DOUBLE Star Alliance Points till Nov 15th
Well the heading is true .. could be quadruple in some cases.
I was just snooping around the Mexicana website as I fly with them to Los Cabos this week and have not yet booked a hotel. (Found Sheratons and Westins 50% off in Sept, so a useful site!)
Mexicana have just joined Star Alliance. Thier "opening special" is for your first flight
DOUBLE mileage on ANY Star Alliance r/t flight, in any class, anywhere in the world:
http://www.mexicana.com.mx/mx2/engli...000/double.asp
Thats the good news. The maybe not so good news is that the double miles go into your MEX "Frequenta" account .. that also gets a 4000 mile sign on bonus. How useful are Frequenta miles? Who knows ... I spent 10 minutes on their site and can't see WHAT point sums apply to any redemption of free flights. If anyone else finds it, please post here!
All I know is that if ANY UA flyer takes a Thai flight they get HALF miles for every mile flown. If I fly Thai to Europe in coach the 20,000 flown miles get me only 10,000 MP points. On Frequenta I assume this becomes 40,000 points + 4,000 sign on, and that
34,000 bonus might be worth something quite decent?
A strange deal .. make of it what you will.
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~ Glen ~
[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited 09-10-2000).]