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Old Feb 9, 2011 | 1:12 am
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Originally Posted by Cap'n Benj
Probably not what you want to hear right now but using miles to book WT tickets its not seen as their best usage value for miles wise in regards to the BAEC, due to the levels of tax and fuel surcharge that you have to pay. That means you in effect only get £3-400 worth of value from your 50,000 miles, when you could have perhaps stretched this to £3-4,000 if you'd used them to upgrade from WT+

Obviously this completely depends on your value of the miles in cash terms, as to make those bigger savings you would have had to have invested more in the first place on WT+ tickets.

If your flight is a long way out and WT prices are still not bad, it may well be worth looking at cancelling your redemption tickets, booking revenue seats and saving the miles for a nice cheap WT+ fare that you can then upgrade to get a nice full, flat bed business service!
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