Originally Posted by
ginger1970
if i get correctly what you are saying....
award tickets are available for 20000 miles and 3700 THB on 25th Dec...also special fare for 5000 THB...better would be buying a ticket for 5000 THB and saving ur miles
i have never found any good redemption value for any international jet flight in economy....their taxes & fees are just too high to make this a good value for miles or cash....
a couple of weeks ago my cousin wanted to redeem 54k miles for a round trip in economy to london....this would have cost him about inr 38k in taxes & fees....i told him to buy a revenue ticket for inr 55k & use his miles to upgrade....this way he would earn some miles back & at the end of the day he would spend an extra inr 15k & about 10k miles more than he was initially doing & would get to travel in comfort....
similarly, my wife is traveling del-sin-del next month....economy ticket is for about inr 30k, economy redemption is 40k miles + inr 21k in taxes & fees....again, i am buying an economy ticket & spending about 60k miles to upgrade her....