oct. Probably want to stay for 3 or 4 nights. This looks to be Zone4 so 25k miles * 1.5 + 170quid * 1.5 per person?
Cant use ANA now and really scared of the ICC after reading posts so please help!!
MoreChampagneSir - you've got a bit of time at the mo havent you !! (Hi by the way ;-)
Thanks all - appreciated
Update - spent hours tonight trying to answer my own question and failed miserably. The ana tool is a nightmare and seems to not work reliably or consistently with firefox. The quide in the sticky is out of date and the flaky english on the ana site doesnt help. To top it off I struggled to find flights on 23rd.
So to help me out, any suggestions of somewhere cool* out of LHR/MAN/NCL
on 23rd, back say 28th - that is available in biz?
Thanks
*cool =
somewhere with a reasonable journey time (want to enjoy biz class)
minimal or zero connections
somewhere with stuff to do/see when get there
I'm thinking Rio, South Africa, Dubai, New York, etc...
Help!!!